Articles tagged with "the-netherlands"
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 13th, 2008
Henke Larsson deservers the moniker Legend. The 36 year old can look back at a rich career, winning prizes and a lot of friends and ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 11th, 2008
Rafael van der Vaart is hot. Juventus is currently negotiating with HSV, that wants to sell the midfielder this summer for viele euros. If Raf ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 10th, 2008
Peter Wekking's column in VI:
Mid december Ajax presented their cooperation plans with the Chinese football federation. It moved me to tears. "Ajax wants to share ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 10th, 2008
Feyenoord took revenge for the horrible loss against Ajax versus De Graafschap. The Van Marwijk managed club won 1-3 after a 1-1 half time score.
Roy ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 10th, 2008
Which player played the most games under San Marco?
Hint: it's not Edwin van der Sar :-)...
The Prize?
Eternal Honor...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 8th, 2008
After the impressive wins over England and qualifying for the EC08, some pundits - Leo Beenhakker for one - tip Croatia as a dark horse ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 4th, 2008
Johan Derksen's column in VI:
"Dutch top football is becoming a irrelevant sect in Europe. The big name coaches Guus Hiddink, Ronald Koeman, Co Adriaanse, Henk ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 4th, 2008
It's not official, but according to the media and rumours it will be announced soon:
Bert van Marwijk will take over Oranje post EC. So, we ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 4th, 2008
After the so-called superweek, it's clear that boring PSV - now led by Sef Vergoosen - is the boss in the Eredivisie. They easily defeated ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 31st, 2008
The discussion around Louis van Gaal is gaining wind.
He got to spend more than 40 mio euros last summer, after having lost out of the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 31st, 2008
As JC said: every disadvantage has it's advantage...
Being in Holland allowed me to watch the two super-fixtures Ajax - PSV and Feyenoord - AZ. It's ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 22nd, 2008
Marco van Basten has called on Ibrahim Afellay, Denny Landzaat and Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink again for the pre-selection in the run up to the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 22nd, 2008
I just wanted to allow all you good bloggers and Oranje-fans to let me know which long-forgotten star of infamous team from the past you ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 22nd, 2008
Funnily enpugh, we hardly read his name in the list of famous Dutch coaches... Rinus Michels, Kees Rijvers, Guus Hiddink, Johan Cruyff, Frank Rijkaard, Leo ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 22nd, 2008
After last weekend, JC is furious...
´Shocking to see how our top 4 plays football... If you see how many points they let slip and ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 21st, 2008
Argentine super talent Matias Cahais had many options... Real Madrid actually was the one who claimed first rights on the 20-year old central defender and ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 21st, 2008
Most of you will have missed Henk Kesler's "faux pas" earlier in December... The fearless leader of the Dutch Football Federation (KNVB) made himself an ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 20th, 2008
"HSV is an interesting club, with a lot of potential, a great history and very professional people..." This is what Van Basten said in Bild ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 14th, 2008
Last Saturday, Frank Rijkaard won his 105th win with Barcelona in the Primera Division. Rijkaard is on par with Rinus Michels. He had already passed ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 13th, 2008
Sometimes the "day-to-day" shenanigans take up a lot of our energy and attention... Who needs to play holding midfielder, Marco needs to go, who needs ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 13th, 2008
The AD newspaper had a poll recently... Who is the best man to follow up on Marco van Basten after the EC?
As you can imagine ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 13th, 2008
Hi all, from a wet and economically depressed Australia your host with most is back! Here's some titbits... Keep posted for a look back at ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 11th, 2008
Another end of year interview with our team manager. Jack van Gelder hosts, Hugo Borst annoys and Youri Mulder supports...
Here's some snippets:
On being appointed to ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jan 5th, 2008
JD’s column in the VI:
“I will always be a supporter of former players becoming coaches. The so-called “practice coaches”. If you want to be a ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Dec 26th, 2007
Hi all, a quick new post from my holiday address :-). Thanks all, for the season's greetings... This is an interview with San Marco ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Dec 11th, 2007
It’s a pity that Marco van Basten and John van ’t Schip decided to stop managing Oranje after the EC. But, I can also understand ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Dec 11th, 2007
Willem's column on the www.ad.nl site.
Not a lot of people will have missed the fact that last week this 3,5 kilogram think book has been ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Dec 7th, 2007
Taco van der Velde's column in www.vi.nl
It's summer 2007 and the air is orange in Holland. In the north of Holland, it's Foppe de Haan ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Dec 6th, 2007
I have been waiting for this insight into one of the biggest mysteries in Dutch football... The biggest being Leo Beenhakker's abyssmal WC in 1990 ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Dec 6th, 2007
Australia has a new coach, to lead the Socceroos to the WC2010. Pim Verbeek is the next Dutchman to take on the job after Guus ...
