Articles tagged with "van-bommel"
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Oct 28th, 2009
One can't just leave for two weeks, it seems... Lots has happened since, not in the least the 250+ comments from my calcio brothers and ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Sep 7th, 2009
Column in AD.nl
The youthful fans in Katwijk were all eyes for Dirk Kuyt. Kuyt was practicing his finishing skills. He hit every ball hard and ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Aug 28th, 2009
Bert van Marwijk invited Glenn Loovens in the Oranje selection for the friendly against Japan and the WC qualification game against Scotland. The 25 year ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Aug 12th, 2009
Both the Dutch and the English national team have won all seven games in their WC qualifications. Still, it's a question whether the friendly in ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 29th, 2009
In England, Bryan Robson was named the best English player ever. Bobby Robson - no relation - uttered the words in 1990 and there was ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 15th, 2009
Giovanni van Bronckhorst (34) looks back at his best international game of his career, the one against Italy on the last EC. And he looks ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 13th, 2009
Whenever people walk up to Edson Braafheid and ask him whether the step from Twente to Bayern isn't too big, he friendly hears them out ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 7th, 2009
Van Marwijk and Mathijsen... On the right Frank de Boer and Phillip Cocu...
The Orange Legion will be heading South next summer! Holland qualified as the ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Jun 7th, 2009
Mark van Bommel will have a remarkable scoop against Iceland, this Saturday. He's been an international since 2000 but the up coming game will be ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Apr 28th, 2009
AZ chairman will be left with a problem if Bayern contacts Louis van Gaal again. Monday, Klinsi was sacked after ten months. The biggest club ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Mar 11th, 2009
Klose and Van Bommel need an abacus...
Congrats to Mark van Bommel and co. Setting a new record in the Champions League, if I'm not mistaken: ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 25th, 2009
You go to this Michelin star restaurant and you expect something. Expectations are high, actually. But they serve you a fatty steak, with a rancid ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 24th, 2009
It's the ultimate solution when there are no more football solutions left to win the ball back. Although for some players, it is/was their trade ...
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 5th, 2009
Every club coach loves to be the national team manager once in his career. Van Basten and Rijkaard started in the job, some coaches end ...
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 | Sep 16th, 2008
Yeah! That means setting the clock at 4.30 am. Having to watch the fixtures picked by ESPN and mostly not being able to watch the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 9th, 2008
Dirk Kuyt sounds annoyed in his Sportweek interview. The striker is known to keep the dirty linen inside, as we say, but he now expresses ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 6th, 2008
Straight after Holland's defeat against Russia at the EC, Johan Cruyff expressed his confidence in Oranje's future. But, he also had a warning. He said: ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 21st, 2008
Raf welcomes Mark back...
Mark happy to be back...
Van Basten's joke-telling rules are still in place!
Van Bommel tackles mate Nigel de Jong for Bayern
Mark thanks Hiddink ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 23rd, 2008
50% of the Dutch population wanted Marco van Basten out, six months ago. Now, we all feel he has retired from his job a week ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | May 1st, 2006
van Bommel figures that he is happy in Barcelona and rejected a move to Bayern Munich as a replacement for the greedy greedy Michael ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Apr 14th, 2006
This a piece of news that slipped under my own personal radar from a couple of weeks ago. Apparantly Bayern Munich are interested in ...
