> “If the coach asks me to play in defense, then I play in defense. But that won’t be the case in the long term. Everyone knows that I am a midfielder,” he told ESPN.
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> “The coach came up to me just before the break and then he said, can you or do you mind playing right-back for 15 minutes? And then you go to the midfield afterwards. That was fine. Everyone really knows that I am a midfielder and not a defender.
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> “That has been done before. At Ajax sometimes too, at Barca sometimes too, with Koeman back then too, with Xavi sometimes,” De Jong recalled.
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> “Those were really incidents or if we still had to win. So there are trainers who have put me there, and I mean, I think I can do that fine.”