The Tulip Hoofdklasse Males is in the course of its fiftieth season. On this part we recurrently replicate on this anniversary: we fish up anecdotes, enjoyable details, images and notable gamers and statistics from the large massive league pond. Half 5 in the present day.
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From the outdated field 📦
The NOS radio program Langs de Lijn made an pressing attraction to EHV and Den Bosch in the course of the stay broadcast in the course of the fifth competitors weekend of the 1994-1995 season. The clubhouses of each golf equipment turned out to be inaccessible for the editors of the sports activities program that Sunday. After studying solely 4 of the six half-time positions within the males’s competitors, presenter Govert van Brakel known as on the clubhouses of the golf equipment involved to ‘please decide up the telephone.’ Ferry de Groot, chief of NOS Sport, declared an exception on the radio afterwards. “Often we attain the golf equipment, however on Sunday it was a drama.”
Oh sure, the lacking relaxation positions: EHV-Amsterdam 1-2 and Den Bosch-HGC 0-1.
Within the highlight 💡
Outstanding picture 📸
Within the picture beneath from the 1997-1998 season, Den Bosch is making ready for the primary match of their semi-final within the play-offs for the nationwide title, in and towards Bloemendaal. If you happen to look carefully you will note that the gamers – together with the present nationwide coach Jeroen Delmée – will not be dressed of their conventional black shirt, however in blue coaching jackets. Workforce supervisor Tonnie de Groot had unintentionally left the match shirts in Brabant.
Taking part in within the far too spacious jackets on which again numbers had been caught with white tape, Den Bosch suffered a painful 5-3 defeat at ‘t Kopje. Fortuitously for the Bossche formation, they did play of their acquainted outfit within the return: the workforce gained that recreation 5-1. Den Bosch later additionally gained the decisive third recreation towards Bloemendaal (after penalty pictures) and gained its very first nationwide title per week later on the expense of Amsterdam.
From the scoreboard 🧮
The penultimate spherical of the 2014-2015 season is an unforgettable one within the historical past of the large league. Within the six matches on Sunday, April 19, 2015, a complete of fifty objectives are scored, a median of 8.33 objectives per match. To today, that’s nonetheless a file manufacturing for one spherical on the highest stage.
Six objectives are scored today at Hurley-Pinoké (4-2) and Tilburg-Rotterdam (0-6), eight instances at Amsterdam-Push (7-1), 9 instances at Bloemendaal-Schaerweijde (8-1), ten instances at Kampong-Den Bosch (6-4) and eleven instances at Oranje Zwart-HGC (8-3). In that final recreation, Mink van der Weerden claims a number one function: he accounts for six of the eight Eindhoven objectives (a membership file), after all all from a penalty nook. Moreover, Rogier Hofman (Bloemendaal, 4 objectives), Mirco Pruyser (Amsterdam, three), Justin Reid-Ross (Amsterdam, three) and Jeroen Hertzberger (Rotterdam, three) all rating not less than thrice.
Mink van der Weerden cheers on behalf of Orange Black. Picture: William Vernes
Episode 1: Rocky begin and Patty Mundt’s scoop
Episode 2: Sea of objectives after offside elimination
Episode 3: Goalkeeping with a Hannibal Masks
Episode 4: First ever Title Prey for Kampong