The transfer period in the Netherlands is over, and players cannot transfer to a new club for the time being. But there are also football players who have no club at all. What awaits these players? “I Suddenly had to wash my own training Clothes.”
After Two Seasons As A Reserve Goalkeeper at ADO Den Haag, Tim Coremans Became One of the Many Clubless Football players in The Netherlands On July 1. “My Contract Expired, from then on it’s just unemployment Benefits,” The 34-year-old Goalkeeperper.. “Then you sauddenly have to pay for the gasoline yourself.” Laughing: “At that moment you are shocked at how much them prices have risen.”
Coremans Has Been in a UWV (Employee Insurance Agency) Program Several Times in recent years. Football players like Him who are temporarily without a club can go to the association of contract players (VVCS). The Players’ Union Organizes Training Sessions and Practice Matches for Clubless Professional Footballers Duration the Summer Period. At Team VVCS, They Can Showcase Themselves to Interested Clubs.
About Thirty Clubless Players Register There Every Year. Yanic Wildschut was one of them last summer. The 33-year-old Winger has not playball for over a year, after suffering a serious knee injury in his last contract year at Exeter City in England.
“At Team VVCS we can train seriously as a team, with good trainers who have our best interests at heart,” Says Wildschut. “That is nicer than individual training, also important for the mental aspect.”
Wildschut Has Played in England in recent years and wanted to show himself in the Netherlands again this Summer. “But if you are older, Have had a knee injury and have leg away from the Netherlands for eleven years, you are no longer in Such a good position. I have spoken to a number of clubs, but they thought the risk,” Says.
In The Netherlands, The VVCS Takes Care of Practical Matters Such As Accident Insurance, When the Players Are No Longer Insured Through Their Club. There is also an obligation to Apply for Jobs, Although Footballers Interpret This Differently.
“I had to submit four job application activities per month. IF I had called anyone, I would just fill that,” Says Coremans. “In principle, that is also an application. But I had to clearly explain that it made no sense for me to apply. Because I was already constantly working to keep myself on the market.”
“That is Indeed Difficult,” Adds Arjan Ebbinge. The Former Professional is a Career Coach at the VVCS. “Because should you then send a letter of application to a club yourself?” I am player x, I play in that position and I would like to be considered for you ‘? The UWV Has now recognized this. So we can take a put allplication for our members for conplication for upmers for upmers for upmers for upmers for upmers for upmers for upmers for up allplication for upmers for upmers for upmers for upmers for upmers for upmers for upmers for upmers for upmers. List, which we send to clubs and scouts. “
“I Suddenly had to wash my own training Clothes”
Meanwhile, Clubless Players Have To Maintain Their Condition Themselves. Coremans Once Reported to the Under-21s of his Old Club NAC Breda to Train With Them. “Then I Suddenly had to go home with the football bag and wash my own training Clothes. While normally you leave them at the club and the next day they are neatly ready again. My wife wasn’t always happy with that eggher.”
And what if there is ultimately no new club? Wildschut, Who is Currently Training with his Old Club Exeter City, Wants To Try for a Few More Months. “I’m going to give everything until the winter break. If it’s still nothing nothing, then it’s over. And then I have to think about life after football,” he says. “I already have the papers to Become an Assistant or Youth Trainer.”
Coremans had Given himself Until the End of September to Find a New Club. If not, he would end his professional career. It has not come to that, because he has found security for the next three years. “I Knew Goalkeeper Trainer Raymond Mulder from ADO. In the week that he signed with FC Dordrecht, I sent him a message.” Are you still looking for an experienced second goalkeeper? “
“I was afraid that I wouldbnn’t get a job or amateur club,” Coremans Continues. “But to be honest, it would go to soe some getting used to. I’ve bone in the same pattern for 25 years. I have a higher professional education diploma, but that’s all there is to it. If I have to stop Tomorrow, no idea to do the Ithow. Guys. “
