Articles tagged with "van-basten"
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Oct 7th, 2008
He was quick. He was mentally and physically strong. And a nice bloke.
He liked to dribble to the inside with the ball and go for ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Oct 2nd, 2008
"Wijnaldo" scored the first for Feyenoord....
I told you so, Dutch clubs belong in the UEFA Cup. I've never seen Feyenoord players be so happy after ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Oct 2nd, 2008
Van Marwijk is happy that his son in law is not involved, this time around...
Amidst all the European cup news, this particular news item almost ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Sep 21st, 2008
Feyenoord had victory on it's mind at three levels: three points, confidence and the fans goodwill.
Instead of three points, Feyenoord had to make do with ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Sep 20th, 2008
The Ajax players had this trivia game at the Belgrade airport, after their UEFA cup win. Of the last 13 "classics" in Rotterdam (competition, national ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 6th, 2008
He visited Tcheu La Ling in 2005 and he suddenly saw the light. "I wouldn't make it on my talent alone. The tests I did ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 2nd, 2008
Wonder goals are really wonder goals when they're scored in important matches! Peter Houtman - currently stadium speaker at Feyenoord - was a typical Wim ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 30th, 2008
Marco van Basten isn't too confident for the first competition match with Ajax against Willem II tonight. "I am positively surprised with the enormous potential ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 30th, 2008
The Hunter wants to score 35 competition goals this season, win the title and he wants to read a good book every now and then. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 28th, 2008
Johan Derksen's column in www.vi.nl
It was a point of discussion immediately after his appointment. Would Bert van Marwijk, the new Oranje team manager, select his ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 25th, 2008
Time to get the poll thingamajig out again. I didn't pay for it not to use it, right?
It's time to get all interactive on your ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 23rd, 2008
It's about time too... The Olympic football tournament didn't do it for me (while at this very moment Nigeria and Argentina play for the gold...). ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 18th, 2008
We live in the YouTube age and everything that has been filmed or will be filmed can be found in a matter of seconds (or ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 14th, 2008
Almost ten years after his debut in Oranje Ruud van Nistelrooy decided to stop as international. The 32 year old striker wants to focus fully ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 12th, 2008
Wim Kieft has been one of Holland's most popular football analysts on tv since he quit playing pro football. Nowadays, the blond Amsterdam born former ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 11th, 2008
Hiddink: "Doctor, look what I've got growing on my hand!!"
Let's evaluate the EC a bit more from a distance from it all...
With the Olympics underway ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 31st, 2008
The EC is well behind us and in all evaluations of the performance of the Dutch (more to come!) it's clear that little big man ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 21st, 2008
And I mean literally...
The influence of the coach gets more and more. Marco van Basten, Louis van Gaal and Gertjan Verbeek were also in charge ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 21st, 2008
Dennis back at Ajax on his first day as a coach...
Today, Dennis Bergka,mp started his apprenticeship at Ajax, the club where the Menace started his ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 15th, 2008
We checked out Nordin Amrabat in the first of this series. Now it's time for Heerenveen striker Gerald Sibon.
He is in the autumn of his ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 14th, 2008
Van Basten is back at Ajax!
Ten year of mismanagement and no international prizes to speak of formed the run up to the infamous Coronel report. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 13th, 2008
There's been quite some criticism on Ajax' youth development. Johan Cruyff and Finnster two name just two (Finn, your name in one sentence with JC!!). ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 11th, 2008
If there's one compliment Foppe de Haan deserves it's praise on his ability to gel teams together. He was responsible for winning two European championships ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 8th, 2008
And now it's time to start criticing me (after all the compliments) because I really wanted to make a cool pic with the mugshots of ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 7th, 2008
What can you say... We need at least three Best Oranje's Ever: we have Gullit, Bergkamp, Van Basten, Van Vossen, Rep, Rensenbrink, Moulijn, Keizer, Roy, ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 3rd, 2008
Football fans could chose the EC's best goal on the UEFA website. Wesley Sneijder's wonderful strike fromm outside the box, the 4-1 against France, received ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 2nd, 2008
He is quite something... Sent away from PSV by none other than Guus Hiddink. Played for AGOVV in the cellar of professional football. Made a ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 2nd, 2008
The 2010 World Championship in South Africa is unique to start with. Never before was there a WC in Africa. Holland shares the qualifications group ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jul 1st, 2008
Arsahvin: "I'm sorry I never had to chance to play against Stam... NOT!"
Jaap Stam is one of those players who took the long and winding ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 30th, 2008
Wesley Sneijder and Edwin van der Sar have secured a position in the UEFA star-squad, chosen by "a select team of football experts" (they didn't ...
