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On this page is some information on my favorite soccer team. finally,
my brother has started mailing me some pictures it is not much yet, but
there is more to come. Here is the first one, It is FC ZWOLLE coach Jan
Everse
Jan Everse
Zwolle out of the Amstelcup
Last tuesday (2 sept.) FC Zwolle won a prelimanary-round game against
amateur-team Hollandia in the Amstelcup (Dutch soccer cup) with 5-2. Because
of this result FC Zwolle could place itself for the next round if they
won against AFC'34 (amateurs) today.
At least if they made enough goals. They had to beat AFC'34 with
4 more goals difference than Haarlem would beat Hollandia
Today it is sunday and the final preliminary round games have been
played, AFC '34 - FC Zwolle ended in a 2-2 draw
And Hollandia defeated Fc Haarlem by a surprising 4-1 Following
these results AZ Alkmaar and amateurs AFC '34 go on to the next round,
AFC '34 had just a one goal better goal difference than FC Zwolle
FC Zwolle won the game against Dordrecht with 3-0.
In a rather good game, the best of the season till now, FC Zwolle
easily beat Dordrecht with 3-0, throughout the whole game Zwolle was the
better team, Dordrecht only had a few little chances while the chances
of FC Zwolle were uncountable, but as FC Zwolle doesn't have the feeling
for making goals yet , the same problem they had against AFC, but after
20 minutes Jan Bruin headed the 1-0 past the dordrecht-goalie, It took
until 15 minutes in the second half before FC Zwolle was able to express
the overweight, It took them a penalty to do it, CLaus Boekweg took it
and placed it in the lower right-hand corner, 2-0 10 minutes later it was
Jan Bruin again who put the 3-0 on the scoreboard he came in front of a
defender and was able to tip in the ball. 2750 people had a great night.
Telstar - FC Zwolle 1-1
Saturday 13 september FC Zwolle played an away game against Telstar
in Velsen, about 80 FC Zwolle supporters crossed the whole country to visit
this game, they expected a great game after the good result against Dordrecht,
They were disappointed by FC Zwolle's game play. FC Zwolle was nothing
like the great playing team they were last game, defenders were not able
to get the ball away without problems, only few long passes arrived and
the opportunities FC Zwolle did get were not finished right. A few minutes
before the end of the first half Telstar scored a well deserved goal, so
FC Zwolle had to try to make a better second half, Although the second
half was a little better FC Zwolle still didn't get much chances and Telstar
tried to 'finish' the game, but were not able to do so because of FC Zwolle-
goalkeeper Henk Timmer, He played a good game and surely made some necessary
rescues. After 70 minutes it was finally Jan Bruin that was able to score
the equalizer, already his sixth goal this season, in only five matches.
After this goal FC Zwolle tried to make another one, but Telstar was able
to finish the game in 1-1.
FC Zwolle - TOP Oss 3-3
Friday 19 september FC Zwolle played this seasons sixth game at
home against ninth-placed team TOP Oss, FC Zwolle started very good with
a 4th minute goal by Jan Bruin, After this early goal TOP wasn't able to
'get into the game', and FC Zwolle had some other good chances, but they
were not able to score martin reynders and Sami Ristila had good chances
but failed in the execution. TOP, glad to have survived the FC Zwolle offensive,
had only few chances in the first half, but unfortunately they were able
to score twice, Roger Polman scored twice in the 38th and 44th minute.
The 1-2 score at half-time was something you would not expect after seeing
the great game play by FC Zwolle, They also started the second half perfect,
after seven minutes it was Jan Bruin again who shot the ball from outside
the penalty area in the upper corner of the goal, TOP-goalie Hoekman had
no chance. only one minute later FC Zwolle scored again. It was Sami Ristila
who scored his first goal of the season. After this goal all the fans expected
FC Zwolle to win easily, and zwolle got another few chances to raise the
score but again they weren't able to. TOP also got some opportunities and
they were able to score, In the 74th minute it was Jerry Taihuttu, who
put the 3-3 on the scoreboard. FC Zwolle tried to attack after that but
some of the players had given already most of their power, and they didn't
have enough left to make enough pressure. The two goals by Jan Bruin were
his seventh and eight goal this season, this makes him the top scorer in
the 'TOTO' division.
FC ZWOLLE TOP SCORER JAN BRUIN
EXCELSIOR Rotterdam - FC ZWOLLE 1-2
Tuesday FC Zwolle played the league game against Excelsior, I wasn't
able to go there so here is just the result. Jan Bruin scored his 9th and
tenth goal this season, this makes him top scorer in the first division,
Excelsior had little chance on winning this game, Zwolle played a much
better game, What can happen to a team with a easily scoring player like
Jan Bruin, There were only 750 visitors.
FC ZWOLLE - EINDHOVEN 1-0
Another win for FC Zwolle, against 4th placed Eindhoven, both teams
made it a nice game, with chances for both teams. The most chances were
for FC Zwolle, after only eight minutes an Eindhoven-defender was only
able to keep Jan Bruin from scoring by hitting the ball away with his hand
before Bruin could head it in. The given penalty was taken by Claus Boekweg,
but was stopped by Van der Sleen, the goalkeeper that was in good form
this night. After a few good chances on both sides it was Harry Sinkgraven
in the last minute of the first half, who shot the ball in from a long
distance, via the post it went in and Zwolle could start the second half
with an 1-0 advantage. In the second half Zwolle let Eindhoven attack so
they would be able to get more room for counters, this tactic worked, Eindhoven
wasn't able to break the zwolle defensive wall and zwolle got some really
good chances to decide the game But all shots went wide or were saved,
Sami Ristila came closest to a goal when his shot hit the post. Through
this result FC Zwolle closed in on first place AZ-Alkmaar because they
lost against Dordrecht, Zwolle now is just one point behind and the only
team that is still undefeated. Although Jan Bruin didn't score, he still
is leagetopscorer. There were 3150 visitors.
HELMOND SPORT-FC ZWOLLE 2-0
Tonight FC Zwolle played against Helmond sport, the number 14 from
the first division and lost for the first time this season. From what i've
seen/heared from the television FC Zwolle was the better playing team,
but they were not able to score, Jan Bruin hit the woodwork twice, and
Helmond Sport didn't get more than a few chances FC Zwolle will still stay
in second place as the only direct concurrent for this place, Emmen, also
lost 1-0 to Eindhoven. complete rankings can be found at: Dutch
tv-text
VEENDAM - FC ZWOLLE 2-2
Today the tenth game of the season: away at Veendam, unfortunately
I wasn't able to go, but there was a match report on SBS 6 action-news
Zwolle came 1-0 behind after 18 minutes but they were able to get
the score up to 1-2 before half-time, by goals from Arjan Bosschaart in
the 22th minute and a penalty by Claus Boekweg (29th) after Jan Bruin was
pulled down by a veendam-defender.
It could (should have been 1-3 at half-time but a zwolle-goal was
disallowed for offside (well I sure didn't see it on tv, as didn't the
reporter) but referee Helmstrijd and his friend the linesman decided that
the goal didn't count. FC Zwolle's second coach Robert Maaskant got so
angry about this that he was send away with a red card.
In the second half referee Helmstrijd stopped the game after Veendam
supporters had been shouting hoerenjong (son of a bitch) to him, after
the fans were spoken to by veendam-players and all was quiet again the
game restarted. In the 80th minute Meyer scored the 2-2. This result means
that FC Zwolle drops one place in the division standings, but they can
drop some more places depending on the results of some other games later
this week.
On the press conference after the game FC Zwolle coach Jan Everse
stated that it is a shame that Helmstrijd is allowed to referee at this
level. (I think that can be said about some more referees)
FC ZWOLLE - CAMBUUR LEEUWARDEN 1-3
FC Zwolle's first home defeat was an result of FC Zwolle being
unlucky in finishing, they hit the bar 3 times.
FC Zwolle came 0-2 behind after just ten minutes in the first half,
after this early setback FC Zwolle had troubles to get into the game and
cambuur (supported by referee Oskam who was once again in an anti-Zwolle
mood) got some more chances and after 29 minutes it was De Roo who shot
from twenty-five meters on goal, Henk Timmer was unable to do anything
to stop it, 3-0. After this goal Zwolle started to get more chances but
only hit the bar until in the 40th minute Jan Bruin scored his eleventh
goal this season.
A few minutes later Zwolle got an other good chance but Oskam decided
to give Zwolle a free kick instead of letting them play on. In the second
half there were some good chances for both teams, but both teams were unable
to make enough pressure to score, best chances were for Rasmussen who headed
a ball that came back of the bar just a few centimeters wide, and Van Utrecht
who came alone in front of Henk Timmer but was forced to far to the outside
so the ball could be deflected by a incoming defender.
The result of this loss is that FC Zwolle goes down to the 7th
place
FC ZWOLLE - HERACLES 4-2
FC Zwolle started this game as worse as last game against Cambuur,
after just 3 minutes Alex Burns scored 0-1 for Heracles, And they got some
more chances after that one, but also did Zwolle, and after 36 minutes
it was Andre van Tuinen who made it 1-1. After 4 minutes injury-time Jörns
scored heracles's second goal. After half-time FC Zwolle seemed to have
gotten back the great shape they had a few weeks ago. After just 5 minutes
it was Van Tuinen with his second goal for 2-2 followed just five minutes
later by an absolute beauty by Arjan Bosschaart, Jan Bruin gave the assist
and Bosschaart hacked the ball in with his left foot behind his right,
3-2.
After 71 minutes it was Bosschaart again who decided the game 4-2.
FC Zwolle is now in 3rd position.
FC ZWOLLE - ADO DEN HAAG 0-0
In what can be described as a boring
game, it was ADO that had the best chances in the first half, and Zwolle
had the better ones in the second half. But even the best chances were
spoiled by both teams.
best ADO-chance was for Pim Langeveld, but he shot way over from
very nearby the goal, Best Zwolle-chance was for Xander van der Veeke,
but he completely missed the pass by Bosschaart.
Zwolle remains in third place.
HAARLEM - FC ZWOLLE 1-0
Before the game people would expect FC Zwolle to win this game, Haarlem was only in 12th place and missed a lot of it's players because of injuries.
Zwolle however is lacking the powers to put pressure on their opponents the last few games, put that together with not being able to score and Haarlem could win this game with 1-0 by a goal from Naciri in the 45th minute
Zwolle wil have to do a lot better next week against AZ, they beat Heracles 8-0 tonight.
FC ZWOLLE - AZ ALKMAAR 2-0
Zwolle played much more concentrated this game than they did last week against Haarlem. But after just 4 minutes AZ could have gotten an early first goal, They were given a penalty by referee Bossen, he saw some pushing in the penaltyarea
and allthough it didn't really look like a penalty it was given anyhow.
Dennis den Turk took the penalty but he shot way to soft and Henk Timmer was able to get it easily.
After thirteen minutes it was Zwolle's turn to take a penalty after boudestein was taken down. Claus Boekweg did a better job as Den Turk and placed the ball nice in the lower-left corner, 1-0.
The rest of the game was very exciting with chances for both teams, Robert van der Weert came close to an equalizer but eye in eye with Henk Timmer he shot the ball on the post.
On the other side of the field it was Roelofsen that spoiled a perfect chance, but his shot went way of goal.
the less time there was left the more AZ tried to force a goal, but they shouldn't have forgotten to defend because in the 73rd minute Jan Bruin was left all alone at the middle-line, with not an defender anywhere near him.
So when he got the ball all he had to do was take it towards the goal and put it past the outcoming AZ-goalkeeper Moens, at exactly the right moment he lifted the ball and it went over Moens in the empty goal.
After this goal Zwolle had no problems to finish the game winning.
FC Zwolle is now in thirth place one point ahead of Cambuur (4th) and three ahead of Den Bosch en TOP oss(5th and 6th)
Jan Bruin is now with twelve goals second in the topgoalscorerslist behind Van der Laan (Cambuur) with seventeen goals
EMMEN - FC ZWOLLE 2-2
The eastern derby between Emmen and FC Zwolle ended in a 2-2 draw, It was Emmen that made the first goal, after about twenty minutes it was Peter Uneken who was able to head the ball in after Bruin and Timmer collided trying to get the ball away
The equalizer came after 26 minutes in the second half by Claus Boekweg. After this goal the game became even more exciting.
First there were second yellow cards for Kooijman(Emmen) and Nuorela (Zwolle) There was also a red card for Emmen trainer Griever.
In the 86th minute it was Emmen that seemed to be todays winners when Martin Drent scored the 2-1.
But Zwolle had something else in mind, In the final minute Arie Smit passed the ball to Jan Bruin who came alone in front of the goalkeeper, And he scored his 13th goal of the season, so Zwolle got a welldeserved draw
FC ZWOLLE - GO AHEAD EAGLES
friday 28 november
4-1
Fc Zwolle won the derby against the eagles easily with 4-1
The eagles had no chance at all, they were completely outplayed by zwolle, only in the first ten minutes the eagles had some chances, but after 25 minutes it was Arne Slot who made the 1-0, 4 minutes later it was Jan Bruin who made it 2-0, a few minutes later bosschaart first hit the pole, but
just seconds later sinkgraven hit the 3-0 in the nets. this was also the halftime score,although Zwolle had some more chances.
After halftime Zwolle dropped back a little and gave the eagles the chance to make a few attacks, but so did Zwolle. Eagles scored once after a fast taken free kick.
The game was stopped for a short moment when some supporters throwed some lighters and a beer can to a eagle that was going to take a corner kick in front of the zwolle supporters.
After the game resumed Claus Boekweg hit the 4-1, reason enough to let the wave roll around the stadium, well except for one little piece off course :-).
R.B.C. - FC ZWOLLE 0-0
Saturday 6 december FC Zwolle played the away game against the nr 18 and last of the toto-division,
After the good results in the last three games(AZ, Emmen and go ahead) It was once again time for a setback.
A completely uninspired playing Zwolle had only few chances to score. It was only because of luck that Zwolle didn't LOSE this game.
TWICE the post behind Henk Timmer was hit once by Elroy Kromheer(Zwolle) who unlucky hit the ball but was glad to see the ball bounce back into
Timmer's hands and just before halftime Mustafa Aksit also missed the goal by centimeters and hit the post.
The second half was a little bit better, but Zwolle players were just not fanatic enough to cause real problems for the RBC-defenders.
It seems that they only want to play against high-placed teams, but it is just the 'easier' games that should be won to get a high position on the tables.
FC ZWOLLE - FC DEN BOSCH 4-1
Looks like an easy win 4-1 but it wasn't as easy as you might expect. It all started very good with an early 9th minute goal by Roelofsen, a beauty hard via the postin the top corner.
Zwolle continued to have chances, but it was Den Bosch that came closest to a goal when a shot hit the downside of the woodwork and bounced back in the field just centimeters in front of the goalline.
In the 33rd minute something happened that changed the game, Den Bosch defender Janssen had to stop Robert Wijnands from scoring and was only able to do that with a foul in the penalty-area, Janssen got a red card and the penalty was scored by Jan Bruin.
With a 2-0 lead and one player more in the field you would expect that FC Zwolle would have no problems at all to win this game,
but just two minutes later Lurling scored the 2-1, and after this goal it almost seemed as Zwolle were playing with ten players, the ball was lost way too often and Den Bosch was able to make attacks.
The first twenty minutes in the second half Den Bosch was playing much better than Zwolle, some major mistakes in the Zwolle-defence almost meant 2-2.
It took until the 72th minute before Zwolle had the first real chance, Arne Slot got the ball in the penalty-area and after some turning he was able to kick in the 3-1. Almost immediately (74') followed by the 4-1 by Jan Bruin, His sixteenth goal already this season.
FC ZWOLLE - VVV 1-3
You could see it coming, a game agaist 'only' the number 14 of the ranking, with the not too good playing against these teams the last months you could expect a loss like this.
Main reason for the defeat is that the defence did not do a good job against fast players like Maurice Graef, the VVV goals were caused by errors in the defence.
It was Graef that made all three goals for VVV (5' 25' 56').
Only Van den Belt was able to score for Zwolle.
A game to forget quickly and let's hope next year concentration in these games will be beter
DORDRECHT '90 - FC ZWOLLE 2-2
Zwolle started the second part of the season with a 2-2 tie against Dordrecht. There was an early 9th minute goal by Arjan Bosschaart,who got the ball from a throw-in by Wijnands,and was able to just walk through to the goal, Dordrecht scored 1-1 by Rook in the 32nd minute after a little mistake by Henk Timmer, he catched the ball that came across from a corner, but lost it while falling to the ground.
After 69 minutes it was Roelofsen that made the equalizer with a shot from a distance of at least 25 meters.
FC ZWOLLE - EXCELSIOR 0-1
An ashaming result against the number 17 of the leage, I don't want to make to much of an effort reviewing this game as the players didn't do any effort playing it.
Zwolle had only a few chances, and only once or twice had a real chance, excelsior did play a little better, and in the 79 th minute Cairo scored the only goal, after some very stupid mistakes in the defence.
I hope FC Zwolle will do much better next games, and the only good thing for FC Zwolle to do would be giving heavy discounts on the tickets for next homegame, because paying fl 17,50 for games like these is overcharging it with fl 25,00
EINDHOVEN - FC ZWOLLE 1-0
Another loss, as I wasn't able to go there I can only tell what I've read in the newspaper and saw on television, Zwolle had some good chances in the first half.
Jan Bruin came close to scoring, he had already passed eindhoven goalkeeper Van der Sleen, but the ball was cleared of the line by an eindhoven defender, there were also chances for Sieme Zijm en Marco Roelofsen.
Eindhoven made 1-0 in the 33th minute with a goal by Juha Jussila, He got the ball when Zwolle- keeper Werner Kooistra, who played as an substitute for the sick Henk Timmer, tried to kick away a backpass by Kromheer but he hit the ball wrong and played it straight into the feets of Jussila.
In the second half Zwolle attackers weren't able to cause Eindhoven real trouble, but Eindhoven also wasn't able to get any real chances to decide the game, so Zwolle had hope on an equalizer till the last minute.
Although this game was a lot better than the previous game against Excelsior, Zwolle will have a lot of work to do to reach the "nacompetition"(play-offs). Something Eindhoven can acchieve next week if they win the homegame against Heracles.
FC ZWOLLE - TELSTAR 1-0
Finally after three games in 1998 Zwolle managed to win their first game of the year.
On a wet and slippery field Zwolle showed that they hadn't compeletely forgotten how to play the game.
The midfielders and defenders did their jobs well enough and telstar did not get very much chances only Raoul Henar had two good ones.
Zwolle scored twice in the first half, but both goals were disallowed for off-side, both times however it was the question if it really was off-side.
Jan Bruin also had a good chance, but he was just not able to reach the cross from Bosschaart.
The second half was completely dominated by FC Zwolle, Telstar wasn't able to leave their own half of the field, but allthough Zwolle had a lot of chances it took until the seventieth minute before Zwolle was able to score.
Albert van der Haar shot on goal, but the shot was blocked, a Telstar defender tried to kick it away but delivered it to Roelofsen, who passed the ball on to Sami Ristilä who was able to pass it behind Telstargoalkeeper L'Ami.
Zwolle then was able to play the game out without any problems, they even created some nice chances, but unfortunately weren't able to score
TOP OSS - FC ZWOLLE 1-2
An important win against one of the concurrence for a place in the play-offs. Finally Zwolle seems to get back in form, just in time for the final period, The first goal was scored by Roelofsen just before halftime. After halftime Top Oss almost was able to make the equalizer.
Top got an penalty when Wijnands pushed down Taihutu, Cornelise placed the ball well in the lowwer rightcorner, but he hit it to soft and Henk Timmer was able to reach the ball in time.
In the 68'th minute Top did score, Marco de Jong got the ball luckily and was able to put it past Henk Timmer
Just two minutes later Danny Den Ouden scored with a great shot from about 30 meters for Zwolle, an importent win that takes Zwolle up to sixth place
FC ZWOLLE - HELMOND SPORT 0-0
Another bad game by Zwolle, this time most players showed som e more agression, but were unable to make real dangerous attacks, in the first half both teams had just one or two little chances.
Second half was almost as worse as the first one, only substitute Gerald van den Belt came close to scoring a few times. Just minutes before the end Zwolle escaped a loss when Henk Timmer was able to stop the ball just centimeters in front of the goalline.
Latest game:
CAMBUUR - FC ZWOLLE 2-1
A midweek game, so unfortunaly I wasn't able to go there.
From what I've heared and read about it, it was one of the better games of the season, but Zwolle seemed not to be able to score.
Zwolle had some good chances in the first half, but it was Cambuur that scored the first goal, just seconds before halftime. It was a lucky one, Sinkgraven tried to clear a corner but hit the ball against the leg of Cambuur player Geert Jelle de Vries, and it carambowled behind Werner Kooistra.
After the break FC Zwolle was even better than first half,and after little time Ven den Belt made the equalizer, he went by a defender and shot the ball in the far corner. Minutes later he had another chance, but this time he hit the keeper.
The second Cambuur-goal again came from a corner, this time Van der Haar did not react fast enough, and Harry van der Laan was able to kick in the ball. An undeserved loss, let's just hope that next game zwolle have more luck in scoring and that the players will show the same spirit they showed this game.
NEXT GAME: FC ZWOLLE - HERACLES 27 MARCH, I won't be able to go, so if someone wants to help and send me a short report, Please
Here I have more information on the history
of FC Zwolle
Actual Standings on dutch tv text
The FC Zwolle info-site
(dutch)
The official FC Zwolle website
now online(dutch)
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