{"id":1492,"date":"2026-03-24T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:19:18","slug":"huijsen-reflects-on-period-of-underperformance-following-national-team-call-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/huijsen-reflects-on-period-of-underperformance-following-national-team-call-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Huijsen reflects on period of underperformance following national team call-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-17.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-17-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-17-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Real Madrid defender Huijsen expressed gratitude for Luis de la Fuente&#8217;s trust despite acknowledging a recent dip in his form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Real Madrid defender Dean Huijsen expresses gratitude to national team coach Luis de la Fuente for his call-up to the squad for March friendlies against Serbia and Egypt, following a period where he admits his form dipped but now feels he has recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very proud to be here, it&#8217;s an honour to represent my country. I believe I went through a spell where I wasn&#8217;t performing at the level people know I can reach, and that I&#8217;m now achieving again. We&#8217;re in good shape as a team,&#8221; he stated, acknowledging a difficult spell with Real Madrid and his subsequent resurgence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huijsen respects the criticism he has faced, choosing to focus on the positives, particularly the continued support from the national team coach. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I work for every day, to be here, which is an honour. The press has to talk about something; I don&#8217;t interfere with your job,&#8221; he commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding Real Madrid, after a discussion with Atletico Madrid midfielder Alex Baena about Fede Valverde&#8217;s tackle that resulted in a straight red card for the Uruguayan, Huijsen maintained it should have been a yellow card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I still think the same; I believe it stops the play and it looks like a yellow to me. Obviously, he kicks the ball and it&#8217;s a foul, but it&#8217;s a yellow, and if they look at it on VAR, it&#8217;s clear he makes contact with the foot, not the studs,&#8221; he defended.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Madrid defender Huijsen expressed gratitude for Luis de la Fuente&#8217;s trust despite acknowledging a recent dip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}