The Excelsior Gazette
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Aymen Sliti
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Wout Berghuis joins the Excelsior first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Wout Berghuis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market12 Oct 2026
Excelsior promote Marco Frimpong from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marco Frimpong 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Excelsior promote Georginio Dijks from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Georginio Dijks 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Robin Bergwijn steps up from the Excelsior academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robin Bergwijn has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Eric da Silva Moreira 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Yacqub Finey 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 Excelsior this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Miliano Jonathans
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miliano Jonathans, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Georginio Klaassen: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
In brief
- The dugout Excelsior pick somebody else ahead of Mitch Apau
- Match Excelsior draw a blank against Roda
- Looking ahead Stijn van Gassel faces his old club