The Zwolle Herald
Squad13 Aug 2029
A fracture rules Jared Westveer out for 100 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zwolle will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces13 Aug 2029
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 38 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Jeroen Houwen keeps Zwolle in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match11 Aug 2029
4 matches without a win for Zwolle
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Zwolle are no longer polite ones.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Zwolle
Ahmetcan Kaplan 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 ratings13 Aug 2029
Nobody could get near Couhaib Driouech
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom13 Aug 2029
Graduation day at Zwolle
14 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Remco Balk 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.
Match11 Aug 2029
A bad afternoon for Zwolle against Utrecht
1‑3 to Utrecht, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- Market Luuk Dumfries steps up from the Zwolle academy
- Market One of our own: Guus De Vrij joins the Zwolle first team
- Market Zwolle promote Teun Stengs from within