While the offices on all sides shot the air on the Amsterdam Zuidas, AFC managed to retain its place well enough at Sportpark. The complex of the oldest football club in Amsterdam has been completely renewed in recent years, but the traditions were kept. “We cherish all those things that have gone along,” says general manager Joost van Dolen in the TV broadcast of NH Sport.
Van Dolen spends many hours a week on and around the clubhouse. Of course he understands that with the demolition of the old clubhouse, the changing rooms and the stands there has changed a lot in recent years at his 130 -year -old association. “But we are proud of the new clubhouse and are busy getting the atmosphere we had here too.”
Just like in the old days, the carillon is hanging outside and hangs on the outside wall the familiar plate with the text ‘The jewelry of a house are the friends who are there’.
We speak former chairman Machiel van der Woude at the monument that the AFC members remember who died or killed during the Second World War. “If you read the stories of these people, that is terrible,” says Van der Woude, who used the chairman’s hammer for more than ten years at the beginning of this century.
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On the football field, the first team of AFC has been one of the top of the amateurs for years. The team of coach Benno Nihom took on Royal HFC this weekend. A summary of this game In the Second Division you can see in this broadcast.
Furthermore, also attention to The cup final of the water polo men of ZV de Zaan who took it against GZC Donk in The Hague. Finally, in NH Sport you also see the story of father Henk and son Nijs Hille. They are both possessed from ice hockey and active in two different roles at reigning Dutch champion Amsterdam Tigers.
You can see the first TV broadcast of NH Sport every Monday at 5.10 pm, after which it is repeated every half hour. You can also click the video at the top for the entire broadcast of Monday 10 February.