Cody Hateboer

Defensive Midfielder - Zwolle U18
24 Mar 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Cody Hateboer

131 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Thijs Oosting 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 The request is on a desk at Zwolle, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Dylan Mbayo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Naj Lulić, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.90

A mark of 7.90 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

No end in sight to Zwolle's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zwolle has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zwolle

Naj Lulić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at Zwolle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simon Graves 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.

Squad

Nicky Souren wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Zwolle know it.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Nesto Groen

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alex Palmer

“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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107 Edition

The Zwolle Herald

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Armando Obispo out for 26 days

26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Zwolle lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings

Both of them Naj Lulić's — 8.63

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.63, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout

Rainey Breinburg: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zwolle have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Justin Bakker 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 Zwolle can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Zwolle

Armando Obispo 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Zwolle

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

Simon Graves falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Transfer targets

Zwolle rebuffed over Nathan Trott

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cardiff City have kept their man, and Zwolle go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Zwolle see off Utrecht

Three points for Zwolle, 2‑1 the final word against Utrecht in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief