Foreign youth players flock to the Netherlands: ‘Don’t point to England’
The KNVB will publish the Netherlands Training Country report later on Thursday, but Algemeen Dagblad has already seen the following. The most reported is that the Netherlands is the number three in Europe in terms of incoming transfers from foreign youth players.
These figures came as a surprise to Aloys Wijnker, football policy manager at the KNVB. “That late reverse migration is so great, I didn’t have that idea myself”, Wijnker said the AD. In recent years, the image had arisen that the Dutch clubs were being emptied by foreign superpowers. “I already thought: in a general sense we should not point the finger at England, because we do the same, for example at Scandinavian clubs,” Wijnker nuances.
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In 2021, there is also a price tag for the Kitchen Champion Division talents. Wijnker cites Jean Paul van Hecke (from NAC Breda to Brighton & Hove Albion) and Micky van de Ven (from FC Volendam to VfL Wolfsburg) as examples of players who went directly abroad, without first spending a few years in the to play in the Premiership. “They were already too expensive to buy. Now they play abroad. And there are more.”
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