Voetbalvrouwen

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Voetbalvrouwen is a Dutch dramedy made for the now defunct channel Tien; the first season ran from March 18 to May 27, 2007 and is now available on DVD. Voetbalvrouwen is basically the Netherlands' answer to Soccer Wives, one with original scripts that suits the tastes of Dutch viewers. The second season is currently shown on RTL 4 after the Sunday evening football-slot (which is now cancelled since NOS regained those precious football rights).

1 Cast
2 Season 1
3 Season 2
4 Trivia
5 Links

[edit] Cast

Solange: Nicolette van Dam
Melanie: Lone van Roosendaal
Renske: Sophie van Oers
Liz: Leontine Borsato

Danny: Mike Weerts
Italo: Bas Muijs
Arjen: Victor Low (2007)
Rutger: Joep Sertons (2008-)
Madonna: Marlous Dirks (2008)
Dylan: Ludwig Bindervoet (2008-)
Jeffrey: Barry Atsma (2007-2008)
Gio: Curt Fortin (2008-)
Hidde: Wolter Muller (2008-)
Jokke: Frans van Deursen

[edit] Season 1

Arjen Duivendrecht coaches football-club Heros who are determined to regain the top spot. The arrival of centre-player Danny Doornbos ensures new positions for Italo Ferrero and the seasoned Jeffrey Woesthof. When Arjen's secret life as a transvestite gets media exposure he loses his credibility and commits suicide, unaware that he has a teenage-daughter (Jamie) on the account of stolen sperm.

His replacement Harry Reitsema is immediately installed and fails to win the players' hearts, dragging the fab four to the sidelines. Reitsema soon dies in a car crash. Italo, who was dismissed as "a disturbing force" is only "glad to see that moron go". For the time being, Jeffrey operates as assistant coach.

Renske, Danny's longtime-girlfriend, is not in for a treat upon arrival; her privates hit the frontpage (captioned 'Eros' New Recruits'), the Doornbos-mansion turns out to have played host to a murder, and to make matters worse someone has installed cameras; could it be the neighbour (a martial arts practiser hiding behind a geeky image) ? No, it's their stylist, a straight man hiding behind a gay image. Renske works with, to put it in her own words, mentally restricted children, but loses her job because her colleagues reckon that she's getting too glamourous. Strange, cause of all the four women Renske is the least inclined to such a lifestyle.

On her stag night she gets laid by a Chippendale, a move she immediately regrets and only comes clean about days after her televised marriage. Danny suggests that Renske has been raped while some viewers think that she'll go through the next season as a pregnant woman.

Liz is married to Arjen; they live at a farmhouse and have an English-speaking employee (Damian, played by Goede tijden, slechte tijden actor Mark van Eeuwen). Liz wants to relocate to Spain, which is not an unlikely move now Arjen has taken his own life.

Solange, Italo's girlfriend, wants to have a career of her own but she's treated like a slave; she retaliates by stitching Dolce & Gabbana labels onto cut-price underwear and spiking his smoothies with tranquillizers. Italo's response; confiscating her passport on the eve of a trip to Milan with Melanie. Fed up with this male chauvinist behaviour Solange walks out but returns after getting proposed; she says yes on condition that she gets treated like a lady, career and bank account included.

Melanie Woesthof is Jeffrey's wife; she mothers his second-born son and co-hosts a shownews-programme. The first episode sees bodylifted bleach-blonde Mel receiving bad news, she gets sacked for being too old. When Jeffrey is up for a transfer to Bahrain she covers the stairs in soap because her lifestyle doesn't fit in a country where women are excpected to walk the streets in veils and burkas. Disgusted with the men being relegated to less than a supporting role, Mel hatches a plot with Renske and Solange to rule out Harry Reitsema. The threesome are caught celebrating his death and during an apperarance on a TV-show they're confronted with the upcoming coverstory of a gossip-zine.

The first season ends with Melanie, Renske and Solange being arrested.

[edit] Season 2

The ladies are released due to lack of evidence but people are still keen to uncover the truth. And the truth is that Reitsema had a mentally restricted son whom Renkse had contact with before the accident which could've been a fate shared by Solange's brother Mickey.

Melanie's hotel-owning sister Madonna returns from France and she isn't pleased to see her, despite Madonna playing a key-role in Mel's pregnancy. The boys though are fond of her and when Madonna is banned from the place she buys the mansion next door. More bad news; Jeffrey is still up for transfer to Bahrain and gives it the go ahead, particularly after finding out that Mel had Diego pretend to be ill (a role abandoned by crawling out of bed and sampling the snacks at the farewell-party). Broken-hearted Mel develops a drinking-problem but is angry to learn from her sister's own brush with alcohol when attending an AA-meeting. Her chance to sing the Heros Club Anthem at the stadium, accompanied by Diego on piano, is marred by another booze-up after press-speculations of Jeffrey having a new girlfriend; looks like the press are having a field day. Mel launches a celebrity magazine "that stands out from the others"; once again she blows a chance to interview Froukje de Both (whose taken out for a joyless shopping spree) meaning that Madonna has to rewrite the entire article. Mel eventually has enough and sends her packing; after an evening on the tiles she ends up puking in the canal and wakes up in a rehab-clinic where she refuses to participate in activities. Coming back home after only one day Mel's in for a few nasty surprises; her alcohol-consumption has left her with huge bills to pay, her magazine is cancelled after the staff unanymously walked out, Dylan shares a hotel room with goalie Hidde Storm and to make matters worse Diego has decided to move in with Madonna period. At least Solange is there to keep her company.

Joep Sertons, often typecast as the bad guy, plays new coach Rutger

Antonie Kamerling plays Baron Oberon van Ravenswaaij.

[edit] Trivia

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