Articles tagged with "the-netherlands"
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 22nd, 2007
A year and half ago, Marco van Basten was responsible for a unique situation against Rumania. He used 8 players that were still elligible to ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 21st, 2007
Here's that MvB interview on the KNVB site. It's a bit lame, I think... I left some questions on money and stuff out, if you ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 19th, 2007
Goose beat me to it :-), but yes…there is some tension back in the Dutch league. Ajax scored the biggest upset against PSV in Eindhoven ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 15th, 2007
Louis van Gaal and his AZ Alkmaar made it through to the next stages of the UEFA cup tournament!
After having lost 4-2 against Newcastle United ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 12th, 2007
Marco has learned from the past. AZ-player Demy de Zeeuw - who expressed his displeasure with Oranje and the way van Basten treated him - ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 8th, 2007
Of course he irritates! The ball on Beckham’s head when he was lying on the pitch. The just too firm hits on Gutti’s and Beckham’s ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 8th, 2007
After Oranje’s last game against Hiddink’s Russia the Dutch are preparing for the real deal… the EC Qualification match against Romania on the 24th of ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 7th, 2007
Hello Orangina's, we're back in the air. The comments were switched off and as you, I thought the blog was more or less abandoned, but ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 8th, 2007
After some months of not playing together the Dutch team was back for a friendly. This time, an interesting one coz Golden Gus Hiddink was ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 2nd, 2007
2006 lies behind us... The year of expectations, after impressive results in the WC qualifications (but not that impressive play)... The year in which San ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Dec 18th, 2006
Hahaha...and just when I wrote my last post saying there's not a lot happening in and around the state of Oranje, look who's talking now....
Louis ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Dec 17th, 2006
Hi Folks,
Not a lot of news re: Oranje.... So not a lot of posts... Still, enough prolific stuff from our mates at their clubs. Huntelaar ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 27th, 2006
It's hard, isn't it? I mean, we are all a bit unhappy with how things are going, and that in itself is a shame. Because ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 27th, 2006
Heeeeerrreee's Johnny!!! Or better, Johan. Not Cruyff, but Derksen... The most vile, cynical and best informed journo in Holland. And when he starts dipping his ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 26th, 2006
What did Nicky Hofs think of Seedorf’s selection for Oranje? And will Vitesse’s Theo Janssen be disappointed? Because according to team manager Marco van Basten ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 22nd, 2006
Johan Derksen's column in VI last week was a real ace. Enjoy...
“As football fan and Dutchman it will not be a surprise that I am ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 16th, 2006
The Dutch press agreed. Oranje played poorly agains England and – which is even worse – nobody was surprised.
The AD found the game and the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 16th, 2006
Dutch newspaper AD published a story yesterday, that Wesley Sneijder didn't let the England came pass because of minor knee injuries! Van Basten passed him ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 15th, 2006
A late van der Vaart goal secured the draw against England and avoided a third defeat for team manager Marco van Basten. Still, Oranje could ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 14th, 2006
Marco van Basten gave a press conference on his selecting of Clarence Seedorf.
"When we started, we wanted a fresh team. Without the excess baggage of ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 12th, 2006
Yep, it has happened, as Daniel posted. Marco called Clarence. “Wesley is injured. Got a kick on the knee. Are you game?” Officially, we don’t ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 11th, 2006
Thanks for your posts guys...
Here's a piece of info from the Voetbal International magazine, borrowed from the former Pain Germany Orange site... Thanks for that....
Marco ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 7th, 2006
In Voetbal Insite Clarence Seedorf was the weekly guest and he did not hesitate at all to explain he’d love a chance to get back ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Nov 2nd, 2006
In the preliminary selection for the England game mid-November, there are some new fresh faces, but no Seedorf…
Although van Basten will have to disappoint ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 29th, 2006
This week Dutch newspaper AD published a line up for Oranje as chosen by 2000 readers:
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Boula - Ooijer - Mathijssen - Bronkhorst
van Bommel - Seedorf ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 21st, 2006
Johan Dersken’s new column in VI magazine. Getting all worked up about “another” new Johan Cruyff. We had Rensenbrink, Jantje Peters, Frans van Rooy, Mario ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 18th, 2006
And there it was…. Seedorf in conversation with the Dutch tv, about the fact that Marco van Basten neglected him in the last two years, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 16th, 2006
AZ Alkmaar tested the 17 year old left winger Miralem Sulejmani. Remember that name. More Dutch clubs were after this talented Serbian but he wants ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 13th, 2006
Holland got ready for a big party in the Amsterdam Arena! Albania would visit us and after our glorious eh….draw against Bulgaria, expectations were high. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 13th, 2006
Before the match against Bulgaria everybody wanted to talk about one thing only. Marco vs Mark and Ruud. A couple of days before the match, ...
