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Player Focus: Can Well-rounded De Jong Transfer Club Form to Country?

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Player Focus: Can Well-rounded De Jong Transfer Club Form to Country? It felt right at the time, leaving a modest division after three seasons - yielding 41 goals in 89 games - to continue his development in one of Europe's most illustrious, and testing himself against the very best. But it did not turn out the way he'd expected. Nevertheless, if he could turn the clo...

Team Focus: Comeback Kuyt Leading Feyenoord Bid to Return to Former Glory

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Team Focus: Comeback Kuyt Leading Feyenoord Bid to Return to Former Glory Next month Ernst Happel, one of the most celebrated and influential managers in football history, would have been celebrating his 90th birthday. Aside from Vienna toasting one of their greatest sons they'll be raising a glass or two in Rotterdam. In a four-year spell with Feyenoord (1969-73) he won ...

Team Focus: New Midfield Partnership Key to Unbeaten Start for Ajax

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Team Focus: New Midfield Partnership Key to Unbeaten Start for Ajax Not a day goes by without the word 'philosophy' being uttered. And for good reason, identity is everything in football, which brings us to Ajax; an institution that has influenced the modern game to a degree that few other clubs have. It's no surprise then that custodians of the 'Amsterdamsche Schoo...

Player Focus: Important Season Ahead for New AZ Captain Gouweleeuw

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Player Focus: Important Season Ahead for New AZ Captain Gouweleeuw An unfortunate ramification of football's globalisation and its ongoing commercialisation, accelerated by the infamous Bosman ruling, has been the systematic decline of those competitions outside of Europe's biggest television markets effectively turning them into feeder leagues. One such example is...

Player Focus: Stardom Beckons but Ziyech Vision is to Remain at Twente for Now

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Player Focus: Stardom Beckons but Ziyech Vision is to Remain at Twente for Now For every cloud there's a silver lining. In the case of FC Twente, whose season (due to financial mismanagement) turned into a nightmare, it's been Hakim Ziyech. There will be no continental football in Enschede after the summer, and the chances of star players leaving are high, but supporters have ...

Team Focus: Calculating Van den Brom has AZ on the Right Path

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 Team Focus: Calculating Van den Brom has AZ on the Right Path To say the last few years for the club from Alkmaar have been eventful is an understatement. AZ, crowned Dutch champions in 2009, ended last season eighth, 16 points behind third-place FC Twente. With two games remaining there's a possibility they can make their highest finish since winning the titl...

Team Focus: Champions PSV Have Cocu to Thank For Eredivisie Success

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Team Focus: Champions PSV Have Cocu to Thank For Eredivisie Success It is often said a great player doesn't always make a good manager, which neatly brings us to events in Eindhoven where Phillip Cocu – widely regarded as one of Europe's brightest young coaching talents – is proving the old adage wrong and more importantly starting to realise his potenti...

Team Focus: Bosz Inspiring Resurgence at In-Form Vitesse

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Team Focus: Bosz Inspiring Resurgence at In-Form Vitesse The mascot of Vitesse Arnhem is an eagle but it could easily be a phoenix given their recent rise from the ashes. As clichéd as it may sound, it's been a season of two halves for the men donning yellow and black: what looked destined to be a forgotten campaign has now bred a renewed sense of ...

Player Focus: The Best Eredivisie Oranje XI

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Player Focus: The Best Eredivisie Oranje XI Dutch players are adventurers was Dennis Bergkamp's take on why his compatriots travel well. We go abroad, adapt to a new culture whilst maintaining our Dutch mentality. No fewer than 13 players in Guus Hiddink's 23-man Netherlands squad – for the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match against Turkey...

Player Focus: Kongolo & Van Beek Pairing Providing Solid Feyenoord Foundations

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Player Focus: Kongolo & Van Beek Pairing Providing Solid Feyenoord Foundations On a visit to De Kuip, one of Europe's grandest stadiums, there's no escaping one particular banner. Four simple words: Kein geloel, fußball spielen, which is loosely translate as 'forget the crap, just play football'. Uttered by their legendary manager Ernst Happel, it neatly sums up the cult...