Articles tagged with "Netherlands"
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | May 13th, 2008
Scotland has made enormous strides in world football, but there's always something around the corner to slap us in the face and remind us that ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 8th, 2008
Marco van Basten has named his 30 man provisional squad for Euro 2008 and Jonathan de Guzmán is nowhere to be seen. Maybe not a ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 7th, 2008
Over at UEFA's official Euro 2008 site, they've been polling for the best individual goals in Euro history. I say polling, they're actually only giving ...
Posted on: Romania Euro 2008 Blog by Ian Rose | May 6th, 2008
Adrian Mutu has had, by any footballing measure, a very bad week. First, he was again kept at bay by the solid defense of ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 5th, 2008
Name: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Team: Netherlands
Group: C; Italy, France, Romania.
Caps (Goals): 11 (6) - as of May 5, 2008
DOB: August 12, 1983 (24 years old)
Position: Striker
Club ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 1st, 2008
Over at UEFA's Euro 2008 website, fans of all 16 teams have voted on which slogans to emblazon on the team buses. The results are ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Apr 9th, 2008
No big surprises in the FIFA World Rankings announced today. Our draw with Croatia wasn't enough to keep up the good points average of ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Mar 28th, 2008
Instead of letting Arsene Wenger do all the talking about the pointlessness of international friendlies, Sir Alex Ferguson, briefly a Scotland manager once himself, went ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 3rd, 2008
The Dutch players will now go into Euro 2008 knowing exactly who their next boss will be. Marco van Basten is stepping down after the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 29th, 2008
The Leap Year means one whole extra Daily Dose in the month of February. Happy day. So here are the football links from around World ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 22nd, 2008
Here's an interesting concept, what if a best eleven wasn't picked on reputation but entirely on statistics? That's the the idea behind the Castrol Performance ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 4th, 2007
Netherlands boss Marco van Basten and his assistant John van't Schip will be stepping down after Euro 2008. It's been an interesting spell for the ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Apr 30th, 2007
Let us give a hearty congrats to two Ecuador internationals who, in their first seasons in Europe, have already become league champions.
First was El Kangaroo, ...
Posted on: Portugal Euro 2008 Blog by Luis | Apr 18th, 2007
I thought this day would never come, but apparently miracles do happen. Portugal has risen to seventh place in the new FIFA rankings. ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Dec 20th, 2006
Ecuador international Franklin Salas may be headed to the Netherlands to join countryman Edison Mendez at PSV Eindhoven. The LDU Quito man will train ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Nov 17th, 2006
The Good:
Rooney finally scored again
Welcome back Joe Cole
Micah Richards looked the business
Ashley Cole starting to look more like a footballer again
We looked surprisingly organised
A draw ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Sep 30th, 2006
Ecuador midfielder Edison Mendez is already an important part of champion Dutch side PSV Eindhoven. He scored twice in his debut, and that has ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 7th, 2006
Van Basten was satisfied with the result and performance of Oranje against Belarus. "The points are welcome and in the first half we showed good ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Sep 6th, 2006
Ecuador midfielder Edison Mendez is training with his new club, Nederlander champs PSV Eindhoven. I'm really looking forward to seeing Edison in the Champions ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 5th, 2006
What did the Cannibal eat??? The big man from Chelsea has some sort of bowel distress and couldn’t train with the group. San Marco is ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Sep 5th, 2006
There is no I in team, is a well-known saying… But still, in every team there needs to be at least one boss. One leader. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Sep 2nd, 2006
Well it turns out Landzaat is in the squad in an attempt to make up the numbers in the midfield. The eleven is as ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Sep 2nd, 2006
There are some days - like today in which my mouth was relieved of six teeth - when its easier to point towards another writer ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Aug 30th, 2006
Wesley Sneijder will miss at least the first match against Luxembourg. His wife is pregnant and their expecting their baby very soon. As ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Aug 28th, 2006
Our first match is against Luxembourg. The two teams have met 14 times dating all the way back to 1920. Their biggest win ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Aug 28th, 2006
Robben looks set to be out for both of our first two qualifiers against Luxembourg and Belarus.
I asked myself, "How much do the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Aug 27th, 2006
Both Blackburn and Chelsea opted to field their newly signed Dutch defenders. Unfortunately Ooijer was at fault for the penalty from which Lampard scored ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Aug 26th, 2006
Mark van Bommel's time at Barcelona is at an end. Barca have agreed a deal to send van Bommel to Bayern next week.
He's also ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Aug 26th, 2006
Can you believe that I almost forgot to post a little something about Ruud this week? He aboslutely starred in Madrid's friendly against a ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 24th, 2006
The events of the last months initiates a scary train of thoughts in my mind… Having witnessed the huge successes of the Dutch football teams ...
