Darts icon Of Barneveld makes the season: He now comes to rest and then grabs the thread again

More sports last night announced darts-icon Raymond van Barneveld (51) still immediately retiring from the sport, this morning came the Dutchman still back on that decision. That confirmed manager Jaco van Bodegom. “He has been through a lot the last time.”

The previous night, had the five-fold world champion after a disastrous defeat against Michael van Gerwen to let you know there immediately. “He was humiliated and felt shame,’ says Van Bodegom. “He now takes a moment, and then, in principle, by according to plan.’

it was Known already that Van Barneveld after this season would stop. Van Bodegom: “That it remains so. The intention is that he is again released on the world championship. Yesterday, I immediately called that Raymond acted in emotion. With all due respect, he does that often. I knew immediately that with him fell as if he had the chance would have to come out of all adversities. He has been through a lot the last time.‘

Van Bodegom asked for understanding for the situation. “Raymond felt so miserable that he is the people in the room, if not more dared to look. Private is the last time everything went wrong. That he carries with him. Just as that break-in at his house. He is full of sorrow. Then he gets a packed Ahoy in and he sees his mother, who was there for the first time after a serious illness. And he knows that his wife there for the first time. Raymond came crying on stage. In that situation he could not perform.’