{"id":43374,"date":"2026-06-20T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/43374\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:26:14","slug":"frenkie-de-jong-a-fitness-doubt-for-the-netherlands-as-ronald-koeman-offers-update-on-barcelona-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/43374\/","title":{"rendered":"Frenkie de Jong a fitness doubt for the Netherlands as Ronald Koeman offers update on Barcelona star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Netherlands boss Ronald Koeman says that <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/teams\/barcelona\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Barcelona;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Barcelona&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona<\/a> midfielder Frenkie de Jong is a doubt for his team\u2019s World Cup clash with <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/teams\/sweden-women\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sweden;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Sweden&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sweden<\/a> due to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The midfielder played all 90 minutes of the 2-2 draw with Japan but the Netherlands may have to cope without him on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBut Frenkie also has minor complaints about his physical condition. He also did practice with other players. But let\u2019s see how he will be tomorrow. It is not clear. It is a question mark. I\u2019m not sure, I don\u2019t know. It is below his belly, his injury,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Koeman also revealed how he spoke to De Jong after the opening game about how he needs to improve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI spoke to Frenkie after the game and I think he is doing a lot things right,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cTactically he is a very clever player. I\u2019ve also discussed with Frenkie that when we are in the offence, he needs to get out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cSometimes he stays too low on the pitch and sometimes he could perform an action forward because then he is really fast. That\u2019s the part where I think for himself and the team he has room for improvement. However, it would be going way too far to say \u2018leave him out.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Barcelona will be hoping it\u2019s only a minor problem for De Jong, particularly after seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/barcelona-team-news\/124068\/raphinha-statement-issued-by-brazil-after-barcelona-star-sustains-injury-at-world-cup-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Raphinha;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Raphinha&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Raphinha<\/a> and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/soccer\/players\/3871556\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ronald Araujo;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ronald Araujo&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronald Araujo<\/a> struggle with injury at World Cup 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netherlands boss Ronald Koeman says that Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong is a doubt for his team\u2019s World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,851,2141,1066,2938,94,929,2833,9873],"class_list":["post-43374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-barcelona","tag-barcelona","tag-frenkie-de-jong","tag-getty-images","tag-japan","tag-netherlands","tag-raphinha","tag-ronald-araujo","tag-ronald-koeman","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}