Articles tagged with "the-netherlands"
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 16th, 2007
Oranje plays Slovenia tomorrow and Robin van Persie will be back in the starting line up. The Arsenal striker gives Oranje more class. He is ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 16th, 2007
Ajax announced a new shirt sponsor. Aegon - an insurance company - will replace bank Abn Amro. The not-much-longer Dutch bank used to pay 7 ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 16th, 2007
Team manager Marco van Basten wasn't happy last Tuesday on the training. Defender Andre Ooijer clashed into Klaas Jan Huntelaar in a hefty duel. The ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 16th, 2007
Urby Emanuelson is being courted by AS Roma. "It's a great club and I would really love to play for them," said the talented Ajax ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 15th, 2007
Reading the newspapers after Oranje's defeat against Romania, the emphasis is on the lack of progress in Marco van Basten's team.
Trouw points at the decreasing ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 13th, 2007
It wasn't to be... Without Sneijder and Van Persie, Seedorf was to be the new leader of Oranje. And if Holland would win, qualification would ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 13th, 2007
Column by Hugo Borst in the AD
Johan Cruyff is angry. In his weekly column, he wrote that the lousy results of the Dutch clubs in ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 13th, 2007
The KNVB hopes Holland will win the match against Rumania tonight, of course, but also that Oranje will be able to improve the public image ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 13th, 2007
The Dutch football team has always been admired across the border. But in Holland itself, the criticism has been growing over the last ten years. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 12th, 2007
The farce surrounding Ruud van Gol's football qualities and JC's opinion about those has ended, as far as Marco van Basten is concerned.
During a press-conference ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 11th, 2007
‘Ajax used 8 coaches in 10 years, saw a series of management people come and go and this time around, no European football. What the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 11th, 2007
"First they collect money for me and then when that's all done, they tell the media I am a liar." reacted Henk ten Cate. " ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 10th, 2007
In Holland, the image exists that Oranje doesn't play attractive enough. Oranje boring. But on the basis of statistics of the UEFA - who monitor ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 10th, 2007
There is one thing Ajax doesn't need to fear: Adrie Koster will never spill the internal beans to the outside world. What belongs internally, stays ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 9th, 2007
Writing those posts on the Bosman law, Henk ten Cate and coaching I had to think about the changes needed in coaching. Ten Cate is ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 7th, 2007
Where to start...? All that stuff that happened... Well, first things first: Henk ten Cate leaves Ajax for a three-year contract at Chelsea (for a ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 7th, 2007
This is Hugo Borst's column in the AD, but also dedicated to Goose for his - indeed - remarkable prediction about Henk ten Cate :-).
Sometimes ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 6th, 2007
Marco van Basten is annoyed with the crticism on Oranje after the 0-1 win over Albania in September.
This time, he started the press confference ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 5th, 2007
Marco van Basten expressed his worries about the play-offs. The team manager reacted on the defeat of almost all Dutch teams from the UEFA cup. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 5th, 2007
Foppe de Haan announced that Clarence Seedorf has called him. "Seedorf called to say that he wants to go to the EC 2008 with Marco ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 5th, 2007
The Dutch media can't follow it anymore. What is happening. In a press conference only hours ago Henk ten Cate said: "Yes, I have been ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 5th, 2007
What a horrible year for Dutch club football it is! Ajax missed the CL this year. Feyenoord didn't qualify at all. And now, after a ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 4th, 2007
I recently flicked through Desmond Morris' The Soccer Tribe book. A must read for every fan (although a bit dated to be honest: not the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 4th, 2007
And that's the last I am writing about it: at ESPN whem I watched Real play Lazio, the commentator said (when Ruud had scored his ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 4th, 2007
Column from VI
The biggest humiliation wasn’t in Slovenia, where Ibrahim Afellay got the nod instead of Seedorf and was enabled to debut for Oranje.
The most ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 4th, 2007
Just to let you know that the Blog-Gods are still in search for moderators (what I do, in other words) for blogs for other football ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 3rd, 2007
What a disaster again. Ruud van Nistelrooy. How can he survive at Real Madrid like this! Only two goals against Lazio Roma in their away ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 3rd, 2007
Ajax coach and former Barca assistant coach Henk ten Cate apparently is topping the wish list at Chelsea. Chelsea management had a first meeting with ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 2nd, 2007
I don't know about you but I watched Barca's performance against Stuttgart yesterday and I am in awe!! You know why? They played fantastic as ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Oct 2nd, 2007
The coaches in the Dutch Eredivisie have their own opinion on the tactics for Oranje. Here are some quotes:
"My objective is not to understand Marco ...
