Articles tagged with "oranje"
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 15th, 2008
Mark van Bommel is back. New team manager Bert van Marwijk has selected the skipper of Bayern Munich for next Wednesday's friendly against Hiddink's Russia.
The ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 14th, 2008
FC Twente played an impressive match against big guns Arsenal for the CL qualifications in Enschede.
Although the McLaren team never looked liked they'd whip the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 14th, 2008
Almost ten years after his debut in Oranje Ruud van Nistelrooy decided to stop as international. The 32 year old striker wants to focus fully ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 12th, 2008
Wim Kieft has been one of Holland's most popular football analysts on tv since he quit playing pro football. Nowadays, the blond Amsterdam born former ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 11th, 2008
The Olympians training in the rain...
The Dutch Olympic football team may have played a shocker of a game against the USA, the return to the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 11th, 2008
Hiddink: "Doctor, look what I've got growing on my hand!!"
Let's evaluate the EC a bit more from a distance from it all...
With the Olympics underway ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 10th, 2008
Back from the Big Smoke. Sydney was busy, smoggy, cold-ish and like any city :-).
Been there, done that.
Back to the pitch :-).
Lots of wonderful news ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Aug 6th, 2008
Call me cynical, but international footballers seem to have taken over for boxers and Green Bay Packers quarterbacks when it comes to calling time on ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 31st, 2008
The EC is well behind us and in all evaluations of the performance of the Dutch (more to come!) it's clear that little big man ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 30th, 2008
The Dutch striker who just saw his starting position slip away looked a bit puzzled after the Oranje game against Cameroon. He'd seen who scored ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 30th, 2008
Jonathan de Guzman made a new step in his Dutchman-ness... He walked along the bay of Kowloon in awe. This looked nothing like Scarborough, the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 29th, 2008
Gerald Sibon is the most remarkable player of the Olympic team. Sibon agrees with this. Last year, he was registred as unemployed and this summer ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 29th, 2008
The Dutch Olympic team has entered a new wonderous world. Surrounded by smiling and bowing strangers, the Dutch athletes are being guided to their new, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 21st, 2008
And I mean literally...
The influence of the coach gets more and more. Marco van Basten, Louis van Gaal and Gertjan Verbeek were also in charge ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 21st, 2008
Dennis back at Ajax on his first day as a coach...
Today, Dennis Bergka,mp started his apprenticeship at Ajax, the club where the Menace started his ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 18th, 2008
Summers normally mean football for Hedwiges Maduro. In 2005 he played the WC under 20, in 2006 he was with Oranje at the big WC ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 17th, 2008
Right winger John van 't Schip can still be enjoyed when he plays for Lucky Ajax (old Ajax)
Can you remember one good left or right ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 15th, 2008
Last Tuesday, Foppe de Haan published his definitive selection for the Olympics. Roy Makaay, Kew Jaliens and Gerald Sibon are the "dispensation" players (sorry, don't ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 15th, 2008
We checked out Nordin Amrabat in the first of this series. Now it's time for Heerenveen striker Gerald Sibon.
He is in the autumn of his ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 14th, 2008
Van Basten is back at Ajax!
Ten year of mismanagement and no international prizes to speak of formed the run up to the infamous Coronel report. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 13th, 2008
There's been quite some criticism on Ajax' youth development. Johan Cruyff and Finnster two name just two (Finn, your name in one sentence with JC!!). ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 10th, 2008
The KNVB site sometimes publishes interesting Top 11 lists... In Dutch, as you know. This time around: the toughest players...
11. Mark van Bommel
Doesn't shy away ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 7th, 2008
What can you say... We need at least three Best Oranje's Ever: we have Gullit, Bergkamp, Van Basten, Van Vossen, Rep, Rensenbrink, Moulijn, Keizer, Roy, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 6th, 2008
Let's keep them votes coming it...
I can't help but organize this in a 4-3-3 system, so some players will have to play in a different ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 5th, 2008
As suggested by the Finnster, we'll vote for the best team ever now.
But we'll do it in chunks. I hope this will work...
First, the goalies.
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Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 5th, 2008
How do you feel, being an assistant coach after all those years as an active player?
I definitely feel I'm a coach now. I've said goodbye ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 4th, 2008
The EC is history. Spain won. So what? It's old news. Bring on the new...
The next big thing will be the World Cup (have I ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 3rd, 2008
Football fans could chose the EC's best goal on the UEFA website. Wesley Sneijder's wonderful strike fromm outside the box, the 4-1 against France, received ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 3rd, 2008
Football mania has left the Swiss capital Bern, but they won't forget the Dutch fans. Ever. Two weeks, the city was orange and the party ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 2nd, 2008
He is quite something... Sent away from PSV by none other than Guus Hiddink. Played for AGOVV in the cellar of professional football. Made a ...
