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Van Gaal, character again: I put the numbers of Holland's jerseys according to age

2022-11-17 11:11:22, Sport CNA

The Netherlands arrived two days ago in Qatar, where they have focused entirely on the preparations for their debut match against Senegal, taking into account the fact that the "Tulips" are among the few nationalities that have not scheduled any friendly matches this week.

Although with maximum concentration, Luis van Gaal has ensured that, as always, he is far from boring in the press conference, where he started by talking about the rights of the fans.

"You know I never have a problem speaking my mind, it doesn't matter what others think. If the fans don't want to come, then they have every right not to.

If they boycott it, it's their right, but we intend to go to the end of the tournament and then yes, people will come to watch us to see how good we are," the Dutchman began. , then giving an interesting statement about the number of jerseys of his players.

NUMBERS - When asked how the jersey numbers were chosen, Van Gaal replied: "The jersey numbers were decided by me and I made this decision based on the age of the players", a sentence that was taken as a joke among journalists.

"No, it's not a joke, I'm always serious during a press conference," Van Gaal asserted in all his seriousness.

But observing the distribution of numbers, it is true that the 39-year-old goalkeeper of Ajax, Remko Pasver, has received the number 1, but 2 will be on the back of the 21-year-old Jurrien Timer.

Early international players such as Denzel Dumfries and Dale Blind have taken 22 and 17 respectively, while 21 is as usual the number of Frenkie de Jong, the Barcelona player who has worn this shirt throughout.





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