The Zwolle Herald
Market20 Mar 2028
Kas de Wit puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zwolle, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match19 Mar 2028
Zwolle cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad20 Mar 2028
A row about effort at Zwolle
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matěj Šín was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Thijs Oosting 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 Zwolle this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Mar 2028
Esmir Bajraktarević the difference as Zwolle beat Utrecht
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Esmir Bajraktarević. 2‑1 against Utrecht, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces20 Mar 2028
The crowd has taken to Esmir Bajraktarević
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market20 Mar 2028
One of our own: Rick Malen joins the Zwolle first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rick Malen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market20 Mar 2028
One of our own: Wesley Dost joins the Zwolle first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Wesley Dost is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market20 Mar 2028
Zwolle promote Nathan Aké from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nathan Aké has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Player ratings Anselmo García Mac Nulty was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- The dugout No hiding place for Nick Viergever
- The dugout The team sheet said everything about Izu Onunta