Barneveld is a municipality in the province of Gelderland in the center of the Netherlands. It is known for its poultry industry and large Protestant community. The municipality had a population of 59,992 in 2021, out of which 33,800 (2018) lived in the town itself.
Amstelveen is a municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands, with a population of 92,353 as of 2022. It is a suburban part of the Amsterdam metropolitan area.
Football Club Utrecht is a Dutch professional football club based in Utrecht. The club competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, and plays its home matches at the Stadion Galgenwaard.
SBV Vitesse Arnhem, widely known as Vitesse or internationally known as Vitesse Arnhem, is a Dutch professional football club located in the municipality of Arnhem. Established on 14 May 1892, they currently play in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football, but will compete in the Eerste Divisie from the 2024–25 season following relegation from the 2023–24 Eredivisie. Since 1998, the club has played its home games at the GelreDome.
RKC Waalwijk is a Dutch professional football club based in Waalwijk, that is currently competing in the Eredivisie. Its name is derived from 'Rooms Katholieke Combinatie Waalwijk' and was established as a merger of HEC, WVB and Hercules.
Paul Guillaume van Himst is a Belgian former football player and a football manager who played as a forward, most notably for R.S.C. Anderlecht. Regarded as Anderlecht's ultimate club icon, Van Himst holds the record of four Belgian Golden Shoe awards and was named best "Belgian footballer of the twentieth century".
The Netherlands men's national basketball team represents the Netherlands in international basketball matches. The national team is governed by Basketball Nederland.
FC Blauw-Wit Amsterdam was a Dutch football club from Amsterdam. The name referred to the colours of their uniform, blue and white.
The Netherlands was the host nation for the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. 266 competitors, 222 men and 44 women, took part in 103 events in 17 sports.
Jan van Beveren was a Dutch footballer and coach, who played as a goalkeeper.
Wilhelmus Martinus Leonardus Johannes "Willy" van der Kuijlen was a Dutch football player and a scout for PSV Eindhoven.
SV SVV, short for Sportvereniging Schiedamse Voetbal Verenigingen, is a Dutch football club from Schiedam.
The following teams took part at the 1908 Summer Olympics:
Jan van der Veen is a Dutch retired professional footballer who played for Sparta Rotterdam, Royal Antwerp, Go Ahead Eagles, Willem II and Helmond Sport. He also played in the NASL between 1978 and 1983 for the San Diego Sockers, Tampa Bay Rowdies and California Surf. Jan scored Tampa Bay's lone goal in the 22nd minute of Soccer Bowl '79 (NASL league final), which the Rowdies lost 2-1. He also played in the Major Indoor Soccer League for the Phoenix Inferno and the Wichita Wings.
Giovanni Francesco Zacharias Franken is a retired footballer who played as a midfielder and head coach of the under-21 team of ADO Den Haag.
Martinus Franciscus "Mats" van Huijgevoort is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
Van der Veen is a common Dutch surname, meaning "from the fen" or more generally "from the peatlands". In the Netherlands 19,847 people carried the name in 2007, making it the 32nd most common surname there. Dutch surnames with the same origin and meaning are Van Veen, Van de Ven/Van der Ven, Van de Venne, Veen, and Veenstra/Feenstra. The name was often taken by peat workers, as harvest of turf for fuel was abundant in the Netherlands. Since the early Middle Ages, the quarry of fens in the north and west created, merged or extended many lakes, most of which have now been reclaimed as polders. The harvest of turf from bogs in the east, like the large Bourtange moor, extended until the 20th century.
Kevin van Veen is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock, on loan from Eerste Divisie side Groningen.
The 2020–21 KNVB Cup, for sponsoring reasons officially called the TOTO KNVB Beker, was the 103rd season of the annual Dutch national football cup competition. It commenced on 29 August 2020 with the first of two preliminary rounds, and concluded on 18 April 2021 with the final played at De Kuip in Rotterdam.
Jan van den Broek was a Dutch footballer. He played in eleven matches for the Netherlands national football team from 1927 to 1933.
