Van der Kooij will follow from a distance how that selection will perform. In any case, his heart will not part with Hercules. “I have built up so much there, that door can never close in one go.” For Van der Kooij, who played his entire life as a football player at Excelsior Maassluis, Hercules is now ‘his club’. “That answer is unnecessary, right? We have achieved so much. And we also had arguments, but if you want to achieve something, you sometimes have to go through things. It will still be my club in five years and in ten years too.”
The difficult choice of outgoing coach René van der Kooij: ‘Hercules will still be my club in ten years’
