Jesse Doetjes

Defensive Midfielder - Heerenveen U20
4 Oct 2027
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16 Edition

The Heerenveen Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nolhan Courtens sends Heerenveen through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Nolhan Courtens obliged against Groningen. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Heerenveen.

Match

9 unbeaten for Heerenveen

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Heerenveen did not have in the autumn.

Player ratings

Marcus Linday shuts the door

Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Tempers go at Heerenveen

Romeo Vermant was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

One of those days for Ringo Meerveld

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.64, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Joris van Overeem shuts the door

Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Nolhan Courtens in the eights

A performance of 9.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Heerenveen see off NEC

Three points for Heerenveen, 1‑0 the final word against NEC in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Luca Oyen

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

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The Heerenveen Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Beau Reus

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Maxence Rivera runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Joris van Overeem in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Heerenveen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Daley Blind gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Heerenveen come up short against Feyenoord

Feyenoord left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Heerenveen lose Jesse Doetjes

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

Ringo Meerveld keeps on missing

Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Market

The shop window has Luuk Brouwers in it

Heerenveen have let the market know Luuk Brouwers can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Market

The Joris van Overeem question follows Heerenveen around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Joris van Overeem’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief