Voetbal

Soccer (football/voetbal) is by far the most popular sport in the Netherlands. On my bucket list was to take JJ and Timmy to a game before we left.

My friend Jesse (PhD student at Tilburg, graduating this year and starting as an assistant professor at Tilburg in the fall) invites us to a N.A.C. Breda game. They lost (2-1) but it was still a lot of fun!

Unfortunately, we didn’t look up team colors before the game, and we wore the wrong color.

Timmy was a trooper. He had hurt his arm playing soccer earlier in the day. We thought it was just sprained, but it looked very painful all evening. The next morning we took him to the hospital. It was broken. So, he went to a soccer game with a broken arm (not in a cast). That’s a true fan!