On Sunday, June 16, Poland and the Netherlands will also take part in Euro 2024 in Germany. Valuable points will be at stake in Hamburg from 3 pm. There’s plenty of fuel before the game.

Sunday, June 16, 3 p.m., Hamburg: Poland vs. the Netherlands. A match that will stir things up in both countries. Because in Holland, many Poles work as unskilled laborers. The reputation of Eastern Europeans in the Netherlands is not the best.

Before the game, Jan de Zeeuw, who has lived in Poland for almost two decades, added a little fuel to the fire. In an interview with the newspaper “De Volkskrant”, the former director of the Polish national team – from 2006 to 2009 – gave the team led by injured superstar Robert Lewandowski a devastating report card.

“In the relegation match against Wales, they didn’t get a single shot on goal in 120 minutes. Poland only won on penalties. Holland don’t even have to field a goalkeeper. Poland can’t play soccer. If you put pressure on the team, they don’t know anything. Midfielder Piotr Zielinski fell out with the president in Naples and didn’t play for two months. Goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny is good, but the defense is always disappointing. Pawel Dawidowicz in particular moves like a truck,” said Jan de Zeeuw.

Tomasz Hajto did not want to let these words stand in the studio of the TV station “Polsat” on Saturday, June 15, and scolded the Holland expert de Zeeuw.

And if he doesn’t like it here, he can emigrate from Poland and return to Holland. I always say: as a foreigner in Poland, you have to appreciate and respect our customs and culture!

Tomasz Hajto

“The Dutch are actually nice people. I got to know a lot of Dutch people at Schalke, like Huub Stevens, Youri Mulder and Niels Oude-Kamphuis. But here in Poland we meet a Dutchman of all people who wants to moralize and lecture us on soccer. I would advise him to take two steps back and think very carefully next time before he opens his mouth and gives such interviews,” said Tomasz Hajto angrily.

Once he got going, the former FC Schalke 04 professional really got going and ranted in the direction of de Zeeuw: “If you live in our country as a foreigner, then I expect respect for the people who have achieved something in our soccer. And if he doesn’t like it here, then he can emigrate from Poland and return to Holland. I always say: as a foreigner in Poland, you have to appreciate and respect our customs and culture!”