Widespread sport
Feyenoord’s championship additionally confirmed one thing else: soccer had grow to be an actual widespread sport. It began round 1880 as an elite sport for boys from the best social class, who began golf equipment similar to HFC, HVV and Sparta. After the First World Warfare, employees additionally wished to play soccer, however at widespread golf equipment similar to Feyenoord, Go-Forward from Deventer and Blauw-Wit from Amsterdam.
The best rivalry of 100 years in the past was not between Ajax and Feyenoord, as a result of they’d solely simply began enjoying within the First Division. It was exactly the matches between the employees of Rotterdam South in opposition to the Hague gents of HVV that frequently resulted in conflicts.
Within the 1923-1924 season they performed in the identical competitors, the place Feyenoord gained twice in opposition to ten-time (!) champion HVV, with large numbers. The way forward for widespread soccer had defeated the previous of elite sport, wrote the New Rotterdamsche Courant then: “Feyenoord is at the beginning of its soccer profession, HVV has that one – and what a one! – behind it.”
