Andries Jonker does not want to miss his experiences in women’s football. Nevertheless, the national coach of the Dutch national team has to stop in summer. The game in the Nations League against the DFB team on Friday evening will be a bond coach at the start of his farewell tour.
There are no longer many protagonists from the German women’s national team who still know the Rat publishing stadium in Breda. Here, deep in the Dutch province of Noord Brabant, there has already been an important international match between the DFB women.
Namely the European Championship start in 2017 when a fade zero number against Sweden caused more questions than answers. Then national coach: Steffi Jones. As is well known, their mission at their only tournament went wrong. The eight -time European champion failed in the rain of Rotterdam in the quarter -finals against Denmark. A few days later, a different football teacher celebrated all Holland: Sarina Wiegman, guarantor of success in the Netherlands. The host sensationally grabbed his first title in women’s football.
Encounters in the draw
If the Netherlands and Germany (Friday 8:45 p.m./Live ARD) meet in front of expected 11,000 fans in Breda, two men are on the line. At the host Andries Jonker, no stranger in Germany. And with the guests Christian Wück, still a career changer who works for the first time in women’s football.
The national coach expects an opponent “Who is at a level with us”. He has also met his colleague Jonker. “I have now hit him twice in the UEFA draw”said Wück when asked about Sportschau at the final press conference. “I also talked to him a few times.”
The separation surprised the bond coach
Only: Many encounters will no longer exist in the future. Wück started only in the fall of last year, at the age of 51 the man is also young enough to might shape an era for women, as the Lower Franconian native in the junior area with the World Cup and European Championship title at the German U17 has.
Jonker, on the other hand, is on a farewell tour: The term of office of the 62-year-old ends after the European Championship in Switzerland next summer (July 2 to 27). The Netherlands ended up in the hammer group with France, England and Wales. No matter how it turns out: after that is the end of the bond coach.
The Dutch Association (KNVB) announced this almost a month ago. After an assessment, the conclusion came to the conclusion that the time for a new section came, it said. Jonker made no secret of the fact that he would have liked to continue working. The decision himself has him “surprised”he admitted. Nevertheless, he had to accept the end “Because this is how football works”.
Unfortunate end at the 2023 World Cup
Jonker had taken over the Oranje selection in August 2022, reached the quarter-finals at the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, but failed a bit unhappily with 1: 2 in extra time in the later world champion Spain. Jonker’s team had forced the equalization late in Wellington and then had chances for the lead by striker Lineth Beerensteyn before shooting star Salma Paralluelo got the decision for the Spaniards.
Beerenstyn, playing for VfL Wolfsburg today, recently said to the end of her national coach: “It didn’t really come as a surprise. Andries is a very good trainer, but I already had the impression that our association would like to change something. ”
Breaks in the Olympic qualification against the DFB selection
Jonker came to FC Bayern in 2009 as a co-coach of Louis van Gaal, jumped in briefly for the released boss in 2011 and went to the second team coach in 2012 and then worked as an assistant at VfL Wolfsburg from 2012 to 2014. In 2017, the factory club made him head coach for 19 games, who saved VfL with his calm manner in the relegation against Eintracht Braunschweig from relegation.
After his farewell in September 2017, he decided to set other priorities. It was not until 2019 that he hired at Telstar in 1963, a Dutch second division, where “You couldn’t make a lot of money, but I didn’t care, it was great fun.” The Heimatverband wanted to sign him for the women’s national team as early as 2020 after Jonker was responsible for the Dutch training centers in the early 1990s, where boys and girls were funded.
Jonker has long been friends with the successful trainer Wiegman, with Wiegman being responsible for the English national team. Under Jonker, the Dutch played almost exactly a year ago against the German team trained by Horst Hrubesch at the last Olympic ticket: the “Oranje Leeuwinnen” at that time ran in vain in Heerenveen and ultimately defeated a clever DFB selection 0: 2. A setback that was certainly not conducive to the Joberhalt.
The team idea among women is more pronounced
And yet he does not regret his experiences among women. Jonker once named the differences in an interview with the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”: “When boys or men come into a cabin, it is always clear: they are the most important thing. I want to play in this club, I want to extend the contract, I want to be sold, I want more money, I want a car – me, I, I am not your fault, you will be brought up in this business. “
In contrast, the team concept is much more pronounced among women. “The women come into the cabin and ask completely different questions: How do we do that? What can I do for the team? How does it work with the environment, can we be so successful? work.” A description of the state that also gives his consent.
In the differences named by Jonker, it is definitely “A little bit true to it”said the national coach on the digital media round from the German team hotel in Tilburg, but basically it is always about winning, so about it, so “To prepare a team in such a way that they are successful”. He therefore did not recognize as many differences in football: “It is a very pleasant work, so I will go with anticipation in the next few weeks, months and years.” In contrast, the time is very limited.