One of Europe’s deadliest strikers, the only thing Sweden and Feyenoord hero Ove Kindvall cared about more than scoring goals was his family
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When talking about the greatest managers in history, Ernst Happel has done everything to join the discussion, a true pioneer of football at Feyenoord
“Dad, your record’s gone.” Roy Makaay couldn’t believe it. For four years, his opportunistic strike against Real Madrid had been the quickest goal in Champions League history. Now, a text from his…
TRADITIONALLY, ‘while Amsterdam dreams, Rotterdam works’ – or so the saying goes. Extending the stereotype, Ajax Amsterdam often appear to mirror their hedonistic city’s defiant confidence. It appears – wrongly – as…
IT MAY HAVE BEEN RONALD whose dreams to eventually coach Barcelona seemed to spectacularly combust at Goodison Park, but he wasn’t alone – his brother was also part of the journey. From…
JERZY DUDEK WILL FOREVER BE A LEGEND ON MERSEYSIDE. His heroics in Istanbul have gone down in footballing folklore, and that crazy night is rightly remembered as the zenith of his long…
Illustration by Federico Manasse “MY BIGGEST DREAM is to play for the national team, to play for 40,000 spectators and to score a lot of goals.” Jon Dahl Tomasson’s words, spoken in his…
When the monstrous army of Persia trampled over the slaughtered remains of a patchwork Greek force of a few thousand at the mountain pass of Thermopylae in 480BC, it could have been…
DUTCH FOOTBALL IS CHANGING. Following the dismal qualification campaign for the now mostly-forgotten (everywhere except Portugal and the Netherlands) 2016 European Championships, the big wigs in Holland came together to find a…
On the southern fringes of Rotterdam’s eclectic centre, deposited between train tracks and the River Maas, Stadion Feyenoord encapsulates many of its city’s nuances. Better known by its moniker De Kuip (The…
Dutch football and those that hail from its shores are known to have little cutting edge, an extra spice to flavour the beautiful game. Former Arsenal talisman Robin van Persie certainly falls into…
The goal was scrappy. Patrick Kluivert, on as a late substitute, slipped and stumbled through the penalty area before somehow stabbing the ball home. With five minutes remaining, Ajax were ahead in the…
As featured on Guardian Sport IT WAS WITH A FIT OF PIQUE, REVENGE IN MIND and a double-winning flourish that Johan Cruyff brought the curtain down upon his remarkable playing career. He…
FOOTBALL IS A FICKLE GAME. For every promising youngster that makes the grade, there are twenty who fail to make the grade. For these almost men, the chances of regaining a chance to make…