Articles tagged with "cruyff"
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 25th, 2009
JC lectures, Platini is eavesdropping...
UEFA President Michel Platini is pessimistic about the future of Dutch clubs in the Champions League: "I don't think Ajax will ...
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
They were ready to sing the National Anthem. Only once... In this chapter, Wim Meutstege, the former player of Excelsior, Sparta and Ajax.
The Dutch team ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 23rd, 2009
A young Willy van der Kuylen on the left...
Somehow, when we talk about European successes of Dutch teams, it's about Feyenoord (they won the first ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 19th, 2009
Article dedicated to Goose :-)
When we talk about great Dutch football players of the past, names like Cruyff, Van Hanegem, Moulijn, Neeskens and Van Basten ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 1st, 2009
It doesn't matter how many Ronaldinho's, Messi's, Gerrard's, Pato's or Biseswar's we have to discuss, the 1974 Oranje team will always titillate us...
In 2009, we'll ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 29th, 2009
The group of players that mesmerized the world in 1974 was a bunch of hardheaded weirdo's. And that hasn't changed in the last 35 years. ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 5th, 2009
Bryan Roy played 32 caps for Oranje. Developed at Ajax, he played for Foggia, Nottingham Forest and Hertha BSC. The former left winger tells us ...
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 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 ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 16th, 2008
It's 30 years ago that Johan Cruyff was presented with a huge hangover after his farewell match against Bayern Munich. November 7, 1978 and Ajax ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 14th, 2008
The infamous moment in Portugal, four years ago.
You're only as good as your last game, record, movie, book, joke...whatever. It applies to all trades. Teachers, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 14th, 2008
They only stood in line to sing the Wilhelms once. We discussed Edwin Vurens and Barry van Galen already. This time it's Feyenoord midfielder Andre ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 8th, 2008
On the night Mario Been and NEC won in Moscow, Roy Keane decided to quit as manager of Sunderland.
One Chris Woerts is part of the ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 30th, 2008
We have been focusing a lot on Real Madrid in the last months. And justified too, with five exciting Dutch players wearing the royal white. ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 30th, 2008
Oranje had qualified for the WC1974 finals. Cruyff and Neeskens beat Brazil and West Germany - not playing a very impressive tournament so far - ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 29th, 2008
Willem van Hanegem and Ove Kindvall vs Celtic in 1970s European Cup final.
Feyenoord celebrates it's 100rd birthday this year. The AD newspaper publishes regularly on ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 29th, 2008
Let's do this one again, chaps. Enjoy...
Okay then, the big man has turned 60... Let's do some more Cruyffian stuff... Ol' Goose already published some ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 27th, 2008
"There was some rumour in the dug out, suddenly... Some message was handed down from the stands and Thijs Libregts said: Mario, go warm up. ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 27th, 2008
Johan and Ome Cor...
He never hit a ball. Didn't wear a football shirt. But still, he was one of Holland's most influential people in football. ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 25th, 2008
Nees was always polite when people accidentally bumped into him...
Here we go for 1974 then... I do surrender my age with this one :-).
But, most ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 23rd, 2008
I actually thought I wrote about this earlier, but I can't find the post anywhere :-(.
So here goes, by popular demand... What happened at (or ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Oct 30th, 2008
The world is going mad! Financial meltdowns, whale sandwich, killing for oil, Maradona as team manager and Van der Sar left out of the Top ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 8th, 2008
I heard the Dutch team didn't do too well against Australia. Although I heard the goal was pretty impressive.
Still, if I were team manager, I ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 5th, 2008
So, you liked the PSV goals. Pfff.....take a look at these! JC, Marco, Schip, Zlatan, Jari and some bloke called Dennis?
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 2nd, 2008
Wonder goals are really wonder goals when they're scored in important matches! Peter Houtman - currently stadium speaker at Feyenoord - was a typical Wim ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 22nd, 2008
Adrie now...
EC1988 winner Adrie van Tiggelen is assistant coach at Sparta and is a happy trooper. "Head coach Foeke Booy allows me to do the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 14th, 2008
Almost ten years after his debut in Oranje Ruud van Nistelrooy decided to stop as international. The 32 year old striker wants to focus fully ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 12th, 2008
Wim Kieft has been one of Holland's most popular football analysts on tv since he quit playing pro football. Nowadays, the blond Amsterdam born former ...
