Unique bond between coach and chairman ensures FC Emmen first prize | Football

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The scale of Dick and Ronald

EMMEN – The blind faith in each other created a close bond between Dick Lukkien and Ronald Lubbers, the two architects of the first tangible prize of FC Emmen: the championship of the Eerste Divisie. The chairman (Lubbers) continued to support his trainer (Lukkien) through thick and thin, even in the darkest days of the Drenthe professional club. “I said: I really will not get this group moving anymore.”

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