A painful start to the new season for Blauw-Wit. The korfball club from Amsterdam lost 20-27 to LDODK in front of its own audience. Although defeat is not very surprising, because the Frisian opponent is a lot stronger on paper. Yet the Amsterdam team secretly hoped for a stunt in round one of the Korfball League. “A somewhat flattering defeat.”
“We were in the match well for a long time and we put up good resistance against LDODK,” says Loraine Vissers. The veteran of Blauw-Wit saw that her team had the necessary opportunities, but that they lacked sharpness under the basket. “In the end the difference is seven goals, but I think it should have been less.”
At the beginning of the match, Blauw-Wit boldly took the lead, but after fifteen minutes LDODK took the initiative and did not relinquish it. The team from Friesland lost the semi-finals of the play-offs last season and hopes to compete for the title again this year.
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The play-offs are not the goal for Blauw-Wit. The Amsterdam team has a four-year plan to return to the top of korfball. “We finished eighth last year and there are four changes in the team,” says Barry Schep. The new coach, together with Mark van der Laan, forms the coaching duo at the Amsterdam club this season. “We want to perform well and I don’t see this as a transition year. We are building and ultimately we want to get back to the top four.”
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The other North Holland korfball teams achieved mixed results in the Korfball League. For example, Koog Zaandijk won 16-18 when visiting Fortuna from Delft and Groen Geel drew 12-12 at home in Wormer against DOS ’46.