KNVB coach Bert Konterman in quarantine in Israel | Football

sport">Konterman – who would not have been vaccinated due to his religion – and another staffer contracted corona before the competition and tested positive. They had to leave the players’ hotel. According to those involved in Israel, Konterman’s situation is now such that he has ended up in a special quarantine place in Israel for ten days. The football association says that Konterman has not been admitted to a Covid hospital, but nothing further can be said about his further medical situation from a privacy point of view, a KNVB spokesperson said.

Logical step

sport">A logical step would be to immediately take a corona test with all players, but that could also mean that more Orange customers have to stay behind in Israel.

sport">The KNVB says in a statement on the website that the team decided to go to the game with a minimum number of players and also to limit the number of staff members. “To limit the risk of more infections as much as possible and in view of the circumstances on site,” according to the KNVB.

Remarkable course of competition

sport">It led to a remarkable course of the match, because Ajax player Naci Ünüvar was kicked early and injured. The Orange squad under 19 had no substitutes with them, so the team had to continue with ten men. The medical staff treated Ünüvar for more than twenty minutes, after which he was sent back into the field and hopped for almost an hour.

sport">The Orange squad was already leading 4-1 at a certain point, but that was apparently no reason for assistant coach Henk Brugge – as a replacement for Konterman – to take Ünüvar off the side again with his injury. That could lead to questions from Ajax – as a supplier of internationals to the Orange squad – in the coming days. Ünüvar is a player for Jong Ajax, which plays at home against leader FC Volendam in the Kitchen Champion Division on Friday evening.

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