Dean Donny Huijsen Wijsmuller was born in Amsterdam (2005), but grew up in Malaga and already played with Spain Sub 21 after doing so with the lower ones in the Netherlands. Today it can be the novelty of Luis de la Fuente, but before he spoke with Mark from England.
Q. Do you see Luis de la Fuente’s list today?
A. I think I have possibilities, but it will be what the coach says. Pass or not, I’m going to continue working. But yes, I have a possibility now that he is going well … and hopefully it is like that.
P. Spain plays against the Netherlands, the country where you were born and where your parents are. What would it mean for you to play before that country?
A. It would be a chance, without more. You know it. My family is from Holland. But I feel Spanish. Spain is my house. So, first, it would be a dream to be able to enter the call and then debut. And for my family it would also be a dream.
Q. Would you understand that in some Dutch media they criticized you for being born in Amsterdam and playing with Spain?
A. In football they always criticize you, but I don’t care much to be said. If it were the other way around, they would also say otherwise. If I had been born in Spain and raised me in Holland, they would say I would have to go with Holland. It is also like a feeling. They criticize you but at the same time they love you.
Q. Did Ronald Koeman (Dutch coach) called him to convince him?
A: May I know, no. Maybe yes to my environment, but not.
Q. Luis de la Fuente today or not, in the Federation they have marked in red.
A. I wish it is so, and everything I hope is going on and everything that people spend. And if there is no call, everything will come. To continue working.
Huijsen, at a time of the interview.
Q. Do you want to play soon in Spanish LaLiga?
A. Yes, it could be. Spain is my country. And it would be good to return to Spain someday.
Q. Do you see LaLiga?
A. Yes, I see it, above all, if there is any excommunicero of the sub21 or someone who knows. And to Malaga, I see it when I can. I think that a little football from Malaga I have in the sense of the ball out, the dribling with the ball being central …
Q. By his name and surname, teammates recognize him more as Dutch or as Spanish?
Bournemouth coach defends that his two players are “at a very high level”
R. Spanish, Spanish. For everyone it must be very clear.
P. it’s your first season in the Premier. Is he happy
A. I think he is going well, at the individual and team level, and I can’t complain. That is the truth.
Q. Are you happier with your offensive contribution in terms of ball exit, goals … or with its defensive contribution, as a central one that is?
A. With both, but the first, for me, is to defend. I think I’m doing well defensively. And then, everything that is the offensive part with ball or marked goals, is an extra.
Q. Do you think they appreciate it more for one thing or another?
A. No, no. I sor defense. That is the first. The offensive is coming later. But I think, honestly, I can also contribute there. I am happy for it.
The central marked, he sent silent, saw a yellow and was replaced in the 3-0 victory of Rome against Frosinone by series A.
Q. You had everything, but perhaps you had ‘body’ to fight in the Premier with the great strikers. Do you think the same?
A. If you see the games, it is not costing me. Moreover, physically I am doing well. I think I have adapted well to England. In the end, people talk a lot about the physicist, but also defending is a mental issue. In many plays he goes to the clash, but there are also situations in which if you go to the clash, you have less opportunity to get victorious of the duel. Defender is a “mix ‘of physicist and head.
Q. Let’s talk about Bournemouth. I am struck by his complicity with Justin Kluivert. His father, who was a professional player, and Patrick Kluivert agreed on Ajax, right?
A. Yes, what a coincidence! And our mothers are also known for a long time, to be seen by Amsterdam when they were smaller. My father always said that Kluivert was very good. And now Justin is doing very well with us, he is in an incredible way.
Q. Is the dream of reaching Europe possible? [El Bournemouth es ahora mismo noveno].
A. I think it’s possible, really. We are fighting for it. And I think we have good chances of doing so. We have to keep working, be humble, but we go with everything.
Q. What has Andoni Iraola contributed to you?
A. The Premier is already intense, but with him we still play above the high intensity of the Premier. If you see the statistics, we are in the top three or Top four. It makes us play, but we also make a lot of direct pass, to space, to the extreme or the striker … It is our way of playing. We press high and try to play later. Iraola gives us freedom to play. Each can show their quality.
Dean Huijsen (18 years old) is one of the jewelry of the Juventus subsidiary, a club he reached in 2021, from Malaga. During a report of Juventus ‘The Best is yet to eat’ the young footballer and his father reveal the reasons why they decided to take their bags and go to Italy instead of darling in the ranks of the White Club: “In my last year in Malaga, I was playing really well. I was playing with the sub17 and the competitions of the sub19. Many clubs were asking for me …”, he says.
Q. Let’s talk about your passage through calcium. Juventus behaved badly with you?
A. It can be. I went to Rome, I returned, and I can understand that they would like to sell me or what he club needed last summer, but I arrived the first day after my summer vacation, and they told me that I had to go, but that they were not going to force me. And then they forced me, they made me train alone and things like that. It was a bit ugly, besides because I had been there for three years from the Sub 17 wishing only to have an opportunity with the first team of Juve.
Q. And how did you overcome that?
A. The truth is that football is sometimes hard. I was a little sad, disgusted … but it is what there is and that is what it touches. If they believed that I was a good possibility to make a sale, then I accept it.