Articles tagged with "group-c"
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
Wesley Sneijder bamboozled the Spanish press and fans in an interview with AS: "I don't deserve my starting position at Madrid! Since my injury, I ...
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 | Feb 2nd, 2009
It's one of the most popular elements of football. The distance strike. Most spectacular. In the Dutch Eredivisie, Feyenoord player Diego Biseswar built quite a ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 2nd, 2009
The man does something right. In the same season inwhich his team plays tremendous football and gathers the points, the three main rivals stumble.
Ajax may ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 30th, 2009
There's so much written already about Feyenoord, but I couldn't resist sharing this with you. Peter Wekking's Monty Python-ish article on what went down in ...
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 25th, 2009
Marco van Basten looked back at his coaching experiences at Oranje and felt he needed to involve himself more pro-actively into the game. Last Sunday, ...
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: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 3rd, 2009
Hugo Borst's column in the AD.
I'm thinking about the football year 2008 and the word that sticks is inconsistency. It's all or nothing.
Take Louis ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 3rd, 2009
When Kenneth Perez moved to MVV Maastricht when he was 23 years old from Denmark, insiders knew MVV had a prodigious talent in their midst. ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 2nd, 2009
Rafael van der Vaart looks back at his first season in Madrid. After a glorious start, there was the setback. "It's clear that I'll have ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 2nd, 2009
Christmas and NYE drinks in Nijmegen have a dubious status since 2004. Two NEC coaches were sacked right before the festivities. Both Johan Neeskens and ...
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 | Jan 1st, 2009
We can have our own Top 10 moments of 2008 of course... I'm sure many goals we've seen score by our lads at the EC ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 29th, 2008
His winners' mentality makes Mark van Bommel loved by his team mates and fans and hated by his opponents. 2008 was probably the most awkward ...
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 25th, 2008
Johan Derksen's colum in www.vi.nl
For club in peril Feyenoord, 2008 was a horrible year. Bert van Marwijk won the national cup in the summer, but ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 22nd, 2008
Glenn Hoddle was more of an artist than an athlete. He painted masterpieces on the pitch when active as a player and when watching a ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 21st, 2008
PSV is looking for rehabilitation of their reputation and standing. And for that, they're dependent on the ideas of creative midfielder Ibi Afellay. The playmaker ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 19th, 2008
Keith Harris is the intermediary between football clubs and the billionaires who want to buy one. A tough job in this crisis era...
What exactly does ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 19th, 2008
Real Madrid is in crisis. They sacked Schuster and signed up Ramos. Now, it's time for the Madrid management to warn the players. That must ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 16th, 2008
It's a football bull market in Enschede and credits are due to Steve McClaren for achieving that. With his clear, consistent, human and realistic approach ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 8th, 2008
Daley Blind: bright future ahead...
Not true of course...
Surprise number 1. Feyenoord didn't win, again! At home, against low rider De Graafschap, Feyenoord lost 1-3 after ...
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
There was a unanimous conclusion after Deportivo-Feyenoord: the latter doesn't have any business playing in the European cup. "Nine goals conceded, three games and zero ...
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 25th, 2008
Drenthe in his typical style...
It's deep in November... Players are getting tired, coaches face injured key-players, the pitches turn hard, the weather gets worse... November ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 18th, 2008
Dirk Kuyt's goal last Saturday for Liverpool against Bolton was more than just a goal.
Kuyt has scored in the last three months in all possible ...
