Dutch coach "no ambition" for Bergwijn who went to Saudi at 26

 Coach Ronald Koeman, who leads the Dutch national soccer team, said at the age of 26, "I have no football ambitions" toward Steven Bergwijn Altihad who headed to the Saudi Arabian League.

Coach Koeman said at a press conference in Jest, the Netherlands, on the 3rd local time why he did not select Bergwijn for the national team, "If you are 26 years old, your biggest ambition should be not financial, but sports."

"Fortunately, not everyone seems to think the same way as Bergwijn," he said. "Bergwijn is 26 years old. His ambition was not the main thing to go to Saudi Arabia."

At the same time, he said clearly that there is no possibility of being selected for the national team under his command.

Koeman also said his country's 1990-born midfielder Giorginio Wijnaldum and Bergwijn should not be compared to Al-Etty Park Saudi Arabia.

Coach Koeman believes that if Beinaldum lost his position in Paris Saint-Germain PSG, France and headed to Saudi Arabia in search of an opportunity to play, Bergwijn decided on his future course based only on the financial aspect, apart from his passion for soccer.

Striker Bergwijn, who joined the national team for the first time in 2018 at the call of Koeman, also played for the Netherlands at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Bergwijn, a former PSV Eindhoven Dutch youth, played a great role in the 2018-2019 season by scoring 14 goals and 12 assists in 33 games for Eredivisie in the Dutch first division, and joined Tottenham England in 2020 and shared a team-up with Son Heung-min.

He, who was expected to join Tottenham in the early days, only scored one goal in 31 games in the 2020-2021 season, falling behind in the offensive competition with Son Heung-min and others.

In the end, Bergwijn, who joined Ajax in 2022 and returned to the Netherlands, headed to the Saudi Arabian professional football RTHad through the transfer market this summer.

Bergwijn, who joined RT Hard on the 2nd, is known to have a transfer fee of 21 million euros about 31.1 billion won.  토토사이트 추천

According to Dutch media, Bergwijn is expected to receive about 9 million euros about 13.3 billion won annually from the RT Hard for three years.