#Misters of the Netherlands 2021

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Misters of the Netherlands 2021 Winners

Misters of the Netherlands 2021 Winners

Congratulations are in order to the winners! Misters of The Netherlands 2021 Tjardo Vollema (who will compete in the next Man of the World) and his runners-up Mike van Wijk (who will compete in the next Manhunt International) Nick Pijfers Robin Strikkeling Kevin Nikolov Kudos to Ryan Sheikrojan, President of the Organization, for the successful staging of the…

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Beatrice Merlo recently gave an interview with L Football Magazine.

During the interview, she touched on a variety of topics, ranging from how the Inter Women are faring under coach Attilio Sorbi, what aspects of her game she’d like to improve; who are the most difficult strikers in the league to defend against, and professionalism for the women of Serie A Femminile.

A friendly reminder that the women are still not professionals yet and as Beatrice herself said, it will be a long process.

Below the cut is a translation of the interview.

(Claudio Villa) 📸

Beatrice, did you expect this award [the Player of The Month award from the AIC]?

Sincerely? No. There are many strong and experienced players who are ahead of me. This is why it is a prize that means a lot to me, and it gives me great satisfaction. Thanks to my companions for the trust they have shown me on the pitch. This is also thanks to the hard work of the whole team. 

During the last derby, you had to deal with Valentina Giacinti. How did it go?

Valentina is a girl that I respect a lot because, in every game, she is very determined and has a competitive edge. It was difficult to mark her, as, on the pitch, we have very similar characteristics. We like to tease each other; and if we make contact with each other a few times, we will do so without any problems. In this aspect, we are quite similar though we have different roles. It was a good duel and I hope there will be more.

Who are the most difficult Italian strikers to mark in the league?

In addition to Valentina Giacinti, I would also say Cristiana Girelli and Lisa De Vanna. However, all of the attackers are very fast and difficult to defend against.

What is it like to train with Attilio Sorbi?

He is a true Mister [in every sense of the word]. In every workout, if he notices you doing something wrong, he keeps you on the field and helps you work on every detail of it. He always makes you feel calm, and that you are always in the right place, and never excluded. We are learning a lot from him. 

What do you think are the aspects of your game that you would like to improve?

I am working a lot on continually trying to maintain my concentration for a full ninety minutes because sometimes, I get lost. Technically I want to improve on my left [foot] a lot and also on improving my strengths. I would like to do even better.

What were the difficulties of making the transition from the cadet championship [Serie B] to Serie A?

I wouldn't speak of difficulties. It was a transition that we knew would not be easy, starting from the preparation for the league, with a more intense rhythm of practice, and twice the amount of training. In the top flight, there are those four or five teams that play for top positions but I believe that, compared to last season, the level of the championship has gotten much better.

How would you rate your season and Inter’s so far?

I don't like giving grades. We can say that we are doing well, however, we can always improve.

At this point in the championship, did you expect the current rankings to be what it is?

Juventus has always been at the top, and it is not for nothing that they have been the Scudetto holders for two consecutive years. In addition to the top four, I didn't expect Sassuolo to do so well. However, all games must be played and the ball is round [meaning anything could happen].

In this period there has been a lot of talk about professionalism. What do you think about it?

It's only right that we footballers have the same rights as men. We are going through a change, however, and I think the greatest benefits will be for the younger girls because it will be a long process.

Last November, you received your first call-up to the senior national team. What was the experience like?

We were in the Netherlands for a friendly match [Italy U23s]. The Mister [Jacopo Leandri] had told us that, on return, some of us could take a different flight. I didn't expect it to be me. When he said "you have to take a different plane", I didn't want to believe it. I replied, "don't make fun of me." Even though we were only there for a few days, it was still a good experience. In the national team, you can breathe in a serene atmosphere as all of the girls are ready to give you a hand. They are there to help you and to encourage you if you make a mistake. 

(Translator’s note: She means that she took a different flight than the rest of the U23 girls just so she could join the senior team for their qualifying fixture against Malta.)

What do you think about getting called-up for the Euros [in 2021]?

How can you say no?

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'Libertas' by South-African Mister Copy (@mister_copy) for Writers Block Murals in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (2021) #mistercopy #writersblockmurals #leeuwardenstreetart #streetart #lamolinastreetart 📷 via artist bit.ly/34SWcvN (bij Leeuwarden, friesland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ819WZOAl8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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My ‘First Blog’

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''Morning: (n.) The time when the bed has more gravity.''

Was what I wrote on the whiteboard in my homeroom class this morning.

What is this?                                                                                      Yes, this will be my very first blog post. Kinda nervous to be honest, I was putting it off for a couple of days. Mostly because I used to make daily Tik-Tok video's of my day in the Netherlands and updates about moving to Milan. During the summer vacation (the time I moved from the Netherlands to Milan) I didn't make any video's just to take a break, but once I got to Milan(a few days before school started) I realized I didn't really wan to make them anymore. I definitely could, I guess I would like it, but didn't want that to be something that's on my mind all day. Because honestly I already have enough stress on me right now. But the reason I decided to start blogging is primarily to vent and just write because I do really love it.

What to expect:                                                                               In these next blog's I will (hopefully) keep writing about my daily wins, losses, updates and just happenings (this is a vent). When reading my blog you will get to know basically everything about me, and perhaps my friends and family too. Pictures will be included, and links to a whole bunch of topics I have talked about.

Day 1

First some backstory for explanation reasons; my homeroom teacher, we'll call him Mister. Mennix, writes a quote on whatever whiteboard is in the homeroom every morning. Normally they are quite funny and some are meaningful.

So as you perhaps have read as first, I wrote my meaningful quote on the board because my homeroom teacher first could't think of one, so I went on a journey to the Pinterest logo on my phone to find what I found and completed my task. After 15 minutes of homeroom French class started at 9:00 am. We checked homework which was due that day (yes I made the homework) and then made a formative test to practice for next Monday, when the summative is. After French my class and me went to Global Studies and watched a short documentary about the 1936 Berlin Olympic games. Which was quite interesting and enjoyed learning more about it. After watching the video we debated a bit about the meaning behind it all whereby I enjoyed speaking my meaning.

Then was the short break which lasts 15 minutes and was spent inside due to it raining all day long. I didn't hate the rain, although it was stressful to get to school I enjoyed the coolness of the day. I just talked a bit with friends in the time that I had. Then had Mathematics for two periods, which is 130 minutes in total, I personally don't hate Mathematics, while I know many people hate it. When I have nothing to talk about I will talk about how much I love math and what I am learning at school right now. but I won't bother you guys with that right now.

Moving on, after math we had the longer break and lunch break, first 30 minutes inside talking and I drew a nice moth off of Pinterest. Lunch is always a nice break. Normally I bring a tray of lunch up from the cantine for my friend, let's call them Luther, who a couple of weeks ago broke his foot during PE. I do this because our school building doesn't have an elevator. But this time other friends brought lunch up for him, so I could enjoy lunch in the cantine with more other friends. I bring my lunch because my parents woul have to pay like 9,00 euro everyday for the lunch served at school and I'm already used to bringing lunch to school everyday, since I always would do that in the Netherlands.

After the lunch break, which was delicious by the way, me and Luther had Italian class together. We have it together because we are both unable to join the normal class due to it being too hard for us. Luther is from Georgia and only came to Milan a week after me, which means he knows not much Italian. I know quite a bit of the language because of my step-family that I speak Italian with.

Since it was raining literally all day, even now while i'm writing, me and my sibling took the metro back home. Our dad brought us to school, since it was raining and we were running a bit late. I had to go with my sibling home because hey didn't know the way by metro,. Normally we bike to school because in Milan their are really quite a bit of bike paths. And taking the metro went quite smoothly even if we took the metro going the wrong way first, luckily I noticed right away, so we got off at the next stop and headed the other way. Three stops later and two, two blocks walking and we were home making homework until later then 18:00/ 6:00 pm.

I gotta sleep now it's late but I had fun doing this, hopefully I will be able to write again tomorrow.

04-10-2021

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Sebastian Martinez biography: 10 things about Mister Supranational Netherlands 2021

Sebastian Martinez biography: 10 things about Mister Supranational Netherlands 2021

Sebastian Martinez Sebastian Martinez is a Colombian-Dutch beauty king. Here are 10 more things about him: He was born in Bogota, Colombia. He is a certified barber. He owns a plastering company. He is a model signed with two agencies, one in the Netherlands and one in Portugal. He is 5’10” tall. In 2005, he moved from Colombia to the Netherlands. He competed at Mister International Netherlands…

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BURN THE GOLDEN COACH, BURN THE DUTCH KING, BURN DUTCH COLONIAL RACISM IN THE CARIBBEAN

An interview with Fridi Clemencia, who sells newspapers in the morning at the Zegu roundabout and cleans rich dutch white people houses the rest of the day in Curaçao:

TdS: What is your view on the recent opening of the golden coach art exhibition at the Amsterdam museum in the netherlands? Have you heard about it?

FC: Yeah while working for one of these rich makambas at Jan Sofat they was watching it on the internets and harassingly questioned me why I was totally against this symbol of dutch hyper plunder. A carriage made of stolen gold gifted to a dutch queen who stole the wealth of all these Caribbean islands the dutch colonized and enslaved. It was Wilhelmina the one still standing in front of our parliament building in Punda who was forced by the United States to sprinkle some of that political decolonization on us. She wasn’t really feeling it, she rather had us in their colonial cages for as long as possible.

TdS: And now her great-grandson Willem Alexander inaugurated the art exhibition and the museum is organizing a so-called public debate to decide what must happen with the golden coach.

FC: That is just a façade. Like Club Facade at Saliña, you remember those days? Like seriously people have to do their history and understand who we are dealing with. Apeldoorn 2009 showed us a Beatrix the head monarch in charge celebrating Queens day and she had survived an assassination car attack. Black ancestral Caribbean musical rhythms expressed through dancing bodies saved a ‘queen’ and her ‘royal’ family from dying. One of the dancers that danced for the ‘queen’ was Wilfrido Plantijn an elder from Curaçao he died on the spot and several other dancers of Ekspreshon Kultural were severly hurt too. But the queen nor her son the predecessor unlawful heir to the throne of royal plunder paid the expenses for hospital costs of the injured dancers. They refused to pay insurance money, they refused to pay for the funeral of mister Plantijn, tickets for the family for the burial of their loved one in Curaçao. Big disgrace for a family of ‘royalty’ Oranje van Nassau the most greedy bloodsuckers of this diabolical kingdom refused to pay the family and friends of a Black Caribbean man that died and prevented basically saved their ‘royal’ ass from dying. These type of colonial kaka we dealing with. My grandma used to tell us all that “the devil is dutch, these white ‘royalties’ became rich because of Black genocide.” She never lied you know.

TdS: Weird thing is that everybody accepted it nobody made a big fuzz about it, it never got mainstream media attention.

FC: For the public the dutch monarchy has to show the fairytale face to lull the masses to sleep but that other face, the real one is a face of falseness, viciousness. That behavior, these characteristics of dutch coloniality is what the dutch king willem alexander is maintaining as a tradition but he also knows that honoring his tradition he has to act as if he is a progressive white ‘royalty’ and represents for all people in the ‘kingdom’. One of the deceptions styles he uses is art and via Amsterdam museum they blind the people by centralizing the dutch racism controversy evoked by the golden coach and act as if he is a Black Lives Matter ally. By the way there were no protests, not a whistle, no silent acts of disapproval of the exhibition or the ‘king’. Is that maybe how the crumbs of dutch capitalism crumble in the netherlands? Really? No statements made, no think pieces, no social media monologues, no symposium, conference of the Black vanguard. Such a big silence for something worthy of critique and deconstruction. I

TdS: True indeed it was a golden opportunity to chant down babylon in the media or just live in their faces. It seems the consistency in their words and deeds are mismatching at times. The panel painted with half naked Black and Brown people kneeling down, being submissive to this white woman is in a museum, everybody happy for the moment.

FC: The kitoki of gold was actually a trojan horse to trick the dutch white impoverished in the beginning of the 1900s to have celestial faith in the dutch ‘royal’ family and blindly support them as saviors of the nation. And in 2021 these white people still kept ignorant and believe they need a king, the mental programming is so deep even makambas in Curaçao see them as holy figures. And kings day is one hot colonial mess too and on top of it indoctrinating these little kids in schools to believe he a saint or whatever, it’s makamba madness.

TdS: Amsterdam museum seems pretty proud

FC: Amsterdam museum can put some art in their space that softly critiques the legacy of dutch slavery in the Caribbean Africa South East India but that’s really it. The institution of a museum like this dutch one is just like its cousin the Rijksmuseum upholding veneration of dutch royalty and that is never not to be discussed after all he the ‘king’ gave permission and lend the golden kitoki and made the whole show of whiteness and inclusiveness fallacy possible. Through art the museum and the ‘king’ and his political pawns in government, parliament, local administrations and corporate world are policing how Black people should feel about dutch white hyper plunder. The bodies of our ancestors painted on that golden piece of shit are still theirs in their minds. Dutch whiteness conditions them to believe they have ownership over Caribbean Black lives. And for the non-believers they should check how the dutch government is forcing and extorting neoliberal reform in exchange of illegal covid-19 loans to impoverish the islands of Aruba, St. Martin and Curaçao even more than they already did. These type of things are not part of the conversation.

TdS: That is colonial censorship which is needed to keep these islands in the realm of enslaveability. The same reason why Bonaire, Saba, Statia to this day are not getting the same social benefits and all the other state care arrangements to live a life as the dutch whites do in the Netherlands. The so-called Black/Caribbean decolonial/decolonizing/anti-colonial people let the dutch white savagery happen because maybe they think shutting it down would mean loss of income/speaking gigs/media performances/research work?

FC: The foundation of the dutch antiblack fuckery is that white people think they are the decision makers of what happens to these racist symbols that impact the lives of Black people in the netherlands and the Caribbean. Capitalism fucks up everybody head, even the Caribbean artist are all from the netherlands. Nobody really living on these islands or Suriname have been invited to think along or create an art piece. Nobody even demanded that artists and communities living in the Caribbean should also have a voice in this whole exhibition and pseudo debate. Its art apartheid pretending to be a decolonizing project. The ‘king, the government and Holland BV has blood on their hands though.

TdS: There is a big disconnect in communication with the Caribbean and both the diaspora and the makambas don’t seem to realize how the social deadening is speeding up around here.

FC: For real for real, people acting as if the islands aint going through colonial genocide and even Suriname is struggling real hard right now and in the netherlands, white people, the diaspora and Black people in general normalize that Suriname is independent and that every hardship they go through is their own fault since 1975 and not the fault of Holland BV. And these colonial art institutions with these exhibitions constructed to keep white hyper plunder systems in power are not intended to talk about that, they are tools to keep dutch capitalism plundering so their museums can profit off their savagery. It’s a art laundromat of royalty and institutionalized racism in the netherlands and the Caribbean. 90 to 95% of these exhibitions you will see dutch white people profit from it. It’s a colonial project where the souls of Black and Brown people get extracted and dutch companies get most of the monies.

TdS; This whole decolonize this and that movement leaves a fraudulent taste doesn’t it?

FC: Listen if the Caribbean really was connected to their own people in the Caribbean they would stand up for their people and demand spaces and structural funds for art if we keep it restricted to art for the moment. Right now as we speak Museo Tula in Bandabou Kenepa has been shut down for months by neoliberal policies from the last neocolonial PAR MAN government. They even tried to sell the art and artifacts of the museum to get money. These devils be wicked, i tell you. We talking about the blackest revolutionary landscape where freedom fighters shed blood for us in 1795. This museum had to feel the financial barbarities of dutch colonialism 2021 which by international law, treaties, kingdom law is a clear violation of Black Caribbean decolonization. Where the ‘Tula Taught Me’ t-shirt army at yo? On some real shit, have you heard the white art institutions or Black curators in the netherlands expressing any outrage, the white academics of colonial history, the constitutional law experts or just anyone that strutted down the colonized catwalk of decolonization or decoloniality?

TdS: The disrespectfulness has never stopped to amaze people down here. And this is a problem that could be easily fixed but people need to see the value of things and ancestors that have shaped our current lived reality. Maybe blood needs to flow before people in the netherlands start their journey to a new awakening.

FC: It’s similar to how the art community moves in the Caribbean. You depend on the crumbs of the ruling elite to live, that is if you desire recognition and some funds. I know people that do art, my sister make amazing shit but just like me she cleaning schools with broken ceilings and roofs that lack laptops and teachers equipped to educate Black emancipatory youth. How or why is art not being made to critique the fuckupness of the Caribbean not being able to eat from their artworks especially if its anticolonial decolonial and anti ruling elite on the islands? These are all human rights issues, this why Barryl Biekman one of the peoples we should bigup and give thanks to for fighting against the golden carriage and blackface 10 years ago. She was battling dutch white media on her own and telling the makambas that these symbols and systems of dutch antiblack racism are a crime against humanity.

TdS: 10 years it took the dutch to put the golden kitoki in the museum. That’s so backwards but typifies the super slow dutch savage capitalism influenced tempo of dismantling colonial racism in the netherlands.

FC: It may take a decade or more to defund the dutch monarchy take its stolen riches back and abolish that whole institution. The dishonesty and hypocrisy to invite a king to their exhibition but to only slightly critique, fake debating the golden vehicle of ceremonial modelling but refusing to scrutinize the plunder whiteness of the dutch monarchy and the dutch government. They could never take a stance against capitalism. That’s basically what’s going on. These people and institutions have generational blockages to understand and make the connection that where art and coloniality arises in spaces that the Caribbean has to be included and demanded to take a stance against the violence of racist genocidal policies that destroy the lives of the people on the islands. Once these colonial clouds capitalistic ignorance fades away they might start shifting attention to destroy the monarchy, to wreck wicked whiteness in the corporate world and government and in their own spheres of art and academia, intellectuality.

TdS: This national debate is a joke thing right?

FC: Both Rijksmuseum and Amsterdam Museum are being run like a business. They may have banned the word ‘golden age’ but the glorious memory of that era of coloniality is still vibrant in their bones and behavior. It’s still white people leading, funding these institutions. Their target audience is white people, the exhibition is made with that in mind. Even though some Black people were involved, they also know that Blackness could never reign supreme without consequences. They have to adjust to make white people not cry out their eyes. Because they are the majority that bring the coins and can keep their careers alive in the world of art. They don’t give a shit that right now the dutch are colonizing the islands to accelerated social death. That realization is not going to be made through nice non-threatening art or a dialogue while sipping a starbucks frappuccino. They have used the traumas and tribulations of us in the Caribbean so many times and most of these moments they always excluded us and silenced our sufferation. We were never part of their projects that use the lives of our ancestors to get that bag of money, fame, power whatever. It always comes back in a different shape and form but the fuckery stays the same.

TdS: So what besides the coloniality of dutch art curating, monarchy, capitalism, colonial genocide in the Caribbean is missing what needs to discussed and turned into action?

FC: reparations is deliberately structurally left out of the chatter even the thousands of rastas in the netherlands and on the islands quiet as fuck together with these movements, the voices and faces of Black whateverness. Amsterdam as a city and their council and movements led by Black people deepened the talks about apology. The council negotiated an apology for slavery but unsurprisingly without reparations also again without linking up with the communities living in the netherlands and the Caribbean. Reparative repercussions are very real, that’s Black economic and financial violence for dutch white people but to us it’s just a ancestral linkup to rectify the past and stop the ongoing genocide and plunder by dutch whiteness in the Caribbean and make sure it never happens again. No national security risk assessment, half ass decolonization elitist intellectual foolery or debates in art institutions cant escape their fate for all the savage white fuckery they have done and still are doing to us to this day in Statia in St.Martin in Curaçao in Aruba in Bonaire in Saba and in Suriname. Don’t ever think Maxima singing a few words from Marley's Redemption Song at Keti Koti will change our avenging hearts. Niki pabo makamba stinki, niki.

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Pageantry Norms S5E4: “The Dutch Misters”

Pageantry Norms S5E4: “The Dutch Misters”

I truly enjoyed my Pageantry Norms Episode earlier with the Dutch Misters of Misters of The Netherlands 2021. It was fun talking with Tjardo Vollema, Mike Vanwijk and Ryan Sheikrojan. Good luck in your competitions! #PageantryNorms

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Pageantry Norms S5E4 Teaser: “The Dutch Misters”

Pageantry Norms S5E4 Teaser: “The Dutch Misters”

#NextAttraction on Episode 4 of Pageantry Norms Season 5: “De Nederlandse Misters” Wat onderscheidt Nederlandse mannen? Het uiterlijk? De hoogte? De mannelijke aantrekkingskracht? Of al het bovenstaande? #TheDutchMisters Misters of The Netherlands What distinguishes Dutch men? The looks? The height? The manly appeal? Or all of the above? We will attempt to answer this question and a lot more this…