Articles tagged with "johan-cruyff"
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 18th, 2007
Foppe de Haan may be one of the oldes coaches (63 years old) around, but he is still willing and able to break through walls. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 18th, 2007
I may not have stressed it over the last weeks, but Foppe de Haan changed the system for Young Oranje from 4-3-3 to 4-4-2 in ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 23rd, 2007
Rock 'n' Roll... It's that time again!! Seedorf is in the Pantheon with the other Gods... And that former Saint, San Marco, is down in ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 17th, 2007
Actually, only four now :-).
As all Dutch football fans know by now, being number 2 is not bad. As JC said: since we were ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 16th, 2007
Just like most, I have really enjoyed Seedorf’s performance against Manchester United. And I enjoyed the whole of AC Milan. And I have seen a ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 26th, 2007
Okay then, the big man has turned 60... Let's do some more Cruyffian stuff... Ol' Goose already published some stuff on JC during the WC2006 ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 25th, 2007
What can one say... It's like preaching for the converted on this blog, but come on... He was the best ever! Pele was a great ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 10th, 2007
There’s been a lot of talk about my stance regarding Oranje. I can be very short about this. I don’t care. In Holland, it’s fashionable ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 10th, 2007
Dutch team manager Marco van Basten was the guest in the discussion program Studio Voetbal, hosted by Jack van Gelder and with analyst (and former ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 3rd, 2007
Most fans are not happy with MvB as team manager. The reasons? They are listed prolificly on this blog... I won't go into that.
Questions were ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 27th, 2007
AD's main article:
The depressing draw against Rumania put a lot of pressure on Oranje for the match later tonight.
The “obvious” win against Slovenia is suddenly ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 26th, 2007
In his column in newspaper De Telegraaf football-legend Johan Cruyff supports team manager van Basten. JC blames the Dutch players for the poor performance.
"Holland - ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 12th, 2006
Here’s the old master, in his own words:
"I promissed to get back to Oranje in this column and so here I am. I have seen ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Aug 28th, 2006
Our first match is against Luxembourg. The two teams have met 14 times dating all the way back to 1920. Their biggest win ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 24th, 2006
The events of the last months initiates a scary train of thoughts in my mind… Having witnessed the huge successes of the Dutch football teams ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 22nd, 2006
Post World Cup Trauma… In the build up to Dennis the Menace’ farewell before 1000s of English and Dutch football fans later today, the Dutch ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 4th, 2006
The best players of the world seem to be cursed. At the peak of their game, they just can’t seem to be able to become ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 30th, 2006
Typical Dutch, I guess.... We're out of the tournament, but still we'd like to yap on and on and on about it :-). How bad ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 19th, 2006
If you coldly analyse the situation in Group C, it is surprising that this young Dutch team is certain to advance after only two games. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 17th, 2006
Does any other country have the quality width that the Dutch do? Even Brazil or Argentina don't have the wide wingers but build through ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 17th, 2006
In his post-match analysis, Johan Cruyff was particularly impressed by Robin van Persie's game. "That free kick was enormous. He struck the ball so hard, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 16th, 2006
The Greatest European Footballer Ever (and arguably the World) was able to move anonomously among the Dutch team in the last couple of days, until ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 13th, 2006
This is Johan Cruyff's formal statement after the match...
"I have a positive feeling after watching the Dutch play. Obviously, some things went wrong, but what ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 9th, 2006
Marco van Basten's thoughts on his past coaches, Johan Cruyff's involvement in his appointment as national team manager, and being an inexperienced coach at the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 1st, 2006
Ernst Bouwes for Soccernet.com has written another really good article with lots and lots of quotes from Marco van Basten. van Basten addresses ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | May 26th, 2006
The next installment in my effort to bring a little Cruyff into your everyday lives. Cruyff's specific quote is in bold.
We have numerous sayings ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | May 24th, 2006
There is no better way to get an Oranje fan up and ready to go than to throw a Cruyff quote at them and watch ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | May 23rd, 2006
The great man gives his opinion on Sven's squad but England blogger Shawn found conflicting views by Brazil's legendary defender Carlos Alberto. Whom do ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | May 8th, 2006
If you needed an idiotic rundown of a few things Dutch on this Monday morning check this out. Three cheers for American football journalism. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | May 4th, 2006
Johan Cruyff is confident that Barcelona will win the Champion's League. Cruyff was manager during a golden time for the Catalans and all managers ...
