The NAC Breda Gazette
Squad16 Aug 2027
The knee: Lewis Holtby out for 109 days
109 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. NAC Breda lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match14 Aug 2027
NAC Breda strike at the death to beat Volendam
There were 88 minutes on the clock and Volendam had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and NAC Breda did not stop to explain themselves.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Daniel Bielica keeps NAC Breda 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
Rio Hillen 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 NAC Breda can pretend not to have heard.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at NAC Breda
Tsuyoshi Watanabe 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.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at NAC Breda
5 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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Door shut on Tamble Monteiro
NAC Breda asked and Famalicao 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 terraces16 Aug 2027
The crowd has taken to Darío Osorio
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.
Market16 Aug 2027
One of our own: Daley Strootman joins the NAC Breda first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daley Strootman is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.