Netherlands: Eleven new faces for Schaerweijde: ‘We’re getting tough’

With a depleted price range, 9 gamers who’ve left and eleven new faces, Schaerweijde, the promoter, has the troublesome process of retaining its head above water within the large league. Bravely, new coach Razwan Ahmed, successor to the departed Albert-Kees Manenschijn, is placing his shoulders beneath the radically revamped Schaerweijde. ‘Our greatest job is to forge a cohesive staff as shortly as attainable.’

‘Razwan, you already know there are solely ten of you?’ Simply earlier than the second quarter of Sunday afternoon’s observe match in opposition to HDM (0-0) begins, it’s the referee who factors out to Ahmed the variety of gamers Schaerweijde has contained in the strains. Certainly: one is lacking. Shortly, the brand new coach of the membership from Zeist turns to the dugout and gestures midfielder Michiel Moret into the sector. It’s clear: the brand new Schaerweijde shouldn’t be but conversant in its automaticity.

That unaccustomedness on the sector is mirrored in Ahmed’s fiery efficiency alongside the road. For sixty minutes he strikes like a conductor. His arms are in fixed movement, drily pointing and training. Each alternative he takes to regulate his orchestra. ‘Pep, in!’ ‘Michiel, greater!’ ‘Joost alongside, Joost alongside!’

In lots of a dialog with the substitutes, he conjures up a techniques board. That is adopted by an impassioned argument about what precisely the intention is. The crimson and blue discs shoot throughout the board at lightning pace beneath his fingers. With so many new faces, Ahmed has a variety of work to do in preparation.

Razwan Ahmed offers directions to new addition Stijn Draaijer throughout the observe match in opposition to HDM (0-0). Photograph: Andre Weening/Orange Footage

The price range for prime area hockey took a stable hit, regardless of the promotion

‘I didn’t doubt for a second whether or not I ought to tackle this problem. My first thought was instantly: the place can I signal?” beams the affable Ahmed a second later in Schaerweijde’s clubhouse. For years the membership has had a spot in his coronary heart. When he was 13, he emigrated along with his mother and father and brothers from Pakistan to the Netherlands, solely to pack his baggage once more a number of years later and transfer to Manchester. After six years in England, Ahmed determined to return to Woerden on his personal in 2011, after which he discovered his second house at Schaerweijde and started his teaching profession.

‘I began with the youth, I labored as an assistant with the lads and I’ve been head coach of the ladies. That is my membership,” stated Ahmed, who has been an assistant coach with Den Bosch’s males’s staff in recent times.

Regardless of promotion to the Tulip large league, Schaerweijde has confronted a brand new, much less shiny actuality in current months. The years when the membership may afford costly foreigners are a factor of the previous. The price range for prime area hockey took a severe hit. Fairly a number of defining gamers left the membership: Thies Bakker (Kampong), Lucas Corstens (Amsterdam), Jur van den Have, Thur Stadelmaier, Jort Marree and Pakistani former internationals Rashid Mehmood and Muhammad Rizwan (all give up). With the departure of 9 gamers, solely half of the squad remained.

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Jens Hagen performed with Gooische within the Overgangsklasse final season. Photograph: Andre Weening/Orange Footage

‘The amenities are nonetheless large league-worthy’

‘From my appointment in April, I knew the price range was tight. However after the promotion it turned out to be even additional down,’ Ahmed outlines the problem that awaited him this summer season. As an alternative of complaining, he determined to just accept the scenario and put his shoulders to the wheel.

‘We will’t pay foreigners anymore, so I didn’t should search for that. Some gamers I approached myself. Others referred to as me. Some guys have been somewhat hesitant at first due to the tales going round about Schaerweijde. However in fact it was not as if Heren 1 had develop into a type of Boys A1. The amenities are nonetheless large league worthy. The meals is sweet, the tools is so as, there are vehicles accessible. Ultimately, we have been in a position to persuade a variety of guys. On the first coaching session we have been even with 23 guys.’

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With the assistance of the techniques board, Razwan Ahmed explains to Peppe Veen precisely what is meant. Photograph: Andre Weening/Orange Footage

With eleven new faces, it should take time to get used to one another.

There was a whole line-up of latest faces, together with brothers Stijn and Lode Draaijer (Ede), Joost van Eijck (Victoria) and Jens Hagen (Gooische) from the Promotion League and the Transition League. Launched from the large league have been Maarten Bruisten (SCHC), Graeme Scott (Hurley) and goalkeepers Mahinder Terlouw (Hurley) and Guus van Holten (Rotterdam). From Oranje-Rood Beneath 18 got here expertise Derk Moret, whereas Teun van Aalderen and Tom Vermeulen joined from our personal youth.

With eleven new gamers it should take time to get used to one another. That’s the reason Schaerweijde has scheduled seven observe matches earlier than the beginning of the competitors. The primary outcomes present a combined image: a great draw in opposition to HDM (0-0), a small defeat in opposition to promotion class SCHC (2-1) and an enormous win over promotion class Ede (5-1). Sunday awaits the subsequent qualifier, in opposition to Hurley, adopted by the ABN AMRO Weekend. Ahmed’s process is to show the unfastened puzzle items into an entire that’s resilient within the large league in restricted time.

‘Our greatest job is to forge a cohesive staff as shortly as attainable. That’s what I instructed these guys: put money into one another, each observe, each sport. We may be tactically like a home, but when we’re not a staff, we’ll go off. In order that’s the place our focus is. The sooner we’re a staff, the tougher will probably be to beat us,’ expects Ahmed, who would have most popular a number of extra irons within the fireplace offensively. An skilled striker would have been welcome with extra funding.

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Stijn Draaijer is one in all Schaerweijde’s eleven new faces. Photograph: Andre Weening/Orange Footage

I would like us to step off the sector with pleasure each sport, whatever the consequence. That we are able to say: we fought for each meter Schaerweijde coach Razwan Ahmed

Nonetheless, the staff seemed surprisingly contemporary within the observe match in opposition to HDM. Within the first half, Schaerweijde performed alongside properly. After halftime the image tilts: HDM places the promoter with its again in opposition to the wall. It’s because of the saves of goalkeeper Guus van Holten that Schaerweijde stays upright. Within the remaining minute, the membership from Zeist had a possibility to take the win, however the penalty nook was not cashed in. Afterwards, the sentiment is optimistic. The 0-0 appears like successful, given all of the circumstances.

‘In fact we’re going to have a tricky time,’ Ahmed is aware of. ‘However I would like us to maintain preventing, like we did as we speak. As a staff. I would like us to step off the sector with pleasure each sport, whatever the consequence. That we are able to say: we fought for each meter. On the finish we’ll see the place we’re within the league desk.’

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Stijn Draaijer
Ede

Lode Draaijer
Ede

Maarten Bruisten
SCHC

Joost van Eijck
Victoria

Graeme Scott
Hurley

Jens Hagen
Gooic

Derk Moret
Oranje-Rood Beneath 18

Mahinder Terlouw
Hurley

Guus van Holten
Rotterdam

Tom Vermeulen
Personal youth

Teun van Aalderen
Personal youth