As the sporting world prepares for the 2024 Paris Olympics, we look at 100 years ago and the age of rail.
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Historian Jurryt van de Vooren took a dive into the archive to discover a unique relationship between football and trains.
This article gives us a view on how commercial travel by air developed and how football organisers and footballers made use of it.
When flying was introduced, footballers also started to use it. The article gives us a glimpse of the fast changing world in the 20th century.
Get to know these colour videos of Jewish footballers in 1936 and 1944. Incredible primary sources of football in tragic times.
At the 1938 football World Cup in France, the team representing the Dutch East Indies played Hungary.
There is a lot to be discovered about women’s football history despite the limited evidence available.
Artist Ángel Zárraga caused a storm in the conservative climate of Dutch Football.
Dutch football referee Leo Horn, born in 1916, was a resistance fighter during the Second World War, all the while hiding his Jewish identity.
Dutch sport historian Jurryt van de Vooren wrote of other times when Football was stopped, like it currently is. This time it’s oil shortages!
Dutch sport historian Jurryt van de Vooren wrote a historical overview of other times when Football was stopped, like it currently is. Small story of a local epidemic.
Dutch sports historian Jurryt van de Vooren wrote a historical overview of other times when Football was stopped like it currently is. The Second World War is our second short piece.