# Flick tells Frenkie de Jong to play full-back: Balde's reaction

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119903747589706006
- Source account: [@lxmedia22\_](https://x.com/lxmedia22_)
- Source language: Spanish
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:45
- Published: 2026-11-09
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6FdJf0W8Dfcl/es/flick-pide-a-frenkie-de-jong-jugar-de-lateral-la-reacci%C3%B3n-de-balde.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6FdJf0W8Dfcl/en/flick-tells-frenkie-de-jong-to-play-full-back-balde-s-reaction) This is the conversation between the German and the Dutchman.

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6FdJf0W8Dfcl/en/flick-tells-frenkie-de-jong-to-play-full-back-balde-s-reaction?t=3) There’s Flick’s hand gesture right there.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6FdJf0W8Dfcl/en/flick-tells-frenkie-de-jong-to-play-full-back-balde-s-reaction?t=6) He later acknowledged this conversation at a press conference.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6FdJf0W8Dfcl/en/flick-tells-frenkie-de-jong-to-play-full-back-balde-s-reaction?t=8) Now we’re going to listen to it and pay attention to De Jong, because he accepts the order, understands the message, and now talks about it with the bench.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6FdJf0W8Dfcl/en/flick-tells-frenkie-de-jong-to-play-full-back-balde-s-reaction?t=17) And there’s, like—those little faces. A little chuckle, right? From Frenkie de Jong.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6FdJf0W8Dfcl/en/flick-tells-frenkie-de-jong-to-play-full-back-balde-s-reaction?t=20) And let’s pay attention to the academy players, because after De Jong, uh… says he’s going to play at right back, we see that conversation.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6FdJf0W8Dfcl/en/flick-tells-frenkie-de-jong-to-play-full-back-balde-s-reaction?t=29) What? Right back? And of course, this affects or could affect the person who’s right in the middle, Alejandro Balde, who’s a left back, and we might think: Hey, Balde could have ended up on the left with Cancelo on the right. instead of bringing Frenkie de Jong in