Kees Kwakman about disastrous fire in Volendam: ‘Now 25 years later I realize again: I was just very lucky’

It is 25 years after the fatal New Year’s disaster in Volendam. A tragedy in the village in which fourteen young people died and two hundred people were injured in a café fire. Former football player and ESPN analyst Kees Kwakman, aged 17 at the time, was also in café ‘t Hemeltje on the evening in question and survived. He goes back to that evening in a compelling monologue.

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