New Manchester United signing Matthijs de Ligt to be given new chance with Netherlands national team after being sidelined at Euro 2024
Netherland's forward Steven Bergwijn fighting for the ball with France's defender Malo Gusto during a Euro 2024 qualifying match in Amsterdam on October 13th, 2023. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFPNetherlands international Steven Bergwijn has hit back at coach Ronald Koeman after being told his move to Saudi Arabia would result in him no longer being considered for the Dutch team.
An unhappy Bergwijn, who had a stint at Tottenham Hotspur and has 35 caps for the Netherlands, said he wants nothing more to do with the coach.Plan for FAI staff protest at England game suspended ahead of talks“I am done with someone who deliberately portrays me like that in the media,” he told Dutch daily De Telegraaf on Friday. “That’s not how you treat your own players. The national coach knows very well that the competition in Saudi Arabia is at a great level.
“I don’t want to talk about it. It doesn’t affect me at all. I talked about sporting ambition and I don’t think I said much more than that,” Koeman replied to reporters’ questions. “If I had said that I think it was a sporting step, that would have been unbelievable. Let’s not make it bigger than it is. I said something that I back up.”
De Ligt, now 25, was only 17 when he made his Dutch debut in 2017 and has won 45 caps for the country, many of them under Koeman when he had his first spell in charge of the national team from early 2018 to late 2019. But since the 2022 World Cup in Qatar he has featured in only five internationals as his club career struggled at Bayern Munich.
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