His youth had to survive Johan Derksen: first in the ‘Gekkenhuis’ at home, then on the football field

They are back for a brand new season today Inside next Monday: Wilfred Genee, René van der Gijp and Johan Derksen. The young years of the latter were sometimes a matter of survival, he says when we look back on his childhood with him. “My mother hid my father’s service gun because she was afraid he would shoot me.”

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