Articles tagged with "netherlands"
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Brooks Peck | Aug 10th, 2008
What a letdown.
The U.S. men's team dominated the second half against the Netherlands, coming back from a 1-0 halftime deficit with two goals in ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Brooks Peck | Aug 8th, 2008
Circumstances rarely conspire in favor of the U.S. men's soccer team, but that's what happened yesterday when they notched a 1-0 victory over Japan while ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Aug 6th, 2008
Call me cynical, but international footballers seem to have taken over for boxers and Green Bay Packers quarterbacks when it comes to calling time on ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Aug 1st, 2008
In less than a week, the 2008 Men's Olympic Football Tournament gets underway (complete with rubbish logo, left). August 6th to August 23rd. It's 16 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 30th, 2008
You asked for them, so here they are. The rosters for all of the men's teams heading to the Olympics. Kind of. ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jul 28th, 2008
Belgium olympic coach, Jean-François de Sart, is convinced that Kevin Mirallas will be fit enough to play against South Korea this Saturday. The young Belgians ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jul 27th, 2008
The Belgium olympic squad arrived in Yantai, China today. There the Young Devils will prepare for the upcoming Olympic Games. Two injured players went with ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jul 25th, 2008
Our olympic squad lost respectfully yesterday to the Netherlands, our neighbor and longstanding rival. The match was played at Cristal Arena in front of 6,859 ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jul 23rd, 2008
Bundesliga's Hamburger SV has finally let Belgian international Vincent Kompany play for the Olympics. The 22 year old defender is selected for tonight's friendly against ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 2nd, 2008
FIFA says... yes. The latest FIFA World rankings were released today, and a month of World Cup qualifying and a little tournament called Euro 2008 ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 28th, 2008
We've spent a fair bit of time ogling the womenfolk of Euro 2008. It's all part of what makes tournament football so very very ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 27th, 2008
Maroon 5 dedicated a song to this blog, called...eh... "This Blog".
It goes: "this blog has taken it's toll on me, but you said goodbye, so ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 25th, 2008
The Unlikely Fan, obviously still reeling from his adopted Oranje's exit from the tournament and taking it about as well as Hillary Clinton, gives his ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 24th, 2008
Our latest Fake Photo, sent in by Mike, is a dramatization of the "incident" between Patrick Vieira and Patrice Evra in the tunnel after France's ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2008
1. Jogi Low is an excellent picker
After being sent off against Austria, Germany's coach wasn't allowed to contact his players during the game against Portugal. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2008
Your Euro 2008 semi-finalists are: Turkey, Germany, Russia, Spain. Of these four teams, only Spain are unbeaten. Turkey lost to Portugal, Germany lost to Croatia ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 23rd, 2008
The collective wisdom is that it's good for a national team to have players playing in the big leagues outside their own country. If ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 22nd, 2008
We have two games to cover with this weekend's award ceremonies. So let's get cracking. First up ...
The Life of Brian Award : ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 21st, 2008
Some news to read as you take a look at the world's ugliest dog:
Reactions from the Dutch camp (Netherlands blog)
The death of 4-4-2 (SI.com)
What Poland ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2008
Just like yesterday, all the good stuff was saved for the end of the game.
Despite Ruud van Nistelrooy's late equalizer Guus Hiddink became the happiest ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 21st, 2008
After the France-Netherlands game, where France was demolished, 4-1, reports started coming out that France players Patrick Vieira and Patrice Evra had come to blows ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 21st, 2008
Oranje will start in the same line up as it did against Italy and France. Khalid Boulahrouz will play as right back and Engelaar will ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 21st, 2008
QUARTER-FINAL 3
June 21st, 2045 CET, Basel (Switzerland)
Netherlands1
VS
Russia 3
van Nistelrooy 86' Pavlyuchenko 56', Torbinski 113', Arshavin '116
FULLTIME
122' Dutch trying to mount any type of chellenge, ...
Posted on: Russia Euro 2008 Blog by Nick | Jun 21st, 2008
Hello to all. I just wanted to write a small blog on this evening's Netherlands-Russia game.
The most interesting thing about this match is Hiddink facing ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 21st, 2008
You'll probably read this on a hundred other websites, but Russia boss Guus Hiddink is plotting the downfall of his home nation today. Though the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 21st, 2008
As if the Dutch needed any extra confidence coming off of their 9-1 aggregate victory over the rest of the group of death, they can ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 21st, 2008
Boys and girls, we as a group are not doing so well.
Fully 60% of us expected Portugal to win over Germany. Yet Germany won, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 21st, 2008
This is the dream matchup of the quarterfinals. Both teams have been playing some beautiful attacking football and Russia's mastermind, Guus Hiddink, is both from ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 20th, 2008
Peter Wekking wrote this excellent column in the VI, some weeks before the tournament:
Edwin van der Sar. A child of Noordwijk. Hsving spent his youth ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 20th, 2008
Sorry guys, it's 5.30 am and Croatia - Turkey is still on. Watching football at this time is only fun when watching quality play...
Turkish goalie ...
