Playing at the fourth level of Dutch soccer,
SV Kampong has been amateur and obscure for well over a century. Blessed with some talented players for their level at the start of the 2015-16, a couple of them got stolen away. And of course, there were a lot of obscure greyshirts the first few games.
The record to date: A first round exit in the Dutch Cup, 0-1 in extra time on a penalty kick.
A 2-0 road win at
Zuidvogels and a heroic 3-3 comeback home draw vs
Leerdam Sport '55.
A flurry of signings at the transfer deadline finally purged all the greyshirts, giving them a complete roster ahead of their next game.
Most of this roster is new blood from the transfer deadline. The two stars worth talking about
:
ST Derk Schut - 31 - Dutch
1 goal and 2 assists thus far, the team captain has 1 goal and 2 assists with an excellent all-around game for this level - including everything but Jumping despite his age. With the transfers comes a 4-2-4 setup and a Defensive Forward role.
AMLR Achmed Ahahaoui - 31 - Moroccan
Like Schut, a superlative all-around player who has occupied ML and MR spots before the 4-2-4 experiment. Despite not fitting on the lower wings, he's averaged an 8.1 rating at those two spots the first two games. Both players were originals.
ST Rico Leocadio - 24 - Cape Verdean
The most intriguing of the transfer arrivals, he's taking over the Poacher role, and his 2013-14 showing of 10 goals in 15 appearances in the Portuguese Third Division speaks of much promise in the youngster, who reportedly has 3.5* potential.
More will be introduced if their play merits it.
@ Roda '46 (4th)
G: Dammes Waasdorp
D: Tom Romeyn/Bastin Verweij/Thomas Van Hees/Casper van Oosterom
MC: Max Oostenrijk/Jeroen Folkers
AMLR: Bas Smulders/Achmed Ahahaoui
ST: Rico Leocadio/Derk Schut
23 -
Ahahaoui clears a corner, runs it all the way down the right flank, and then cracks a high cross to the opposite side. The ball falls at the feet of streaking
Leocadio, and the Cape Verdean rewards my instinct to start him with the debut goal!!!
1-0
25 - Missed tackles galore en route to an immediate pegback
1-1
54 -
Erwin van der Klis goes on for
Schut, while just yellow-carded
Oostenrijk is out in exchange of
Joris van Rooijen
Two seeming star transfers come in:
Amar in particular looks incredible. The teenager still needs to learn Dutch, however. He was a castoff from Vitesse in the top league. Right now he has just a basic understanding of the language.
VDL drifted through the top leagues as a failed prospect too (Ajax and FC Utretcht) and returns home to Kampong, where he played in 2010-11.
vs sv ARC (2nd)
G: Dammes Waasdorp
D: Tom Van Den Linden/Jerrold van den Eeckhout/Bastin Verweij/Casper van Oosterom
MC: Amar Sedjic[b/Jeroen Folkers
AMLR: Bas Smulders/Achmed Ahahaoui
ST: Rico Leocadio/Derk Schut
15 - Nobody got back on defense [b]0-1[/.b]
30 - Beautiful goal by
Schut disallowed because of a push
51 -
Oostenrijk for
Folkers and MC switch
55 -
Smulders gets a corner clearance and passes back to
Sedjic in the box. Tapoff to
Ahahaoui and the shot is blocked but the ball squirts loose and
Schut puts the equalizer away
1-1
63 -
Ahahaoui switches over to AML and
Steve Strijk comes in at AMR
@ FC Breukelen (1st)
vs sv ARC (2nd)
G: Dammes Waasdorp
D: Tom Van Der Linden/Jerrold van den Eeckhout/Bastin Verweij/Casper van Oosterom
MC: Jeroen Folkers/Rodi de Beor
AMLR: Bas Smulders/Achmed Ahahaoui
ST: Rico Leocadio/Derk Schut
8 - These guys are the class of the league and we have zero shot at beating them
0-1
We surprisingly make a game of it, losing
2-3. But we still haven't gotten a win since the pre-profiling time. Hopefully the team just needs time to gel together. Our Bosnian was off on U-21 duties, by the way.