Kevin Vermeulen says goodbye to professional football after nine years — at Excelsior, RKC Waalwijk and FC Dordrecht. However, he doesn‘t shed a tear about that, after an unhappy season at De Krommedijk.
Vermeulen lost his base spot under trainer Michele Santoni after the turn of the year. “After that change in that game (Excelsior at home on December 18, ed.), I no longer had contact with the trainer,” he tells the Algemeen Dagblad. The 31-year-old Boar Judge had to do it mainly with short falls and began to get the plague more and more. “I went to the club reluctantly on a regular basis. And if you don’t play, you start thinking about your future.”
Next season, he will be working for Cossack Boys, which has narrowly maintained itself in the Second Division after a long summer post-competition campaign. “I saw Cossack Boys at work against DVS’33 and GVVV and was immediately impressed by the ambiance. I missed that many times in the Kitchen Champion Division. I’m really looking forward to playing in the Second Division.” In addition, he will start a social career. “I may be taking up my job at a window decoration company in Zwijndrecht again. I also worked there for my professional period.”
So that professional career lasted nine years and also brought him to the Eredivisie. “I‘ve seen all the stadiums in the Netherlands,” Vermeulen takes stock. “Soon I had everything, because with Excelsior I played in the Eredivisie and with RKC and FC Dordrecht in the first division. Next season, I can see what it’s like in Werkendam, Katwijk and the Bulb Region.”
‘I was immediately impressed by Cossack Boys, I missed ambiance in KKD’
