Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the Netherlands, with field hockey and korfball as the second and third most popular team sports. Speed skating, cycling, tennis and golf are the four most widely played individual sports.

Football

Holland’s 5 Greatest Ever Footballers

• Johan Cruyff. Position: Attacking Midfielder / Forward. Caps: 48. Goals: 33.
• Marco van Basten. Position: Striker. Caps: 58. Goals: 24.
• Dennis Bergkamp. Position: Forward. Caps: 79. Goals: 37.
• Robin van Persie. Position: Forward. Caps: 102. Goals: 50.
• Arjen Robben. Position: Winger. Caps: 96. Goals: 37.

Korfball, game similar to netball and basketball, invented in 1901 by an Amsterdam schoolmaster, Nico Broekhuysen. It was first demonstrated in the Netherlands in 1902 and was played on an international level, primarily in Europe, by the 1970s. It was devised as a game for both sexes.

Here are some well-known, traditional Dutch dishes:

• AVG’tje. This standard term for a Dutch dinner stands for Aardappel, Vlees, Groenten, or potato, meat and vegetables.
• Pea soup / snert.
• Hutspot.
• Stamppot.
• Hachee.
• Brown bean soup.
• Pancakes.
• Huzarensalade.

January

Avenue) with Beadon Street and Sovabazar, about one kilometer north of the Marble Palace area. Sonagachi is the largest red-light district in Asia with several hundred multi-storey brothels and an estimated 7,000 sex workers (2020) contained within the area….