Gullit frustrated as Netherlands hold back Black coaches

Ruud Gullit

talked about his frustration that Black coaches are not given enough opportunities in Dutch football. He said that he thinks even the greatest Black Dutch candidates have not received the opportunity to make their mark in the coaching ranks of the national team.

Gullit coached

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, the LA Galaxy, and Terek Grozny while also being a player-manager at Chelsea to complete his illustrious playing career. He has also worked as an assistant for his national team.

His ex-teammate Edgar Davids was appointed as Netherlands’ assistant but Gullit believes there have not been equal chances when coaching at the highest level of Dutch football is talked about.

"It's good that you bring it up,"

said Gullit to Helden Magazine when asked about the recent appointment of Davids.

“Every time you see all those Black players who are only allowed to become assistants. F*ck off!

"What was Patrick Kluivert allowed to do with the Dutch national team? Did he give training? I would not know. Has Henk Fraser given training? Maybe once, I don't know. Have I given training with Dick Advocaat? No! They said I had to stand in between the players, but I was never allowed to give training.

"[Advocaat] showed me that he didn't need me for my expertise, but I am still grateful to him that I have worked for the Dutch national team thanks to him. If you ask me if I would do it again, I say 'no, of course not'.

“We are talking about equal opportunities for everyone. When those equal opportunities present themselves, there are immediately people who say: 'Yes, but you have to have the quality.' I think that's so bad, it almost sounds like you're saying we don't have quality. I find that very bad.”

Advocaat, the ex-Netherlands manager, believes Gullit should be the manager of the team.

“A national coach must have charisma, especially towards the players,"

he told Voetbal International. 

"They have to want to take things from you, they have to take a national coach seriously. That would certainly be the case with Gullit.

“Make Ruud national coach and you will not be fooled anywhere in the world.”

He added: 

“Wherever we came with Oranje, everyone wanted to visit Ruud. When we lost in France, the first thing all those great French players did was visit Ruud Gullit. I actually thought that was phenomenal to see, the appearance of that man. 

"A Dutch person who loosens up so much in the world, shouldn’t we be careful with that? Shouldn’t we make use of such a man? I do not understand that Ruud is not active in any position within the KNVB. There is no better ambassador than he is.”

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