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Het Legioen
Het Legioen (; "The Legion" in English) is the name of the supporters and fans of Dutch football club Feyenoord Rotterdam. Squad number 12 is never given to a player, but is reserved for Het Legioen instead. Supportersvereniging Feyenoord have one official fan supporters club, the Feyenoord Supportersvereniging.De Feyenoord Supportersvereniging , feyenoord.nl The FSV is completely independent and as of 2006 has a membership of about 23,000. The FSV aim to cater for the wishes and needs of Feyenoord fans, and also operate as a bridge for better communication between the club and fans. Each home game the FSV produce the official match programme rather than Feyenoord itself. FSV also arrange special events known as "supportersavonden" (support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Paul Elstak
Paul Roger Elstak (known professionally as DJ Paul Elstak; born 14 January 1966 in The Hague) is a Dutch hardcore/gabber and happy hardcore DJ and record producer of Surinamese descent. He used to use his full name to create happy hardcore and DJ Paul for hardcore gabber, but when he started Offensive Records in 2001, he started using both names for gabber. Biography During World War II Elstak's grandfather went from Suriname to the Dutch East Indies to fight for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (Dutch: Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger – KNIL), against Japan. His father was born in Jakarta. After independence, his family moved to the Netherlands, to The Hague. In 1987 his career as a DJ started when he was hired as a DJ at Rotterdam Discothèque Bluetiek-Inn. Here he played with the Dutch house music pioneer Peter Slaghuis. During this time, he collaborated with Rob Fabrie and Richard van Naamen to form Holy Noise, with whom he released a string of releases on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feyenoord
Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Netherlands, Dutch professional association football, football club based in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football league system, Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names before settling on being called after its neighbourhood in 1912 as SC Feijenoord, updated in 1974 to SC Feyenoord, and then to ''Feyenoord'' in 1978, when it split from the amateur club under its wing, SC Feyenoord. Since 1937, Feyenoord's Home (sports), home ground has been the Stadion Feijenoord, nicknamed De Kuip (''The Tub''), the second largest stadium in Netherlands. Feyenoord is one of the most successful clubs in Football in the Netherlands, Dutch football, winning 16 List of Dutch football champions, Dutch football championships, 14 KNVB Cups, and 5 Johan Cruyff Shields. Internationally, the club has won one UEFA Champions League, European Cup, two UEFA Europa League, UEFA Cups, and one Intercontinen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roffa
''Roffa'' is a 2013 Dutch independent drama film about football hooliganism. It was written by Jelle Leeksma, directed by Bobby Boermans and stars Loek Peters, Ilse Heus and Joost Koning. In the film, a former hooligan and member of Feyenoord football firm U.D.F. is released from prison and while trying to get his personal life back on track with his family, is pulled back into the violent activities of his firm. Throughout the film, Feyenoord's U.D.F, fight other "firms" such as A.F.C.A, Vak G, Bunnikside, Ben-Side and Spangenaren. Screenwriter Jelle Leeksma was nominated for a Prix Europa in the category 'Most Innovative Television Fiction Script of the Year 2014 by a Newcomer'. Plot Ricardo Tuinfoord (Loek Peters) grew up as a supporter of his local football club Feyenoord on the south-side of Rotterdam. After three years in prison for violent crimes he returns to his family. His wife, his teenage Son who is following in his fathers footsteps within the firm, and his menta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade Marcel Picot
The Stade Marcel Picot is a stadium located in Tomblaine, France, near the city of Nancy, France, Nancy. Built in 1926, it is used by Ligue 2 association football, football team AS Nancy Lorraine, Nancy. The stadium was completely rebuilt and inaugurated in its new configuration in 2003. It is now able to hold 20,087 people. Since summer 2010, Marcel-Picot is one of the very few French stadiums equipped with artificial turf. Gallery File:Stade Marcel Picot1.jpg, File:Picot.jpg, File:Nancy 2010 12.JPG, File:Tomblaine Stade Marcel-Picot 1.jpg, File:Tomblaine Stade Marcel-Picot 2.jpg, File:AmitiéNancySaarebruck.jpg, References See also *List of football stadiums in France *Lists of stadiums External links Stade Marcel Picot - Stadium Guide AS Nancy Lorraine Football venues in France, Marcel Picot Sports venues in Meurthe-et-Moselle Sports venues completed in 1926 {{France-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy, France
Nancy is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the northeastern Departments of France, French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was Lorraine and Barrois, annexed by France under King Louis XV in 1766 and replaced by a Provinces of France, province, with Nancy maintained as capital. Following its rise to prominence in the Age of Enlightenment, it was nicknamed the "capital of Eastern France" in the late 19th century. The metropolitan area of Nancy had a population of 508,793 inhabitants as of 2021, making it the 16th-largest functional area (France), functional urban area in France and Lorraine's largest. The population of the city of Nancy proper is 104,387 (2022). The motto of the city is —a reference to the thistle, which is a symbol of Lorraine. Place Stanislas, a large square built between 1752 and 1756 by architect Emmanuel Héré under the direction of Stanislaus I of Poland to link the medieval old town of Nancy and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AS Nancy
Association Sportive Nancy Lorraine (), known as AS Nancy Lorraine, and more commonly as Nancy, is a French football club founded in 1967 and based in Nancy, Grand Est. The club plays its home matches at the Stade Marcel Picot located in Tomblaine in the inner suburbs of Nancy, and currently competes in the Ligue 2 from 2025–26, the second tier of French football, following crowned champions on May 2, 2025 and secure promotion from Championnat National in 2024–25 season. The club was founded in 1910 by Maurice de Vienne under the name of Union sportive Frontière, then was later renamed Association sportive Lorraine in 1928. In 1967, following the collapse of FC Nancy, the club created a professional section and as such changed its name to become Association Sportive Nancy Lorraine. The club currently plays at the Stade Marcel-Picot, a 20,000 seats capacity stadium located in the town of Tomblaine, where its head office is also located. The infrastructures of the traini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leverkusen
Leverkusen () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the south, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne, and to the north the state capital, Düsseldorf. The city is part of the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region, one of Europe's largest urban areas. With about 163,000 inhabitants, Leverkusen is one of the state's smaller cities. The city is known for the pharmaceutical company Bayer and its sports club Bayer Leverkusen. History The heart of what is now Leverkusen was Wiesdorf, a village on the Rhine, which dates back to the 12th century. With the surrounding villages which have now been incorporated, the area also includes the rivers Wupper and Dhünn, and has suffered a lot from flooding, notably in 1571 and 1657, the latter resulting in Wiesdorf being moved East from the river to its present location. During the Cologne War, from 1583 to 1588 Leverkusen was ravaged by war. The entire area was rural until the late 19th century, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; ; Swabian German, Swabian: ; Alemannic German, Alemannic: ; Italian language, Italian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the Swabian Jura and the Black Forest. Stuttgart has a population of 632,865 as of 2022, making it the list of cities in Germany by population, sixth largest city in Germany, while over 2.8 million people live in the city's administrative region and nearly 5.5 million people in Stuttgart Metropolitan Region, its metropolitan area, making it the metropolitan regions in Germany, fourth largest metropolitan area in Germany. The city and metropolitan area are consistently ranked among the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, top 5 Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mönchengladbach
Mönchengladbach (, ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany, west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Netherlands, Dutch border. Geography Municipal subdivisions Since 2009, the territory of Mönchengladbach has comprised four (previously ten) boroughs which are subdivided into 44 districts. The boroughs and their associated districts were: * * * * History Name and origins The original name of the city was , by which it is still often known today. To distinguish it from another town of the same name (the present ), it took the name ('Monks’ Gladbach', in reference to the abbey) in 1888. Between 1933 and 1950, it was written ' (short: ), without a hyphen. This spelling was seen as potentially misleading, as it could imply that Gladbach was a borough of Munich (), so consequently the name was changed to in 1950 (and subsequently in 1960) to avoid confusion. The town was founded around Gladbach Abbey i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer) Hooliganism
Football hooliganism, also known as soccer hooliganism, football rioting or soccer rioting, constitutes violence and other destructive behaviors perpetrated by spectators at association football events. Football hooliganism typically involves conflict between pseudo-tribes, formed to intimidate and attack supporters of other teams. Certain clubs have long-standing rivalries with other clubs and hooliganism associated with matches between them (sometimes called local derbies) can be more severe. Conflict may arise at any point, before, during or after matches and occasionally outside of game situations. Participants often select locations away from stadiums to avoid arrest by the police, but conflict can also erupt spontaneously inside the stadium or in the surrounding streets. In extreme cases, hooligans, police and bystanders have been killed, and riot police have intervened. Hooligan-led violence has been called "aggro" (short for "aggression") and "bovver" (the Cockney pronu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
