Voetball Mania
Hello,
This weekend was another great weekend packed with voetball.
On sunday I went to Rotterdam’s Sparta’s Stadium to watch them play 5th place Heerenveen. Heerenveen came out strong in the first half by scoring 2 goals. The second half was great, Sparta scored 4 unanswered goals, the crowd was going wild as Sparta is not having the best season, placing 13th thus far.
However, one has to take into account, voetball here is like baseball in America in regards to payroll. Sparta’s payroll apprx. 11 million while Herenveen is appr 23 million. Excelsiors has the lowest at 4 million. Ajax is apprx 60 million. One can realize why certain teams are always on the top of the table. Is this fair? It is open for good debate. Hense the reason the NHL went to such a long lock out and now they have a salary cap, which this year really shows when the teams are on the same financial level, there is better competition!
Rotterdam Excelsior tied, they have one game left against Heerenveen, hense the reason why we went to the the Heerenveen game. Voetball is hard to analysis on tv as you do not get to see the whole field. Marco Van Lochem(Excelsior Technical Youth Director) was taking notes throughout the whole game to hopefully give Excelsior an edge for next weeks games. Can Excelsior stay in the Premier division? It is going to be interesting!!
Interesting Article:
Dutch Voetball Hooligan’s were at there best over the weekend at a game in Groningen, Ajax vs FC Groningen.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/soccer/04/13/bc.soc.amsterdam.fires.ap/index.html
Talk soon and stay tuned!