Dean Zuidwijk

Striker - Cambuur U20
31 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Dean Zuidwijk

77 Edition

The Cambuur Post

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Kévin Monzialo takes the afternoon — 8.98

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kévin Monzialo provided it, and the 8.98 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout

Dean Zuidwijk says Cambuur went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

The dugout

Nicky Souren frozen out at Cambuur

This is not rotation. Nicky Souren has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Cambuur is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Mathieu Maertens 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 Cambuur this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Nicky Souren wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Cambuur can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Transfer targets

KAA Gent tell Cambuur: Dante Vanzeir is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

No hiding place for Thijs Jansen

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thijs Jansen, and the manager let it.

Squad

A row about effort at Cambuur

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicky Souren was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Late, late show earns Cambuur a point

Minute 87, against Roda, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

In brief

Back issues
49 Edition

The Cambuur Post

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Cambuur turn down Ural for Tony Rölke

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Sybrand Veldhuis hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cambuur can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Nicky Souren frozen out at Cambuur

This is not rotation. Nicky Souren has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Cambuur is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Home is on Kévin Monzialo's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Cambuur are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Tempers go at Cambuur

Mathieu Maertens 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.

Squad

Words at Cambuur training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Devid Bouah is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Renan Peixoto

Cambuur asked and Fortaleza said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Tijn Smolenaars attracts admirers

The name of Tijn Smolenaars has come up in conversations Cambuur were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Tony Rölke

“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