Articles tagged with "oranje"
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 19th, 2009
Patrick Kluivert hopes to get his coaching diploma at the end of his practicum at PSV. But that doesn't mean he's retired from football as ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 18th, 2009
Henk Fräser (42) played six games for Oranje. Now, he was a successful youth coach at Feyenoord, went to be the assistant coach at ADO ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 16th, 2009
"There is simply no spot for them," is Jorge Valdano's message. The new Real Madrid general manager talks about the six Dutch players and three ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 16th, 2009
Team manager Bert van Marwijk will inspect the venue where Oranje will plan their training session in South Africa. The Wits University grounds are selected ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 15th, 2009
Giovanni van Bronckhorst (34) looks back at his best international game of his career, the one against Italy on the last EC. And he looks ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 13th, 2009
Whenever people walk up to Edson Braafheid and ask him whether the step from Twente to Bayern isn't too big, he friendly hears them out ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 12th, 2009
For generations, Oranje never was able to take unimportant games serious.
Friendlies? Horrendous games to watch. Unimportant qualification games? Not even worth flickin' the tv on ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 10th, 2009
It hasn't looked good for years: a relaxed Oranje taking a breather. Van Marwijk only needed two examples from recent history to prove his point ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 9th, 2009
The new goal for the WC2010, declared by the KNVB, to reach the semis at that tournament and the EC two years later, is not ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 8th, 2009
Here's some of our gladiators saying farewell to the fans, only to be booed off the pitch...
42.000 supporters bought a ticket for Holland-Norway already. A ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 7th, 2009
Van Marwijk and Mathijsen... On the right Frank de Boer and Phillip Cocu...
The Orange Legion will be heading South next summer! Holland qualified as the ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 7th, 2009
Mark van Bommel will have a remarkable scoop against Iceland, this Saturday. He's been an international since 2000 but the up coming game will be ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 4th, 2009
The Dutch football federation has published their strategic plan for the next 5 years, and in it the KNVB states that one of it's ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 3rd, 2009
Aron Winter (42 years old) can look back at a tremendous career. He made his debut under Johan Cruyff in Ajax at a young age ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 2nd, 2009
Only a short while back Oranje had too many great players for the four forward positions. Bert van Marwijk picked his starters on the basis ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 29th, 2009
Team manager Van Marwijk added Eljero Elia to the Oranje selection for the Iceland and Norway games.
The 22 year old former Ajax youth player - ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 24th, 2009
They stood firm when the opening notes of the Wilhelmus sounded. This time, Martin Koeman. Ex KFC, Blauw-Wit, GVAV, FC Groningen and Heerenveen.
It's pretty rare ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 23rd, 2009
Elia, Schaars and Van Marwijk at training...
Eljero Elia is looking forward to a peak week. The Twente talent is part of Oranje's pre-selection and is ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 15th, 2009
Eric Viscaal (40) played five times for Oranje. The striker was developed at PSV, where he had to compete with Wim Kieft, Romario and Hans ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 12th, 2009
Arjen Robben has been fit since December 2008. Five months without an injury is almost unique for the Madrid winger. He gave Real extra impulses ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 11th, 2009
'Maduro y diez más', a local newspaper said the other day. Maduro and ten other players. In his second season at Valencia, Maduro made the ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 1st, 2009
Would AZ have won the title with Marco van Basten as their coach? Or Huub Stevens? Asking the question is answering it. AZ may have ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 1st, 2009
He started as a winger, in the Ajax youth, but when he came close to the Ajax 1 team, it became clear that he wasn't ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 23rd, 2009
Ibrahim Afellay is without a doubt The Man at PSV. He's only 23 years old, just, but has grown out of the Eredivisie. A lucrative ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 23rd, 2009
Some players can call themselves ex-internationals. Even if they only donned the orange jersey once. This time around, it's now 37 years old Ernst Faber.
When ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 9th, 2009
Mr Totall Football
AZ was the last remaining stronghold of flashy, dominant and 4-3-3 football. Last season, that is. This season, the soon-to-be-crowned-champs play more counter-football ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 6th, 2009
Well, this could be a very heated debate here... Or not... Because, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter :-).
But in my ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 2nd, 2009
Bert van Marwijk: "Well, now it's safe to say that if we don't make it to the WC, I will resign..."
"But seriously," he went on, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 1st, 2009
It's early in the morning in Oz and I'm ready to watch our lads take on Macedonia live!
Well, live for me :-). Dodged the news ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 1st, 2009
