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September 1st
Ruud Gullit has announced on a press conference that he resigns as manager of Newcastle United. The coach, who took over the coach position exactly a year ago quit after Newcastle made its worst start since decades (1 point in 5 games). Newcastle has appointed Bobby Robson to take the position Gullit left behind.
The friendly match between Feyenoord and Real Zaragosa ended in a 2 - 0 victory for the Spanish club. Feyenoord players Van Gastel and Van Wonderen played 90 and 83 minutes of the match after coming back fron injuries.
The charity match between Ajax and a Turkisch team has ended in a 2 - 0 victory for Ajax. Goals were scored by Reuser and Wamberto, both in the first half. The match raised about $250.000 which is ment for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey.
Fortuna Sittard will have to play without Ruud Krol for at least two months. The experienced player got a knee injury during training.
PSV sold 26 year old, Portugese defender Abel Xavier for about $2.250.000 to English club Everton. Xavier came to PSV from Oviedo in 1998, but never managed to secure s secure spot in the squad. Xavier signed with Everton for three years.
First division club Top/Oss sacked coach Lex Schoenmaker after dissapointing results in the first matched of the season. The board of directors don't have the confidence Schoenmaker will be able to reach better results soon. Assistent coach Jan Peters and second team coach Doeke Hulshuizen will supervise the team until a new coach will be appointed.
August 31th
National coach Frank Rijkaard has cut 6 players from his squad to have a team of 18 players who will play against Belgium this Saturday, against Brasil on the 9th of October and against the Chech Republic on the 13th of November. The players who are cut from the team are Kreek and Trustfull from Vitesse, Boussatta and Ricksen from AZ and Paauwe and Bosvelt from Feyenoord.
August 27th
Manchester United, playing with the three Dutch players Van der Gouw, Stam and Jordi, lost the European Supercup Match against Lazio Roma with 0 - 1. Salas scored the only goal of the match.
August 30th
Dordrecht '90 has won the match against Dutch non league club Turkiyemspor with 3 - 0 to secure a place in the next round of the Amstel Cup.
Paul Bosvelt (Feyenoord) and Fernando Ricksen (AZ) replace Clarence Seedorf and Andre Ooijer in the Dutch National team for their practice match this Wednesday. Seedorf and Ooijer are injured.
Morten Olsen, former coach of Ajax, has been assigned as coach of the national team of Denmark. Olsen will start on the 1st of July, 2000 with his new job. Olsen signed a two year contract.
FC Utrecht player Patrick Zwaanswijk is injured for at least a month. He has a shoulderinjury which will need surgery. He will undergo surgery next Tuesday.
August 25th
Drawings for the UEFA Cup: Ajax - Dukla Banska (Slw), Beira Mar (Por) - Vitesse and Roda JC - Sjakthor D. (Oec)
Feyenoord plays in the Champions League against Borossia Dordmund, Rosenborg BK and Boavista.
Willem II will face Spartak Moskow, Gir.Bordeaux and Sparta Prague in the Champions League.
PSV will have to play against Bayern München, Valencia and Glasgow Rangers in the Champions League.
August 22th
PSV won the difficult away match against Vitesse easily with 1 - 6. PSV was the best team the whole match long and scored easily. Vitesse midfielder got a red card in the 70th minute. Goals for PSV were scored by Bruggink (2x), Faber, Van Nistelrooy (2x) and Khokhlov. Van Hooijdonk scored for Vitesse.
Ajax has loaned striker Peter Hoekstra to Spanish second division team Compostella. 26 year old Hoekstra was unable to get a solid place in the Ajax team.
Recent rumours of Feyenoord having a huge short term debt (About $21.000.000) surprised the management of Feyenoord. According to Feyenoord the rumours are based on wrong interpreted information and no one in or around Feyenoord should worry about anything. Feyenoord, as champions, placed for the Champions League is expected to earn a lot of money during that tournament And the value of the team (About $65.000.000) compensates any debt, but this information was not taken into account with these rumours.
August 18th
The friendly match between Holland and Denmark ended in a 0 - 0 draw. After the Danisch controlled most of the match in the first half, the Dutch took more and more control in the second with very good chances for Kluivert and Van Nistelrooy. The score however, remained tied.
Several top clubs from all over Europe are interested in Feyenoord Defender Bert Konterman. After Real Madrid (Which is said to be willing to pay $10.000.000 for the defender) now also English clubs Manchaster United and Arsenal seem to be interested. It is said they are willing to pay about $12.500.000 for the 28 year old Konterman, but nothing is official yet.
Dutch champions Feyenoord have made a cooperationagreement with Brasilian team America. This means the teams can loan players to eachother so they can get more experienced in both South American soccer and European socer. America player Somalia is already playing for Feyenoord. Feyenoord has similair agreements with fellow Rotterdam club Excelsior (First Division) and Belgium team RWDM.
August 13th
The first KPN Telecompetitie match between Sparta and Willem II ended in a simple 0 - 2, after Willem II took a comfortable lead scoring in the 19th and 21th minute. Sparta got several chances after that, but failed to find the net. --- Champions Feyenoord got an easy win over FC Den Bosch in their first leaguematch of the season. Julio Cruz scored 3 times as Feyenoord won in the FC Den Bosch stadium with 0 - 4.
August 12th
The Dutch competition started with the Super Cup (Johan Cruijf Schaal) match between League Champion Feyenoord and Amstel Cup winner Ajax. After Feyenoord took a quick, comfortable 2 - 0 lead (Goals in the 13th and 15th minute), Ajax started fighting back, scoring a goal before half time and one after it, taking the score to 2 - 2. Feyenoord decided the game in their favour after Patrick Paauwe scored from a free kick, 5 minutes before the end of the match.
Non league club SC Genemuiden has been removed from the first round of the Amstel Cup after not being able to get a full team available for the matches, due to several vacations of their players.
August 11th
PSV tied 0 - 0 in the preliminary round for the Champions League against Zimbru (Moldavia). The not very exciting match did get several PSV players unneeded yellow cards as PSV needs a home win to advance into the championsleague in the return.
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