Netherlands: Dave Smolenaars makes the final decisions for the Dutch Juniors World Cup selection
Dave Smolenaars – national coach of the Dutch Juniors – has announced the eighteen-man selection for the World Cup-21 in Chile (November 29 – December 10). Noa Muller (Amsterdam) and Mea de Vries (Kampong) did not survive the final selection. They have been designated as reserves. Tuesday afternoon was the moment of truth. One by one, the players […]
NETHERLANDS: THE EVENING OF ‘SMURF’ TRIELING: ‘WILL NOT SOON FORGET THIS GOAL’
He provided the highlight in the top match between ‘his’ Pinoké and Oranje-Rood on Saturday. Danilo Trieling’s beautiful volley gave the Amsterdam team the second goal of the evening during the 2-1 win. A goal that will stay with the nineteen-year-old top talent, who came over from Nijmegen in the summer, for a long time. It was […]
NETHERLANDS: PINOKÉ IS THE BOSS OF THE ORANGE-RED IN THE LEADER CLASH
The Oranje-Rood suffered its first loss of points of the season on Saturday evening. The Eindhoven team lost the top match against Pinoké 2-1 on their own field, which is now single-handedly the leader in the Tulp Hoofdklasse Men. It’s a bizarre hockey weekend. The ball rolls in the big league for four days in a row. A […]
NETHERLANDS: NIJMEGEN IS SUDDENLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACK, BUT IS NOT PANICKING YET
Nijmegen started this season in the Promotion Class with a clear mission. The Gelderland men want to become champions, or at least reach the play-offs. But for now, that goal is far out of reach. On Sunday afternoon, coach Bas Bogaard’s team wasted points for the fourth week in a row. Sixth place is where Nijmegen has to make […]
NETHERLANDS: MANENSCHIJN KNOWS THAT IT WILL BE A TOUGH SEASON FOR SCHAERWEIJDE
‘I can really live with the fact that we didn’t win this match. But not with the fact that we gave it up in the last minute,” said Schaerweijde coach Albert-Kees Manenschijn on Sunday afternoon, after the 3-4 defeat against HDM. The home team conceded two goals in the last minute . Manenschijn looks defeated in the Schaerweijde clubhouse. It […]
NETHERLANDS: THE WEEKEND: MUSCLE PAIN, CARD IS CAKE AND ‘FACKING LONG’ SHOWER
From Maastricht to Hattem and Ares to Prinsenbeek, there was plenty of hockey last weekend. We look at the socials from the Fourth to the Transition Class. A selection of the Instagram gems of the standard teams. Your team in this section next week? Send us a DM . We start our review of the weekend with the ladies of […]
NETHERLANDS: RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BIZARRE INCIDENT WITH THE VAR
The final minutes of the European Championship final between the Netherlands and England (2-1) had a number of bizarre VAR minutes with German referee Ben Goengten and Irish video referee Alison Keogh. What exactly happened there? A reconstruction. With four minutes and sixteen seconds left on the clock, England international Phil Roper taps the ball into keeper […]
NETHERLANDS: THE NETHERLANDS SILENCES BELGIUM TO WIN EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
For the twelfth time in history, the Dutch national team has become European champion. With the 3-1 win in the European Championship final against Belgium, the Netherlands has qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris. The Orange took off like a rocket and took a 2-0 lead within five minutes against the Belgians, who were unable to […]
NETHERLANDS: BELGIANS – ‘THE DUTCH ARE ARROGANT PEOPLE’
Belgium qualified for the European Championship final on Thursday evening, thanks to a 1-0 win over Germany. The Red Panthers are preparing for Saturday’s confrontation with the Netherlands (2.45 p.m.). The statements that the Dutch national coach Paul van Ass made about Belgium this week have gone down the wrong way with them. On the rest day […]
NETHERLANDS: DELMÉE- ‘WHAT WE SHOWED IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH NOW’
The group stage went far from smoothly. And yet the Orangemen still have everything in their own hands at the European Championship in Mönchengladbach. National coach Jeroen Delmée knows that there is still a little more to do to compete for the prizes. ‘Our level is lower than at the World Cup.’ He has mixed feelings about the […]