Willem van Hanegem can hardly see the public anger in the Netherlands towards one of the top footballers

Willem van Hanegem supports players who sometimes attack the press. He has not wanted to speak to the Dutch press for a while, and on Saturday the NEC goalkeeper got revenge on Milan van Dongen after a blocked penalty.

“In the Netherlands, we turned Xavi Simons into a miracle last season,” Van Hanegem says in his weekly column for The Guardian. Algemeen Dagblad. “And now that he has not shown it in Orange, we are almost angry with him in this country. Simons is a good player, everyone sees that. He is good every week in Leipzig, and in the Dutch team he still has to make that step. But it will happen.”

Simmons to reject Earlier this month an interview with RTL7 after the Champions League match between Real Madrid and RB Leipzig. Simons conducted this boycott around the Dutch national team's international matches In standing. The attacking midfielder will feel unfairly treated by the Dutch press.

“I can also understand that he doesn't want to talk to the Dutch press now, at least that's what I read everywhere. You don't have to make it too big, but showing your teeth as a player is good sometimes,” says Van Hanegem. Jasper Cillessen says he thought it was strange that he was being mocked on a podcast, but now he has actually stopped a penalty and is now laughing out loud for once? That was fine with me.”

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