Arno Vermeulen (* 1960) is a Dutch sports journalist who works for the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (Dutch Broadcasting Foundation). Vermeulen began his career as a football announcer on Holland’s Radio 1. In 1996, he moved to the pay-TV channel FilmNet/SuperSport (later Canal Plus) where he covered numerous important matches – the Dutch Eredivisie, the English Premier League, the German Bundesliga, the Spanish Primera División, the Italian Serie A, and the UEFA Champions League. He also hosted pre- and post-match discussions from the studio and later from the stadium catacombs. In 2003, Vermeulen became the head of football at NOS Studio Sport. His voice has been associated with the European Championships from 2004 to 2020 and the World Cups from 2006 to 2018. Since 2018, Vermeulen has hosted the NOS Voetbalpodcast for NPO Radio 1 and is a regular guest on NOS Studio Voetbal on Sunday evenings. – For our website, Arno Vermeulen recorded the poem “Han Hollander als oorlogsverslaggever” (Han Hollander as a War Correspondent); in these verses from September 1944, Curt Bloch wonders what it would be like if the famous Dutch football announcer, Han Hollander were to comment on the course of World War II. Hollander, a Jew, had already been murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp a year earlier, a fact Bloch only learned after the war.
