klassieker
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Dutch
Alternative forms
- Klassieker (football match)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Klassiker. Equivalent to klassiek (“classical”) + -er. The sports sense was originally Belgian Dutch and derives from French classique.
The football subsense gradually arose starting in the 1950s, when it was applied to many other football matches, and is based on the fact that Amsterdam and Rotterdam and their football clubs Ajax and Feyenoord are, respectively, two of the most prominent cities and clubs in the country with a traditional rivalry going back many decades. A Feyenoord-Ajax match therefore became considered to be the classic football matchup in the Netherlands.
Pronunciation
Noun
klassieker m (plural klassiekers, diminutive klassiekertje n)
- a classic (person or thing)
- (sports, originally cycling) a sports classic, a traditional match
- 1937 April 27, “Wielrennen. Bronger rijdt in Parijs-Sedan”, in Dagblad De Grondwet, volume 75, number 99, page 2:
- De Roosendaalsche renner Bronger is naar wij vernemen aangeworven voor de groote Fransche klassieker Parijs—Sedan over een afstand van 270 K.M.
- The cyclist from Roosendaal has been, as we have learnt, recruited for the big French classic Paris-Sedan over a distance of 270 km.
- 1949 May 30, “Jan van Gelderen boekt een resultaat”, in Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, volume 192, number 124, page 5:
- In een Belgische klassieker voor Onafhankelijken over een afstand van 184 km., heeft Jan van Gelderen uit Sluiskil zich kranig geweerd.
- In a Belgian cycling classic for independent cyclists with a length of 184, Jan van Gelderen from Sluiskil has put up a tough fight.
- 1950/1951, Martin W. Duyzings, Sport op twee wielen, De Koepel (publ.), page 97.
- Gij vindt zijn naam niet op de erelijsten der klassiekers, hij gold in de Tour de France uitsluitend als premie-jager en won meer dan eens een etappe in een massa-sprint, nadat hij door zijn ploegmaten handig gelanceerd was.
- You don't find his name in the halls of fame of the road cycling classics, he exclusively functioned in the Tour de France as a finisher and won more than once a stage in a bunch sprint, after he had been cleverly jumpstarted by his crew mates.
- (Netherlands, soccer, often preceded by the definite article) a match between the football clubs Ajax and Feyenoord
- 1957 March 14, “Klassieker der techniek: Ajax-Feijenoord. Ook Fortuna-Enschede van belang”, in De waarheid, volume 18, number 62, page 4:
- Men zou het de klassieker van de techniek kunnen noemen, al is die van Feijenoord momenteel dan wel meer geslepen.
- One could call is the classic of technique, although in taht case Feijenoord's technique is currently more polished.
- 2014, P. Onkenhout et al., Koning voetbal: een lexicon van het Nederlandse voetbal, page 134:
- Door ernstige supportersrellen wordt de klassieker sinds 2009 zonder uitpubliek gespeeld.
- Due to serious rioting by supporters , the classic has been played without the guest club's supporter base since 2009.
Coordinate terms
- (match between Ajax and Feyenoord): topper (“match between Ajax and PSV Eindhoven”)