Tag: Netherlands

Heracles groundskeeper leaves giant snow penis on the pitch during Eredivisie match

When you want to make your dissatisfaction known in a not so subtle fashion


Dutch club Heracles Almelo had a disastrous first half against Groningen on Saturday, conceding three goals in a span of nine minutes. So when the groundsman came out at halftime to clear a layer of snow off the pitch with his plow, he left a very distinctive and purposeful design for the television cameras. A giant penis.

It’s clear that this was no accident, but it didn’t inspire a second-half comeback from the home side. Groningen pushed their lead to 4–0 before Heracles finally scored a consolation goal in the 90th minute. In short, they really ballsed this one up.


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Vitesse had a couple on a romantic pitchside bed for Valentine’s Day

Taking your significant other to a football match for Valentine’s Day might not be the most romantic choice, but Vitesse tried to change that with a unique competition. A winning couple got to watch the club’s Eredivisie match against Heerenveen from a pitchside bed and spend the night in a local hotel that provided the unusual matchday accommodations.

The bed was sprinkled with rose petals and came with a bottle of wine to set the mood (that thousands of screaming football supporters certainly ruined…unless that’s your thing).

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Memphis Depay wears wrong shirt in Netherlands match against Czech Republic

The Netherlands’ disastrous Euro qualifying campaign ended with a 3-2 loss to the Czech Republic, which included an own goal from Robin van Persie. But to illustrate that they truly couldn’t do anything right, Memphis Depay wasn’t even wearing the right shirt for the match.

His top was customized for the Netherlands’ loss to Iceland last month, featuring the date (September 3) and Iceland’s flag just below the crest.

When your kitman can’t even recognize a shirt with the wrong date and flag on it, you know things are going terribly wrong and major top to bottom changes are necessary.

Japan score best goal of the Women’s World Cup, then concede the worst

Japan’s second goal against the Netherlands in the Women’s World Cup was a sequence of perfection. It couldn’t have been executed better if they practiced that alone for the last three weeks. It ended up being absolutely necessarily too, since they ended up conceding a goal at the opposite end of the spectrum during injury time.

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Netherlands player has shot thwarted by her other foot

The Netherlands had a chance to take an early lead against Japan when Manon Melis slipped past the world champions’ back line, but then her right foot thought “dribble” just before her left foot thought “shoot.” This proved to be a problem.

Melis ended up on the ground as the ball trickled over the endline and Japan went up 1-0 a few minutes later. This was very much out of character for Melis, however. She was voted the top player in Sweden’s Damallsvenskan in 2010 and she has 55 international goals in 125 appearances.

But these things can happen to anyone. Just ask Steven Gerrard…

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What just happened?! Netherlands v USA

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The US came back from 3-1 down to beat the Netherlands for the first time ever in a friendly at the Amsterdam Arena that was roughly equivalent to a derailed train crashing into a helicopter. Before getting into the match itself, there are two key pieces of information that need to be stated.

1. Since Guus Hiddink replaced Louis van Gaal after the Nethelands finished third at last summer’s World Cup, the Dutch have decided that defending is morally wrong.

2. The US have been blowing leads by conceding late goals like that’s the object of the game.

So with that established, here are some match facts:

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Ajax celebrate Mother’s Day by walking onto the pitch with theirs

Ajax gave their players’ mothers a Mother’s Day (Moederdag in Dutch) to remember that culminated with the women walking onto the pitch with their sons before the club’s match against Cambuur.

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NAC Breda manager punches through the side of the dugout

Dordrecht ’90 scored twice in a span of two minutes to negate NAC Breda’s lead in the second half of their Eredivisie match on Saturday, prompting NAC manager Robert Maaskant to put his fist through his team’s dugout in a fit of rage.

Maaskant has always been a hot head, but he’s got nothing on the Italian amateur who celebrated a goal by putting his head through the side of the dugout…

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