The Volendam Post
Boardroom16 Aug 2032
Volendam part company with Interim Coach
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Boardroom16 Aug 2032
Volendam have nobody left to take training
Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.
Boardroom16 Aug 2032
Interim Coach takes charge at Volendam
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
The dugout16 Aug 2032
Sergio Oerlemans says Volendam went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2032
Door shut on Gaoussou Diarra
Volendam asked and AZ said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market16 Aug 2032
Marco Coronado has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Volendam they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Aug 2032
Daniel Bielica 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 Volendam this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Aug 2032
Words at Volendam training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tiago Dantas 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.
Boardroom16 Aug 2032
7 academy players handed senior numbers at Volendam
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.
In brief
- Market Volendam promote Nathan Xavi Simons from within
- Market One of our own: Patrick Brobbey joins the Volendam first team
- Market Ryan Berghuis steps up from the Volendam academy