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unusual facts about FC Twente


FC Levadia Tallinn

They were equal matched for two legs however Levadia narrowly scraped through to the next round where FC Twente were a much tougher opponent.


Arend van der Wel

Arend van der Wel (28 March 1933 – 15 September 2013) was a Dutch professional footballer who played for Ajax and SC Enschede; he also worked as a scout and a coach at FC Twente.

Dayton Dutch Lions

The team is supported by Dutch Eredivisie side FC Twente, and is co-owned by Erik Tammer of Tammer Sportmanagement and Mike Mossel of Business and Sports Performance.

Douglas Franco Teixeira

Born in Florianópolis, Douglas has played in Brazil, the Netherlands and Russia for Joinville, FC Twente and Dynamo Moscow.

Frédéric Peiremans

Frédéric Peiremans (born 3 September 1973 in Nivelles) is a retired Belgian football player who played for Anderlecht, Charleroi, FC Twente, Real Sociedad and SD Eibar, as well as the Belgian national team.

George Houghton

While in America he also travelled to Florida to talk to an unnamed man who he said almost runs football over there and he has also been talking to former Middlesbrough and England now FC Twente manager Steve McClaren as well to set up links with David Beckham to try to get him to become an ambassador for the club.

Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez

On 7 April 2011, in the Europa League's quarterfinals against FC Twente, he broke his fibula after a tough challenge by Marc Janko, being rushed to hospital in an ambulance and lost for the remainder of the season.

Guilherme Afonso

Afonso has played club-football in Switzerland for Étoile Carouge, Sion, Grasshopper, Lugano and FC Vaduz; in France for Valence; and in the Netherlands for Twente and Veendam.

Riemer van der Velde

In the upcoming seasons a few other managers were not able to improve Heerenveen's football potential until Fritz Korbach, who previously managed FC Wageningen, PEC Zwolle, FC Volendam and FC Twente towards the Eredivisie also managed Heerenveen to the highest level of Dutch football.


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