When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

If a player is racially insulted, he should have the right to leave the field.

I am very fit and by playing sweeper I can control the speed of the game.

Every week you have to play well to be the champion.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.