Articles tagged with "johan-cruyff"
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Oct 1st, 2009
In the next weeks, Johan Cruyff will decide whether he'll make a return as team manager!! The ex Ajax and Barca coach has been invited ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Aug 10th, 2009
In our series, we now look at the silent engine on midfield. In those days, most teams had a playmaker (Willem van Hanegem), a penetrating ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Aug 7th, 2009
Wim Rijsbergen was a debutant in Feyenoord 1. A young bloke, who came to the big smoke from PEC Zwolle,
Rijsbergen didn't have any ambitions to ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jul 26th, 2009
Ronald Koeman debuts as AZ coach with a cup! AZ won the 14th edition of the Johan Cruyff Trophee in the Amsterdam Arena, against cup ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 26th, 2009
Marco van Basten did prove on thing in the dramatic Ajax season: coaching is a craft. A profession. It requires more than the clinical know ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 14th, 2009
Here we go again: Nico Dijkshoorn on Marco van Basten:
Coaches and their confrontations with fans. I love watching that. No where the gap between The ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 21st, 2008
JC made a lot of great great goals... If Van Basten's volley is the quintessential Oranje goal ever, this goal is Barcelona's most beautiful. Despite ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 27th, 2008
Nickname(s): Oranje, Clockwork Orange,
Orange Crush, The Orangemen. You see a theme there?
Jersey: Oranje, of course. Powder blue for away days.
FIFA World Ranking: 10th as of ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 19th, 2008
Dennis wins again!
There's no more posts coming in, so this is the final score.
A tad surprising for old dogs like me, but still interesting...
Dennis Bergkamp ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 11th, 2008
Last week Ajax' future manager Marco van Basten and his staff were presented to the public
He is going to do all he can to make ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 7th, 2008
How weird is this?? The whole world has been following El Salvador's return to Ajax. In one evening he kicked the board out, put Marco ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 5th, 2008
Johan Derksen's column in VI:
"Almost four years ago, Johan Cruyff told everyone who wanted to listen that Marco van Basten was an absolute top coach. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 2nd, 2008
Remember last season's finish? No one wanted the title then... It seems Adrie Koster, Ajax' manager, has put his hand up though... It was inevitable ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 22nd, 2008
It's official. Marco van Basten will return to Ajax to coach his first love after the EC 2008.
The current Oranje manager will succeed interim-coach Adrie ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 21st, 2008
This week’s little brain twister:
1) Since this was a week of decent CL action, name the only 8 players ever to play at least 100 ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 20th, 2008
After a long members-council last night, the Ajax management has agreed to resign in the course of this season.
Ajax-legend Johan Cruyff has been asked to ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 18th, 2008
It is very strange that the Ajax committee didn't bother to talk to Leo Beenhakker, who was technical director at Ajax some time back. Ok, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 18th, 2008
Johan Cruyff's column:
Everyone is aware how the level of Dutch football is deteriorating. We should be ashamed that only our champions are still in the ...
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 | Dec 11th, 2007
It’s a pity that Marco van Basten and John van ’t Schip decided to stop managing Oranje after the EC. But, I can also understand ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Dec 11th, 2007
Willem's column on the www.ad.nl site.
Not a lot of people will have missed the fact that last week this 3,5 kilogram think book has been ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 16th, 2007
"Sleep baby sleep, outside there are some sheep," is what the Oranje legion sang. March 13 1992... Oranje played Malta. Marco van Basten tried again ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 23rd, 2007
Johan Derksen's column in VI:
Johan Cruyff has flirted with managing Oranje thrice. In 1990, the players wanted him. But Rinus Michels ignored their wishes and ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 13th, 2007
Column by Hugo Borst in the AD
Johan Cruyff is angry. In his weekly column, he wrote that the lousy results of the Dutch clubs in ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 4th, 2007
I recently flicked through Desmond Morris' The Soccer Tribe book. A must read for every fan (although a bit dated to be honest: not the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 4th, 2007
And that's the last I am writing about it: at ESPN whem I watched Real play Lazio, the commentator said (when Ruud had scored his ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 2nd, 2007
Peter Wekking's column in VI:
Real Madrid had just beaten Werder Bremen. Ruud van Nistelrooy had just scored his 50est goal in the CL and Johan ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 22nd, 2007
I don't know... I mean I just finished writing the pun on JC being diagnosted with dementia and read some more stuff in the Dutch ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 21st, 2007
At last!!! It's in the media. Seedorf, maybe very smart and slick or maybe a bit naive, started the campaign... Well, someone had to do ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 16th, 2007
Rinus Michels won another price. The late great Dutch coach is pronounced the Best Coach of the World (post WW2) by The Times.
No discussion, according ...
