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Dutch football review week 19: Game over for PSV and Pelle’s magic touch
Who does not want to be a professional football player? While most Dutch men were forced to spend “quality time” with their wives and mother-in-law in the absence of the Dutch league football, and thus...
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Dutch Football Review Week 20: Derby of Gelderland, Ajax wins the day
Piet & The Derby of Gelderland Before the Vitesse – NEC game The famous derby between Vitesse and NEC Nijmegen is probably for no one more special than for Piet Velthuizen. The goalkeeper of...
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Dutch football review week 24: Cruijff honored, Dutch coaches abroad sacked
Slowly but steadily the Dutch league is approaching its grand finale and still nothing is decided: Ajax seems best on schedule to reclaim the title in May, but Twente, Feyenoord and Vitesse still are...
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Dutch Football Review week 25: Ajax losses and wins, Feyenoord robbed, Been out
In week 25 Ajax had to get back on its legs after a painful 0-3 home defeat against Red Bull Salzberg, whereas Twente and Feyenoord met each other for a clash in Enschede. And another Dutch trainer got...
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De Klassieker and Robben’s hattrick
Week 26 brought us the match of the season, the Old Firm, the El Classico of the Netherlands: De Klassieker, the match between the eternal rivals Feyenoord and Ajax. In a sold out Kuip completely...
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Dutch Football Review week 27: Holland beaten by France, Vitesse closing in
Allez les bleus: impressive play against Holland Mon Dieu! Holland’s far going ambitions to win the Worldcup this year got a serious blow last week when a friendly against France was lost by 2-0....
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Dutch Football Review week 28: PSV’s come back, La Lavatrice not going to Brazil
AZ: Holland’s hope in Europe AZ, Holland’s last hope! Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV got eliminated from Europe in embarrassing and disgraceful ways: fears of tumbling down the UEFA ranking where clouding the...
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Dutch football review week 29: Nuclear summit, PSV keeps on winning
Obama in the Netherlands: but what about our football matches? It is hard to imagine, but apparently there are some things that are more important than Football (?). Because of the Nuclear Summit in...
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Dutch Football Review week 31: Ajax close to win the league, Pelle’s...
Three more weeks, and then we will know who will be this season’s champions of the Netherlands. Ajax surely had the best chance before round 31, but the reigning champions had to face a potentially...
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Four in a row, Ajax champions!
Party in Amsterdam! This Sunday it finally happened: Ajax claimed the Dutch title. The way this happened was not too spectacular: a boring 1-1 against Heracles in Almelo. But then, who cares? Dutch...
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The E-Divisie: The Rise of eSports in the Netherlands
The rise and rise of eSports in the Netherlands If you’re not familiar with the concept of electronic sports, or eSports, then it might surprise you to hear that 2016’s League of Legends World...
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Ajax Fly the Dutch Tricolor in Europe
With the Rotterdam giants four points clear with two games remaining, it’s almost certain that Ajax will miss out on the title for the third season in a row. At least this year it won’t be quite as...
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