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Kees Kist: AZ will remain at the top this time…

March 14th, 2009 | By: Jan | 18 Comments »

Kirsten Nygaard and Kees Kist reunited in 1996…

It’s only matter of time or AZ Alkmaar will win the second title in the history of the club.

Kees Kist was the Huntelaar of the early 1980s and goal scoring machine at AZ.
The living legend predicts that AZ will dominate the Eredivisie for years to come.

“AZ has a very stable organization, with real pro’s in the top. Even if Louis would leave at the end of the season, he will leave a foundation others can build on. If this group stays together, AZ can remain at the top in Holland for a long time.”

The 56 year old witnessed AZ 67’s rise and fall. The 1980-81 season is written in the history books with golden ink. Georg Kessler made AZ’67 undefeatable. Five matches before the end of the season, the title was a fact and later AZ’67 would win the national cup as well.

The thenwhile Dirk Scheringa was Klaas Molenaar. The entrepreneur was willing to pay top dollar to make his club the champion. But, Molenaar wanted to cash in after the title and top players like Jan Peters (Genoa), John Metgod (Real Madrid) and Kees Kist (Paris Saint-Germain) were sold to recoup the investments. “I think we could have achieved something in Europe, but Molenaar had another agenda. As a Dutch player in those days, you needed to play abroad to make some serious money.”

Kist doesn’t see that scenario this time around. “Scheringa is different. Not a one-day-fly as we call it. He wants the club to grow and develop. This AZ lacks one thing: maturity. Look at the loss for the cup against NAC. We were able to lead 1-0 and lock the game up. This group lacks the experience to do that. Kill a game off.”

The Golden Boot winner of 1979 started a new career after he retired from football: sports fisher. And Kist competes with players like Theo Lucius, Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Youri Mulder. As a coach, he was in charge of several amateur clubs.

Kist still has one dream. “I’d love to work as strikers’ coach at AZ. I think there’s work to be done. Look at Pelle. He doesn’t cut it. He doesn’t have what strikers need: the nose in the box. Dembele does have it, but his effectiveness is lacking a bit. I miss his drive to score. I have scored goals, I can’t even remember how I did it. I just anticipated on situations. Used my intuition. I think I can help these players to develop that.”

Tags: De Zeeuw, Dembele, Group C, John Metgod, Kees Kist, Kirsten Nygaard, Pier Tol, Schaars, van Gaal

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By mat | March 14th, 2009 at 6:42 am

Could you translate this news into English http://voetbalzone.nl/doc.asp?uid=75035

Please:)

By Alex | March 14th, 2009 at 7:43 am

I read AZ were interested in Alvaro Negredo, 23-year-old Spanish striker, on the verge of making the Spanish selection. They said, he would only be an option in case of CL for AZ. I think AZ is going to try to push themselves up to regular CL contenders through this championship, same deal with PSV after they had CL, players were more interested to come there cause of it. If AZ manage to sign 2/3 better players cause of CL, they could do better in CL, create reputation, and become champions again, to start it over again just slightly bigger, a sort of snow ball effect, to boost their club up to a real topclub in a short period of time by a series of championships and CL football.

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By finnster01 | March 14th, 2009 at 11:22 am

How about that Torres? It can’t be much fun playing against him and Gerrard. What a link up those two guys have. Vidic was shocking. Never seen him play that bad. Actually didn’t think he could. He’s been as solid as any CB in the league all season. Pepe Reyna was not himself either and Edwin could at least have tried to save the freekick (although he probably wouldn’t). A Man U – ‘pool matchup in the CL would be awesome. They would probably have to call in the army and special forces for that one..

Anyway, there is still abit of excitement left in the Prem. Man U has yet to play Chelsea again as well, so this could still get interesting. It would have been game over if Man U had won today.

By Michel-Olivier | March 14th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

robbennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
real 1 – ath 0

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By sonneveld | March 14th, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Hey guys I was just making a video of the netherlands national team and will making it I realised how many goals van der vaart makes for our team.

he won the foul and took free kick leading to first vs Italy, then sent van nistelrooy on a brakeaway. He gave a perfect pass to gio for sneijder’s volley. He also set up two vs iceland and ukraine. one against austria aswell. plus the two free kicks narely missed against russia. just of the top of my head!

Hard to leave him out

By sonneveld | March 14th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL!!!!!! A ROBBEN SPECIAL! INCREDIBLE! Again he cuts inside the box on the right at extreme speed, before smashing the ball right into the roof of the net! 1-0 to the visitors!

By sonneveld | March 14th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

huntelaar just scored making in 3-2 madrid so robben and huntelaar both have goals and sneijder’s free kick set u heinze

By Mario | March 14th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

Huntelaar scored his second of the game…Well Juande, I guess he should have been included in the CL instead of Lass.

By Jan | March 14th, 2009 at 5:42 pm

Can’t wait to see Real play . Watched ManU – Pool and Finn is 100% right. Torres is so dangerous with Gerrard, but he does seem a little vulnerable physically. He’s not totally fit, I’d say. Great game though, and interesting what will happen next. I thought the red card for Vidic was deserved. Nice little flick on by Kuyt there…

By Carlos | March 14th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

Vidic vrtually Rugby tackled Gerard !!!…then claims Gerard was grabbing him..well done Pool !! Snejder starting to dominate again…good to see.

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By Jeroen | March 14th, 2009 at 8:43 pm

I’m hoping 6 goals in 5 games is enough to convince Ramos that Huntelaar should start from now on. It’s good to see that Sneijder seems to be putting his personal issues behind him and is finding form again. Robben was good but once again too selfish. He had a fantastic goal, but also shot 2-3 chances after that when he could’ve given it to a wide open man in front of the goal. It seems Drenthe has completely fallen out of the picture, but I don’t understand why they don’t play VDV. He did well enough when he subbed in against Pool, but they need to give him a full 90 mins to show he’s back in business.

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By Felipe | March 14th, 2009 at 9:57 pm

Liverpool was wonderful today. No way United could do it. And I agree Jan: Vidic was deservedly sent off. There’s no forgiveness: if one lose the ball near area being the last man and one foul the attacker, one got to be red-carded. Dura lex sed lex.

Jan: I am humbly begging you – could you, please, at least think about translating one of the many articles on Dutch press about this storm which is happening on Stekelenburg’s career? I read one at AD Sportwereld and thought “oh, it would be a good piece to read at the blog”. Will you think?

Other thing, people: I don’t like to do this (IMHO, it seems like I entered at this blog, learned a lot about Dutch football, started to write a column about this on a Brazilian website and, after, I will throw this blog away on my interests list – AND THAT’S NOT F*CKING TRUE!!!), but I wanna post the link of my latest column. Please, all of you, Finn, Carlos, Tiju, Jan, Goose, Alex, Michel-Olivier, read it and say what do you think.

http://www.trivela.com/Futebol.aspx?secao=11 That’s in Portuguese, but, hey, Babelfish and Free Translation were invented with translating purposes, weren’t they?

By Jan | March 15th, 2009 at 12:17 am

Felipe, will do… .

By finnster01 | March 15th, 2009 at 2:16 am

@Felipe: As Rafa would say tonight: acta est fabula plaudite

By Tiju | March 15th, 2009 at 5:13 am

@Felipe ,we will do

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By goose | March 15th, 2009 at 6:11 am

Huntelaar goal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VskqE4S1wpI

looks like he has arrived … good news for Oranje

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By goose | March 15th, 2009 at 6:13 am

@Felipe ; cant read that my friend

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By Alex | March 15th, 2009 at 7:21 am

At least the commentators sounded pretty blown away by Huntelaar’s scoring power. Sneijder, Robben, Huntelaar did a good job. But i feel Robben is in fact less selfish than he has been. only one or two times when he really makes a bad decision, it used to be more in my mind. I think the Hunter is making a name for himself, two quality goals, with chances of a hattrick, the ref had nothing to do with those.

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