Articles tagged with "michels"
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Oct 17th, 2009
The Ajax group is training on the airstrip of the Cape Verdian Islands (1972, on their way to the world cup match against Independiente in ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Sep 1st, 2009
Holland prides itself over the years to have produced so many great players. With strikers like Cruyff, Geels, Kist, Houtman, Kieft, Van Basten, Bergkamp, Kluivert, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Aug 18th, 2009
Dutch football brought forward many great talents. The best of them all - and debatable: the world - was Johan Cruyff. The Einstein of the ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Aug 17th, 2009
Standing left to right: Joop Hiele, John van 't Schip, Frank Rijkaard, John Bosman, Wim Koevermans (?), Ruud Gullit
Seated left to right: Marco van Basten, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Aug 5th, 2009
Wim Suurbier was the right back in the Golden Ajax of the 70s and of Oranje. Suurbier was a tough cookie. An animal in the ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jul 22nd, 2009
There are as many opinions as there are fans. Some like the 1998 squad best, others dote on the current team, but for most connoisseurs ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jul 20th, 2009
Rinus Michels and Bill Shankly...separated at birth?
When we talk Classic Games, many many candidates come to mind. But this particular one is the Mother of ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jul 17th, 2009
George Grun. A very sympathetic and able Belgium defender of the 1980s.
In Belgium, he's a hero. In Holland, we cringe when we hear his ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 14th, 2009
Every now and then, Holland produces a player who never achieves his potential as a player but does achieve a status after his career. Rene ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 25th, 2008
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 ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 16th, 2008
It's 30 years ago that Johan Cruyff was presented with a huge hangover after his farewell match against Bayern Munich. November 7, 1978 and Ajax ...
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 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 23rd, 2008
I actually thought I wrote about this earlier, but I can't find the post anywhere :-(.
So here goes, by popular demand... What happened at (or ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Nov 22nd, 2008
Graeme Rutjes (48) played 13 matches for Oranje. The former Excelsior, KV Mechelen and Anderlecht defender is now the general manager of a golf resort ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 22nd, 2008
Adrie now...
EC1988 winner Adrie van Tiggelen is assistant coach at Sparta and is a happy trooper. "Head coach Foeke Booy allows me to do the ...
