Two former strikers are guests in the latest episode of the Telstar podcast De Verlenging. Ronald Hoop made a splash in the attack at the Witte Leeuwen in the early 1990s, while Peter Hofstede scored 7 of his 148 competition goals against Telstar.
Hofstede has been Telstar’s technical manager since the summer of 2023 and is responsible for attracting and selling players. “At the beginning of this season, the players did not want to come to Telstar. They came to the stadium and saw three piles of sand and there was no grass field. But in the winter, partly because of the game, a few good players came,” says Hofstede.
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Hofstede was also explicitly involved in the dismissal of Mike Snoei in February 2024. The two previously worked together at De Graafschap and always had a good relationship. But that relationship suffered a serious blow due to Snoei’s premature departure.
Be realistic and continue
“It’s never fun to fire a trainer. Certainly not someone who puts as much energy into it as he does. I understand that you are disappointed in the beginning and don’t like it, but at a certain point you also have to be realistic and move on.”
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Ronald Hoop enjoyed playing at Telstar for four years. The regional derbies against AZ and HFC Haarlem in particular remain in his memory. “Those were good times,” says Hoop.
Bus pelted with stones
Later in his career, Hoop also played for Palermo. At the club from Sicily he was brought in with much fanfare as the ‘black Marco van Basten.’ He did not play much there, but he always remembered the match he won against arch-rival Catania.
“That was terrible. All the curtains in the bus were closed and then the bus was pelted with stones. Those were huge stones. Then you were shocked for a moment,” said Hoop.
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In the ‘Typical Telstar’ section, club historian Lon Weijers discusses the long list of special trainers who were active at Sportpark Schoonenberg.
And this time it is Telstar captain Danny Bakker’s turn to choose as quickly as possible from a large number of dilemmas in the ’63 seconds’ section. You will hear this and many more beautiful anecdotes in ‘De Verlenging’.
