My friends, I'm sorry I had to push the Van Persie top story aside so quickly. Hope you still enjoy reading that if you haven't already. But this is too…
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This is part 2 of the Wim Jansen story on the KNVB strategy "Winners of Tomorrow". A big number of football "experts" were engaged in this big think tank platform…
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No, I'm not referring to Appie Nouri, the brilliant young Ajax midfielder who hopes to get his first start for Ajax 1 soon. When he was 11 years old, the…
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With all the comments on the site recently about Blind needing to do this, and do that, and try him and try her, I'd like to write a post about…
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For years, the Dutch national team was synonymous with class. The passing of Sneijder, the dribbles of Robben, the trickery of Van der Vaart and the wonderful goals of Van…
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It was a must win game, said Danny Blind. And he was able to find and fuel the spark in the starting eleven as the Oranje lions started with focus…
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Danny Blind keeps on doing his job as per usual amidst the drama and shenanigans at the KNVB. The man highly criticised might end up being the only consistent factor…
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Our heroes: invisible Michael van Praag (left), new leader leader-in-waiting Gijs de Jong (second from right), visionary Johan Lokhorst (right) Now here is one of those mysteries in football for…
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Note: I don't get to post pictures like this often, ok? Please let me enjoy this :-) Have we turned a corner? Even slightly? After a dreary period of Dutch…
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In what could have been a first upset on Game Day 1 of the WC qualification group of Oranje, Holland could have lead with 3 points, while favorites France couldn't…
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Great story. Cruyff would probably just say: “Good, but you still didn’t get it right.” 😉 Serious though — it’s…