SoccerLens 06 November @ 04:57 AM EST
Eduardo's back heel onto Arshavin, who runs and takes the ball and finds the pass to Diaby, who
sets himself up and scores.
That my friends was the goal of the night and the fourth for Arsenal against AZ Alkmaar. The
football recently played by Arsenal is nothing short of phenomenal, offensively of course.
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Inside Left 02 November @ 08:25 AM EST
I completely missed every single game of football across the British Isles at the weekend. I was
too busy to turn on the radio for the Scottish games, and I fell asleep somewhere during the
Arsenal-Spurs highlights on the Saturday evening. I was awake long enough to see van Persie
scoring, but the next thing I [.
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This week included two gigantic matches in world football, the North London Derby, Arsenal against
Tottenham, and Ajax against Feyenoord. Pellegrini is a bit safer at Madrid, and Benitez is moving
up the spots in the sack race. While Inter escape to the top of Serie A, seven points above second
place Juventus, Portsmouth start getting the three points needed to start moving up the Premiership
table.
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Two years ago, in November 2007, this website began. I scoured the continent for young talent and
listed eight players who I expected to make huge names for themselves in the football world. I did
not list English based players (Walcott, Denilson, etc) who I had my eye on, but only players in
the continent.
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101 Great Goals #34 - John Goossens
It's not very often that my adopted Dutch club, NEC Nijmegen, appear above the radar. They are the
very definition of 'mid table mediocrity' - sitting in the middle of the Eredivisie every single
year, doing absolutely nothing whatsoever.
To include a goal that earned them a 1-1 home draw against ADO Den Haag also sounds like the
dullest thing in the world, but this particular piece of brilliance from ex-Ajax kid John Goossens
deserves to shine a light on the club.
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Steve McClaren led his FC Twente side to another impressive win as they continue to lead the
Eredivisie.
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AZ v Arsenalby acidsaid10
Well, as Peevish said in the comments, that wasn't much fun.
To start with, though, let me just say that this is not a bad result for Arsenal. Yes,
we're a much better club, but AZ are the defending Eredivisie champions, and has now played 35 home
matches in European competition, and has lost just once.
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Champions League matchup tomorrow against AZ Alkmaar, and for some reason I can't look at that
name without thinking of Azkaban prison from Harry Potter. When I imagine what their home pitch is
like, I picture it being a desolate little island in the middle of the cold sea. When you finally
get there, with your ticket, you're led to your horrible, cramped little bleacher seat (amongst
their fans, who I imagine are probably all Death Eaters) by a Dementor usher, and if you sit in the
wrong seat or yell too loudly, the Dementor usher quickly comes to your seat and does that
face-sucking thing, and leaves you a drooling vegetable with no soul.
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Ajax Cape Town have announced the appointment of Foppe de Haan as their new head coach following
the departure of Muhsin Ertugral for Turkish Super League side Sivasspor.
The Right Man for the Urban Warriors
Urban Warriors CEO George Comitis revealed in a statement on Thursday afternoon: "After a long
deliberation and thorough analysis of all the applications that we have received, we believe that
we have found the right man to steer us forward.
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There was a time (last summer) when I would have welcomed Klaas-Jan Huntelaar to The Lane.
Thankfully, those days are long now gone. It was only a few months ago when we were all talking up
the lad and saying how good of a signing he would be for us. A.C. Milan fans were doing the same
thing. You should hear them now.
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Yanks Abroad 08 October @ 09:16 PM EST
Helmond will host De Graafschap on Friday evening, a club that was relegated from the Eredivisie at
the end of last season after finishing in 17th place.
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As last week's rankings were brought to you from a train from Munich to Vienna, this week's is
brought to you from a train from Prague to Berlin. I wasn't able to attend a match in Prague, in
part because the blood match between Sparta and Slavia was moved to today, so this week's picture
is just a random one that I took in Prague.
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No report as such from the Dripping Pan yesterday as Lewes drew 1 apiece with Staines Town. We'll
save the reports for the away days shall we!? I did however take a couple of panoramic shots of the
Dripping Pan so I might as well stick them up on these pages. As usual click on the images if you
want to enlarge them to the full screen.
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Player Info:
Name: Luis Suarez
Birthdate: 24.01.1987
Origin: Uruguay
Position: Attack
Team: Ajax Amsterdam
Video Info:
04.10.2009 - Eredivisie
Roda JC Kerkrade - Ajax Amsterdam
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Dirty Tackle 02 October @ 02:18 AM EST
In Wednesday's Eredivisie match between NEC and Utrecht, NEC's Moestafa El Kabir decided to try
and save a ball that was already out of bounds and ended up plowing into the pitchside TV
camera.
This is generally a bad idea. While TV cameras do have weak legs and rarely defend themselves
from an oncoming attack, they are still made of heavy things like metal and.
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We're not there yet, but we are getting closer. The Bundesliga, Eredivisie and Ligue Un all
reached the point in the season where last season's results have dropped out of the calculations
for the WCR Top 25. For clubs from England, Spain, Italy and Portugal, results for last season
still count because all clubs in each of those domestic leagues have yet to play five matches, but
we are getting close.
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... and John Colquhoun keeps popping up again and again and again, so he does.
Being a humble imbiber of sporting journalism, you will not realise that this is taking place,
unless you are a regular reader of this blog.
In which case you will understand that we are onto Mr Colquhoun's case.
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Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 Football Moments
9. Schteeeeeeve McLaren talks jibberish
No-one really blamed Steve McLaren for moving abroad after the wally-brolly failure of England to
qualify for Euro 2008. In a path trodden by his one of his predecessors, Bobby Robson, the
ex-England boss ran to the relative safety of the Eredivisie after his international experiences to
take charge of little known FC Twente.
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Manon Melis The Dutch football team... That's why we're here... But, the lads all play in nice
competitions for nice clubs, so we love watching that. And we obviously keep an eye on the youth
Oranje teams, to check out up and comers for the big game. We cover the Eredivisie, the incubator
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MLS on TeleFutura: Colorado - Houston at 3pm. WPS All-Star Game on Fox Soccer Channel at 5:30pm.
EPL on Setanta: Portsmouth - Manchester City at 8:30am and Bolton - Liverpool at 5pm. On Fox
Soccer: Everton - Wigan at 10am and Aston Villa - Fulham at 8pm. Championship on Setanta: Forest -
Derby County at 1pm.
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Futblog 30 August @ 03:01 AM EST
El jugador salido de los Pumas UNAM
Hector Moreno esta jugando en Holanda en la
Eredivisie la liga holandesa a un muy buen nivel y como lo había mencionado antes, este es un
defensa que anota goles para su posición.
El defensa mexicano Héctor Moreno se hizo presente en la victoria del AZ Alkmaar 2-1 ante el
Willem II, en duelo correspondiente a la fecha cinco de la Liga de Holanda. Click to continue reading...
Reigning Eredivisie holders AZ Alkmaar have confirmed that they have signed exciting Swedish
youngster Rasmus Elm from Kalmar FF. Elm has made the switch to the Dutch league for a fee of 3
million euros. Elm was one of Sweden's stars at the European U-21 championships earlier this summer
( won by Germany).
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SoccerLens 28 August @ 05:50 AM EST
The big clubs have been relatively quiet recently, but it looks like things are picking up on
that front as the end of the summer transfer season edges nearer.
Another long-running transfer saga has bitten the dust, as Wesley Sneijder's
future has been resolved, and though it may not be the ending that he wanted in the beginning, it's
the one that works out best for him.
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Well, it's official AZ Alkmaar, Olympiakos, and Standard Liege. Looking over it, my gut reaction
is that we probably got the easiest group out of the Pool A folks.
There aren't any "easy" games at this stage, but there is really no excuse for us not making it
into the knockout rounds with this draw, as we have a much easier path than some of the other big
clubs (I'd say Liverpool (Lyon, Fiorentina, Debrecen), Bayern (Juventus, Bordeaux, Maccabi Haifa),
and AC Milan (Real Madrid, Marseille, Zurich) have much tougher paths than we do).
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SoccerLens 24 August @ 02:45 PM EST
So, Joleon Lescott is offically on his way from Everton to Manchester City, after numerous
headlines over the past several weeks stating how close the move was to happening, what fee it'd
be, and so on and so forth.
In the end, Everton get a truckload of money, so does Lescott, Mark Hughes gets his man, and we
get to add Lescott's name to our summer transfer lists.
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A case of wishful thinking?
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Arsenal have made an offer for PSV Eindhoven winger Balazs Dzsudzsak, according to the
player himself.
The 22-year-old Hungarian had made more than 50 league appearances for the Eredivisie since joining
from Debreceni VSC in 2008, scoring 17 times.
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For those of you who paid attention to my very inactive Twitter feed, I was on holidays all week.
I'm back now, and here's a quick summary of what's happened in the past week at Toronto FC...
On August 12, we signed Haitian international left-back Lesley Fellinga, who had previously played
in the Eredivisie at Heerenveen.
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