TILBURG - Torbjörn Blomdahl returns to the Dutch premier league. The 62-year-old Swede, a six-time world champion in his career and 46 World Cups winner, plays for Cues&Darts/Xtreme team from Tilburg, which is second in the Kozoom league behind Babbelz. Blomdahl's first match should be a top affair: Cues&Darts agains Babbelz on Sunday 12 January with the Blomdahl-Caudron match on centercourt. Babbelz has announced that Caudron probably will not show up in this match.
The return of Torbjörn Blomdahl can be called remarkable: the Swede previously played in the Netherlands for successful teams such as HCR Prinsen, Van Wanrooy, Van Donge & De Roo and Hanse Catering. Blomdahl was playing the Molinari Open in Vietnam last days, where he did thelive commentary in English during the final. The Swede confirmed his transfer to Cues&Darts, where he is expected to play five matches. The Tilburg team, candidate for the playoffs, rotate players in their matches and could play in top games with Glenn Hofman, Torbjörn Blomdahl, Ruben Legazpi and Robinson Morales/Burak Hashas.
Monique Wilkowski, the team leader, comments: ,,We are very happy to have captured Torbjörn Blomdahl, giving our team even more charisma. The Dutch league is getting stronger, our players also have an international program, so we try to be as strong as possible in the most important matches.‘’
Torbjörn Blomdahl, apart from playing in Germany, now also plays in the Netherlands and in Turkey for Göztepe. In previous years, he was active in Belgium, Portugal, France and Spain. ,,I’m going to play in the Netherlands, because I would like to keep playing competition in between international matches. Maybe this is a new start in the Netherlands again.‘’
Huub Wilkowski of Cues&Darts would like to confirm that attracting Blomdahl is a credit to the club. ,,Billiards lives enormously in Tilburg, behind our team there is a whole organization. Those people we are very grateful that we can do all this.‘’
Apart from Torbjörn Blomdahl, Tayfun Tasdemir, among others, also returns in the second half of the Dutch competition. The Turkish frontman will play for Bousema, among others with Martin Horn, Jeffrey Jorissen and Gökhan Salman.
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