As chef empty boxes, or Chief Officer for Technical Development, Van Basten had to make football more attractive and investigate new rules. The VAR and Van Basten were discussed to abolish the offside rule. His FIFA period was therefore not exactly a success and he left after two years (in October 2018).
Just before that during the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Van Basten went to the Kremlin in the Kielzog van Infantino for an exclusive meeting with Vladimir Putin. He was happy to take a picture with the Dutch world star.
Van Basten was supposedly aware of no harm and stated that only football had been talked about. How unworldly, after MH17 had been taken out of the sky four years earlier. Putin was then held responsible by the Dutch government for the death of the 298 passengers, including 196 Dutch people. On July 9, the European Court of Human Rights stamped that Russia is responsible for downing MH17 and the death of all passengers.
In the office of football enthusiast Putin, a photo of the Russian with Van Basten can just hang on the wall as a trophy. Hopefully the penny has since joined Van Basten that he should never have joined Putin.
Michel Vlap © Pro Shots
In connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin has since become a war criminal, against whom an arrest warrant was issued in March 2023.
Michel Vlap in the footsteps of Marco van Basten near Putin
All this should let FC Twente player Michel Vlap penetrate well and wonder whether he wants to be invited to the Kremlin as the next Putin trophy. And whether he wants to hang on the wall next to Van Basten in the office of this war criminal. That could just happen if Vlap chooses a transfer to Spartak Moscow. With a championship, VLAP can be called up for such a Kremlin session and then ‘no’ saying in the current situation is no longer an option.
Will Michel Vlap (28) be much discussed? Game arm wrestling between FC Twente and Spartak Moscow
Are you trampling all your moral objections, do you exceed all your moral boundaries that you have received from home to be deployed as a propaganda remedy by a war criminal? Even if such a football transfer from FC Twente to Spartak Moscow is not forbidden, because this Russian club is not on the sanction list. Which does not mean that Spartak has clean hands in the war between Russia and Ukraine. The main sponsor Lukoil is fuel supplier of the Russian army.
Corpse
It can be imagined that Vlap was blinded by money as a 28-year-old ordinary. That he thought of a financially carefree future for posterity. But considerably it is about corpse If you know that the Russian invasion has now cost more than 400,000 victims.
Van Basten in the past with a number of other celebrities visiting Vladimir Putin © ANP/HH
Can that fresh Frisian ideal son -in -law Michel Vlap be in front of the mirror with his exactly five -month -old son Joah Quinn when he chooses Russia? How does he think that father Jan Vlap, who says he supports his child, has sleepless nights of a Russian transfer?
The answers are simple for every thinking and decent person, but Vlap has to give them. If Spartak Moscow at least Bij Bijt and the requested transfer fee after some radio silence pays FC Twente. Chooses VLAP for the money from war aggressor Russia, it will continue to chase him for the rest of his life that he is on the wrong side of history.
Spartak Moscow is the club that kept Quincy Promes over his head after his conviction in the Netherlands up to 7.5 years in prison for serious abuse and drug trafficking.
FC Twente does not go free
With a transfer not only VLAP, but also FC Twente can be blamed. Technical director Jan Streuer says he is not happy to do business with Russia, but to act according to the rules. He believes he cannot always ignore a transfer of a player. Freely translated: at FC Twente they are getting rid of the wrong Russian millions. Because if they had some moral awareness in Enschede, FC Twente could have taken an advance to give a significant part of the controversial transfer amount to war victims on the Ukraine side.