Articles tagged with "rinus-michels"
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 | Jun 8th, 2009
Bobby Haarms in 2000, celebrating his retirement...
With the death of Bobby Haarms, Ajax lost one of the greatest club icons ever. This is what several ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 18th, 2008
No one fares well without luck is a oft-used Dutch expression. And that was certainly the case in the EC1988. There were at least 5 ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 14th, 2008
I've got to be honest with you... I'm not a big Dick fan. I mean...I am not a big fan of Dick... I think he ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 10th, 2008
Ooohhh.... the butterflies are waking up in my stomach... Only a couple of weeks left...
Let's look back a little, shall we?
In 1988, Oranje won their ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 13th, 2008
Questions asked via the KNVB website. Marco (or Kees Jansma, who knows) answers them....
Q: The Times made a list with the best 5 coaches ever. ...
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 ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | May 26th, 2006
The great Rinus Michel's legacy of Total Football is said to live on in present coach Marco van Basten. We shall see.
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Apr 26th, 2006
If you were to ask most of the correspondants on the site, "Could your country win the World Cup?" they would probably respond with, "Sure, ...
