NETHERLANDS: PAUL VAN ASS PREPARING TO PLAY AGAINST A WALL
‘Our biggest challenge at the European Championship will be that the ball has to go in every time. Most people think we score a lot. I think that we score too little’, concludes national coach Paul van Ass, just under three weeks before the start of the European Championship in Mönchengladbach (August 18-27). Just like the Dutch […]
NETHERLANDS: MEERSSEN AND SJINBORN SEEK EACH OTHER OUT- ‘NO PLACE FOR CHAUVINISM’
Even via the highway it is less than fifteen minutes from A to B. Or rather: from Meerssen to Sjiborn. The former rivals from Limburg who are increasingly creeping together. After several combined youth teams, they also set up a Ladies 1 team together last season. ‘We want the children to play hockey properly.’ ‘As clubs we were […]
NETHERLANDS: ANNIVERSARY TOURNAMENT OF THE SPANISH FEDERATION
The Oranje Heren will be in action from tomorrow during the four country tournament in Terrassa. With this event, the Spanish federation celebrates its centenary. The team of national coach Jeroen Delmée not only plays against the host country in the Estadi Marti Colomer, but also against England and India. On Sunday, the battle for third and […]
NETHERLANDS: HOW CANADA SECURED AN ORANGE LEAD FOR SEVE VAN ASS
He played only one international match after the consolation final of the World Cup in India. The zeperd against Australia in the Pro League. Yet Seve van Ass (31) is physically almost at war strength. He made his first meters in preparation for the European Championship not in the Netherlands, but in Canada. Because there he combined a holiday with […]
NETHERLANDS: REFEREE GOENTGEN STILL TAKES PAINKILLERS EVERY DAY AFTER A HORRIFIC WORLD CUP BALL
Meanwhile, the German referee Ben Goentgen is back in the line. In June in Eindhoven during the Pro League, he even made his first minutes at the international level. How different was that at the end of January, when he got a ball in the face during the quarter finals of the World Cup in India and […]
NETHERLANDS: LISA POST REPLACES SABINE PLÖNISSEN IN EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP TRAINING GROUP
National coach Paul van Ass has called up Lisa Post as a replacement for Sabine Plönissen. Due to personal reasons, the defender of Amsterdam has decided not to make herself available for the selection at the moment. Just under a month ago, Post dropped out for the training group . At the time, she was the most notable absentee […]
Netherlands: EC U18 | JOOST TOLBOOM HOPES THAT PS4 CONTROLLERS WILL SURVIVE
Just like the Orange Girls, the Orange Boys U18 also had a winning start to the European Championship in Krefeld. With two striking drag pushes, Joost Tolboom laid the foundation for the 7-0 victory over Poland. ‘This European Championship is already the coolest thing I’ve experienced.’ The European championship is not the first international tournament for Tolboom […]
NETHERLANDS: ORANGE BECOMING MORE AND MORE ‘WORLD TOP’
Thierry Brinkman walked through the rain on the Wilrijkse Plein in Antwerp on Tuesday evening with a satisfied grin. His jacket pulled up, the newly won gold medal dangling happily around his neck. Just like last year, the Orange captain and his team had won the Pro League. Still, that victory doesn’t feel like the same, but rather […]
NETHERLANDS: PRIZE PACKER DE WAARD- ‘HAPPY THAT THE PRO LEAGUE CUP IS BACK’
The Oranje Dames won the FIH Pro League on Monday evening . But there was a player on the field who won not one, but two prizes on the same evening. Xan de Waard (27) was named the best player of the Tulip Hoofdklasse Ladies in the warm-up of the game won against Germany. And she didn’t see that coming at […]
NETHERLANDS: XAN DE WAARD VOTED BEST PLAYER TULIP HOOFDKLASSE
Xan de Waard was voted best player of the past season by the hockey audience and coaches and captains of the Tulp Hoofdklasse teams. De Waard won the election with a street length ahead of the competition. The SCHC midfielder received her prize, the Golden Stick, on Monday evening in the Wagener Stadium. De Waard had a […]
