Marco van Basten did prove on thing in the dramatic Ajax season: coaching is a craft. A profession. It requires more than the clinical know how of a 4-3-3 system or the skill of a outside boot kick. Ernst Happel impressed his players by hitting the cross bar from 40 meters. Ten times in a [...]

Van Gaal happy… The funny bloke behind him is uber-billionaire Dirk Scheringa
Willem van Hanegem (former AZ player and coach) in the AD:
“This championship of AZ is mainly a championship of patience. I personally feel they deserve it. There’s only one team in the Eredivisie which can claim the title and since the third match day, [...]

In the last ten days, we’ve been focusing on Brilliant Orange! And what a news we had…
But let’s quickly drum up all the news items we missed from other Dutch football topics…
Fred Rutten is out at Schalke and will be the new PSV coach. Dwight Lodeweges, currently in charge and with some – now fading [...]

Stijn Schaars is back. And how! AZ is leader in the Dutch league and has it’s own version of Steven Gerrard. “Everything needs to get out of the way in my ambition to be successful.”
The world leadership isn’t used once in the interview. But the drive, the passion and the love for the game is [...]

According to the Spanish media, KJH will earn 3.6 million euro per season. Not bad. He will surely be able to find a new hairdresser in Madrid? Hunter’s contract commences on January 2 and the royals hope to be able to present their new player on that day.
Which means that Klaas Jan played his last [...]

Ok, you know I’m a fan… But I got to watch them play the full 90 minutes last night against Roda JC ( 0-4 victory), so I can judge Feyenoord better than I can, say, Ajax or AZ…
The good thing about seeing Feyenoord play (and win) was that to me, it’s clear Feyenoord is not [...]

Demy de Zeeuw was so out of form last month that Van Gaal instructed him to start again in the Young AZ team against Young Groningen.
Tomorrow, the 25 year old will start for Oranje again versus Norway. “That’s football, I guess…”
The life of a football pro has it’s happy moments. While the reserves worked themselves [...]

Makaay realizes he can’t remember the dance moves to Village People’s YMCA!
And where in the world can you get a fixture like: PSV – PSV?
Allright then, it was PSV 1 – PSV 2… And the juniors really wanted to take the game to the big boys, but they simply couldn’t… PSV is on to the [...]

Evander Sno came through the Ajax youth system but left for Feyenoord at 18 years old. The defensive midfielder was never used in the Feyenoord 1 squad and was hired out to NAC Breda.
He made his move to Celtic and was praised as one of the world’s new talents. He made a promising debut for [...]

The Feyenoord fans had a great day against Volendam (5-0 win) and didn’t mind the draw against Ajax, yesterday. And the player who gave his team wings in both games was on the list to be sold. Diego Biseswar has found a second lease on life at Feyenoord.
Biseswar had two goals and one assist against [...]