Never heard a sweeter sounding word than Feyenoord [R]

Part 1: The making of Clasie

Clasie (169 cm) gives the smaller soccer player hope.

How Feyenoord delivered tailor made work with the education of the half-pint in the Youth Academy.

Clasie (169 cm) gives all small soccer players in the Netherlands hope. Professional soccer is attainable too with a shorter length. But in his case it took a radical turn around in thinking. In Feyenoord’s Youth Academy Clasie (now 20) for years purposely practiced less than the rest of his team mates.

The 2006/2007 season is a few months on its way and a pattern becomes clear. At the Feyenoord B1 Jordy Clasie has a lot of problems to play the full stretch of the matches. In the course of the second half he slowly fades away and in the last 15 minutes the little fellow gets cramp in his calfs. The reactions are easily predictable. So young and than already tired of a little match? Exercise harder little kad, or else you are done with quickly.

The head of the Academy, Henk van Stee, a few years before already honestly advised Clasie to look for a nice club in the vicinity of Alkmaar, close at home. And a lot of youth coaches think that way.
But when he isnot tired, Clasie shows on the ball things that make him the talent that as a first year B-junior is allowed to practice with the batch of the under-17. So Raymond Verheijen, than just started as an exercise physiologist at Varkenoord (the Youth Academy Grounds), turns his attention to the question if it still is possible to design a plan for Clasie.
In consultation with the B-youth coaches Cor Adriaanse and Jan Gösgens a tailor made exercise scheme is made. Clasie is not going to exercise more, but actually less. A lot less..
Football conditional excercises of his team from then on he literally only participates for half the time. Little matches of 11 versus 11, the thing soccer players love the most to do, for him are restricted to a maximum of two times 8 minutes, after that the rest often continues for a while. ( See the training scheme that will be in the next part).

“With Jordy all conditions were in place to being stretched to his limits as a kid”, Verheijen says when he picks up the exercise schemes of those days. “He was of small stature and traveled very early in the morning all the way from Haarlem to Rotterdam to go to school and exercise. That all costs a lot of force. Cramp is a logical signal from the body that it cannot cope with the full load. By letting him exercise literally half less Jordy kept enough energy to execute better what he was doing. Now he did not have to deplete his reserves, with the result he started every exercise fresh. The purpose of exercising is to attempt every time again to act one percent faster than the time before that. Only by turning 100% time after time into 101% a youth player develops himself. But when you start the exercise already at 95%, you never will get to that 101%.

 

That was about web sites. This is not available on the internet and not in English, so....no problem. You're just jealous that no one posts interesting articles about your team

 

According to Voetbal International Feyenoord offered Dirk a long years contract, but Martin van Geel confirms nor denies that that offer has gone out.
But he also said that it will be difficult to get him in.

Kalou his contract expires this season and he seems to be eager to leave Chelsea so a lot of top clubs are after him. So I donot think he will be back.

Okay, our top scorer is out. Guidetti has a virus born inflamation of his nerves in his shooting leg and is hardly capable of standing on that leg. Also our brains Karim in the midfield is out with a suspension.

AZ has Moisander suspended.

Thankfully the KNVB gave Vilhena permission to skip the U17 obligations for this match, so he can fill in the Karim spot.

AZ hasnot have a good record this season of the top 6 against each other in away games. They never managed to win. Feyenoord on the other hand is the best of the top six in away and home encounters against each other. Only AZ and PSV managed to beat us just at their home. AZ after a referee blunder that red carded one of our players and PSV in the dying seconds after an attacker pushed our defender of his feet and thus making it possible for his mate to score the winner.
AZ also is showing signs of wear and tear, as the Feyenoord squad is showing freshness.

It will be an all out battle for the full three points, as less is fatal for the second spot. And when Ajax is defeated by FC Twente the title is still possible for either of the two.