“That’s not right at all!”

Candidate KNVB chairman Hans Nijland is in Today Inside accused of lying by Wierd Duk. Both Groningen residents played football together in the distant past in the youth of the Sappemeer amateur club HSC, of ​​which the former director of FC Groningen is now chairman. Nijland claimed last week in an interview with The Telegraph that Duk ‘couldn’t do a damn thing’ at the time.

Wilfred Genee brings the conversation to the interview in question in Wednesday evening’s broadcast: “I understand you are furious, at Hans Nijland, right? He destroyed you in the media!”, says the presenter. Duk agrees: “In my own newspaper!” However, the Duk immediately wants to correct the image that emerges from the interview with the former director of FC Groningen: “That is not correct at all,” he says. “He must be mistaken, because I was always the one who always gave the through balls to Hans. I was a right back and I would play to Hans, who would never give him up, that is typical Hans Nijland of course.”

The passage in which Nijland states that Duk’s parents ‘went along every weekend’ is also categorically untrue, the latter states: “He simply made up a story and my colleague (Jeroen Kapteijns, ed.) put it in the newspaper.” Yet he hopes that his former teammate will be elected chairman of the KNVB on May 27: “Why? Because he is a great guy.”

Johan Derksen likes it: “I haven’t spoken to anyone who is against it yet. Look, if that police officer (Frank Paauw, ed.) is not acceptable, then Hans becomes the best alternative.” Genee points out that Nijland should now have received the ten votes required to participate in the election, in which former D66 MP Jeanet van der Laan is also a candidate. Derksen: “I think Hans is an excellent candidate for that. That man has done well, has a lot of experience in football.”