Articles tagged with "Oranje"
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 18th, 2008
Summers normally mean football for Hedwiges Maduro. In 2005 he played the WC under 20, in 2006 he was with Oranje at the big WC ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 17th, 2008
Right winger John van 't Schip can still be enjoyed when he plays for Lucky Ajax (old Ajax)
Can you remember one good left or right ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 15th, 2008
Last Tuesday, Foppe de Haan published his definitive selection for the Olympics. Roy Makaay, Kew Jaliens and Gerald Sibon are the "dispensation" players (sorry, don't ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 15th, 2008
We checked out Nordin Amrabat in the first of this series. Now it's time for Heerenveen striker Gerald Sibon.
He is in the autumn of his ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 14th, 2008
Van Basten is back at Ajax!
Ten year of mismanagement and no international prizes to speak of formed the run up to the infamous Coronel report. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 13th, 2008
There's been quite some criticism on Ajax' youth development. Johan Cruyff and Finnster two name just two (Finn, your name in one sentence with JC!!). ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 10th, 2008
The KNVB site sometimes publishes interesting Top 11 lists... In Dutch, as you know. This time around: the toughest players...
11. Mark van Bommel
Doesn't shy away ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 7th, 2008
What can you say... We need at least three Best Oranje's Ever: we have Gullit, Bergkamp, Van Basten, Van Vossen, Rep, Rensenbrink, Moulijn, Keizer, Roy, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 6th, 2008
Let's keep them votes coming it...
I can't help but organize this in a 4-3-3 system, so some players will have to play in a different ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 5th, 2008
As suggested by the Finnster, we'll vote for the best team ever now.
But we'll do it in chunks. I hope this will work...
First, the goalies.
...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 5th, 2008
How do you feel, being an assistant coach after all those years as an active player?
I definitely feel I'm a coach now. I've said goodbye ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 4th, 2008
The EC is history. Spain won. So what? It's old news. Bring on the new...
The next big thing will be the World Cup (have I ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 3rd, 2008
Football fans could chose the EC's best goal on the UEFA website. Wesley Sneijder's wonderful strike fromm outside the box, the 4-1 against France, received ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 3rd, 2008
Football mania has left the Swiss capital Bern, but they won't forget the Dutch fans. Ever. Two weeks, the city was orange and the party ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 2nd, 2008
He is quite something... Sent away from PSV by none other than Guus Hiddink. Played for AGOVV in the cellar of professional football. Made a ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 2nd, 2008
Give them bread and games, wasn't that what some Roman emperor said? The people will be docile and stay quiet as long as we feed ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 1st, 2008
Deco will move from Barcelona to Chelsea. The Portuguese midfielder will be reunited with his Portugal coach Scolari.
Patrick Kluivert returns to Holland! He will move ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 30th, 2008
* Playing lousy and copping criticism and playing out-of-this-world football can be sleeping on the same pillow.
* Playing out-of-this-world football and playing crap in the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 27th, 2008
Maroon 5 dedicated a song to this blog, called...eh... "This Blog".
It goes: "this blog has taken it's toll on me, but you said goodbye, so ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 26th, 2008
I couldn't get myself to write the daily "what have we learned" posts, because what we basically learned was how to play football, thanks to ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 23rd, 2008
It's been a couple of days... We all got drunk, or into some bar brawl or we burned our Oranje jersey or whatever it was ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 23rd, 2008
50% of the Dutch population wanted Marco van Basten out, six months ago. Now, we all feel he has retired from his job a week ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 22nd, 2008
We have two games to cover with this weekend's award ceremonies. So let's get cracking. First up ...
The Life of Brian Award : ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 22nd, 2008
It's 14 hours after the horrible exit of Oranje. Is it time now to look at our performance objectively.
Let's find out.
Psychological / Mental
Holland came into ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
Most actors in today's drama were gutted... But also pretty honest.
Marco van Basten: "Russia deserved to win. They could have won with a bigger difference ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
It's more than half an hour after the game. I needed some time to collect my wits, my thoughts and all the coffee cups I ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
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Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
Tonight the fans will sing "You'll never walk alone" for Khalid and Sabia. It wouldn't be surprising to even see cuddly toys and teddy bears ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
Oranje will start in the same line up as it did against Italy and France. Khalid Boulahrouz will play as right back and Engelaar will ...
