Articles tagged with "holland"
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 22nd, 2008
Hedwiges Maduro was hailed as Ajax and Oranje's next big thing. Before Babel and Emanuelson broke into the team, Maduro's name and reputation preceded his ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 20th, 2008
Stijn Schaars is back. And how! AZ is leader in the Dutch league and has it's own version of Steven Gerrard. "Everything needs to get ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 16th, 2008
When those 3.000 Polish fans come to Rotterdam, maybe we can give them a paint brush so they can help refurbish De Kuip, one Feyenoord ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 16th, 2008
Willem van Hanegem's column in the AD:
Last Saturday I watched football on tv like any supporter, eager to see how Real Madrid and Feyenoord would ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 14th, 2008
Dutch magazine Quote publishes their yearly rich list. On the list this time around, we find two football players. To be part of Quote 500, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 13th, 2008
Something to look forward to, as always. The clash between two major football forces, illustrating the clash between the Royals and the Rebels. As Bobby ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 13th, 2008
Gaston Taument (38) played sixteen internationals for Oranje. The former Feyenoord player is not the C2 youth coach in Rotterdam. How is he?
"I played two ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 9th, 2008
New book: Football in a dirty war
When the elegant playmaker Hansi Muller decided to approach his coach Ernst Happel when both at FC Tirol with ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 9th, 2008
The "Former Internationals" play their traditional new years game for charity on January 3 against Royal HFC Haarlem.
Team managers Mr Ajax Sjaak Swart and Mr ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 8th, 2008
The AD newspaper has by far the best sports-section. Good for me, because as a Rotterdam-based newspaper, they tend to have a lot of Feyenoord ...
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 | Dec 3rd, 2008
Goose & Finnster having a laugh...
I wanted to post this many moons ago, already... But I didn't... Didn't want to rub it in too much ...
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
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
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
Sjaak Swart, Ben Wijnstekers, ??, Frank de Boer, Pierre van Hooijdonk
150 ex Oranje internationals met at the Oranje hotel "Huis ter Duin" in Noordwijk to ...
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 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 21st, 2008
The best of the rest of the Eredivisie and Royston Drenthe proved to be a "nice team" but couldn't avoid losing 0-3 against Young Sweden...
Fresh ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 19th, 2008
So much for the rumors about a rift between these two...
The few fans that did show up in the Arena saw four wonderful goals and ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 19th, 2008
Dirk plays the ball to Dirk. Bert ask Bert questions. We never had such an typical Dutch team as our current one. Oranje smells of ...
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 ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 13th, 2008
Attacking defense. That's the term. That's how team manager Bert van Marwijk wants to see Oranje play football. Tight organisation, forward pressure, taking possession and ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 12th, 2008
Yep! It's official... Take out the champagne. Make faces to Germans, Portuguese and Italians.
The Netherlands (i.e. Holland, i.e. Oranje) has leapfrogged Brazil in the FIFA ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 11th, 2008
PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord and Heerenveen have some serious resistance against the KNVB's newly installed Oranje B team.
The four clubs are investigating whether there is a ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 10th, 2008
The KNVB has chosen Johannesburg as the venue for Oranje at the WC 2010.
Henk Kesler obviously knows that Oranje will still have to qualify, but ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 8th, 2008
While half Europe realized they saw another young Dutch star-in-the-making, the player himself could only think of his exams. "I got a A for Economy," ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 7th, 2008
Ajax has it's future in the UEFA Cup in their own hands. Or feet. Against Zilina, Ajax did what it had to do: win.
The 1-0 ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 7th, 2008
After two games in group H, Feyenoord is still pointless. The Gertjan Verbeek coached team lost in De Kuip 1-3 against CSKA Moscow. Last month, ...
