He is basically working on his last season as a professional football player. Spits Michiel Kramer (36) has a sporting goal with RKC Waalwijk for his farewell year. “I think we are secretly an outsider to promote to the Eredivisie,” he told Helmond Sport (1-1) on Friday evening after the first home game this season.
His feeling says that he hangs his football boots on the willows after this season. Yet there is still a small chance that the former striker from, among others, Feyenoord will remain professional football player until the summer of 2027.
“I have signed a two -year contract, the second year as a trainer. This year I want to get my trainer papers to see if that is fun. If I still have the feeling that I want to continue as a football player, then the freedom is to talk about that. The feeling must be that I am not an old man in the field, then I am not important to be the lines of the field, then the field is not important, then I am not an old man, then the field is not important to be the lines of the field, then I am not an important lines on the field, then I am not an important lines on the field. the dressing room. ”
He calls honorable that he can wear the leadership band again under the new trainer Sander German. “The technical staff sees it in me as a leader, I think that is an honor. But it is not that I suddenly worn differently with the captain’s band around my arm. I am the oldest selection player and naturally lie in the group.”
“We have a group of players with weapons.”
Kramer thinks that a return to the Eredivisie is a real goal. “Our selection is now tight due to injuries, but when everyone is fit, others have to take us into account. I think a place at the first two is a bit exaggerated, but I think we can show ourselves in the play-offs. There are certainly seven or eight teams with a higher budget, but RKC Waalwijk is creative with players. We have a players’ group.”
“We can end with this group with the best five.”
German calls the ambition to be realistic again immediately after a year. “We can end with this group with the best five and then you can participate for promotion. We have the qualities, but because of the injuries it is a bit of cutting and pasting. We just have to do it with it for the time being.”
Due to injury cases, German hopes for reinforcements in the short term. “We are a club that can offer players good facilities. In the past we have always achieved talented boys who could develop. I hope that we can still get a central defender and a left back. Then there is just a good group.”
