Hibs will play Willem II in January as part of the club’s training camp during the winter break.
Neil Lennon’s squad will head to the Algarve for a week’s training in preparation for the second half of the season.
The team will face the Dutch Eredivisie side on Friday 12 January at the Estadio Municipal VRSA.
Hibs have played at the same stadium in recent years, taking on Nottingham Forest in a pre-season friendly in 2013.
Willem II currently sit 14th in the Eredivisie, the top league in Dutch football, with four wins and three draws from their opening 15 matches.
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
