http://tags.worldcupblog.org Articles tagged 'holland' on World Cup Blog en-us BootsnAll Travel Network http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/2008-mario-beens-pit-system-pays-dividends.html Jan 2009-01-02 04:03:29 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/daley-blind-and-the-rise-of-the-football-sons.html Jan 2008-12-27 23:12:39 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. ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/willem-van-hanegems-last-stint-sacked-by-club-owner.html Jan 2008-12-26 10:29:01 Willem van Hanegem, emotional.... Right after the jolly Xmas breakfast, the FC Utrecht players are told that Willem van Hanegem, their coach, is sacked. It's right before ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/ajax-wereldclub-a-wonderful-book.html Jan 2008-12-25 23:16:38 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/eredivisie-in-2008-feyenoord-needs-wim-jansen-now.html Jan 2008-12-25 11:52:19 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/ajax-the-champs-of-2008.html Jan 2008-12-24 19:17:01 Ajax is the best club of the Netherlands in 2008. If we'd honor a table over the calender year, Marco van Basten's team has four ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/van-persie-scores-bergkamp-goal.html Jan 2008-12-22 23:04:55 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/hedwiges-maduro-finally-settles-in-valencia.html Jan 2008-12-22 18:57:48 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/dutch-eredivisie/stijn-schaars-100-pure-passion.html Jan 2008-12-20 04:24:23 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/feyenoord-scraping-to-find-eleven-fit-players.html Jan 2008-12-16 23:36:41 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/van-hanegem-robben-plays-at-an-extremely-high-level.html Jan 2008-12-16 09:57:52 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/ronald-koeman-made-1-mio-per-month.html Jan 2008-12-14 02:48:40 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, ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/el-classico-in-spain.html Jan 2008-12-13 18:01:55 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/gaston-taument-i-do-miss-the-4-3-3.html Jan 2008-12-13 17:03:11 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/new-book-on-wc1978-argentina.html Jan 2008-12-09 16:20:34 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/bergkamp-back-in-oranje.html Jan 2008-12-09 15:45:47 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/work-and-sweat-thats-what-the-cry-babies-need-to-do.html Jan 2008-12-08 23:19:03 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/no-surprises-in-the-dutch-eredivisie.html Jan 2008-12-08 04:15:14 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/background-stories/netherlands-blog-kicks-ass-thanks-to-you-guys.html Jan 2008-12-03 18:57:44 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/the-1974-bild-swimming-pool-incident.html Jan 2008-11-30 04:23:48 Oranje had qualified for the WC1974 finals. Cruyff and Neeskens beat Brazil and West Germany - not playing a very impressive tournament so far - ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/background-stories/van-hanegem-notorious-mastermind.html Jan 2008-11-29 23:15:50 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/cl-and-uefa/feyenoord-worst-team-since-years.html Jan 2008-11-29 19:28:41 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/background-stories/cor-coster-hollands-most-famous-father-in-law.html Jan 2008-11-27 00:20:27 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. ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/ex-internationals-re-unite.html Jan 2008-11-25 23:09:41 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/cl-action-matchday-5.html Jan 2008-11-25 18:29:30 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/1974-memories.html Jan 2008-11-25 07:16:24 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/oranje-b-loses-first-match.html Jan 2008-11-21 06:56:49 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/van-persie-leads-oranje-to-victory.html Jan 2008-11-19 20:55:53 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/oranje-has-never-been-more-dutch.html Jan 2008-11-19 03:48:39 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 ... http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/dirk-kuyt-wants-the-strikers-position-in-oranje.html Jan 2008-11-18 09:37:32 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 ...