Roda JC

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Roda JC

Full name

Sport Vereniging Roda
Juliana Combinatie

Nickname(s)

The Pride of the South
De Koempels
De Limburgers

Founded

June 27, 1962
merger of Roda Sport (1954)
and Rapid JC (1954)

Ground

Parkstad Limburg Stadion
Kerkrade
(Capacity 19,979)

Chairman

Servé Kuijer

Manager

Raymond Atteveld

League

Eredivisie

2007/2008

Eredivisie, 9th





Home colours





Away colours

Roda JC is a Dutch football club located in Kerkrade, Netherlands. Roda JC plays in the Dutch Eredivisie.

1 History
- 1.1 Proposed merger
2 Stadium
3 Achievements
4 Current squad
5 Wall of Fame
6 Managers
7 References
8 External links

[edit] History

Roda JC came into being by the merger of several football clubs from Kerkrade. In 1954, SV Kerkrade (of 1926) and SV Bleijerheide (of 1914) merged to form Roda Sport. That same year, Rapid '54 (of 1954) and amateur club Juliana (of 1910) merged to form Rapid JC, which would go on to win the Dutch league in 1956. On June 27, 1962, Rapid JC and Roda Sport merged to form Roda JC. The current club is the result of the merger history involving no less than five clubs. Since being promoted to the Eredivisie in 1973, Roda JC hasn't been relegated. The club has reached the KNVB Cup final 5 times, winning it twice, in 1997 and 2000. The average attendance in 2004/05 was 12,700 people.

The last Dutch coal-mines were closed in the 1960s, but the Netherlands' most southern province, Limburg, is still referred to as the Mijnstreek ('mine district') today. The coal-mines are still industrious in folk songs in the regional dialect and in the stories of old miners, reminiscing of an era that will never return. Southern Limburg will always be their home. Their team, in most cases, is Roda JC.

Roda are known as a 'coal-miner's club'. Fans of MVV, from the mundane provincial capital of Maastricht, pronounce those words condescendingly. In Kerkrade and surroundings they are pronounced with pride. Roda JC are Limburg's number one club, now that Limburg rivals VVV Venlo, MVV and Fortuna Sittard are relegated from the Eredivisie. Roda's club honors include seven European campaigns and five KNVB cup finals, of which the latter two were won. One of the predecessors in Roda's 'family tree' of mergers, Rapid JC, were champions of the Netherlands in 1956. Ten out of eleven players on that Rapid JC team were coal-miners.

Few Dutch football clubs have such a complex history of mergers as Roda JC (full name: Roda Juliana Combinatie). The story in short: Kerkrade football club (of 1926) and Bleyerheide (of 1914) became Roda Sport in 1954. In the same year Juliana (of 1910) and Rapid (of 1954) became Rapid JC. The two mergers, Roda Sport and Rapid JC, existed for only eight years, forming Roda JC in 1962. The newly born club got promoted to the Eredivisie in 1973 and did not get relegated since. Today, the club play in Parkstad Limburg Stadium.

Since their promotion to the highest level in 1973, Roda finished in the top ten of the Eredivisie more than twenty times. It is one of the select handful of clubs that regularly qualify for 'Europe' and manifest themselves as tough opposition for the 'Big Three'. Roda, for one, reached their all-time high in the 1994-1995 season: the yellow and black side were the only team in the country not to lose to unbeaten national and European champions Ajax. Both league confrontations ended in 1-1 (the final score of surprisingly many recent editions of Ajax vs Roda, by the way, especially in Kerkrade) and Roda JC finished second in the Eredivisie, their best league achievement ever.

The history of the forming of Roda JC

The club's most memorable European campaign was in 1988-1989, when Roda made it through the winter in the European Cup Winners Cup before succumbing to the superb strikers of Bulgarian PFC CSKA Sofia: Hristo Stoichkov and Emil Kostadinov, who were soon to become superstars in Europe's major football leagues. Roda's most memorable European game, however, was played thirteen years later on 28 February 2002: after a 0-1 defeat to AC Milan in Kerkrade, Roda caused panic at the San Siro by winning the return leg by the same score. Roda even took the lead in the penalty shoot-out, but ended up losing the series. One penalty away from eliminating AC Milan.

Roda's position in Dutch football is best illustrated by their history in the KNVB Cup. Roda were good enough to make it to five finals, but the first three times the opponent in the final was one of the 'Big Three' - and Roda went home with the silver medal: PSV won in 1976 and 1988, Feyenoord in 1992. In the club's latter two cup finals, however, a 'non-Big Three' side was the opponent. Both times the cup went to Kerkrade: Heerenveen were beaten in 1997, NEC in 2000.

Roda can keep up with the big ones, even in times of financial trouble (2002-2003), but without being unfaithful to the real Roda soul. Typically, the club's eternal fan hero was a scion of a local coal-miner's family. A history of Roda would be incomplete without his name: Eugène Hanssen, long-time Roda captain during the 1980s and early 1990s, and still a working-class hero of Limburg's 'mine district'.

[edit] Proposed merger

It has been proposed that Roda will merge with VVV-Venlo, MVV and Fortuna Sittard to create a new club, FC Limburg. ^[1]

[edit] Stadium

Since the establishment of the club, Roda JC played in "Sportpark Kaalheide" with a capacity of 21,500 people. The current stadium is called Parkstad Limburg Stadion and has a capacity of nearly 20,000 seats. It was opened on August 15, 2000 with a match against Real Zaragoza.

[edit] Achievements

Eredivisie champion: 1

1955/1956 (as Rapid JC)

Eredivisie runner-up: 2

1958/1959 (as Rapid JC), 1994/1995 (as Roda JC)

Eerste Divisie champion: 1

1972/1973 (as Roda JC)

KNVB Cup winner: 2

1996-97, 1999-2000 (as Roda JC)

KNVB Cup runner-up: 4

1975-76, 1987-88, 1991-92, 2007-08 (as Roda JC)

Johan Cruijff-schaal runner-up: 2

1997, 2000 (as Roda JC)

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Bram Castro
2	DF	Ger Senden
3	DF	Jan-Paul Saeijs
4	DF	Pa Modou Kah
5	DF	Vincent Lachambre
6	MF	Marcel Meeuwis
8	MF	Willem Janssen
9	FW	Dieter Van Tornhout
10	FW	Anouar Hadouir
11	FW	Andres Oper
12	DF	Davy De Fauw
14	DF	Frank van Kouwen

No.	Position	Player
15	DF	Nuelson Wau
16	FW	Jamaïque Vandamme
17	MF	Marcel De Jong
18	MF	Cheik Tioté (on loan from Anderlecht)
19	FW	Sekou Cissé
20	MF	Roland Lamah (on loan from Anderlecht)
22	GK	Przemysław Tytoń
24	DF	Fatih Sonkaya (on loan from Porto)
27	DF	Boldizsár Bodor
30	GK	Cliff Mardulier
34	FW	Jeanvion Yulu-Matondo

[edit] Wall of Fame

Netherlands

Dick Advocaat
Stanley Bish
Michel Boerebach
Lars Brouwers
Joop Dacier
Leo Degens
Leo Ehlen
Henk Fräser
Bram Geilman
Maurice Graef
Nol Hendriks
Ruud Hesp
Gene Hanssen
Marco van Hoogdalem
Bert Jacobs
Ron Jans
Jan Jongbloed
Johan de Kock
Adrie Koster
Gerard van der Lem
John van Loen
Eric van der Luer
Mark Luijpers
Dick Nanninga
Theo Pickee
Richard Roelofsen
Huub Stevens
Wilbert Suvrijn
René Trost
Peter van de Ven
Pierre Vermeulen
Piet Wildschut
Peter de Wit

Australia

Belgium

Denmark

Gambia

Edrissa Sonko

Greece

Yannis Anastasiou

Ivory Coast

Arouna Koné

Nigeria

Tijani Babangida

Scotland

Jimmy Calderwood

Turkey

Fatih Sonkaya

[edit] Managers

RODA JC MANAGER	FROM	TO
Piet Thomas	1962	1963
Michel Pfeiffer	1963	1965
Wiel Coerver	1965	1966
Adam Fischer	1966	1968
Breur Weyzen	1969	1971
Jacques Koole	1971	November 1972
Hennie Hollink	November 1972	February 1974
Fritz Pliska	February 1974	1974
Bert Jacobs	1974	1980
Piet de Visser	1980	1983
Hans Eijkenbroek	1984	November 1984
Eugene Gerards	November 1984	December 1984
Frans Körver	December 1984	1986
Rob Baan	1986	October 1987
Rob Jacobs	October 1987	1988
Jan Reker	1988	1991
Adrie Koster	1991	March 1993
Huub Stevens	March 1993	1996-10-09
Eddy Achterberg	1996-10-09	1996-11-01
Martin Jol	1996-11-01	March 1998
Theo Vonk	March 1998	June 1998
Sef Vergoossen	1998	2001
Jan van Dijk	2001	2001-09-19
Georges Leekens	2001-09-19	2002
Wiljan Vloet	2002	2005
Huub Stevens	2005	2007-02-02
Raymond Atteveld	2007-02-02	—

[edit] References

^ Gabriele Marcotti (2008-01-21). A level playing field and Africa will shine. The Times. Retrieved on 2008-01-21.

v • d • e Roda JC – current squad

1 Castro • 2 Senden • 3 Saeijs • 4 Kah • 5 Lachambre • 6 Meeuwis • 8 Janssen • 9 Van Tornhout • 10 Hadouir • 11 Oper • 12 De Fauw • 14 Van Kouwen • 15 Wau • 16 Vandamme • 17 de Jong • 18 Tiote • 19 Cissé • 20 Lamah • 22 Tytoń • 24 Sonkaya • 27 Bodor • 30 Mardulier • 34 Yulu-Matondo • Manager: Atteveld