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MAASKANT WHO IS ROBERT?

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("Sports Review", 8/23/2010)

- Does anyone have any more questions? - RBS spokesman said journalists Roosendaal. The room was quiet, no one tore. - So, thank you. See you at the next match - ended the meeting .- Excuse me, I'd like to say something - he said the coach Robert Maaskant. The journalists sat down again .- I'm leaving the club. Good-bye - says Maaskant. He got up and walked out. He left the club shocked the president, athletic director and journalists. After a while they went behind him in pursuit.

So three years ago, working with new coach ended Roosendaal Wisla Krakow. Everyone was surprised, but the feeling of surprise this time is even greater. 41-year-old Dutch coach pierced himself - with NAC Breda on the day he left the game against Heerenveen, in addition, he chose to work in Poland. On Tuesday evening received a call from Stan Valckxa, the new director of the Vistula, who offered him a job in Krakow. On Wednesday in Belgium, met with President Bogdan Basałajem and decided to abandon Breda.

No one predicted such a sudden separation. 41-year-old Dutchman with NAC Breda is related to the child. Like his father, a former coach of Breda, now a football manager. Maaskant has just extended his contract with the NAC for another 3 years, working in Breda, he could often see each other 10-year-old son, she lives with ex-wife - a coach of the Vistula divorced her several years ago. It was because his son is always looking for work near Breda. The decision, however, was typical of him. Only once in his career coaching contract fulfilled - his first of Roosendaal (worked there a total of three times)

- About 9.30 am on Saturday called me and said he was quitting. The first time I experienced something in my long career - the team's captain, tells us 35-year-old Rob Penders. - Yet on Friday the coach normally led training, gave up squad for Saturday's match.

the morning of his departure wrote a local newspaper. Apparently because of that Maaskant changed its original decision. The players had this to say after the match in Heerenveen. The meeting, however, no longer watching from the bench coach, and the VIP. As coach of the Vistula. There have already dipped your fingers in the defeat of Breda 1:3.

Maaskanta How to explain the behavior? Breda huge financial problems. The Dutchman could not count on the reinforcement. A year ago przeszarżowano expenditure and Breda this season started with a negative point. First, he left the club's sporting director Earnie Stewart (to AZ Alkmaar). Now the coach. In the last match, which ran, sat on the bench only 4 players, including goalie, and one player from the field with a professional contract.

- For us, his passing is very difficult. I do not even suspected him of the decision. This is not a good time for us. I'm trying to understand that it is a great chance - tell us Joonas Kolkka, Breda player.

Maaskant feared that NAC Breda entered the track, of which the club can no longer turn back. He was afraid that he will be blamed for the decline. Yet it was the same in 2007, when the league flew from Roosendaal. That decline took his untouchable status of the coach, broke down the brand in the Netherlands, did not allow to cover one of the great Dutch clubs. A lot has changed. Previously, he had a great newspaper. To the extent that it fell toward the accusations of too intense media coverage. Therefore even know that his current girlfriend worked at Ajax Amsterdam ...

- When the Roosendaal train said he wants to be coach of Netherlands. He was then young and little-known trainer and maybe that's why some people decided that it is arrogance - says Sjord Mossou log "Algemene Dagblad.

- probably in several clubs thought: "It must be a strange guy, if so be promoted." It went down a little on the ground. He feared that the decline of the NAC Breda complicate his career for good. This is a very ambitious man, and Breda - like his previous clubs before - his ambition at some point no longer meets. What can be done with this team? Nothing. It was the same from Roosendaal, in which fall foolishly figured his name. In any club, where he worked, he could not achieve a better result - says journalist Ludo Van Denderen.

first corner he survived in 2005, Willem II, which earlier reached the Dutch Cup final. Maaskant was released, but was at fault the players.
- It's a good coach. He likes attacking football. Training with him was pleasant and varied - praises Kolkka.
- reacts very calmly. This type of coach who tries to talk, to explain. Wisla players did not experience a situation in which He enters the locker room and will scream for 10 minutes.

, although it can be tough. In the spring of the two stars Robbert Schilder and Patrick Zwaanswijk were caught drinking alcohol two days before the match against Vitesse (1:1). Punished by a fine of several thousand euros, but in the game and so staged. With Zwaanwijkiem not renewed after the contract. Did not like this, however, fans of the club, because he played there for five years. - Because Maalkant are nice people, but as someone with him Zadar, that's after him - assesses Van Denderen.