Johan Derksen has changed tack after all: he is going to Curaçao with his colleagues from Today Inside. But not during the Football World Cup, but before it. “You know what, I’ll just come along!”
The regular season of Today Inside ends on Friday, May 15, and then something special will happen: the program will temporarily move to Curaçao. For just two weeks. At the beginning of June, Hélène Hendriks will take over with De Oranjezomer, after which the Football World Cup will start on June 11. This will last until July 19.
Crazy about that guy
Wilfred Genee thinks it’s wonderful. “I have helped ensure that we are all moving in that direction now. I walked into John de Mol’s office until he thought: this guy is driving me crazy, we are going to do it!”, he says in the section. In The Walkways.
Dick Advocaat, the national coach of Curaçao, says: “But I think it’s nice that they are all going along.”
‘I’ll come with you!’
How did Johan change tack? Wilfred: “The funny thing was: Johan actually didn’t want to come and that’s why we weren’t going to do the World Cup, because then John also said: ‘I don’t want to take that risk, that if we put Johan there with the World Cup and things go wrong, we won’t have a program anymore.’”
“We then arranged for me to do part of De Oranjezomer, then René would come along and then Johan heard that and said: ‘You know what, then I’ll just come along too!’”
Not expected
Dick didn’t see it coming. “I didn’t expect him to do that.”
Gerard Joling: “That’s powerful, isn’t it? It just has to be included, all of us! You are all football experts, that belongs together.”
Wilfred: “I think so too! Go there with the team!”
Dick: “But that is not during the World Cup.”
Wilfred: “No, that was just a bit too ambitious.”
Times changed
During the World Cup it is also really difficult, says Wilfred. “We found out that those times have changed. We thought there was a match from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., then we could make a broadcast from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., and then there was a match from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., and we could make a broadcast from 11 p.m. to 12 a.m.”
“But now everything has been postponed by an hour, so it is quite difficult how we should do that now. We have to think about that…”