SCARF COLLECTORS HOLLAND
Scarf Collectors Holland is a group of Dutch football fans who have two things in common; they love the game and they are collecting football scarves.
How did it start ? No surprise , it did start with a football scarf. Ultra scarf collector Wouter Snall ordered some scarves with the name ‘Scarf Collectors Holland’ on it and and received very positive reactions from other collectors.
These collectors bought one of the scarves from Wouter and are showing it now on their web-site or facebook pages.
What next ?
Scarve collectors have contact with each other via Marktplaats , E-bay or their E-mail network. Seldom they are meeting each other in real life. Number 1 collector in Holland Jelmer Boots is not only collecting scarves but is also visiting football games in other countries. In the beginning of 2011 Jelmer suggested to other scarve collectors to visit Wuppertal SV – Elversberg in the afternoon of April 23 and VVV – Heerenveen later in the evening. Thanks to Wouter Snall we were wearing a special 'Scarf collectors Holland on tour 2011' - scarf (See Scarves-Others).
After Wuppertal SV - Elversberg (1-3),some beers and Bratwurst we visited the Borussia Monchengladbach fanshop on our way to Venlo and later in the evening we saw VVV – Heerenveen (2-2) During the day we bought scarves from Wuppertal SV ,Borussia Dortmund (Deutscher Meister 2011) , Borussia Monchengladbach and VVV. Great day, scarf collecting unites !
Wuppertal : Jelmer Boots , Sander Driessen , René van den Boom , Marco Remijnse, Rob Vonk , Sybrand Andringa , Ronnie Landheer en Wouter Snall
Second trip.
September 17 ,2011 we had our second trip. This day we had an even more busy program. In the morning we visited a scarf manufacturer in Brabant and we felt as children in a candy store. The owner gave us the opportunity to buy some scarves for a very reasonable price and we were all able to add some scarves to our collections. Scarves of AGOVV, Red Army (Antwerp), Cercle Brugge, Litex Lovech, Botev Plovdiv, Paok Saloniki, Sampdoria, Goztepe and scarves of the polish clubs Jagiellonia, Miedz Legnica, Jedlicze and Szombierki was the result after a small hour.The following stop was Duisburg where we visited MSV Duisburg - Union Berlin. Most of us bought a scarf of the home team. The game ended in a draw, thanks to a 'lucky' penalty given to the Zebra's, Union was the better team. Weather, beer and Bratwurst were great again, game average and fans enthousiastic but less aggressive than the fans in Holland which have less flags but are showing more commitment with the game.
After the match we travelled another 180 km to Antwerp and made a stop in Turnhout to visit the stadium of KV Turnhout, unfortunately the people from the club had no scarves they could sell us. After half an hour we were on our way again to Het Kiel. In this part of Antwerp Beerschot AC is the local club and they were playing against Zulte Waregem tonight (2-0). Both clubs are not top teams in Belgium but the level of the game was very high compared to MSV-Union but also to games we have seen in Holland this season. Atmosphere around the stadium was typical english; stadium squeezed between the houses and pubs around the stadium where the fans are meeting each other before and after the match. Good atmosphere in the stadium during the match with good support from the Armata Viola. Fully packed with scarves we drove back to Holland after a great day. Looking forward to the next trip in April 2012 !
Duisburg : Rob Vonk, Ronnie Landheer ,Sander Driessen, Sybrand Andringa, Wouter Snall, Jelmer Boots, Patrick Kortleven, Marco Remijnse.