de Sportfabriek: Interview Bert van Marwijk(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Nog maar nauwelijks vier maanden is BertvanMarwijk trainer vanBorussia Dortmund of hij wordt geconfronteerd met één van de zwartste periodes uit de geschiedenis van één van de grootste voetbalclubs in Duitsland.
Toen ik heb tegen mezelf gezegd: ik wacht het rustig af.
Ik kan heel vervelend zijn, maar dat wil ik eigenlijk niet van mezelf zeggen.
With Van Persie's Feyenoord contract due to expire in 2005, a disagreement with BertvanMarwijk combined with the fact that the club had not offered him a new contract meant that he spent most of the following season as a fading light at the club.
Van Persie completed his move for a fee believed to be in the range of £3 million, to the Premiership on May 17, 2004.
Van Persie scored in the first game of the 2005-06 season and he continued to show good form, winning the prestigious Player of the Month award in November after scoring six goals in just four starts.
VanMarwijk had already said that he would leave Borussia at the end of the year despite having a contract that took him through until 2008.
VanMarwijk was jeered at the end of the game by the 66,000 fans packed into the Westfalenstadion, but he insisted he could have turned things around and that the club had acted prematurely.
Former Feyenoord manager VanMarwijk had been in charge of Borussia for the last two years during which they finished seventh in the German top flight in both seasons.
Lambertus ("Bert") vanMarwijk (born 19 May1952 in Deventer, Overijssel) is a former football (soccer) player from the Netherlands, and nowadays a coach.
He is the father-in-law of Bayern Munich midfielder Mark van Bommel.
In December 2006, after 2 1/2 seasons of stagnation in the middle of the Bundesliga table, the club and VanMarwijk announced they would part ways at the end of the 2006-07 season.
VanMarwijk said that he´s proud and happy to have the chance to work at Borussia Dortmund, a club with a great tradition and an unbelievable following.
VanMarwijk didn´t extend his contract with the Dutch side because he was looking for a new challenge.
BertvanMarwijk likes attacking football and is known for his well-balanced temperament.
uefa.com(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By the end of Thursday night, BertvanMarwijk could be the hero of Rotterdam.
BvM: No, not really, I think that as a coach, you are always dependent on the way your team is performing.
Besides this, I feel that it is important to play the match in the style that you are used to, and try to anticipate during the match without changing your style.
He was supposed to leave the club at the end of the season but left Monday, one day after ninth-place Dortmund finished the first half of the Bundesliga season with a 2-1 loss at home to Bayer Leverkusen.
VanMarwijk, who joined Dortmund in the 2004 off-season from Dutch club Feyenoord, had steered Dortmund through one of its most difficult periods when the club narrowly avoided bankruptcy.
Dezember 2006 bestätigte vanMarwijk allerdings Presseberichte, wonach er den Verein zum 30.
VanMarwijk ist als Trainer ein Vertreter einer offensiven Strategie, seine Mannschaften bevorzugen in der Regel ein 4-3-3-System mit zwei offensiven Außenstürmern.
VanMarwijks Schwiegersohn ist der holländische Nationalspieler Mark van Bommel, der zur Zeit in Diensten des FC Bayern München ist.
THE E-TIMS - SPECIAL FEATURE(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
VanMarwijk it should be remembered was the man who led the Rotterdammers to their UEFA Cup victory just two years ago.
Feyenoord are not playing well these days and Jorien van den Herik, the arrogant and outspoken chairman of the club has made his displeasure public.
What Van den Herik omits to say is that it was he who allowed half the UEFA winning team to walk away to join foreign clubs after their brief taste of glory against Dortmund.
Holland failed to reach this year's World Cup finals, and vanMarwijk feels Feyenoord's win will have done wonders for the country.
VanMarwijk said: "Our performances internationally have not been so good and we are not going to the World Cup so this is a big positive for Dutch football."
Van Hooijdonk, deadly accurate from the dead-ball, punished Kohler's misdemeanour from the penalty spot.
BertvanMarwijk's side are growing in confidence and Tuesday's 2-0 win over Duisburg has put his side into pole position in the chase for European football.
On Sunday, Dortmund are involved in their third straight local derby and, after picking up four points in the last two games, will be confident of bearing the flag for North Rhein Westphalia again in Cologne.
The injury list is beginning to shorten and both Christoph Metzelder and Delron Buckley are available on Saturday, however vanMarwijk is unlikely to change a winning side.
Dortmund, Germany- Borussia Dortmund Tuesday appointed Juergen Roeber as coach to replace Dutchman BertvanMarwijk.
VanMarwijk confirms he will leave Dortmund at end of season
Dortmund, Germany- BertvanMarwijk confirmed Saturday that he will leave his position as coach of German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund at the end of the season.
DORTMUND, Germany (AP) -Bert vanMarwijk will step down as coach of Borussia Dortmund at the end of the season.
The 1997 European champion and the 54-year-old Marwijk announced after Saturday's 1-0 Bundesliga win against Wolfsburg they had agreed to dissolve a contract that ran through 2008.
VanMarwijk, who joined Dortmund in the 2004 offseason from Dutch club Feyenoord, had steered Dortmund through one of its most difficult periods when the club narrowly avoided bankruptcy.
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