Articles tagged with "van-basten"
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 6th, 2009
In a surprise press conference yesterday, Ajax legend and former Oranje coach Marco van Basten announced to quit his job as technical director and head ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | May 3rd, 2009
You wonder what is the matter with Ajax. Two games to go. Sparta away, Twente at home. The ideal position for Ajax to take matters ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 26th, 2009
Suarez knees Didulica in the head...
It's getting exciting!
We may not have a strong competition like the EPL (ManU 2-0 down, fighting back to 5-2) or ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 25th, 2009
Ajax hosts AZ this weekend. An interview with Marco van Basten:
This season was a learning-year for Marco van Basten. Next season, Ajax will have to ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 21st, 2009
A heartfelt article by an Ajax supporter:
It's Sunday April 19, 2009. Ajax just got it's ass whipped by PSV: 6-2! On the day the competition ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 17th, 2009
NEC's penalty specialist El-Akchaoui
It appears to be so simple. The penalty kick. You, the ball, eleven meters and that goal. Oh, and somewhere there is ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 9th, 2009
Mr Totall Football
AZ was the last remaining stronghold of flashy, dominant and 4-3-3 football. Last season, that is. This season, the soon-to-be-crowned-champs play more counter-football ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 6th, 2009
Well, this could be a very heated debate here... Or not... Because, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter :-).
But in my ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 3rd, 2009
In the last ten days, we've been focusing on Brilliant Orange! And what a news we had...
But let's quickly drum up all the news items ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 27th, 2009
Gregory van der Wiel...
John Heitinga won't be playing against Scotland. The 21 year old Ajax right back may have a good chance starting this time ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 19th, 2009
The fatal goal...
Ajax left the UEFA Cup tournament with their heads held high. Olympique Marseille spoiled Ajax' 109th birthday with a late goal in the ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 15th, 2009
Special Request: a piece on Maarten Stekelenburg. To be honest: I don't see the problem. Or I should say, I see the problem for Oranje, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 13th, 2009
Suarez laments a missed opp...
For the third time this season, Olympique Marseille demonstrated against a Dutch club that it's prepared to do everything for a ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 12th, 2009
Enoh ready to roll....
Marco van Basten and his troupe will travel to Marseille for the first leg of their UEFA Cup match (the only Dutch ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 11th, 2009
Sometimes you find an interesting in depth look at how players experienced certain matches in their career. Rob Witschge looks back at Ajax' classic semi ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 26th, 2009
In the next round, Gabri will come and whoop your ass!
We can lament the status of Dutch football for hours, but luckily the world will ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 26th, 2009
Former Barca man Gabri, important for the balance....
Ajax coach Marco van Basten will confront Fiorentina the Italian way. "We don't want to be vulnerable."
Defending the ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 22nd, 2009
Ruud van Nistelrooy will be out for another six months... The 32 year old is working on his recovery, discplined and focused. "It's not my ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 19th, 2009
The ol' Meatloaf knew a thing or two about football...
NEC tried to upset title candidate HSV Hamburg in Nijmegen, but just a little extra push ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 18th, 2009
A day at the office of Jhon van Beukering, NEC-striker
The European euro-ball is starting again, next week. Champions League football! What a posters to ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 10th, 2009
Probable line up for Oranje...
Oranje only misses one steady selection player when it takes on Tunisia. Ibrahim Afellay got injured last Sunday and decided to ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 9th, 2009
Vitesse whipped Ajax 4-1 and Lasse Nilsson of the Arnhem club said: "Ajax just wasn't Ajax today...".
Polite words of the striker who scored twice. But ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 8th, 2009
Is it me? Is it because I'm too wrapped up in the global crisis? Am I getting paranoid, or are things going south for Dutch ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 7th, 2009
Aad de Mos at Ajax with Jan Molby and Johan Cruyff
Former Ajax and KV Mechelen coach and tactical maestro Aad de Mos was the keynote ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jan 2nd, 2009
2008 was Luis Suarez definitive break through year. The Uruguayan striker scored 17 times in 33 games last season. This season his stats are even ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 29th, 2008
His winners' mentality makes Mark van Bommel loved by his team mates and fans and hated by his opponents. 2008 was probably the most awkward ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 27th, 2008
Daley Blind
It should have been in beautiful clash between two football sons, recently at Ajax' youth complex.
The A1 youth hosted a game versus PSV. ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 25th, 2008
Johan Derksen's colum in www.vi.nl
For club in peril Feyenoord, 2008 was a horrible year. Bert van Marwijk won the national cup in the summer, but ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 25th, 2008
It could have been so good for Oranje... At long last, Van Basten was able to gel the wonderful talents of The Netherlands into a ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 24th, 2008
Ajax is the best club of the Netherlands in 2008. If we'd honor a table over the calender year, Marco van Basten's team has four ...
