“The comic triumph of the program, Dick Laan’s Voetball is a piece realized with the competence of a professional American director. A masterstroke of an occasional poet: veni, vidi, vici. You will be surprised by the practice and precision of the best elements of comic cinema utilized to create an excellent ensemble, so harmonious that one risks to not to catch a glimpse of all the energy that the enterprise required. This film, new, fresh, unpretentious but full of humor, is very evocative. We will have to accept this “reserve” that marks a magnificent goal with more honors, hoisting it up onto our shoulders to take three victory laps around the field”. (Henrik Scholte, Filmliga, n.5, February 1930 in F. Bono , A. Boschi and E. Reiter, Filmliga, Bologna, 1991)