Heracles Almelo is a Dutch professional football club based in Almelo, founded in 1903. The club has won the Dutch national title twice, in 1927 and 1941. Heracles won the Eerste Divisie title during the 2004–05 season, gaining promotion to the Eredivisie for the first time in 28 years. The club has remained in the top division ever since. In 2012, reached the KNVB Cup final for the first time in club history, losing to PSV in the final. The club's main rival is FC Twente.
Remko Pasveer is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Vitesse of the Eredivisie.
The Diamond Film is a film award recognising domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. The Diamond Film is awarded to films from the Netherlands once they have sold 1,000,000 cinema tickets or more during the original circulation. The award is initiated by the Netherlands Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Fund in addition to the Golden Film for 100,000 visitors, the Platinum Film for 400,000 visitors, and the Crystal Film for 10,000 visitors of a documentary film.
This is a list of the most expensive transfer fees paid in football in The Netherlands.
VV ASWH, short for Voetbalvereniging Altijd Sterker Worden Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, is an association football club from Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands. The club was founded in 1929. Ascending gradually through the ranks, ASWH played 2016–2019 in the Saturday Derde Divisie and now plays in the Tweede Divisie, the third tier of the Netherlands.
Belinda Meuldijk is a Dutch actress, writer, and activist. She has performed in Dutch television shows and movies, and is also a song writer. She first performed at age six in the Pipo de Clown television show, conceived by her father, Wim Meuldijk; later, she provided the impetus for the 2003 movie Pipo en de p-p-Parelridder and produced and wrote the songs for the 2009 musical Pipo en de Gestolen Stem.
VoorNederland was a Dutch political party. It was previously active in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands as the Group Bontes/Van Klaveren, a parliamentary group founded in April 2014. The parliamentary group was succeeded by a political party in May 2014. After failing to garner win a single seat in the 2017 general election the party disbanded.
Jack B. van den Berg is a Dutch football manager and a former player. While coaching ASWH, he won the 2005 national amateur championship and the 2006 Rinus Michels Award for managers in nonprofessional leagues. During a long stint at BVV Barendrecht Van den Berg became a full-time coach. In 2015–2016 he coached the first squads of two small town rivals, promoting both ASWH to the Saturday Derde Divisie and IFC to the Sunday Hoofdklasse. From February until October 2018 he coached VV Katwijk, winning a Tweede Divisie championship.
Omroep Zeeland is a public broadcaster located in Zeeland, Netherlands. Founded in 1988, the media organization is active in television, radio, and internet. The audience is on average slightly older than that of the other Dutch regional broadcasters.
Thijs van Hofweegen is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer with cerebral palsy.
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have spread to the Netherlands on 27 February 2020, when its first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Tilburg. It involved a 56-year-old Dutchman who had arrived in the Netherlands from Italy, where the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to enter Europe. As of 31 January 2021, there are 978,475 confirmed cases of infections and 13,998 confirmed deaths. The first death occurred on 6 March, when an 86-year-old patient died in Rotterdam.
The year 2021 is the tenth year in the history of Glory, an international kickboxing promotion. For 2021, besides its own channels Glory announced official distribution partnerships with FITE TV, Spike Netherlands, Sport Extra and La Sueur, to broadcast the promotion's Pay-per-view events.
N'ketia Seedo is a Dutch sprinter. She became national champion in the 60 metres at the 2020 Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships. In the second half of the season she got some injuries. At the beginning of 2021 she was not in a good shape. Due to this she didn't compete at the national championships and focusses on the outdoor season.
Suzanne Voorrips is a Dutch athlete, specialized in the 800 metres. She became national champion in this distance at the 2019 Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships, 2020 Dutch Athletics Championships and 2020 Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships She competed at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the 800 metres event.
Nout Wardenburg is a Dutch athlete. He is coached by Rogier Ummels. At the 2018 Dutch Athletics Championships he won the silver medal in the decathlon. He competed at the 2021 World Athletics Relays in the Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay event finishing 8th, in a time that is the Dutch national athletics record.
Lars Bottelier is a Dutch swimmer. He competed at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships in the 10 km event and 25 km event.
Caspar Corbeau is a Dutch American swimmer, representing the Netherlands at international competitions. He competed at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships in the 100 metre breaststroke and 200 metre breaststroke.
Luc Kroon is a Dutch swimmer from Volendam. He set the Dutch records in swimming in the 400m freestyle and 800m freestyle. He competed at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships in the 400 metre freestyle event. He won with the team the silver medal in the mixed 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event.
Fred Zwang was a Dutch masseur and physiotherapist most notable for 10 years at Feyenoord.
