Speaking about how he was in the Dutch colony as a child on a podcast from three years ago has made Jort van der Sande a star
The Dundee United striker is very much the poster boy for the Bonaire national team and helped his side to a 1-1 draw with St Vincent and the Grenadines yesterday . The 28-year-old spent several years in the Dutch colony as a child and spoke about it on a podcast when he was at NAC Breda.
“Someone over there was listening to the podcast and they said they’d done some research so we think you can play. Because I went to school there and if you live there for five years I can play.” The Dutchman also went to school in Bonaire and ended up beside another future Bonaire internationalists. The United striker explained: “When I started playing, one of our team-mates, Jurven Koffy, told me he has a picture at home of his primary school class and there’s one kid with red hair.
“It’s kind of a village. It has like 20,000 residents, so everyone knows each other. So it’s a different kind of pressure you have here but there are big expectations.”
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