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Yankuba Minteh: The Gambian Gem Thriving at Feyenoord
Club: Feyenoord (On Loan From Newcastle) Nationality: Gambian Position: Attacking Midfielder (RW) Preferred Foot: Left Height: 6’2” Age: 19 Despite the success of its neighboring countries, The Gambia, a West African nation, is not typically associated with producing football talents. However, it has recently begun to nurture a budding star amidst its neighbors Nigeria,…
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Luuk de Jong: PSV’s Prolific Talisman
Name: Luuk de Jong Club: PSV Eindhoven Nationality: Netherlands Position: Center Forward Preferred Foot: Right Height: 6’2”/188cm Age: 33 It has been 12 years since Luuk de Jong burst onto the scene for Twente, scoring 25 goals in his first Eredivisie season and finishing join-second in the scoring charts, before departing the Netherlands for…
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Jorrel Hato: Ajax’s Latest Teenage Starlet
Name: Jorrel Hato Club: Ajax Nationality: Netherlands Position(s): CB, LB Preferred Foot: Left Height: 5’11”/180cm Age: 17 Strengths: technical ability, ball-carrying, anticipation, football IQ, maturity Areas for Development: timed aggression, strength, aerial duels Stats: 25 Games, 1668 Mins, 10.7x90s, 1 Goal, 1 Assist After a dismal start to the campaign that saw them fall…
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Sem Steijn: The Creative Dynamo Fuelling Twente’s Stellart Start
FC Twente enter the winter break in third place in the Eredivisie table with 34 points from 16 matches, sitting one point above AZ Alkmaar, nine above Ajax, four behind defending champions Feyenoord and 14 behind PSV, and they are pushing to return to the UEFA Champions League for the first time in 13 years.…
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Can Edward Sturing Lead Vitesse Out of the Relegation Zone?
From Martin Odegaard to Lois Openda to Mason Mount, Vitesse Arnhem have grown a reputation for developing young talent and finishing in the upper reaches of the Eredivisie table, playing in European football on five occasions in the past decade, most recently reaching the UEFA Europa Conference League Round of 16 in 2021/22. Today, however,…
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Johan Bakayoko: The Belgian Sensation Driving PSV’s Perfect Start
Name: Johan Bakayoko Club: PSV Nationality: Belgium Position: Forward – Right Winger Preferred foot: Left Height: 5”10/179cm Age: 20 Only one team in Europe’s top 55 leagues has enjoyed a perfect league record: PSV Eindhoven with 16 wins in 16 matches. Peter Bosz’s side have scored 56 goals and conceded 6, and they…
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Vangelis Pavlidis: AZ’s Greek Forward
Despite losing various key players such as Tijjani Reijnders, Milos Kerkez and Jesper Karlsson, AZ Alkmaar have enjoyed an impressive start to the season under Pascal Jensen. The Cheeseheads sit fourth in the table, eight points above Ajax, one behind Twente, five behind Feyenoord, and 15 behind league leaders PSV Eindhoven. They have scored 35…
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Santiago Giménez: Feyenoord’s Mexican Sharpshooter in Attack
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on the 18th of April 2001, Santiago Giménez chose to represent the Mexico national team having moved to Mexico at the age of three with his father. Giménez followed in the footsteps of his father Christian Eduardo Giménez a former professional footballer born in Argentina but who played for the…
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PSV On Course to End Six-year TItle Drought Under Peter Bosz
“Without the ball you can’t win”- these were the words of the late Dutch football legend Johan Cruyff. Not only do they know how to keep the ball, but they also perfectly understand what to do with it, scoring 52 goals and conceding only 6. PSV are the only team in the Dutch top flight…
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Xavi Simons’ New Chapter at PSV Eindhoven
Once one of the biggest talents in FC Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy, Xavi Simons joined French giants Paris Saint-Germain in 2019, where he slowly started to break into the first team last season. He ended up playing 9 matches, providing one assist. The highly-rated prodigy was ‘already’ 19 years old whilst still not…
