A bizarre end to an entertaining game
Sunday afternoon, 3 p.m. Victoria-Oranje-Rood (2-2) has already passed for 45 minutes, when Rob Haantjes – interim coach of the Eindhoven team – is still discussing vigorously with referees Armand Triepels and Berry van Bentum in the clubhouse. Crying with happiness, the players of Oranje-Rood fell into each other’s arms when the horn sounded after seventy minutes […]
Hattrick Jip Janssen not enough: ‘Lost ourselves’
Drag in the first three penalty corners of the game. Write a clean hat-trick in twenty-seven minutes. But still go down the field defeated. That happened to Jip Janssen on Sunday during the top match against Oranje-Rood in Eindhoven. Of course he should have been the hero of the match. The hero of the day for Kampong. Everything looked like […]
Stefan Duyf refuses to throw in the towel
Waiting for the first win of the season, the pressure on Oranje-Rood, the current number twelve of the Dutch big league, is increasing every week. How does coach Stefan Duyf view the situation, after the worrying 1-2 defeat against competitor Kampong ? ‘ Copypaste , that’s it again’, are the first words of the 38-year-old coach when asked what he […]
HK (D): Den Bosch wins topper, another win for Kampong
On the ninth matchday in the Dutch big league, Den Bosch won the top match against Amsterdam. In the Wagener Stadium it was 2-1 for the leader on Sunday. At the bottom, Kampong was 2-1 too strong for last-placed Oranje-Rood and HGC took three points in the duel with hdm in the nick of time thanks to […]
Lachlan Sharp Signs for Amsterdam
Amsterdam stuns at the last minute before the start of the competition by attracting Lachlan Sharp. The 24-year-old international was one of the stars in the Australian squad that won silver at the Tokyo Games this summer. Sharp says in a comment that he is looking forward to playing together at Amsterdam with his two Australian […]
Bloemendaal again the best: ‘from a rational point of view this one is more attractive’
For the second season in a row, Bloemendaal can add a championship bowl in the already richly filled trophy cabinet. A title, number 21 in club history, that feels very different from that of 2019. The cravings were great, two years ago. The proud, illustrious Bloemendaal had not become national champion for nine years. A drought they had […]
Ireen van den Assem: ‘Glad that Raoul gave me the opportunity to sit on the couch’
Her name was on the scoresheet, but she did not play in the second and ultimately decisive game in the final of the women’s play-offs . Ireen van den Assem won her eighth national title, her last as a player of Den Bosch, at the expense of Amsterdam sitting on the couch in a tracksuit. A muscle injury kept […]
Thrilling shoot-outs give Bloemendaal the lead in the final
Bloemendaal has taken a lead in the final battle of the play-offs. Rick Mathijssen’s team won after taking shoot-outs from Kampong. After seventy exciting minutes it was 2-2. They were all ready. All 22 players on the field and the two referees. But just when the orange smoke had cleared from the circle of Kampong, the last echoes of […]
Matla leads Den Bosch to victory over Amsterdam
A backhand shot by Frédérique Matla on Thursday evening in the Wagener Stadium resulted in a 0-1 victory for Den Bosch against reigning champion Amsterdam. With a win next Saturday at the Oosterplas, the Bosschenaren conquer the national title. The possible decider is Sunday. Apart from captain Eva de Goede, Amsterdam also appeared at the start without […]
Hoofdklasse Playoff finals details announced
The finalists of the play-offs in the Hoofdklasse and Tulp big league men have been announced. The ladies compete for the fifth time in a row Den Bosch and Amsterdam for the national title, with the team from Amsterdam defending their title. For the men, the final battle is a repeat of 2019. When Bloemendaal and Kampong […]
