Evan Rottier

Attacking Midfielder (L) - ADO Den Haag
31 Dec 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Evan Rottier

22 Edition

The ADO Den Haag Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the ADO Den Haag board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Match

No end in sight to ADO Den Haag's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at ADO Den Haag has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Illaijh de Ruijter 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 ADO Den Haag this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Matěj Šín 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.

Squad

Minkyu Chea out for 36 days

The medical room confirms 36 days on the sidelines for Minkyu Chea, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Matěj Šín

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Juho Kilo gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

ADO Den Haag caught on 91 minutes

The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Heracles scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.

Match

ADO Den Haag and Heracles take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The ADO Den Haag Chronicle

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

ADO Den Haag are in real trouble now

Position 16, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Tempers go at ADO Den Haag

Matěj Šín 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.

Match

Willem II take the points off ADO Den Haag

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

A row about effort at ADO Den Haag

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Juho Kilo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Othniël Raterink beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Rick Janssen faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Rick Janssen after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Diogo Tomás

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Diogo Tomás, and the manager let it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Evan Rottier

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

The dugout

Jesse Bal knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at ADO Den Haag, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

17 Edition

The ADO Den Haag Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

At last: ADO Den Haag win one

15 matches without a win, and then this, against Cambuur. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Player ratings

Othniël Raterink, 20, 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 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Jesper van Riel arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Jesper van Riel has, at ADO Den Haag, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Words exchanged at ADO Den Haag

Matěj Šín 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.

The terraces

ADO Den Haag supporters have found a favourite in Othniël Raterink

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Othniël Raterink has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match

Othniël Raterink sends ADO Den Haag past Cambuur

It finished 1‑0, and it was Othniël Raterink’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to ADO Den Haag.

Squad

Words at ADO Den Haag training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sven van Doorm 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.

The dugout

Rick Janssen has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Rick Janssen on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

Evan Rottier gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief