http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11249099
Ryan Thomas (PEC Zwolle | Netherlands)
Harry Edge, Declan's son, just signed a 12 month contract at PEC Zwolle.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11249099
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11249099
(1) Big interview with Ryan and lots of photos on this really great English language site dedicated to Dutch football:
http://www.benefoot.net/exclusive-pec-zwolle-teen-ryan-thomas-developing-years-ahead-of-schedule/
"EXCLUSIVE: PEC ZWOLLE TEEN RYAN THOMAS DEVELOPING YEARS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE"
on April 11, 2014 at 12:23(2) The story of PEC Zwolle's rise in recent years (essential background on the club):
http://www.benefoot.net/pec-zwolle-a-small-team-to-admire/
"PEC ZWOLLE - A SMALL TEAM TO ADMIRE"
on 18 April, 2014 at 11:05
Creditable 2-2 away draw with third placed FC Twente on Saturday.
Ryan on as a 65 min. sub:
Zwolle finish the season 11th on the table.
Ivan Vicelich's old club Roda JC dead last and relegated.
He hit Zwolle as a backpacker having paid for his plane ticket as an investment. Now proudly holding silverware, having been instrumental in the clinical demolishing of Ajax.
In the special jubilee edition, coinciding with PEC Zwolle's cup triumph, Ryan was qouted saying he washed away his adrenaline with chocolate milk rather than with beer like his team mates.
Hi PECZwolle. Nice one. Maybe you could send the above photo to NZF, suggesting they might like to use it in their upcoming programme for NZ v Sth Africa. See www.nzfootball.co.nz : contact us.
Done.
Send a message to New Zealand Football. Thank you for taking the time to email us – we do appreciate your views. Rest assured your emails will be read, and your views noted. However, due to the large amounts of correspondence received, we are unable to answer each email individually.
Whatever.
You are better off sending them a fax mate.
Done.
Send a message to New Zealand Football. Thank you for taking the time to email us – we do appreciate your views. Rest assured your emails will be read, and your views noted. However, due to the large amounts of correspondence received, we are unable to answer each email individually.
Whatever.
What a crap reply. Next time anyone is on a pod ask them how many emails they receive from fans to warrant that auto reply. PECZwolle let us know if they ever send you a genuine email
Done.
Send a message to New Zealand Football. Thank you for taking the time to email us – we do appreciate your views. Rest assured your emails will be read, and your views noted. However, due to the large amounts of correspondence received, we are unable to answer each email individually.
Whatever.
What a crap reply. Next time anyone is on a pod ask them how many emails they receive from fans to warrant that auto reply. PECZwolle let us know if they ever send you a genuine email
I got same auto-reply when I sent them an email on May 05 suggesting it would be nice if a trophy in honour of the late Keryn Jordan was at stake for The All Whites v Sth Africa game. No further correspondance so far. I now don't expect any.
Done.
Send a message to New Zealand Football. Thank you for taking the time to email us – we do appreciate your views. Rest assured your emails will be read, and your views noted. However, due to the large amounts of correspondence received, we are unable to answer each email individually.
Whatever.
What a crap reply. Next time anyone is on a pod ask them how many emails they receive from fans to warrant that auto reply. PECZwolle let us know if they ever send you a genuine email
I got same auto-reply when I sent them an email on May 05 suggesting it would be nice if a trophy in honour of the late Keryn Jordan was at stake for The All Whites v Sth Africa game. No further correspondance so far. I now don't expect any.
Ha! I got a personal reply from Fred de Jong after i contacted NZ Football before the Mexico play-offs.
I also got a nice quite lengthy reply from then CEO Mike Glading about four years ago Glading was a good communicator with his background in the music industry. His enthusiasm for promoting football really came through in his reply to me.
I have hada couple responses from De Jong also.
Seems approachable which is positive.
If you are interested in a full frontal solo picture of
Ryan Thomas, holding the Dutch Cup, to include in the match programme for the South
Africa clash, please let me know.
I can also send you a scan of the cover of a collectors item jubilee edition, coinciding
with one of the biggest upsets in the entire Dutch football history.
Hi
Thank you for your email and picture offer. Can you tell me if you have usage rights of the images you have or are they shots taken by fans?
Kind regards
Tracy Brady
Executive Administrator
Hi
Regarding the image of Ryan, do you have usage rights of the image or is it a fan taken photo?
Cheers,
Steven Upfold
Communications & Media Manager
Good day,
If you are autorised to use the photo, you should credit Martijn Kleingeerts. His photo appears in a jubilee edtion: Zwolluh Door Het Dolle. The cover in attachment.
The book has been published bij De Stentor from Zwolle; these are the details I have.
Cheers
Hi PECZwolle. Nice one. Maybe you could send the above photo to NZF, suggesting they might like to use it in their upcoming programme for NZ v Sth Africa. See www.nzfootball.co.nz : contact us.
Congrats. My intermediary fee is a cold beer plz, next time I'm in the Netherlands.
list of potential break out football stars next year by bleacher report, featuring ryan: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2067391-20-footballers-poised-for-breakout-seasons-next-term/page/2
1. Ryan Thomas was on TV 3 News tonight visiting Ole Academy, Wellington - will probably find the interview on their website.
Also some comments from Ole director Nate Winkel.
2. Also, full Dutch Cup Final here to enjoy online for free:
http://livefootballvideo.com/fullmatch/netherlands/knvb-beker/pec-zwolle-vs-ajax-2
One video for each half
3. Various full Dutch Eredivisie games from this season here to watch online, including some Zwolle ones:
http://livefootballvideo.com/competitions/eredivisie
Scroll down beneath the full matches for Eredivisie highlights videos.
It's like a You Tube of football !!!
Decent player but damn does he tweet some moist stuff:
Ryan Thomas You're in my head 24/7
Wow, you got me going crazy... 
Talking about football?
The boy has been listening to too much Drake.
De Librije, in Zwolle, has come from nowhere to be rated as no. 29 in the list of World's 50 Best restaurants, according to the annual list compiled by Restaurant Magazine.
Bit like our boy.
This TV special on Tuesday night fully confirmed that the Dutch league is one of the best for young players hoping to build a career in Europe.
Worth checking out the "Aussies Abroad Socceroos European Adventure" one hour special which debuted Tuesday night on ESPN.
Repeated Thursday ESPN 5 pm ("Aussies Abroad Socceroos European Adventure") and 6 pm ("Socceroos World Cup Special")
A one hour special on Socceroos currently playing in Europe focusing on Tommy Oar and Adam Sarota at Utecht in the Netherlands, Jason Davidson at Heracles in the Netherlands, Mathew Leckie at FSV Frankfurt, Matt Ryan at FC Bruges and Dario Vidosic at FC Sion. Only Sarota has missed the World Cup squad.
Really well done with lengthy interviews with all six who proved quite articulate.
This would be a good one to watch for any young Kiwis contemplating playing overseas.
FC Utrecht were very obliging and manager Jan Wouters (70 cap Dutch international ex-Ajax and Bayern) gave some honest insights into his Aussie charges and the progress they had made.
All the young Aussies playing in the Erdivisie said it was an excellent league as a young player developing and they preferred it to bigger leagues such as Germany where it's hard to break in to the first team and playing time can be limited.
Our boy Ryan is on to a good gig at PEC.
The Eredivisie is proving one of the most popular Euro leagues for young Aussie players with three at Utrecht (Michael Zullo didn't feature in the program), Davidson at Heracles, Eli Babalj (ex Melbourne Heart) at AZ Alkmaar and Trent Sainsbury Ryan's team mate at Zwolle. Brett Holman played for AZ until 2012.
In total, 20 Aussies have played in the Eredivisie (there have been only eleven Argentinians). Makes our total of three look rather lame.
Couple of nice touches that almost lead to goals in a pre season match against Greek runners up PAOK Thessaloniki (From a week ago)
Couldn't find a match report, but looks like he may have only played in the first half (?) PEC won the match 2-1
Just finished another friendly against Hannover 96 this morning, again winning 2-1. Can't find any details at this stage but no doubt some footage might emerge over the next couple of days.
Next Monday effectively kicks off the Dutch football season as PEC Zwolle take on Ajax in the Super Cup, and a chance for some early season silverware.
Bound to be a decent live stream here:
Dutch Super Cup Zwolle v Ajax MONDAY AUGUST 4 NZT AM
http://www.vipboxoc.co/sports/football.html
or here:
thanks to ryan thomas, new zealand will be the first country besides holland where they sell pec zwolle shirts (signed by ryan!)
http://authenticfc.co.nz/blogs/news/14907965-so-who-would-be-interested-in-a-pec-zwolle-2014-15-shirt-signed-by-ryan-thomas
Circa $125 apparently.
thanks to ryan thomas, new zealand will be the first country besides holland where they sell pec zwolle shirts (signed by ryan!)
http://authenticfc.co.nz/blogs/news/14907965-so-w...
Zwolle official website:
http://www.peczwolle.nl/nl/laatste-nieuws_1/pec-zw...
PEC ZWOLLE SHIRTS AVAILABLE IN NEW ZEALANDFor the first time in the history of PEC Zwolle, there are shirts of the club for sale abroad.Through this website , the home shirt is available in New Zealand, the home of Thomas Ryan soon. Hence, the shirts feature his uniform number 30 and the newly minted International welcomes this initiative, and has signed all the shirts that are sent to New Zealand with a subtle doodle.
Ryan Thomas: "I consider it a great honor they are being sold in New Zealand. PEC Zwolle-shirts It's quite special that all shirts also even have my shirt number yet. When I heard this for the first time, I really thought it was playing around. Then I was asked to provide a signature for the shirts, no problem, of course, so for the last week I've been busy doing a lot of scribbling. "
Couple of nice touches that almost lead to goals in a pre season match against Greek runners up PAOK Thessaloniki (From a week ago)
Couldn't find a match report, but looks like he may have only played in the first half (?) PEC won the match 2-1
Just finished another friendly against Hannover 96 this morning, again winning 2-1. Can't find any details at this stage but no doubt some footage might emerge over the next couple of days.
Next Monday effectively kicks off the Dutch football season as PEC Zwolle take on Ajax in the Super Cup, and a chance for some early season silverware.
Ryan played the first 20 mins vs. PAOK on July 18:
http://www.peczwolle.nl/nl/nieuwsarchief/pec-zwoll...
"After a minute of silence in memory of victims of the plane crash in Ukraine a day earlier, PEC Zwolle started in the heat of the game just fine. Within twenty minutes, there were three nice attacking plays together. Mustafa Saymak was eye to eye with the Greek goalkeeper Asterios Giakoumis, who saved well. Jesper Drost also encountered the goalie PAOK after Ryan Thomas had sent him....
Aussie defender Trent Sainsbury from Central Coast Mariners has been playing regularly pre-season.
PAOK Saloniki - PEC Zwolle 1-2 (1-0).
Scheidsrechter: Wiedemeijer
PEC Zwolle: Boer, Van Polen, Pereira, Sainsbury, Van Hintum (75. Labylle), Mokotjo (63. Dekker), Rienstra, Saymak (46. Mahmudov/75. Ferfelis), Drost (75. Moro), Thomas (20. Karagounis), Ioannidis (46. Nijland)
Ryan didn't feature in the win over Hannover 96 last weekend:
http://www.peczwolle.nl/nl/nieuwsarchief/pec-zwoll...
Hannover'96-PEC Zwolle 1-2 (1-2).
Opstelling PEC Zwolle: Boer, Van Polen, Sainsbury (83. Pereira), Broerse, Van Hintum, Mokotjo (77. Dekker), Rienstra, Saymak (65. Mahmudov), Drost, Karagounis (83. Moro), Nijland (46. Ioannidis)
Injured then? Can't find much mention in other news/websites.
I guess we'll find out when PEC Zwolle line up against Ajax in the Super Cup.
Returning frominjury
His twitter feed
Some variations from different sources in kick-off time for the Dutch Super Cup (Johan Cruijff Shield)
Some sources say 5 pm, others 6 pm Amsterdam time. I'm going with 6 pm which means 4 am in NZ (10 hours ahead)
Should be a live stream here:
The match kicks off at 1800 hrs Amsterdam time. There will be no extra time after 90 minutes in case PEC Zwolle and Ajax are drawing. Straight into penalties.
Won 1-0. Good stuff.
If anyones interested, we have Ryan Thomas signed PEC Zwolle shirts available now.
BTW - does anyone know of a way to watch the Eredivise in NZ- apart from crappy streams, willing to pay for a decent option.
BTW - does anyone know of a way to watch the Eredivise in NZ- apart from crappy streams, willing to pay for a decent option.
As long as its less than the plane fares I guess!
Sparta Praha are a household name in Europe and domestic champions. Yet, I feel this won't be a walk in the park for the Czech outfit.
I watch eredivisie through bet365.com. used to be able to get it on livesport.tv but they lost the licence this season. It's not great quality but best I've found.
BTW Ryan Thomas has a good game for zwolle this mornin. 2-0 against Utrecht. Played full game, assisted a goal with a header late in the match. May have been yellow carded early in fist half but I was making coffee
Found this about, not great footage, but it's got Ryan's assist.
Pretty solid finish too.
BTW Ryan Thomas has a good game for Zwolle this morning. 2-0 against Utrecht. Played full game, assisted a goal with a header late in the match. May have been yellow carded early in first half but I was making coffee
I caught the first 55-odd minutes and I'm pretty sure Ryan didn't receive a yellow.From what I saw, Zwolle looked sharp and creative, and if they can maintain some consistency they should finish higher than they did last season. By my reckoning, the average age of the mids and forwards in Zwolle's starting line-up was barely 22 – not too sure how this impacts on the consistency factor.