For the second issue of the tenth (!) year of Staantribune, which was published on Friday 5 April, Joris van de Wier walked through Quartieri Spagnoli in Naples, an open-air museum for Napoli and especially Diego Maradona. With podcast presenter Jeroen Heijink he did the same in the Spanish A Coruna, where local pride Deportivo La Coruna once caused a furore in the Champions League, but has now been sang far.
To stay in Spain: Michel Doodeman wrote about the Primera Division in the special season 1980-1981, with a bizarre kidnapping of a star player and a surprising champion, the Basque Real Sociedad. Jan Willem, in turn, spent a day in prison, where he learned how football helps to close the gap between ‘within’ and ‘outside’.
In addition, we have background stories about Excelsior and sponsor Akai (first shirt advertising in Dutch professional football), about a special evening for Johan Cruijff in Amsterdam, exactly a quarter of a century ago, and the Mundialito, the mini-WK in Uruguay in the early eighties.
Of course, regular sections such as De Supporter (about a fanatic Dutch fan of the Italian Feralpisal?), Het Shirt (DDR 1974), Het Stadion (Olympiastadion, Munich), The Photo (of the legendary reporter Theo Koomen) and the columns of Groundhopper des Vaderlands Hans Douw, FC Dordrecht -supporter Elisa Kuster and Frank Heinen are not missing in the second number of the tenth year.
With beautiful footage from Danny Last and Marco Magielse who was at Prescot Cables FC and Stade de la Neuville from Royal Olympic Club de Charleroi was beautifully established.