Articles tagged with "group-c"
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 14th, 2008
When we ponder the successes of Dutch football, we can't escape thinking about Ajax. And thinking about Ajax leads to thinking about the big names... ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 13th, 2008
Although it isn't certain that Frank Rijkaard will leave Barca at the end of this season, Joan Laporte did make a short list. Rijkaard's name ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 13th, 2008
Seedorf will bypass Frank de Boer on the list of Dutch players with the most European games behind his name. Against Arsenal, the 31 year ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 13th, 2008
PSV beat the disappointing Helsingsborgs IF with two cheap goals, 2-0. PSV didn't want to give anything away against Henke Larsson. In reality, PSV was ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 13th, 2008
Henke Larsson deservers the moniker Legend. The 36 year old can look back at a rich career, winning prizes and a lot of friends and ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 12th, 2008
Bert van Marwijk will succeed Marco van Basten next summer. Why is the current Feyenoord coach the ideal man for the job?
KNVB director Henk Kesler ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 12th, 2008
Statistics don't lie...
Last season, AZ couldsnatch the title for the first time in 26 years. AZ forgot to score one more goal... This season, they ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 11th, 2008
Rafael van der Vaart is hot. Juventus is currently negotiating with HSV, that wants to sell the midfielder this summer for viele euros. If Raf ...
Posted on: Argentina World Cup Team Blog by Christian | Feb 11th, 2008
The 2008 Clausura kicked off this weekend in Argentina, and while there are still 18 more fixtures to go through before a champion is decided, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 10th, 2008
Peter Wekking's column in VI:
Mid december Ajax presented their cooperation plans with the Chinese football federation. It moved me to tears. "Ajax wants to share ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 10th, 2008
Feyenoord took revenge for the horrible loss against Ajax versus De Graafschap. The Van Marwijk managed club won 1-3 after a 1-1 half time score.
Roy ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 10th, 2008
Which player played the most games under San Marco?
Hint: it's not Edwin van der Sar :-)...
The Prize?
Eternal Honor...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 8th, 2008
After the impressive wins over England and qualifying for the EC08, some pundits - Leo Beenhakker for one - tip Croatia as a dark horse ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 4th, 2008
Johan Derksen's column in VI:
"Dutch top football is becoming a irrelevant sect in Europe. The big name coaches Guus Hiddink, Ronald Koeman, Co Adriaanse, Henk ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 4th, 2008
It's not official, but according to the media and rumours it will be announced soon:
Bert van Marwijk will take over Oranje post EC. So, we ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 4th, 2008
After the so-called superweek, it's clear that boring PSV - now led by Sef Vergoosen - is the boss in the Eredivisie. They easily defeated ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 31st, 2008
The discussion around Louis van Gaal is gaining wind.
He got to spend more than 40 mio euros last summer, after having lost out of the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 31st, 2008
As JC said: every disadvantage has it's advantage...
Being in Holland allowed me to watch the two super-fixtures Ajax - PSV and Feyenoord - AZ. It's ...
Posted on: Argentina World Cup Team Blog by Christian | Jan 29th, 2008
Two Argentine clubs will begin their quest for glory this week as the first stage of the 2008 Copa Libertadores gets underway, with Arsenal de ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 25th, 2008
It took Feyenoord half a year, but at long last, Steve Bruce - Wigan's manager - said yes to Feyenoord this time around.
Landzaat has been ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 23rd, 2008
Best Player of the World Brazilian Kaka talks with passion about Oranje: "Holland is the best football school there is. Not only are the players ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 23rd, 2008
Volendam born and raised Wim Jonk was a reluctant football star. A late blossomer, as we say in Dutch... Gifted, like many many young players ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 22nd, 2008
Louis van Gaal is getting very frustrated, indeed! Last season he thought he did it again. It works like a recipe: take a wealthy chairman, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 22nd, 2008
Nine goals today at the Africa Cup of Nations, four of them belonging to Egypt. The Pharaohs came out strong and tamed the Indomitable Lions ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 22nd, 2008
Marco van Basten has called on Ibrahim Afellay, Denny Landzaat and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink again for the pre-selection in the run up to the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 22nd, 2008
I just wanted to allow all you good bloggers and Oranje-fans to let me know which long-forgotten star of infamous team from the past you ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 22nd, 2008
Funnily enpugh, we hardly read his name in the list of famous Dutch coaches... Rinus Michels, Kees Rijvers, Guus Hiddink, Johan Cruyff, Frank Rijkaard, Leo ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 22nd, 2008
After last weekend, JC is furious...
´Shocking to see how our top 4 plays football... If you see how many points they let slip and ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 21st, 2008
Argentine super talent Matias Cahais had many options... Real Madrid actually was the one who claimed first rights on the 20-year old central defender and ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 21st, 2008
Most of you will have missed Henk Kesler's "faux pas" earlier in December... The fearless leader of the Dutch Football Federation (KNVB) made himself an ...
