Calvin Stengs is 20 years old. If you deduct his year of being badly injured, he's actually only 19 years old... When he came on the scene, some two years…
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CIRCUS XAVI SIMONS Oranje U17 – Kosovo U17. Final score: 1-1 The last two squads of Oranje U17 won the European championship and Wednesday, a new campaign will start. Team…
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Koeman was fuming after the match. Serious look on his face. "Congratulations, you have one foot in the Euros," was the interviewer's attempt to see a smile on Koeman's face.…
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The competitions have started again. And with a focus on the Dutchies, it's clear that we are seeing - mostly - pretty decent developments. Yes, Mathijs de Ligt might need…
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In the past, we had the Big Interview series and had prominent football icons like Johan Cruyff, Louis van Gaal, Guus Hiddink and Bert van Marwijk, among others. Time to…
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When Ronald Koeman criticised his team for playing gallery football vs Belarus, he was clearly trying to temper the optimism in and around the team... Good goals, no goals conceded,…
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The news was out this week and it surprised nobody. Well, maybe PSG was surprised. But it was a done deal from the start I think. Barca swooped in late,…
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It's a tradition. Every last week of the year, this blog has an in-depth one on one with the most important man in Dutch football: the NT manager. This is…
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It's your time now! As we close to the end of the year, a year in which the drab and disgraced Dutch National Team straightened the back and rose, like…
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Rafael van der Vaart retired from professional football immediately. A small news item in the papers. Something some people thought had happened already... His last years were a disappointment. For…
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Johan, Jan, thank you guys for the article and the comments. The comments posted in Jan's third post show the…