Thanks!

hope hes gonna play for our teacher team… im sure hes a great footballer

loved your story about Willem…did you already get to see Holland Sport?

heres the direct link just in case:

http://www.uitzendinggemist.nl/index.php/aflevering?aflID=5505816&md5=a552b7ff6ed56cb595f068a5c75aef52

I understand your Ten Cate position very good. He “acts” the cool coach. The way he talks, like Leo Beenhakker, although Don Leo is funny and can make fun of himself. Ten Cate takes himself very seriously. It’s scary how most players who worked with him call him the “biggest asshole they ever trained under, but also one of the best coaches”… But yeah, the vibe he sends out is negative.

Willem lived in my village (Hendrik Ido Ambacht) and I was the leader (as they called it then) for the team at ASWH where Gert, his son, played in. Willem played tennis at my tennis club and I played football on the field next to Willem’s house, with Gert and many other guys from the neighborhood. Sometimes Willem and Wim Jansen came and hung out with us and played along with us. Willem was always on goal (he was a fab goalie) and he would shoot his goal kicks in the upper corner of the other goal . A very nice guy, generous (with tickets) and funny. But also tough as nails when you played him. Didn’t matter what you played, he always wanted to win.
His son Gert was very talented as well (played for Feyenoord and FC Utrecht) but in those days overweight and had a bad temper. Still, if we went out to play away games with the club, most guys from the opponent would seek him out and try to injure him.

So, now you know

grtz

coincedence; talked with a new sports teacher at my school and he told me he trained with Feyenoord the year Cruijff was there… after about 2 days of training he heard Cruijff say about him: ” this guy is no use to us” and he left after 2 weeks of training..he told me it took him quit some years to get over that..but still; he trained with Cruijff and Gullit…if not anything it still is a great story!

and yes; internet makes it much more easy to keep in tough with games, goals etc.. youtube is great too..

Anyway, yeah I’m a big Kromme fan. I played football with him for Christ sakes…!!!

He is great. I also check Jack van Gelder’s show, you know, on uitzending gemist… Fun, that internet….

dont think its a quality to name things as they are…its not like he can say that they play good (tenCate)

btw;you should really check uitzendinggemist.nl and look up yesterdays “Holland Sport”..special guest Willem van Hanegem…what a special man he was..playing with one eye totally blind and the other had only 20% vision..very emotional man too…great tv. check it out (you are a vHanegem fan, werent you?)

grtz Goose ‘ chill ‘ Goose

I think he meant to say that at least Ten Cate has the guts to tell the press Ajax plays lousy and got a lucky victory. Where as Van Basten doesn’t and tries to tell the press Oranje played strong and deserved to win. Nijnatten actually says in the column that he thinks Ten Cate wouldn’t be a good coach for Oranje .

Chill…

well; if this ever should happen.. ill burn down the KNVB head office in Zeist… burn down tenCates house..buy a germany shirt and support the Germans… f tenCate..what a terrible man he is…my predictoin is still that hell be gone before Christmass..maybe Santa can take him away from us and do us all a favour!!

grtz