Dirk Kuyt stops as international. The 34-year-old striker Fenerbahçe has decided that he is no longer available for Orange.
“I’m a player who always wants to give one hundred percent, and by the limited view of playtime I can no longer afford, “said Kuyt Friday The Telegraph . After the World Cup in Brazil, he wanted to purchase. Yet “It would have been easy to immediately after successful World Cup stop. But I felt so fit,” he says in the AD .
Kuijt has his decision after extensive consultation with national coach Guus Hiddink. “They were very respectful conversations. From now on, I focus completely on my club.”
Still not quite dare to take of Orange. Leave the 104-time international “If the worst comes to the man and Orange needs me, then I will of course stand for the national coach, my teammates and the fans.”
Five final tournaments
Kuyt played five final tournaments. He was with Orange second during the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 and third in the world championship in Brazil last summer.
he was also out on the 2006 World Cup and the European Championships in 2008 and 2012.
Kuijt debuted in September 2004 for the Dutch team against Liechtenstein, a match which team won 3-0. His last game was the friendly match against Italy in September. Netherlands lost 2-0.
Milestone
The list of players with most games do Kuijt only Edwin van der Sar (130), Frank de Boer (112), Rafael van der Vaart (109), Wesley Sneijder (107) and Giovanni van Bronckhorst (106) to tolerate. above him
None of them reached as soon as the milestone of one hundred international games as Kuijt.
In his internationals Kuyt made 24 hits, with whom he shares the fourteenth place on the high score list of all times of Orange.
Coach Guus Hiddink makes Friday his roster for the European Championship qualifying round matches against Kazakhstan ( October 10) and Iceland (13 October). Kuyt was still in the pre-selection
By:. NU.nl/ANP
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