Articles tagged with "the-netherlands"
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 6th, 2007
Manchester United (and Edwin van der Sar) are the new Champs in England. Chelsea wasn't able to win their match against Arsenal (1-1) partly due ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 6th, 2007
A month ago, AZ was looking a three big prices to win. The UEFA cup, the Dutch championship and the National Cup.
Yesterday, the third ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 4th, 2007
This question was posed some time ago, and as a Feyenoord fan it’s hard not to go into that.
In my view, the problems are ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 3rd, 2007
A Farewell interview with Phillip Cocu.
It’s a matter of weeks, before you’re formally an ex-football player. How does that feel?
PC: Oh, I don’t think about ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 3rd, 2007
Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho after the Liverpool - Chelsea match:
"I am proud of Arjen. He hasn't spend a lot of time with us in the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 3rd, 2007
Having ignored all football news during the CL semi finals, here some updates from Holland:
1. Erwin Koeman leaves Feyenoord immediately. The older brother of Ronald ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 3rd, 2007
The CL finale is set for Athens!After two enticing matches with starring roles for Dutchies, the 2005 finals will get a reprise… The debacle of ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 29th, 2007
Even Hitchcock couldn't have envisioned this scenario! Unbelievable...
AZ, Ajax and PSV started the last day of the Dutch competition - in that order - with ...
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 25th, 2007
Well, one doesn't need a crystal ball to predict something like this...
But it does smell fishy in Eindhoven (Shakespearian wink)... Ronald Koeman was brutally critized ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 25th, 2007
Who wants it...? PSV had a severe lead over Ajax and AZ some months ago but bal luck, injuries and bad management (let's call a ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 25th, 2007
It almost reads like a comic book: The Adventures of Bommel and Basten…
Some weeks ago I posted a transcript of Van Basten’s interview with Jack ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 15th, 2007
After last Thursday's defeat against Werder Bremen, Louis van Gaal had a long post-match debrief with his team. "The most important thing now is, to ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 15th, 2007
Sorry guys, but even moderators need a break every now and then...
I'm off to Sydney and The Blue Mountains tomorrow. Won't take my laptop. So, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 15th, 2007
At last... Ronald Koeman has a good night sleep tonight. His PSV finally got three points again, beating number 4 FC Twente with 2-0.
At the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 14th, 2007
It seems the 32 years old Giovanni van Bronckhorst contemplates leaving Barcelona CF, although is has an ongoing contract with the European champs.
"I've been living ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 14th, 2007
Ajax played Friday evening against NAC Breda and is since 5 months or so again the leader in the Dutch Eredivisie, thanks to their 2-0 ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 13th, 2007
Louis van Gaal tried to use his magic to trick Werder Bremen with a tactical find, but AZ couldn't peak against one of Germany's best ...
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
On the KNVB website Marco van Basten declared he is following Jonathan De Guzman (Feyenoord) and Leonardo (Ajax, ex-Feyenoord).
"They're both very talented players, who fit ...
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 8th, 2007
Well well well, it's been a long season already...
PSV loses last Saturday against NEC. Totally lost on the pitch. PSV does not know where to ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 7th, 2007
In the Telegraaf newspaper, Ruud van Nistelrooy spoke openly about Oranje and Marco van Basten. The Real Madrid striker thinks he can still be important ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 7th, 2007
Sorry guys, my comments thing still doesn't work, so I go into questions here, ok?
Demy de Zeeuw is a rare breed. His biggest asset is ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 6th, 2007
AZ played Werder last night in the girst leg of the qursrter finals UEFA cup. In a constrained match neither of the teams found the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 4th, 2007
I said I would come back to you with an analysis of the EK2000 team vs the current Oranje.
Just to make my point, that although ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 4th, 2007
That Rijkaard interview was conducted last Sunday, I wrote. Wasn't that April 1? Hahahaha :-). I never thought anyone would buy this hoax, particularly with ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 3rd, 2007
Henk Kesler always reads the remarks on our blog before he goes to work :-). My latest post triggered him to publish this article on ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 3rd, 2007
Only four games to go. PSV leads with 3 points. And it has a better goalscoring position. +45 versus +42.
And it's looking frantically over their ...
