The reporter reported coldly The winter training camp of the national football team has ended, and the Indonesian team in the same group has also accelerated its preparations in the near future. The new coach Kluivert arrived in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, on the evening of February 1, and the new coaching staff is about to be completed.
The new coaching staff of the Indonesian team led by Kluivert has 4 foreign coaches, among which Lanzat was born in the Ajax academy, has played for AZ Alkmaar and Feyenoord, played as a midfielder when he was a player, and was selected for the Dutch team, since the summer of 2018, he has served as an assistant coach for Van Bronckhorst, Stamm, Ten Carter, Van den Burun and Jensen, with a resume in the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Poland and Hungary, and is familiar with Asian football.
The 58-year-old has a 24-year coaching career that has served as an assistant coach for Weinbeck and Van Basten, as well as clubs such as Elite Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Sparta Rotterdam, Almere City and Czech giants Slavs Prague, and he is the most experienced of the two, but like Kluivert, he has no experience in Asia.
Dutchman Woodenberg, who served as the goalkeeper coach of the Indonesian Super Dewa United, is the goalkeeper coach.The 60-year-old was previously the coach of the Ajax team, and this time he is also the head coach of Indonesia's Under-23 national youth team.
In addition, the Indonesian Football Association will also arrange two local assistant coaches, including Sukur, the coach of the Indonesian Super League team Nammengan, and the former assistant coach of the Indonesian U20 national youth team, Yulianto.
Since the end of last week, Kluivert's coaching staff has been scouting the Indonesian international in the Indonesian league, and the Indonesian Football Association has revealed that Kluivert already has a preliminary list of homegrown players. After that, Kluivert will also look at naturalized players in Europe, and he is expected to announce his first squad for Indonesia in mid-March.
After the new coaching staff was basically set up, the president of the Indonesian Football Federation, Tohir, revealed the reasons for choosing Kluivert. He said he and Kluivert met in July 2016, when Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain played a warm-up match in Oregon, USA, when Thohir was the president of Inter Milan and Kluivert was the sporting director of Grand Paris. Thohir said that although he and Kluivert are old friends, he went to the Netherlands at the end of last year to interview for the new coach, and was not affected by his personal relationship.
Thohir also communicated with the secretary general of the Dutch Football Federation, Hayes de Jong, to bring in a full-time technical director from the Netherlands to be responsible for the recruitment and management of naturalized players. The favourite for the position is former Ajax legend Tahamatta, who coached the Jeddah Nationals in Saudi Arabia for five years and has been in charge of the Ajax echelon for the past 10 years. Tahamata is of Indonesian descent and has ancestors from the Moluccas, in eastern Indonesia. Indonesian media paid attention to Tahamata because he recently followed Tohir's account on social media. Previously, Tahamatta had spoken openly about Indonesia's naturalization strategy.
At the same time, the Indonesian Football Association continues to promote naturalization. On February 4, Indonesian officials officially approved the naturalization of three new naturalized players, including 24-year-old right winger Romemeni of Championship Oxford United, 19-year-old left-back Hypens of the Eredivisie team and 19-year-old central defender Marquez of the U21 echelon of Nijmegen of the Eredivisie. It is reported that they will complete the swearing-in ceremony at the Indonesian Embassy in London on February 8, and then the Indonesian Football Association will hurry up to complete the FIFA naturalization process.
Of the three, Romeni is a new striker for Indonesia in the last 18 tie in March, joining Oxford United from Utrecht in the Eredivisie from Utrecht in the Eredivisie and has made just two appearances so far, totalling 22 minutes. Indonesian midfielder Ferdinand, who is a team-mate of both the club and the Indonesian team, played just one minute after joining Oxford United at the end of August last year, and striker Stryker, who joined the Australian Super League Brisbane Roar from The Hague last year, sat on the bench for three consecutive games. For Indonesia, this is undoubtedly not good news.