{"id":29267,"date":"2025-06-18T02:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=29267"},"modified":"2025-06-18T02:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:33:05","slug":"indonesia-nt-assistant-coach-denny-landzaat-turns-down-ajax-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2025\/06\/18\/indonesia-nt-assistant-coach-denny-landzaat-turns-down-ajax-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia NT Assistant Coach Denny Landzaat Turns Down Ajax Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"303\"><strong>Denny\u202fLandzaat has declined an invitation to re\u2011join Ajax Amsterdam\u2019s coaching staff for 2025\/26, choosing instead to remain on the bench with the Indonesia national team as Patrick\u202fKluivert\u2019s right\u2011hand man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"616\">Landzaat\u2019s agent confirmed that the 48\u2011year\u2011old was on a short\u2011list to become John\u202fHeitinga\u2019s assistant at Ajax\u2014 the club where he first broke through as a player before spells at Wigan Athletic and Feyenoord. Although flattered by the prospect of returning to Amsterdam, Landzaat ultimately rebuffed the offer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"618\" data-end=\"887\">\u201cThe national\u2011team project comes first<strong data-start=\"619\" data-end=\"661\">,<\/strong>\u201d he told reporters on June 16, \u201cI feel professionally and personally fulfilled here. Working with Patrick and helping Indonesia chase a historic World\u2011Cup berth is a challenge that excites me more than any club job right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"889\" data-end=\"1176\">Landzaat added that Ajax will \u201calways be in my heart,\u201d but said the chance to build something lasting with Indonesia outweighs the pull of his boyhood club. \u201cWe\u2019ve started a journey, and I want to see it through\u2014 for the players, the fans, and the legacy we all hope to create,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1178\" data-end=\"1364\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">His decision is a timely boost for Kluivert\u2019s staff as Indonesia prepare for October\u2019s fourth\u2011round Asian qualifiers, where a place at the 2026 World Cup is now within touching distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denny\u202fLandzaat has declined an invitation to re\u2011join Ajax Amsterdam\u2019s coaching staff for 2025\/26, choosing instead to remain on the bench with the Indonesia national team as Patrick\u202fKluivert\u2019s right\u2011hand man. Landzaat\u2019s agent confirmed that the 48\u2011year\u2011old was on a short\u2011list to become John\u202fHeitinga\u2019s assistant at Ajax\u2014 the club where he first broke through as a player before spells at Wigan Athletic and Feyenoord. Although flattered by the prospect of returning to Amsterdam, Landzaat ultimately rebuffed the offer. \u201cThe national\u2011team project comes first,\u201d he told reporters on June 16, \u201cI feel professionally and personally fulfilled here. Working with Patrick and helping Indonesia chase a historic World\u2011Cup berth is a challenge that excites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2025\/06\/18\/indonesia-nt-assistant-coach-denny-landzaat-turns-down-ajax-approach\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Indonesia NT Assistant Coach Denny Landzaat Turns Down Ajax Approach&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":27067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26],"tags":[249,2967,1998,91,137,95,315],"class_list":["post-29267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","category-southeast-asia","tag-ajax-amsterdam","tag-denny-landzaat","tag-europe","tag-indonesia","tag-netherlands","tag-slider","tag-southeast-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29269,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267\/revisions\/29269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}