Articles tagged with "ajax"
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 15th, 2009
Special Request: a piece on Maarten Stekelenburg. To be honest: I don't see the problem. Or I should say, I see the problem for Oranje, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 13th, 2009
Suarez laments a missed opp...
For the third time this season, Olympique Marseille demonstrated against a Dutch club that it's prepared to do everything for a ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 11th, 2009
Sometimes you find an interesting in depth look at how players experienced certain matches in their career. Rob Witschge looks back at Ajax' classic semi ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 10th, 2009
The class of 2007....
The clash between Liverpool and Real Madrid could have been a confrontation between Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Royston Drenthe for the Spanish ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 3rd, 2009
Jan Everse talks to angry fans...
AD editor van Nijnatten traveled to see Go Ahead Eagles play, with Marc Overmars.
Or rather, without Marc Overmars. The former ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 28th, 2009
Dick: "Just tell Roman to pick me for Chelsea... Pick me! Pick me!"
After all that boring CL football and high drama, we're in for a ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 26th, 2009
In the next round, Gabri will come and whoop your ass!
We can lament the status of Dutch football for hours, but luckily the world will ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 26th, 2009
Former Barca man Gabri, important for the balance....
Ajax coach Marco van Basten will confront Fiorentina the Italian way. "We don't want to be vulnerable."
Defending the ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 22nd, 2009
Dedicated to Finnster :-)
McClaren...no umbrella needed...
The whole nation is very much aware of the miracle of FC Twente. Number 2 in the Eredivisie, quartffinals National ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 22nd, 2009
O Neill congratulates Hiddink....
Another weekend of football action behind us and lots of cool things to write about.
There's the Hunter... Apparently, he started out a ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 18th, 2009
A day at the office of Jhon van Beukering, NEC-striker
The European euro-ball is starting again, next week. Champions League football! What a posters to ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 16th, 2009
Statistically, Makaay is one of the greatest. He can easily be mentioned in the same sentence as...Van Basten, Van Nistelrooy, Muller, Shearer, Rush, Raul, Batistuta, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 15th, 2009
Leonardo, making the difference...
It would have been good to get some excitement back in the Dutch Eredivisie. For instance, AZ losing against PSV. Ajax losing ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 15th, 2009
FC Groningen produced many a great player. Arjen Robben is probably example number 1, nowadays, but the Koeman brothers were developed in the North as ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 13th, 2009
This weekend, El Classico is on the program. The one and only. In an earlier post I wrote about the historic backdrop of this massive ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 9th, 2009
Vitesse whipped Ajax 4-1 and Lasse Nilsson of the Arnhem club said: "Ajax just wasn't Ajax today...".
Polite words of the striker who scored twice. But ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 9th, 2009
They stood in line once to sing the National Anthem. In this special, it's Henny Meijer. The ex Telstar, Volendam, Roda JC, Ajax, FC Groningen, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 8th, 2009
Is it me? Is it because I'm too wrapped up in the global crisis? Am I getting paranoid, or are things going south for Dutch ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 3rd, 2009
AZ had a great weekend. Ajax lost and the leaders won their own match at Sparta. And AZ came through the transfer window unscathed. Skipper ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 25th, 2009
Peter Hoekstra (35 years old) played 5 games for Oranje. The former PSV, Ajax and Stoke City winger is currently youth coach at FC Groningen. ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 25th, 2009
As found by Goose:
Louis van Gaal wants to find the complete human being in the football player. And he remains a coach who wants to ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 24th, 2009
Are you ready for us there, Guiness people?
Well, as JC said... Dutch players are as good with their mouths as they are with their feet. ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Jan 7th, 2009
With the winter transfer window now in full swing, the opportunity to leave 2nd Bundesliga club Nuremberg has returned for Greece striker Angelos Charisteas. Last ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 2nd, 2009
2008 was Luis Suarez definitive break through year. The Uruguayan striker scored 17 times in 33 games last season. This season his stats are even ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 31st, 2008
A wonderful, prosperous and healthy 2009 for all of you, my friends!
My Crystal Ball (tm) told me the following last night:
* Van Marwijk qualifies easily ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 28th, 2008
Man United's Evra and a Hull player in love...
Batty baseball hit
Beenhakker angry at the EC2008
Hockey player hypnotized by puck
One on one at racing
Last ball game ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 27th, 2008
Daley Blind
It should have been in beautiful clash between two football sons, recently at Ajax' youth complex.
The A1 youth hosted a game versus PSV. ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 27th, 2008
We all know Louis van Gaal. The elegant playmaker. In his youth, destined to follow up Johan Cruyff if he ever left Ajax (which he ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 26th, 2008
Willem van Hanegem, emotional....
Right after the jolly Xmas breakfast, the FC Utrecht players are told that Willem van Hanegem, their coach, is sacked.
It's right before ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 25th, 2008
Johan Cruyff is the only player to take of his shoes and socks as well when he jogs on the airstrip of the Cap Verdian ...
