Good afternoon and welcome to this live blog! Here we will keep you informed of everything concerning the successful appeal of Vitesse, that may return to professional football.
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The press moment is over. Lawyer Berry van Drunen (left) and chairman of the strong holders Michel Schaay (right) emphasized a number of times that there is now a “new Vitesse”, which wants to remain realistic and careful. “We don’t want to fall into old patterns,” said Schaay. “We have made a plan and stick to that plan.”
That is why there were no big words about the expectations for the short term, for example about the next match of Vitesse or the requirement of a possible compensation from the KNVB for the transfer -free departure of more than a team of players. Vitesse wants first and foremost in conversation with the KNVB.
‘Actions with smoke bombs do not help us’ Ben Mansvelder gives a response to the actions of a group of Vitesse-Fans, who threw yellow smoke bombs on the field last weekend at two different kitchen champion-duels and thus still stopped for a short time. “Those kinds of actions do not help us. We have to be positive in the competition. We have also made that call in recent days,” says the interim director. “But it is also good to say that our fans have always neatly supported the club in recent months.” Schaay adds: “Stay calm. Don’t break anything. Keep confidence.”
While the press moment is busy at Papendal, fans (and club icon Edward Sturing) party on the Korenmarkt in Arnhem.
‘No regret of Deal about transfer -free players’ Schaay and Van Drunen also receive questions about the (many) players of Vitesse who left transfer -free after losing the professional license. “We don’t regret it,” says Schaay. “I think you should not have this discussion about players ‘backs. Good agreements were made with the players’ union. There was no collective release from players, but an individual arrangement has been made for each player. That deal has cost us a lot of money, that’s right.”
Will Vitesse play again on September 12? Also at the press moment the biggest question for the short term is whether Vitesse will play football again in the next round of the Kitchen Champion Division. “We’ll see, it’s still so fresh,” says Schaay. Lawyer Van Drunen: “The judgment as it is now, says: immediate admission. So we assume the first competition on 12 September.”
‘Vitesse is not financially good for’ Schaay gives a brief answer to the question of how Vitesse is currently financially. “Not good,” says the strong holder, who with his group guarantees a shortage of the budget this season. “But when we play football again, the income will also start again. We will always try to avert a bankruptcy.”
Lawyer Van Drunen: “Now first with KNVB in conversation” Lawyer Berry van Drunen says that Vitesse “took the fight together”. “We have all put our shoulders to the wheel. I don’t talk in opportunities, but I had the idea that the chance of good news was more than 1 percent, otherwise I would not have hit the battle. The most important thing now, and that is also the advice I have given, is that Vitesse is talking to the KNVB. We have to go to a collaboration.”
Schaay: ‘I could not talk for ten minutes after a statement’ Chairman of the strong holders Michel Schaay kicks off the press moment. “We were waiting for the statement with a number of people upstairs in the office. When it came, there was a huge discharge of course. Huge emotions. I couldn’t talk for ten minutes. Everything came out.”
The press moment on Papendal with interim director Ben Mansvelder, lawyer Berry van Drunen and chairman of the strong holders Michel Schaay will start. We will of course keep you informed of what is being said here!
Fan René Joosten: ‘As if a new life begins’ Fan René Joosten saw the good news of the Court of Appeal in Arnhem just after noon at home behind his computer. “I cried like a child,” says Joosten on Papendal to Nu.nl reporter Jeroen van Barneveld. “It feels like a new life is starting for me.”
The retired Joosten went for the first time on December 24, 1977 to a Vitesse competition. He was at the training complex almost daily for the past six weeks to support his club.
“I wouldn’t really come today. A code yellow had been published. And I assumed bad news, after I followed the appeal on Monday. After the good message I immediately got into the car. It is incredible. It has not happened often that someone wins from the KNVB.”
Büttner: ‘The trainer came to me crying’ captain Alexander Büttner heard the good news just after the training of the first selection. “We got off the field, showered and then we would wait for the statement,” the 36-year-old club icon told De Gelderlander . “Then the trainer came to me crying. He hugged me, then I knew enough. I am still sweating, I have goosebumps everywhere. I know what the club means. I am so proud of this club. I always said I was not going to leave Vitesse.”
Koeman: ‘Great news for supporters’ national coach Ronald Koeman gives a press conference about the game with Poland of Tomorrow, but of course the former trainer of Vitesse also receives a question about the Arnhemmers. “This is great news for the supporters. It’s their lives. I understand and I respect it,” he says. “I am surprised, just like everyone else, I think. Apparently the legal system is so put together that this is possible. It indicates that you always have a chance to be right. Furthermore, I have little knowledge of it.”
Nu.nl reporter Jeroen van Barneveld has arrived at Papendal and sends this photo of waiting journalists, fans and security guards.
Nineteen players in selection according to the Vitesse site are currently nineteen players in the selection of the first team. The most famous name is captain and child of the club Alexander Büttner. With Jayden Siecker (20) there is only one keeper left.
It is not yet known when Vitesse will play its first home game in the Gelredome. “From public order we have learned to be flexible over the years,” says Mayor Ahmed Marcouch of Arnhem. “How much capacity it costs depends on the competition. I always assume that supporters behave sporty and we need as little capacity as possible. But we will organize what is needed.”
Vitesse plays the Airborne competition every year in September, to commemorate the Battle of Arnhem in 1944. The club plays in specially designed shirts and the stands are veterans. That competition would have continued this year, even without a license. Marcouch calls it “an important part of the commemoration in an important month. And now it will be twice beautiful.”
KNVB: ‘We are surprised’ the KNVB will be for more than an hour and a half after the ruling of the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeal with an initial reaction, of 91 words. “We are surprised by this outcome,” writes the football association. “We will await the extensive motivation of the Court of Appeal and then map out the possible follow -up steps and consequences, partly now that this judgment touches the core of the professional football licensing system. We will work out the consequences for the competitions in the short term.”
“Together with the clubs and interest groups, the KNVB has drawn up rules to monitor the integrity and continuity of the competitions. Checking independent committees whether these rules are being fulfilled. In our opinion, the agreed procedures and regulations have been correctly and carefully followed.”
A photo from an hour ago on Papendal, the training complex of Vitesse. At 3 p.m., interim director Ben Mansvelder, lawyer Berry van Drunen and chairman of the strong holders Michel Schaay will hold a press moment to give an explanation of the good news for the club. Nu.nl reporter Jeroen van Barneveld will be there.
The overjoyed reactions of Vitesse icon flows inside. Such as this message from former midfielder Theo Janssen. The 44-year-old Janssen is a technical adviser at Vitesse.
Trade union: ‘It will be a long process’ chairman Evgeniy Levchenko of players’ union VVCS provides a “long process” for Vitesse to put together a (good) selection. “Vitesse will now have to switch. In a hurry, they have to look for the right players to be competitive at all,” he says.
Levchenko, who himself played at Vitesse for five years since 1996, is happy that the Arnhemmers can continue to play professional football. “It is a surprise, but if VVCS we are super happy. I could not imagine that Vitesse would cease to exist. It is a piece of sentiment. Now it is important that Vitesse picks it up well and builds up nicely.”
Mayor Ahmed Marcouch of Arnhem also responds with pleasure. “For all people who support our folk club, this is a huge boost. This makes it perspective for the club, its employees, the players and its social initiatives.”
Marcouch wrote another letter to the KNVB in July with the call to help Vitesse with the license. The mayor said he had received supplications from all layers of the population of Arnhem to prevent the club from being lost.
Supporters Association Vitesse: ‘We can play football again’ Chairman Susanne Wichhart of the Vitesse supporters’ association is delighted. “The most important thing is that we can play football again. It was already an roller coaster, but such a denouement could not have imagined the best thriller writer,” she says. “I didn’t take it into account, but I was at the appeal last Monday and I put hope out of it. There the judges asked both parties critical questions and there were also reactions that things had not gone well in different areas.”
Wichhart says that the club and the supporters can now look ahead again. “There is a good plan. Now we have to build, because many players have left.”
It is for the time being waiting for the reaction of the KNVB. That will probably not be long. The ruling of the Court of Appeal offers Vitesse Perspective, but also ensures many new questions. For example, it is not clear when Vitesse will participate in the Kitchen Champion Division and it is also unclear with which players the club can do that. The KNVB may be able to tell more about that.
The lawsuit has been massively followed by fans of Vitesse in recent weeks. The website of the Public Prosecution Service, where judgments are published, was again overloaded today.
Response Vitesse: ‘This gives us air and perspective’ Vitesse is overjoyed that she was right on Wednesday in the appeal against the KNVB. The Arnhem club hopes to play in the Kitchen Champion Division as soon as possible now that the withdrawal of the professional license has been suspended.
“This statement gives us air and perspective,” says Michel Schaay, chairman of the strong holders of Vitesse, on the club’s site. “We are very happy that the Court acknowledges the seriousness of the situation and that it has suspended the decisions.”
Vitesse will now try to consult the KNVB in the short term about the further consequences of the ruling. “We will continue to commit ourselves to the future of Vitesse,” says Schaay. “Now we first talk to the KNVB to ensure that Vitesse and its stakeholders make the right decisions.” Read the full response here.
Chairman Sander Wind of the Koninklijke Horeca Nederland (KHN) in Gelderland calls it “great news” that Vitesse can play football again. Arnhem hospitality entrepreneurs said to be expected a “heavy economic effect” if Vitesse would disappear as a professional club through the loss of visitors to cafés at the club’s competitions.
“Every city deserves a professional football club. This is what Vitesse has worked for a long time and has fought for. It is good news for the city and the hospitality industry. Our members will be enthusiastic and happy,” says Wind.
The local branch of employers’ organization VNO-NCW is also delighted. “It is important for the city to be attractive with a beautiful football club. It is good news for the entrepreneurs in the city,” says Ilko Bosman, chairman within the Arnhem-Nijmegen region.
Due to the decision in the appeal, the challenges for Vitesse are not yet over. The club saw no fewer than twelve players leave in recent weeks and the transfer period has been closed since yesterday.
Vitesse can still capture unemployed football players. The club said on Monday that having a good team would not have a big priority in a possible victory in the appeal. After all, relegation from the Kitchen Champion Division is not possible.
Immediately after the ruling there were happy faces at training accommodation Papendal. Fans and player Alexander Büttner celebrate that Vitesse is admitted to professional football.
Due to the ruling of the Court of Appeal, Vitesse can immediately return to professional football. It is not yet clear when Vitesse can participate in the Kitchen Champion Division. That competition has already been on the road for four rounds.
This is why Vitesse has won the appeal: the Court of Appeal considers it “plausible” that the club will win a previously brought soil procedure against the KNVB. At the earliest, that procedure would only serve in a few months, but Vitesse asked for an earlier judgment in a so -called turbo supmoedappel.
According to the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeal, the KNVB decisions were “taken under high time pressure and therefore not achieved with the greatest possible care”. And that care was necessary, “because it is the most far -reaching sanction for a professional football club”.
Good Afternoon and Welcome to this Live Blog! Here we will keep you informed of Everything Surrounding Vitesse’s Successful Appeal, which may return to Professional Football.
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The press moment is over. Lawyer Berry van Drunen (Left) and Chairman of the strong holders Michel Schaay (Right) Emphasized Several Times That There Is Now A “New Vitesse” That Wants To Remain Realistic and Careful. “We don’t want to fall into old patterns,” Schaay Said. “We have made a plan and we are sticking to that plan.”
That is Why There Were No Big Words about the Expectations for the Short Term, For Example About Vitesse’s Next Match or Claim for Possible Compensation from the KNVB for the Transfer-Free Departure of More Than Eleven Players. First and foremost, Vitesse Wants to Talk to the KNVB.
‘ACTIONS With Smoke Bombs Don’t Help Us’ Ben Mansvelder Responds to the ACTIONS OF A Group of Vitesse Fans, Who Threw Yellow Smoke Bombs Onto The Field at Two Different Kitchen Champion Matches Last Weekend, Letterly Stopping the Matches. “That child of action Doesn’tn’t help us. We have to be positive in the match. We have also made that call in recent days,” Says the interim director. “But it is also good to say that our fans have always neeatly supported the club in recent months.” Schaay Adds: “Stay calm. Don’t break anything. Have confidence.”
While the Press Moment is Taking Place at Papendal, Fans (and Club Icon Edward Sturing) Are Celebrating on the Korenmarkt in Arnhem.
‘No Regrets About Deal on Transfer-Free Players’ Schaay and Van Drunen Are Also Asked Questions about the (Many) Vitesse Players Who Left on A Free Transfer After Losing Their Professional License. “We have no regrets,” Says Schaay. “I don’t think you should conduct this discussion on the backs of players. Good agreements have made leg made with the players’ union. There was no collective release of players, but an individual arrangement was made for each player. That deal.”
Will Vitesse Play Again on September 12? Also at the press moment, the Biggest Question for the Short Term is Whether Vitesse Will Play Football Again in the Next Round of the Kitchen Champion Division. “We’ll See, It’s Still So Fresh,” Says Schaay. Lawyer van Drunen: “The Judgment as it stands now says: immediate admission. So we are assuming the first match on September 12.”
‘Vitesse is not in a good financial position’ Schaay Gives a letter Answer to the Question of How Vitesse is Doing Financily at the Moment. “Not good,” Says the strong holder, who with his group Guarantees a deficit on this season’s budget. “But if we start playing football again, the income will also start coming in again. We will always try to avert bankruptcy.”
Lawyer van Drunen: ‘Now first talk to the KNVB’ Lawyer Berry van Drunen Says That Vitesse “Fought the Battle Together”. “We all put our shoulders to the wheel. I don’t talk in Terms of Opportunities, but I did have the idea that the chance of good news was more than 1 percent, otherwise i would have started the fight. Discussions with the KNVB.
Schaay: ‘I Couldn’t Talk For Minutes After the Verdict’ Chairman of the Sterk Holders Michel Schaay Kicks Off The Press Moment. “We were waiting with a number of people upstairs in the office for the verdict. When it came, there was an enormous release, or course. Huge emotions. I couldn’t talk for minute. Everything came out.”
The Press Moment at Papendal With Interim Director Ben Mansvelder, Lawyer Berry van Drunen and Chairman of the strong holders Michel Schaay is about to start. We will of course keep you informed of what is bee Said here!
Fan René Joosten: ‘It’s Like a New Life is starting’ Fan René Joosten Saw the good news from the court in Arnhem Shortly After 12:00 at Home Behind His Computer. “I Cried Like a Child,” Joosten Tells NU.nl Reporter Jeroen van Barneveld at Papendal. “It feels like a new life is starting for me.”
The Retired Joosten Went to a Vitesse Match for the First Time on December 24, 1977. He has been at the training Complex Almost Daily for the Past Six Week to Support His Club.
“I was actual going to come today. A code yellow had leg Issued. And I expected bad news after following the appeal on Monday. After the good news, I immediately got in the car. It’s unbelievable. It Doesntn’t Happen.”
Büttner: ‘The Trainer Came to Me Crying’ Captain Alexander Büttner Heard the good news Shortly After Training for the First Team. “We stepped off the field, took a shower and would’s then wait for the verdict together,” the 36-year-old club Icon Tells De Gelderlander . “Then the trainer came running Towards me crying. He hugged me, then I knew Enough. I’M Still Sweating, I have goosebumps all over. I know what the club Means. I am so incredible proud or this club.
Koeman: ‘Good news for supporters’ National Coach Ronald Koeman is Giving a Press Conference About Tomorrow’s Match Against Poland, But of Course the Former Vitesse Trainer is also Asked A Question About the Team From Arnhem. “This is good news for the supporters. It is their life. I understand and respect that,” he says. “I’m surprised, Like Everyone Else I Think. Apparently the Legal System is structured in Such a Way That Is Possible. It indicates that you always have another chans to be prooven right. Furthermore, I don’t do notes much it.”
NU.nl Reporter Jeroen van Barneveld has arrived at Papendal and Sends This Photo of Waiting Journalists, Fans and Security Guards.
Still Nineteen Players in Selection Accordance to the Vitesse Website, There Are Currently Nineteen Players in the Selection of the First Team. The Best-Known Name is Captain and Child of the Club Alexander Büttner. With Jayden Siecker (20) There is Only One Goalkeeper Left.
It is not Yet Known When Vitesse Will Play its First Home Match in the Gelredome. “From public order we have learned to be flexible over the years,” Says Mayor Ahmed Marcouch of Arnhem. “How much capacity it costs DEPENDS on the match. I always assume that supporters Behave sportingly and that we need as little capacity as Possible. But we will organize what is needed.”
Vitesse Plays the Airborne Match Every Year in September to Commemorate the Battle of Arnhem in 1944. The Club Plays in Specially Designed Shirts and There Are Veterans in the stands. That match would have gone ahead anyway this year, just without a license. Marcouch Calls It “An Important Part of the Commemoration in An Important Month. And Now It’s Twice As Beautiful.”
KNVB: ‘We are surprised’ The KNVB is issuing an initial response, or 91 words, more than an hour and a half after the ruling by the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court. “We are surprised by this outcome,” Writes The Football Association. “We will await the extensive motivation from the court and then map out the possible next steps and consequences, eSpeciate that this judgment affects the core of the professional football licensing system. We will elaborate the consequences for the consequences for the consequences for the consequens for the consequens for the consequencies for the consequenses for the consequenses for the consequenses for the consequencies for the consequenses for the consequencals for the consequenses for the consequencals for the consequencals for the consequencens for the consequencens.”
“Together with the clubs and interest grouts, the KNVB has drawn up rules to safeguard the integrity and continuity of the competitions. Independent Committendent Check Whether Rules Are Complied With. in our Opinion, The Agreectly and Regulation.”
A photo from an hour ago at Papendal, The Vitesse Training Complex. At 3:00 pm, interim director Ben Mansvelder, Lawyer Berry van Drunen and Chairman of the strong holders Michel Schaay Will Hold a Press Moment here to Explain the good news for the club. NU.nl Reporter Jeroen van Barneveld will be there.
The overjoyed reactions of vitesse icons are pouring in. Such as this message from former midfielder Theo Janssen. The 44-Year-Old Janssen is a Technical Advisor at Vitesse.
Union: ‘It will be a long process’ Chairman Evgeniy Levchenko or Players’ Union VVCS Foreses A “Long Process” for Vitesse to Assemble A (Good) Selection. “Vitesse Will Now Have To Switch Gears. They Have Have To Look Head Over Heels For The Right Players to Be Competitive at All,” He says.
Levchenko, who himself played for vitesse for five years from 1996, is Happy That the Team from Arnhem Can Continue to Play Professional Football. “It is a surprise, but as vvcs we are super happy. I couldn’t image vitesse ceasing to exist. It is a piece of sentiment. Now it is important that vitesse picks it up well and builds it up nicely.”
Mayor Ahmed Marcouch of Arnhem also reacts with delight. “This is a huge boost for all the people who have a warm heart for our people’s club. This provides perspective for the club, its employees, the players and its social initiatives.”
In July, Marcouch wrote a Letter to the KNVB Calling on Them to Help Vitesse with the License. The Mayor Said He had recedived pleas from all Layers of the population of Arnhem to prevent the club from Being Lost.
Vitesse Supporters Association: ‘We can play Football again’ Chairman Susanne Wichhart of the Vitesse Supporters Association is Delighted. “The most important thing is that we can play football again. It was already a roller coaster, but the best thriller writer couldn’t Have come up with such an ending,” She says. “I was a turn it into account, but I was at the appeal last Monday and that cool me hope. There the Judges Asked Both Parties Critical Questions and There Were also Reactions That Things Had Not Gone Well in Various Areas.”
Wichhart says that the club and the supporters can now look ahead again. “There is a good plan. Now we have to build, because many players have left.”
We are waiting for the response from the KNVB for the time being. That will probably not take much longer. The Court Ruling Offers Vitesse Perspective, But also Raises Many New Questions. For example, it is not clear when vitesse will participate in the kitchen champion division and it is also unclear with which players the club can do that. The KNVB May be able to say more about this.
The Lawsuit Has Been Followed and Masse by Vitesse Fans in recent weeks. The Website of the Public Prosecution Service, Where Judgments are published, was also overloaded again for some time today.
Vitesse Reaction: ‘This Gives US Air and Perspective’ Vitesse is delight that it was Proven Right on Wednesday in the Appeal Against the KNVB. The Arnhem Club Hopes to Play Football Again in the Kitchen Champion Division As Soon As Possible Now That The Withdrawal Of The Professional License Has Been Suspended.
“This Judgment Gives US Air and Perspective,” Says Michel Schaay, Chairman of the Sterkhouders of Vitesse, On The Club’s Website. “We are extremely happy that the court recognizes the seriousness of the situation and that it has suspended the decisions.”
Vitesse Will Now Try to Consult with the KNVB in the Short Term About the Further Consequences of the Ruling. “We will continue to do our utmost for the future of vitesse,” Says Schaay. “Now we will first talk to the KNVB to Ensure that vitesse and its stakeholders make the right decisions.” Read the full response here.
Chairman Sander Wind of the Royal Dutch Hospitality Association (KHN) in Gelderland Calls It “Great News” That Vitesse Can Play Football Again. Hospitality Entrepreneurs in Arnhem Previously Said They Expected a “Serious Economic Effect” If Vitesse Were to Disappear as a Professional Club Due to the Loss of Visitors to Cafes Door Club Matches.
“Every City Deserves a Professional Football Club. This is what Vitesse has leg Working Towards and Fighting for a Long Time. This is good news for the city and the hospitality industry. Our Members Will Be Enthusiastic and Happy,” Says wind.
The Local Branch of Employers’ Organization VNO-NCW is also pleased. “It is important for the city to be attractive with a good football club. This is good news for entrepreneurs in the City,” Says Ilko Bosman, Chairman Within The Arnhem-Nijmegen Region.
Due to the ruling in the appeal, The Challenges for Vitesse are not about Yet. The Club Has Seen No Fewer than Twelve Players Leave in recent weeks and the transfer period Has Been Closed Since Yesterday.
Vitesse Can Still Sign Unemployed Football players. The club Said on Monday that having a good team would not be a major priority in the event of a victory in the appeal. After all, relegation from the kitchen champion division is not Possible.
Immediately after the verdict, there were Happy Faces at the Papendal Training accommodation. Fans and Player Alexander Büttner Are Celebrating That Vitesse is Being Admitted to Professional Football.
Due to the Court Ruling, Vitesse Can Immediately Return to Professional Football. It is not yet clear when vitesse will be allowed to participate in the kitchen champion division. That competition is Already Four Rounds Underway.
This is Why Vitesse won the appeal: The Court Considers It “Plausible” That the Club Will Win a PreviOutly Filed Substantive Proceedings Against The KNVB. Those Proceedings would not be Heard for a Few Months at the Earliest, But Vitesse Requested An Earlier Judgment in A SO-Called Turbo Expedited Appeal.
Accordance to the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court, Decisions by the KNVB Were “Tasks under High Time Pressure and Therefore Not Established with the Greatest Possible Care”.