After the World Cup in Qatar I thought I had finished the chicken leg of Joep Schreuder, but he just keeps going. Now he can roam across North America again for a road trip, under the title Joep66a series of short reports, a genre that I am a big supporter of, but there is always an exception. I am allergic to the semi-journalistic sauce that Joep Schreuder pours over his creations with a very large jug. Always with that enormous press card around his neck, not as a gimmick, but as a shield that makes him think that he thinks he is showing that he is not an idiot. Why doesn’t it say ‘Breda’ in very large letters so that the rest of the world also knows where they stand? The trek will have been stamped by the NOS because they can at least be sure that he will not bother other people’s players with his talent for languages.
The core of being Joep Schreuder, what remains when you melt it, was captured at the press conference prior to Ajax-Benfica last season. Before he said anything, Benfica coach José Mourinho shook hands with Joep Schreuder, who had crept forward. That’s possible, both somewhere on the spectrum, there will be a certain affinity. The best part was Joep’s return in his gray vest with hood. Radiating in front of all his colleagues that something very ordinary had happened here. He knows José Mourinho, so what? They speak to each other so often.
I am allergic to the semi-journalistic sauce that Joep Schreuder pours over his work with a very large jug
Joep Schreuder who routinely plays the refined journalistic all-rounder Joep Schreuder is Joep Schreuder at his best. I have often seen such grotesque scenes in press rooms: trainers who very emphatically shake hands with their favorite journalist and the journalist who lets it fall over him or her like a warm cloak. That is also why I hope that Francesco Farioli will one day return to the Netherlands: the wonderful reunion with reporter Willem Vissers from de Volkskranttwo intellectuals who understand each other.
But of course it will never be as beautiful as with Joep. Joep has no limits.
In the meantime, this World Cup he has already convinced a presenter from FOX26 to sit next to him for a few minutes as Joep Schreuderen. I received the video so often that I suspect it has gone viral, football consumers enjoy it almost as much as our royal couple dancing in the Curaçao dressing room after a match or Chris Woerts shooting a meatball in a tropical setting.
Now I think about everything: isn’t that also something for Joep?
The Scots drank Boston dry in a few hours, can’t that also be done with Joep from the NOS?
The Netherlands becomes world champion, Trump hands out the World Cup, Joep Schreuder is the first to lick it. Finally recognition.
