2020/21 Dutch Football Second Chance thread
 

a disaster waiting to happen, audiences at football matches again from september :facepalm:

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/0...-september-12/

it will start on September 12

''Teams and manager''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–21_Eredivisie

sorry for the ''disaster'' word but i'm just cautious :laugh:


audiences at football matches or any sports events remains a risk, i hope regulations are carefully followed, and it being looked into thoroughly


but despite this worry, i am looking forward to watching some of our football again on tv :dance2:

extra details regarding new season

Play-Offs for European Football and Promotion/Relegation will now only consist out of 2 semi final home/away matches and 1 final each


start September 12

end May 16


no matches for sunday evening, even though teams who got european cup matches can request different playing dates, and they can request permission to play on sunday evening if necessary, if just back from a Europa league match on thursday for example

new sensation in the making for FC Groningen

Arjen Robben (36) wants to make his comeback in the eredivisie for them this upcoming season :eek: :o




bit of drama related football pundit news, after pundit Johan Derksen's racist joke, the show ''Voetbal Inside'' is likely to get either cancelled or having a new host and a new pundit replacement

Wilfred Genee already quit his role there as host, he announced yesterday

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/0...-in-groningen/

official, Arjen Robben is back at Groningen :clap1:



more transfer news, Twente wants to bring back Karim El Ahmadi, Eljero Elia to the eredivisie

minister of sports Martin van Rijn has revealed there will be no extra money be given to teams in eredivisie, keukenkampioendivisie

teams need to learn to survive on their own, and not via loans from government


it was said teams need to receive 140 million each, mostly looking forward at an entire season without audience

but now there will be audience in some form, this is no longer the amount of money the teams need

former topscorer of PEC Zwolle, returns to the club

Jesper Drost signs for one season, he comes over from Heracles Almelo

also from tomorrow ''sports discussion lunch'' segment is back on our local radio :dance: :dance:

Fortuna Sittard has now permanently signed George Cox, from Brighton & Hove, who already was on loan at the club


Twente has renewed the contract of club icon Wout Brama with one extra year, the 33 yr old began his career at Twente in 2005

FC Twente has gotten czech player Vaclav Cerny on loan from FC Utrecht

the attacker is signed on loan for one season

PSV has sent Luckassen again away on loan, this time to belgian team Anderlecht

he does not fit in with the style of play of manager Schmidt



VVV Venlo has signed experienced defender Arjan Swinkels, the 35 yr old has lots of eredivisie experience, with Willem II, he comes over as free agent after short spells with many belgian teams

NEC Nijmegen have made a huge surprise, bringing back one of their legends, now 36 yrs old Paraguayan 60 time international midfielder Edgar Barreto has signed with them again, and that on his birthday too


Ajax have signed Ghanaian attacking midfielder Mohammed Kudus for 9 million from the danish Nordsjaelland, he signed a contract for 5 years

but it also announced the departure from youth talented midfielder Jasper Ter Heide to SC Cambuur, who had signed a contract for 2 years at the club from Leeuwarden

Twente has 19 yr defender Kik Pierie on loan from Ajax for upcoming season


practice matches (without audience ofc)

TEC - FC Utrecht reserves 2-5

DWS - Almere City 0-6

SC Cambuur - Harkemase Boys 4-1


todays matches

Racing Genk - Excelsior

WDZ - Roda JC


tomorrow

Fortuna Sittard - Bekkerveld

MVV Maastricht - Helmond Sport

Woudia - FC Volendam

ADO Den Haag has signed 21 yr old left back Boy Kemper from Ajax, signed a contract for 3 years, Kemper played 41 matches for Jong Ajax in the keukenkampioendivisie

yesterdays results

Racing Genk - Excelsior 4-1

WDZ - Roda JC 1-7

How did Fortuna Sittard get on Nicky?

our first friendly match was a 9-1 win, even though against amateurs still a good start again (with a long time without playing any matches)

PSV have resumed the training as of today under new coach Roger Schmidt

basically he's very impressed with the club, does see potential etc, it looks they are not gonna buy many new players, more investing into youth


the friendly matches are without audiences yes, same goes for training sessions also without public (training as of now still just warm ups, not match practice yet but that will come onto this week too)


new season will be with 1/3 of audience in stadium, so the one match that half of fans, other match other half, another match last bit of fans, and so on

So a strong start for Fortunezen then.:dance:

And PSV probably doesn't have to worry about players tbh, they'll more than likely challenge Ajax for the title again this season I reckon.

And the audience thing makes sense.

Netherlands national team will play against Mexico in October

that match is pre, nations league matches against Bosnia & Herzegovina and Italy


the team of Ronald Koeman will open international season with matches against Poland, Italy to start the new nations league season in September

2020/2021 KNVB football corona protocols have been released

- during the season, players/staff, referees are being tested on a daily basis

- the current corona measures will remain as it is, from there onwards can be adjusted into full stadiums whenever possible, or playing without audiences if necessary, they will look into this every week basically

- teams will place their stadium available if there is a local lockdown in a specific region

- matches cannot be postponed, only exception is when a team cannot choose a starting 11 and reserves, due to quarantaine/infections

this is all been taken to make sure the season can be played out in full


Eredivisie's first match is FC Utrecht - AZ Alkmaar

some of main rival matches dates are in January

10 January Ajax-PSV

13 January PSV-AZ

17 January Ajax-Feyenoord

24 January Feyenoord-AZ

31 January, both AZ-Ajax, Feyenoord-PSV

Hopefully Ajax wins.

FC Emmen has signed 19 yr old talented French midfielder Lucas Bernadou from Paris Saint-Germain

from the Parisian youth team, was in the u17 u19 and reserves squads


Eric Botteghin stays with Feyenoord, the brazilian defender has signed a new contract today


yesterday friendly results

FC Utrecht - Racing Genk 3-3

Antwerp - Roda JC 1-3


also a match on tuesday, VVV Venlo played against other local amateurs from Venlo, won that match with 19-0

FC Groningen has japanese defender Itakura again on loan for one season from Manchester City



outside NL, but related to ours, Jordi Cruyff has left his manager job of Ecuador national team, was appointed begin this year but due to covid-19 couldn't play any matches, and also was not a day in the country either due to covid-19 pandemic, never led a single training either

results friendly matches from Friday 24th of July

Almere City - Jong Utrecht 1-0

NAC Breda - BSC 11-1


today's schedule

AZ - Racing Genk

Fortuna Sittard - FC Dordrecht

De Graafschap - Helmond Sport

Telstar - Ado'20

FC Den Bosch - De Treffers


and for Sunday

EVV - VVV Venlo

saturdays results

AZ - Genk 0-1

Fortuna Sittard - Dordrecht 2-1

Graafschap - Helmond Sport 3-1

Telstar - Ado'20 0-0

Cluzona - Top Oss 1-9

FC Den Bosch - Treffers 5-0


one more match for today besides EVV - VVV

also FC Volendam - Vitesse Arnhem