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Feyenoord supporters are known to have a connection with fans of English Premier League club, Sunderland AFC.
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Feyenoord and supporters
On July 15, 2012, supporters of Aston Villa uploaded a picture on Twitter which showed Ron Vlaar, Feyenoord captain since season 2010 / 2011, visiting the Villa Park stadium in Birmingham.
Feyenoord supporters received the news generally mixed, with some congratulating and wishing the best of luck, others feeling betrayed by Vlaar for misleading them.
Stefan de Vrij would be taking up the vacant spot for captain, considering his time and experiences with Feyenoord, making Jordy Clasie, who because of his good play and tenacity soon became one of the most popular players among the supporters, vice-captain.
In 1961, Jaap Valkhoff wrote the lyrics which became popular among Feyenoord supporters who adopted the song as their unofficial hymn.
Feyenoord supporters are known to be creative and have a lot of various songs and chants in their equipment during matches.
The supporters of Feyenoord are said to be one of the most loyal supporter groups in the world supporting the team during both good or bad times.
It is thought to have started in the 1970s when supporters of Sunderland moved to Rotterdam to work in the ports and docks, some of which remained in Rotterdam and settled there, thus taking an interest in the local team, Feyenoord.
Feyenoord is a popular club in The Netherlands with a large number of supporters.
It also illustrates the intense way in which the Feyenoord supporters experience their club ’ s matches.
Feyenoord have one official fan supporters club, the Feyenoord Supportersvereniging.
Notable supporters of Feyenoord include Craig Bellamy, Gerard Cox, Wouter Bos, Jan Marijnissen, Robert Eenhoorn, Arjan Erkel, Dennis van der Geest, DJ Paul Elstak, Raemon Sluiter, Vincent Le Blanc, and Renate Verbaan.
While playing for Feyenoord at St Mirren in September 1983 he was racially abused and spat on by Scottish supporters.
Supporters of the Dutch football team AFC Ajax met with Feyenoord supporters in what has come to be known as the " Battle of Beverwijk ".
Feyenoord and are
Feyenoord from Rotterdam are Ajax's arch rivals.
PSV is also considered a rival, but in terms of tension and rivalry, these matches are not as loaded as the duels with Feyenoord.
Harmeet Singh and Lex Immers are thus far the only two players who Feyenoord paid a transfer fee for.
Feyenoord are located in the Feijenoord district of southern Rotterdam and is named after the district in which the club was founded.
Beside Feyenoord, there are two other professional football clubs in Rotterdam: Sparta and Excelsior.
Among the most important Feyenoord songs are " Mijn Feyenoord " by Lee Towers, " Feyenoord, wat gaan we doen vandaag?
The groups that support Feyenoord in the most original way and those who can predict the score correctly are awarded with prizes.
De Kuip already opens in the morning when there are many activities around the stadium mainly for kids and promotional activities for companies which have a partnership with Feyenoord.
Besides Feyenoord there are Sparta Rotterdam and Excelsior and the city is often referred to as " Voetbalstad nummer 1 " ().
Feyenoord also have a fierce rivalry abroad in Tottenham Hotspur, who following several violent clashes with the club coupled with a link to Ajax are not popular with the Rotterdam club.
Besides Excelsior, there are two more professional clubs from Rotterdam ; Feyenoord and Sparta.
Feyenoord, Ajax's domestic rivals, are among a group of clubs to have won the tournament once, while Belgium has produced the most individual winners, four, one more than England and Netherlands.
PSV Eindhoven are next with 18 ( 21 ), and Feyenoord follow with 9 ( 14 ).
Feyenoord and known
A minute of silence will be held for all former Feyenoord players who have died and for known fans who have died in the previous year.
Kalou, together with Dirk Kuyt, were affectionately known as ' K2 ' by Feyenoord fans and the Dutch Media.
Feyenoord and have
As of 2012, AZ is the only club to have beaten Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV away from home in a single Eredivisie season.
They have earned this by the transfer of significant players and a large capital injection made by the organisation VVF ( Friends of Feyenoord, Vrienden Van Feyenoord ).
In December 2006, Feyenoord director Chris Woerts announced that Feyenoord were developing plans to build a new stadium which would have a capacity of roughly 90, 000 seats.
Nowadays the song is heard wherever Feyenoord play their matches, but also fans of MVV and Club Brugge have their own version that they sing.
A few weeks after the first training but still before the season really starts, the club open their doors for free for all Feyenoord fans to have fun together and to present the squad for the upcoming season.
Raemon Sluiter, Lee Towers, Dennis van der Geest, Robert Eenhoorn and Renate Verbaan have all officially been Feyenoord ambassadors.
While at Feyenoord Gullit became the focus of a race row as manager Thijs Libregts was alleged to have referred to Gullit as " blackie " and criticised him for being lazy, though Libregts defended himself by claiming that it was merely a nickname.
A majority of the Excelsior fans have always been against a partnership with Feyenoord.
: Ajax, Feyenoord, and PSV have been members of the Eredivisie since its formation in 1956.
On 20 October 2006 the club signed the Icelandic twins Arnar and Bjarki Gunnlaugsson, who have played for Bolton Wanderers F. C., Stoke City F. C., Feyenoord Rotterdam, 1.
Feyenoord officials have expressed a desire for the new stadium to have a similar atmosphere as the current one.
and later went on to have another trial with a Dutch team, Feyenoord.
Feyenoord and with
* May 8 – Feyenoord Rotterdam wins the UEFA Final Cup with 3-2 from Borussia Dortmund.
Johan Cruyff with Feyenoord in 1984
Supporters unrest grew into anger, when Feyenoord bought Charisteas, a back-up striker of arch-rivals Ajax, with a poor track record, as a replacement for Kuyt.
Feyenoord were banned from European competition, following hooliganism prior to and during a match with AS Nancy, despite an appeal by the club.
The season ended in bitter disappointment with a seventh place finish, causing Feyenoord to miss European football for the first time in 16 years.
John Goossens, Ruud Vormer and Daryl Janmaat were out of contract and signed a deal with Feyenoord over one with their old clubs.
defender Joris Mathijsen confirmed signing a contract with Feyenoord for three years.
After drawing the first leg of the UEFA Europa League qualifier at home with 2-2 Feyenoord lost the second leg with a 2-0 win for AC Sparta Praha which meant that for the 2012-2013 season, Feyenoord would not be playing European football.
Supporters of Feyenoord often travel to the Stadium of Light on matchdays to support Sunderland, and vice versa with some Sunderland fans travelling to watch Feyenoord at De Kuip.
It is common to find Sunderland shirts in De Kuip on a matchday and at the Stadium of Light, a St George's England flag with Feyenoord Mackems written across the red cross is on show at every match.
Feyenoord provide schools and amateur clubs with small teaching books and expect these to be filled in by the visiting youth when they enter the stadium on a match day.
In 2004 Feyenoord player Jorge Acuña was taken to hospital with head, neck and rib injuries after Feyenoord players were attacked by Ajax hooligans during a match between the reserve teams of both clubs.
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