“Who was the idiot who scheduled a Bayern game (with so many German internationals) against Holland just a few weeks before Euro 2012?”
The Dutch national football team will spend the next nine days on the elegant shores of Lake Geneva, for the second stage of their Euro 2012 preparation.
Holland boss Bert van Marwijk has narrowed down his first shortlist for Euro 2012 to 27 men, the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) announced on Tuesday evening.
He has the most intimidating nicknames in Dutch football: Fire-Eater, Khalid the Cannibal, Boula the Bulldozer. His piercing eyes, towering presence and tough tackles have instilled fear in many opponents. But at Monday’s first...
One is shaped like a giant armadillo, another like a lit-up crushed accordion, a third like a massive amber crystal and the fourth like a colossal crown. The four state-of-the-art football stadiums in Poland are ready to receive the one...
“I’ve felt respect for several Holland managers. But for one of them, there’s love.” The opening lines of Bert van Marwijk’s biography, just out, are surprisingly lyrical. What follows is more prosaic, more...
Arsenal and Holland star Robin van Persie has clinched his first major prize this season: he was named the English Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) player of the year on Sunday. Having netted 27 times so far this season, the...
Holland travelled to the UK to play a delayed football 'friendly' with England at Wembley on Wednesday 29 February. The match was originally scheduled for August 2011, but had to be postponed at short notice due to the riots in London.
Friendly football fixtures between Holland and England are seldom dull and Wednesday’s match will probably be no exception. The numbers three and five on FIFA’s world rankings are keen to meet each other for an experimental...
It's official: it's black, with a dash of orange. The new away shirt for the Dutch football team for the upcoming European Championships is almost completely black. It's a controversial choice: star player Wesley Sneijder thinks it's...