The rainbow fuss at Telstar, the change of coach at Ajax and the sporting malaise at FC Volendam. In De Kick-off, former football players John Holshuijsen and René Binken will shed some light on it tonight. Whether John van ‘t Schip is the right man to pull the Amsterdammers out of the valley? “He does have Ajax DNA, but you don’t have Ajax DNA players,” said former Ajax player Holshuijsen.
“The cleaning broom has to go through it,” adds Binken, who wore the FC Volendam shirt between 1988 and 2000. “I think it will be a party for PSV on Sunday.”
Rainbow shirt
For refusing to allow four Telstar players to play against TOP Oss tonight to play in the special rainbow shirt, both table guests have little understanding. “You can just remain neutral and say: ‘We don’t support it, but I just play football?’, Binken wonders. Holshuijsen: “You are an employee of a club and you don’t have to agree with everything. I think it’s work refusal. Those four will have to earn their place back soon.”
Not only Binken played for FC Volendam. Holshuijsen was also active in the fishing village for four seasons in the early 1980s. Both former players have particularly fond memories of coach Fritz Korbach, who passed away in 2011. “He made you think you were Maradona and in the end you started to believe that too. He was a people manager.”
Crate Trap
In this broadcast the decision is also made in the first period of the weekly game Kratje Trap. JOS Watergraafsmeer is the last to try to knock the Nieuw Sloten women’s team out of first place. If you would like to register your team for the second period, please send an email to [email protected]
You can watch De Afkick every Friday from 5:10 PM on TV on NH Sport. This is followed by repetition every hour.