Articles tagged with "group-c"
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 3rd, 2008
PSV hopes to win the Dutch title and they're also still in the running for the UEFA Cup. The first leg against Fiorentina ended in ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 2nd, 2008
It's the type of fixture you set the alarm clock for in Australia. 5.30 am was the start of Arsenal - Liverpool, and I was ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 1st, 2008
The Mancunians were looking forward to welcoming Edwin van der Sar back in goal and the Dutchie proved why against AS Roma. In a crucial ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 1st, 2008
Today, news leaked that Marco van Basten and Mark van Bommel are meeting in secret to discuss their "disagreements".
Apparently, according to the source, Van Marwijk ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 1st, 2008
It's that time again. The Best of the Best are going to slug it out against each other. No AC Milan, Real Madrid, Ajax or ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 1st, 2008
Since the friendly against Croatia, it seems Marco van Basten finished his puzzle. The system, the tactics, even the players he wants to take along ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 1st, 2008
The KNVB thinks the new plan of the Eredivisie clubs, who want to strip the play-offs, are rubbish.
Director Henk Kesler vetoed the new plan. "What ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 31st, 2008
Bert van Marwijk will work with the best players of the nation after the EC. But the most special job in Dutch football land will ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 31st, 2008
I'm sorry guys, but I couldn't postpone this post any longer.
I mean, Fabregas, Seedorf, Rooney, Messi... I know... I know... I'd hoped for Sneijder, Van ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 31st, 2008
Jonathan de Guzman is playing his third season for Feyenoord and is still referred to as "the supertalent of Rotterdam". Still, the question whether he ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 31st, 2008
Here's Van Nijnatten's column on the Play Offs. Just for the record: I have never been a fan. To me, the number two of the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 30th, 2008
When I moved to Australia in 2003 I thought I had to kiss Dutch Eredivisie football goodbye. It was a bit sad, really. I too ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 27th, 2008
Marco van Basten arrived at Schiphol with a suitcase filled with questionmarks.
Although his team won the friendly against Austria, the way Oranje played doesn't offer ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 27th, 2008
The friendly against Austria may not have had a lot of value, still there was one serious bonus: Robin van Persie was back after five ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 26th, 2008
Thanks for the live updates, my friends :-). Exciting stuff... Beats those boring 0-0 friendlies...
With only 72 days to go before the EC starts, Oranje ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 25th, 2008
Whenever Demy de Zeeuw needs to negotiate an expensive purchase and the negotiations are tough, he starts to doubt. "Is it because I'm an AZ ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 25th, 2008
Robin van Persie will start tonight in the friendly against Austria. The Arsenal striker, who missed the last internationals due to injury, played in a ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 25th, 2008
24 year old Ajax defender John Heitinga will join buddy Wesley Sneijder in Madrid. With Atletico, that is. The Oranje defender is as happy as ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 25th, 2008
I almost forgot Oranje played Austria tomorrow night. And I think it happened to more people. That match doesn't feel like it's important. And it ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 23rd, 2008
In the last five months Robin van Persie had intensive phone contact with the Dutch team manager about the new team tactics. The injured Gunner ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 23rd, 2008
It isn't the first time and it definitely won't be the last...
Ajax lost against FC Twente this weekend (2-1) and can kiss the title goodbye. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 22nd, 2008
Borst's column in the AD:
Do you want to join me in the Oranje puzzle? Who does Marco take a long to the EC?
Borst picked 21 ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 20th, 2008
Gomez, the heroic PSV goalie, is totally disappointed with his role as an extra for the Brazilian team and has declared that he wants to ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 20th, 2008
Former Vitesse and Arsenal player Glenn Helder (38) is admitted in the psychiatric ward of De Waag in Haarlem. The Dutch Probation Office has taken ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 20th, 2008
Chess-game ends in draw
All football-loving Holland was ready for this clincher: PSV - Ajax! Ajax would put more pressure on the champs, if they would ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 19th, 2008
Nike presented the new Oranje jersey today. Oranje will play in this new outfit at least for two years. It's modern, stylish and laden with ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 18th, 2008
Johan Derksen's column in www.vi.nl
Ajax performed an aweful soap-opera in the last ten years. In that period Morten Olsen, Jan Wouters, Hans Westerhof, Danny Blind, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 18th, 2008
Feyenoord won easily against NAC Breda in De Kuip, 2-0. The Van Marwijk coached team saw a ferocious NAC trying to put pressure on them ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 18th, 2008
Robin van Persie recently emphasized the importance of finishing this season with gold to his team mates. That Arsenal is revered all over the world ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 16th, 2008
Sometimes Hugo Borst has it right. His column in www.ad.nl
"Two things I don't get:
1. Why is it always the goalie who is the hero after ...
