Feyenoord make two huge decisions this week

Two excellent pieces of news emerged from the De Kuip this week. Firstly there’s a link up between Feyenoord and War Child. The club will play a part in a project that is focused through sport, on inspiring young people in Uganda to play a positive and active role in their community and learning that the main thing is not winning, but enjoying each other’s company and working together.

The second piece of news is that yesterday after six desperate months, the club have parted company with head coach Gertjan Verbeek, technical director Peter Bosz and assistant coach Wim Jansen, assistant coach Leon Vlemmings takes over on a temporary basis. He couldn’t do any worse than the helpless Verbeek who has overseen the club’s rapid decline to 12th in the Eredivisie and an embarrassing UEFA cup campaign that saw a return of nil points from 4 games. My outside bet for the next appointment to the job would be NEC Nijmegen head coach Mario Been. Been’s a former Feyenoord player and assistant coach and has the club at heart, something Verbeek simply never had. Such a move would hopefully put a stop to Feyenoord’s present guise of being a ‘selling club’ and return it to the highest level of European football, starting with the return of Dirk Kuyt!


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