ANP News from the NOS•today, 08:24 Rising gas and energy prices affect everyone – everything is getting more expensive. This also applies to sport. Nearly half of gym owners and fitness entrepreneurs are considering or have already decided to increase their membership fee. This emerged from a survey among the members of the trade association … Read more
The KNVB sees the increase in the number of corona infections in professional football as no reason to stop the Eredivisie and the Kitchen Champion Division. According to the football association, there is also no reason to tighten up the corona protocol. “Stopping professional football makes little sense because it concerns a very small group … Read more
The KNVB has urged the clubs in professional football to continue to follow the corona protocol closely. The football association fears that the pressure on the schedule will become too great if matches have to be rescheduled regularly and threatens a disciplinary case if the rules are not properly observed. A spokesperson for the KNVB … Read more
The KNVB is not afraid that the cabinet will temporarily halt professional football in the Netherlands as part of any stricter corona measures. “It would be completely incomprehensible and implausible if we did not play football,” said director of professional football Eric Gudde on Sunday evening in the TV program. Studio Football. Due to the … Read more
In the past transfer period, a record number of football players have made the switch to the Netherlands. The KNVB reports Wednesday that it concerns 211 players who came to the Eredivisie or Kitchen Champion Division from abroad. It has never happened before that so many players went to the Netherlands in the summer transfer … Read more
The Mijnals committee, which should promote diversity within the KNVB, is furious about the procedure surrounding the appointment of Frank de Boer as national coach of the Dutch national team. Chairman Humberto Tan says the recently established working group against racism feels cheated because the management has not spoken to colored trainers. “The KNVB is … Read more
The Supporterscollective Netherlands is happy that the Eredivisie will not play structurally on Sunday evening next season. According to the organization, the KNVB listened to the supporters. Earlier this month, it looked like there would be a kick-off in the Eredivisie every week on Sunday evening at 8 PM, but that is not the case. … Read more
Director of professional football Eric Gudde of the KNVB does not exclude that the cup final between Feyenoord and FC Utrecht will still be played. He emphasizes on Sunday that in that case there will be no competition for a European ticket. “That game cannot be played before August 31 anyway,” Gudde said at the … Read more
SC Cambuur and De Graafschap see the lost lawsuit against the KNVB as a hard case. The judge approved the football association on all points at a meeting in Utrecht on Thursday, so that the clubs can almost certainly forget promotion to the Eredivisie. “This is quite a big disappointment,” says general director Hans Martijn … Read more
Louis van Gaal does not understand that due to the corona crisis, the KNVB has decided to cancel the cup final and not allow clubs to be promoted and relegated. According to the former top trainer, other choices would have made more sense. “Sport can be played without an audience. I think it is really … Read more