With a 2-0 win over hosts Qatar, the Netherlands qualified as Group A winners for the World Cup Round of 16 on Tuesday night. It still wasn’t sparkling, NU.nl sports journalist Rypke Bakker told Good Morning Netherlands. “Van Gaal still has work to do.” Group victory in hand, the Orange will face in the round of 16 the United States, …

Stéphanie Frappart has only been used as a fourth referee in previous World Cup matches, like here in Mexico City-Poland.Image access point After forty games it started to stand out a bit and there was grumbling from many sides. Before the World Cup in Qatar, FIFA had the first of three female referees in the world’s most important football tournament. …

For two days, he tried everything to watch the difficult World Cup soccer match between Iran and the United States. But the Zeeland businessman Salar Azimi did not go further than Schiphol. “I have no words for that. It doesn’t make sense, does it?” he said, puzzled. Azimi insisted on flying to Qatar, as he is originally from iran and …

England and the United States evened out on Friday. He ensures that in the last round of the group stage everything is still possible in group B of the world Cup. This is also the group that Group A, the Netherlands group, is connected to for the next round. On the same football day, Iran beat Wales. FT | Wales …

In 2022, fifteen Seed Money projects will have been carried out in the Top Agri-Food and Horticulture & Propagation Materials Sectors. Seed capital projects serve as start-up (or ‘seed’) for international partnerships for the Dutch business community (SME) in the agribusiness and horticulture and propagating material sectors. The formation of a consortium is essential in this regard. The objective of …

More than a year after the fire that destroyed a production and breeding site of the Takii floral branch in Sint-Annaland, Zeeland, the first pile of a new building has been driven. Takii Europe production manager Yukihiro Saito did the honors in the presence of director Ton Kuipers and close collaborators. Employees of Takii Zeeland, with stage manager Christa Hage …

Artist’s impression of a 525-million-year-old cardediction line on the shallow coastal seafloor, emerging from a tiny stromatolite shelter built by photosynthetic bacteria. Credit: Nicholas Straussfeld/University of Arizona Fossils of a tiny sea creature with a finely preserved nervous system resolve an age-old debate about brain evolution in arthropods, the most species-rich group in the animal kingdom, according to a new …

Both Ryan Thomas and Thomas Beelen are fit enough to attend a training camp with PEC Zwolle. The selection leaves Tuesday morning in Spain to prepare the rest of the season until Sunday. Ryan Thomas (27) signed a contract at the end of last month until the end of the season. The crowd favorite from Zwolle has returned to his …

“In the United States, it is not officially regulated that only two parties can exist”, explains the Americanist Manon Portos Minett. The sociologist Maurice Duverger described in the 1950s that the American elections and the process of this winner takes all can be called. The party with the most votes wins the election. When there are only two parties, naturally …

five questionsThe battle for control of the US Parliament has so far been a neck and neck race. There is a good chance that the Georgian state will once again play a decisive role. But the end result is still at least a month away. What about the “mid-terms”? What it is about? Tens of millions of Americans went to …