Articles tagged with "marco-van-basten"
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 15th, 2006
I am constantly over-flowing with opinions, pinings and whinings. I love to disagree with football commentators and analysts (ask me sometime about Max Bretos). ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 15th, 2006
Marco van Basten isn't losing any sleep over Didier Drogba and the Cote d'Ivoire attack. I'll be honest, I have never ever been impressed ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 14th, 2006
After his lame performance against M&S, Ruud van Nistelrooy wants to show the world what he can do against Ivory Coast. The Oranje offensive leader ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 14th, 2006
Three days for the second WC match of Holland against Ivory Coast, Marco van Basten came with an extraordinary request during the Thuesday press conference. ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 12th, 2006
"I am satisfied. Happy with the result, of course. It's important to win, no matter how you play. So, happy with the result, satisfied with ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 11th, 2006
It wasn't too bad at all. Arjen Robben put in a great display and the Dutch play some excellent possession football in the first ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 11th, 2006
Here we have the starting eleven for the Oranje in their first World Cup match in 8 years.
Edwin van der Sar
Heitinga Ooijer Mathijsen ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 11th, 2006
Just before the big match, Mateja Kezman - striker of S&M - declared that Marco van Basten is his all time fave player. "When I ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 10th, 2006
Arjen Robben possesses, in my always modest opinion, the largest amount of raw talent in the squad. There are players perhaps more refined or ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 10th, 2006
At least those are the rates I assume Marco van Basten charges the KNVB while babysitting the cranky and supposedly irratable Dutch squad. They ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 10th, 2006
I really love passing along all of these articles that pop up. There was one yesterday (or two days ago, its all a jumble) ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 10th, 2006
Johan Derksen is Holland's most notorious columnist and analist. Former football pro, editor of Dutch football weekly Voetbal International, consiglieri (or at least former) of ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 10th, 2006
"I seriously feared I had to bail out," says gifted midfielder van der Vaart. Now he has resumed group training, he is not longer unhappy ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 10th, 2006
Manchester United and England legend Bryan Robson has picked the Dutch as his dark horses for this year's World Cup. He figures that van ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 10th, 2006
Serbian striker Mateja Kezman, knows quality when he sees it and he certainly doesn't see it in the mirror. He does however look up ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 9th, 2006
Today, MvB sent Schaars and De Jong back to their holiday destination, with a relieved "thank you, but no thanks"... This obviously means that all ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 9th, 2006
It's a tradition for the Dutch team to always have a good dramatic row or scandal. In '74 it was the swimming pool orgy just ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 9th, 2006
Robin van Persie thinks that Marco van Basten has got the mixture between youth and experience just right. He recognizes that the group is ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 9th, 2006
Marco van Basten's thoughts on his past coaches, Johan Cruyff's involvement in his appointment as national team manager, and being an inexperienced coach at the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 8th, 2006
It was only a matter of time. A few weeks back we showed you the largely pathetic slogans that fans selected on the FIFA ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 7th, 2006
It seems like a long time ago that I did a comparison of the 1974 and current squads. I thought they shared a few ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 7th, 2006
Marco van Basten doesn't like the team slogan given to the team by FIFA. van Basten thinks that it is a provocation to other ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 5th, 2006
Ruud van Nistelrooy has praised Marco van Basten's "revolution" in the squad after taking over. The exit of some of the older players does ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 5th, 2006
Edgar Davids doesn't seem to hold any grudge against Marco van Basten but instead thinks that the Oranje will be able to put together an ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 3rd, 2006
This team selection business just keeps going doesn't it...
Despite their being a few positions that a certain van Basten has now come out and said ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 1st, 2006
Ernst Bouwes for Soccernet.com has written another really good article with lots and lots of quotes from Marco van Basten. van Basten addresses ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | Jun 1st, 2006
There will be four Dutch coaches at the finals in Germany starting in almost a week. Why is it that Dutch coaches seem to ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | May 31st, 2006
Fresh out of the bath, Marco van Basten thinks that AC Milan would be a good place for Ruud. Marco WOULD say that given ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | May 29th, 2006
It seems that despite having the full time job of trying to mold a group of stars into world beaters, Marco van Basten still finds ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Mike | May 29th, 2006
Marco van Basten has played down the poor second half the Dutch had against Cameroon on Saturday. It was merely a lack of fitness ...
