Sports
Football
I practice sports since I am 6 years old so it is no surprise I love doing sports. From the beginning I started practicing football at the local club and I am still doing it till this day. I always have been part of the same team and this resulted in close friendships and having fun on and of the field. The team spirit always have been around fun, never around performance. That is the main reason why it is pleasant before, during and after a game. Most of the time we stick around after the game to get a beer and eat dinner together. This makes the Saturday always more pleasant with sports and friends!
Circa 2007
Little me (right) and a good friend / teammate till this day
Field Hockey
I always practiced soccer but from 12 years old till 18 years old I had a break from soccer and I practiced field hockey. The main reason was that I wanted to try a new sport and I was always interested in field hockey because my little brother practiced the sport.
During my time at ‘Hockey Vereniging Westland’ I had a lot more success on the field than with soccer. Me and my team became champion of our division twice and this resulted in me advancing to the first team. I made a lot of close friendships and I loved doing field hockey but after 6 years I wanted to go back to soccer because it was still the sport I loved the most watching and practicing. Another reason was that more friends joined the football team so I wanted to be part of that team.
Circa 2017
Me and my old team mates, most of them I still see at least once a week
Padel
In the summer of 2019 I went to Spain for 6 months for my internship. In my free time I still wanted to do sports so I did some research about popular sports in Spain and I discovered ‘Padel’. Padel is the most popular sport in Spain and is a mix between tennis and squash. I loved doing Padel in my free time and I made a lot of friends during my internship because of Padel. When coming back in NL I discovered that the local tennis club also had two Padel-courts so I encouraged my friends to do Padel with me and now every Friday we practice this sport just for fun.
Me and my friends in a rally of Padel