At Staantribune, as you know, we love historic ‘hooks’. This summer it is exactly a quarter-century ago that the Dutch national team was close to the world title at the World Championships in France. A memorable tournament, in which Dennis Bergkamp made his memorable goal against Argentina in the quarterfinals, which adorns the cover of Standstande 48, which will be released on Friday 2 June.
It will also be thirty years since the first matches were played in both the J League and the Premier League in 2023. Editor Eric de Jager interviewed Henny Meijer, who scored the first goal in the J League, and Roda JC icon Gone Hanssen about their time in Japan. Joris van de Wier portrayed Brian Deane, Dalian Atkinson and Eric Cantona, protagonists in the first year of the Premier League. And then it was also thirty years ago that SC Heracles v VVV was interrupted and then discontinued due to a special fact...
But of course, as always, we also pay attention to the here and now. For example, we were recently at the loaded quarrel between GVVV and DOVO in Veenendaal and our in-house photographer Marco Magielse visited the Stadion am Zoo of Wuppertaler SV, the Edelhart the Lille Stadium of FC Sobemai and KSC Maccabi in Antwerp.
In addition, we interviewed John Karelse about his time at Newcastle United and we have an interesting piece about the origin of Dutch club songs.
Fixed classes such as De Voetbalstad (this meal over Alkmaar and the Zaan region), De Supporter (Derry City), The Goal (Basile Boli of Olympique Marseille against AC Milan, Champions League final in 1993), Het Shirt (Argentina 1958) and the columns of Frank Hein, Dordt supporter Elisa Kuster and Groundhopper des Vaderlands Hans Douw should not be missing in this original edition.