Next month at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, the Orange Lionesses will meet defending champions USA in the group stage, which the Netherlands will play in New Zealand. Check out the full World Cup schedule, which runs from July 20 to August 20, here. The final is in Sydney. All times below are in the Netherlands. GROUP …

Quincy Promes and Steven Seagal probably know each other because of their shared interest in Russia and their ties to the country. Promes, a top soccer player from Spartak Moscow, has a residence permit in Russia and is currently shielded from Dutch justice, having been sentenced to 1.5 years in prison. According to reports, he wants to obtain a Russian …

Karim Benzema will play football in Saudi Arabia for 200 million euros per year. It is of course very nice, I understand that, and not only you and me, but also football players have to think about their future and their families. But it is not at all a question of money. Al-Ittihad, where he will play, is a big …

Michael van Gerwen won the Poland Darts Masters in very convincing fashion on Saturday night. In the final he left Dimitri van den Bergh with 8-3 without a chance. Van Gerwen had been supreme in Warsaw all evening. With averages of 110 and 104, he was already too strong for Luke Humphries (6-2) and Michael Smith respectively in the quarterfinals …

Ids Hannema (24) played youth football at FC Groningen with Jan Hoekstra and Orkun Kökçü’s brother Ozan. At Achille 1894 he was one of the supporting players, but becoming a professional footballer in the United States didn’t work out. Now he earns his money with padel. Last weekend Hannema won the P250 tournament in Valkenswaard, her first tournament victory. Together …

According to analysts from Dagblad van het Noorden, Mickey van der Hart was the best of all FC Emmen and FC Groningen players last season. He is therefore the well-deserved winner of the coveted Hondsback Cup. A conversation with the now former goalkeeper of the people of Emmen about a season full of extremes. It’s Thursday morning, around ten o’clock. …

During further investigations, scar tissue was discovered on his heart, Sep Vanmarcke said in an Instagram post. “If I continue to race, scar tissue could develop and lead to heart failure in the future. It is a painful decision to end my cycling career so abruptly, but there is no other option. Vanmarcke has won nine professional races, including the …

Luke Humphries and Nathan Aspinall reached the quarter-finals of the Poland Darts Masters in the Polish capital Warsaw on Friday evening. Aspinall played a great match against the always dangerous Croatian darts player Boris Krcmar. Thanks to an average of 105, Aspinall won 6-2 against Krcmar. Humphries didn’t have to push hard to make the last eight. Despite averaging 86, …

Source: Renze / RTL Granted, the Tour de France and Wimbledon are in full swing, but other than that summer doesn’t look like much at first glance in terms of sport. After all, there are no Olympics or European Cups or Men’s World Cups. Should we then prepare for a boring sporting summer? Absolutely not, say journalist Erik Dijkstra and …

Orange Lioness Jill Baijings completed a spectacular transfer just before leaving for Australia and New Zealand. The midfield star moves from Bundesliga number five Bayer Leverkusen to German national champions FC Bayern Munich. Baijings, who previously played for Heerenveen and SGS Essen, is the third major acquisition for the Bavarian superpower, who also want to strike in the Champions League …