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KNVB Cup!

We're entering the competition in the second round. Opponent: First Division side AGOVV Apeldoorn, at their beautiful little Berg & Bos sports park.

Kick-off time: 20.45 CET.

By the way: on Tuesday (22 Sep) Young Ajax play their KNVB Cup fixture in Alkmaar, against AZ (first team), also at 20.45 CET.

K.

My last game of football at Berg & Bos was AGOVV Apeldoorn vs Helmond Sport, a league game in the First Division, six years ago. I went there with two guys from a record label I know: one is an AGOVV fan, the other is a Helmond Sport fan. I went with them. Good seats. Great supporters' pub on the premises. Football culture to the max. I loved it.

It was a beautiful evening in the fall: cold, but no rain or wind. And it was a very entertaining match, too. Final score was 2-2. Helmond Sport were easily the better football team, but AGOVV had a very good striker named Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, who scored both of their goals... The home supporters told us he was a bloody phenomenon. We thought: yeah, right, he's clearly better than the rest of the players on this pitch, but is he Eredivisie material...? We weren't too sure.

He scored 26 goals in 35 appearances for AGOVV Apeldoorn, but not too many Eredivisie clubs were seriously interested. Heerenveen bought him for 100,000 euros. A year and a half later Ajax paid 9 million for him. Another three seasons later Real Madrid thought he was worth 27 million euros - and today one of the stands at Berg & Bos is called the Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Stand.

K.

Demy de Zeeuw is an ex-AGOVV man, by the way. He's from Apeldoorn.

Edit: Here's the full squad for AGOVV...

Maarten Stekelenburg
Jeroen Verhoeven
Gregory van der Wiel
Bruno Silva
Toby Alderweireld
Rob Wielaert
Jan Vertonghen
Thimothée Atouba
Demy de Zeeuw
Vurnon Anita
Mitchell Donald
Siem de Jong
Urby Emanuelson
Miralem Sulejmani
Luis Suarez
Dario Cvitanich
Dennis Rommedahl
Kennedy

So, Verhoeven back from injury (Vermeer played for Young Ajax on Tuesday). Wielaert and Atouba back in the squad. Aissati has been left out, because he picked up a serious injury on Volendam's artificial pitch last season. AGOVV play on artificial turf, too, and both Jol and Aissati feel bad about it, so he won't play. Enoh has been declared fit, but will be rested for one more match before returning to the squad.

K.

If anyone needs a stream, a decent one here if you scroll down...

http://www.atdhe.net/

Mr_Holte schreef:If anyone needs a stream, a decent one here if you scroll down...

http://www.atdhe.net/

Cheers-good picture!

really? to me does not work...

It just started to work for me.
NVS 2 on Sopcast worked for the match presentation and then went offline.

Well it was working for me but about 20 minutes in it has gone!

orange goblin schreef:really? to me does not work...

Bloody hell - doesn't work for me either. Any other threads out there?

The link Mr_Holte posted seems to be working fine for me.

0-0 in the 35th minute.

Watching on tv here and you havent missed anything yet being honest. looks like another case of get the first goal and rest will follow, I hope

Working fine for me-great picture, not so great game- at least if AGOVV lose they'll still win the award for thd biggest sponsors logo

0-0 at the half. I hope this is not a repeat of last year where we struggle and get bounced out of the Cup play.

Very poor first half. Hardly anything noteworthy (but no unexpected problems, either).

K.

I feel sad for the AGOVV keeper...

Cedric_AeF schreef:I feel sad for the AGOVV keeper...

why is that?

souras84 schreef:

Cedric_AeF schreef:I feel sad for the AGOVV keeper...

why is that?

I remember he played a few times when at Villa.

Let's just say, he was involved in a certain type of personal movie!

Great goal-is that his first for Ajax 1?

Mr_Holte schreef:

souras84 schreef:

Cedric_AeF schreef:I feel sad for the AGOVV keeper...

why is that?

I remember he played a few times when at Villa.

Let's just say, he was involved in a certain type of personal movie!

Nice spicy details... me like those! Who is he?

And now I feel sad for Stuart. Wonderful goals tonight.

While checking the score in xscores i noticed that just under our match there is the Italian Genoa - Juventus (much hated) and seeing Ajax and Juventus one under the other reminded me of the past...

did not look like a penalty to me. Thought Stek was going for the ball.

Mr_Holte schreef:

souras84 schreef:

Cedric_AeF schreef:I feel sad for the AGOVV keeper...

why is that?

I remember he played a few times when at Villa.

Let's just say, he was involved in a certain type of personal movie!

Nice spicy details... me like those! Who is he?[/quote]

Pretty certain there's a thread on here somewhere but I couldn't find it.

Anyway, this is all about that little moment of infamy....http://www.theoffside.com/europe/keeper ... -tape.html

trust me, having seen it at the time you didn't miss much

Orange14 schreef:did not look like a penalty to me. Thought Stek was going for the ball.

He was, but he didn't reached the ball, just the player. No complaints about that desicion.

Van basten schreef:

Orange14 schreef:did not look like a penalty to me. Thought Stek was going for the ball.

He was, but he didn't reached the ball, just the player. No complaints about that desicion.

More than made up for it with the point blank save at the end of time. Amazing how a penalty call can get the oponent energized and playing well.