A warm hello and greetings to everyone in the Netherlands from your close friends here in Canada!! May 5th was Liberation Day in the Netherlands and with Euro Cup 2012 fast approaching as always i was reminded to come here and say to Dutch soccer fans best wish's and good luck to the Netherlands in the 2012 European Championships!! The Netherlands as always look to send a superb side to the Euro Cup which looks to have some very exciting matchups in what should be a fantastic tournament!! Netherlands Euro Cup 2012 Group Stage Schedule: June 9th: Netherlands vs Denmark (Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv (UKR) June 13th: Netherlands vs Germany (Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv (UKR) June 17th: Portugal vs Netherlands (Metalist Stadium, Kharkiv (UKR) Good luck in Euro Cup 2012 to everyone in the Netherlands from all your friends here in Canada!! Brilliant Oranje!! GO NETHERLANDS GO!!
Stekelenburg is admired in Holland, but in other countries his status is not that big. Objectively seen they are true. Vorm and Krul might be better, but Stekelenburg is proper, so just let it rest until after the world cup. v.Marwijk is testing a lot of defenders with only Eredivisie experience. Although not played many matches, v.Rhijn of Ajax deserves an invitation to the training stage...he had Nani in his pocket, who we'll meet next month. v.Marwijk's Kuyt fetish just has to stop, I see him bench one of our world class players at the Euro's for this old a-technical fishermans son. v.Persie and Huntelaar in front. 59 goals together in 2 of the top leagues of Europe! 4-2-3-1 has had it's expiration date anyway.
I think if people want more defensive stability, the 3-5-2 should be considered: Play VdW and Afellay as wingbacks. Alternatively if you want Huntelaar in there and are willing to give up a little bit of defensive security, you could take off VdW, put Robben on the left and put Afellay on the right
I just learned from that Huntelaar suffered a concussion in a friendly game this night colliding with the keeper and was rushed to the hospital. He was back within an hour with the team to travel to New York. 3 things. 1. The guy does not seem to care if his head is rammed by a truck 2. Had against England also a nasty collision, broke his nose before that. 3. Don't like this stuff before a Euro. I hope the friendly's stop now and we can focus on the Euro's.
There is at least this awful awful Netherlands vs Bayern München friendly. Fingers crossed that nobody will be injured..
It were the Germans who made all this bullshit up. Robben who played the World Cup with a torn tigh muscle according to dr Wolfart (or something like that). Yeah right, ever had a strained thigh muscle and couldn't walk properly...let alone sprint jump with a torn one etc. Yeah but but but we pay his enormous salary...not our problem that you pay insane amounts.
What a pathetic response, seriously. WE Germans are guilty. WE Bayern fans (lol) are guilty. Dr. Wr. Wolfarth is GUILTY, bad bad Uli Hoeneß. Because of Ze Germanzzz we have to play this ********in friendly. yea I rather think you are a hopeless case.
This whole thing is not worth getting in a snit about. In fact one should go back to the classic Cole Porter song (lyrics by Fred Astaire) and "Let's call the whole thing off!" refrain: You say eether and I say eyether, You say neether and I say nyther; Eether, eyether, neether, nyther, Let's call the whole thing off! You like potato and I like potahto, You like tomato and I like tomahto; Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto! Let's call the whole thing off! Rest of lyrics are HERE.
you germans think you are everything, and better than every other country. power hungry serious bastards, see you at the euro's
Hey mate,do you know all clubs are already Substantial Money by fifa as Injury Compensation when players participate in World Cup?? So Bayern have no reason to bitch about. And your coach Low has been bitching about this friendly since he was like born,saying it should be scrapped & it is hampering his preparations. He has said it like 10 times. So you have no moral authority to say about this. I am very happy to see this friendly but its bad timing & with Tymo & De Jong in either team a bad injury can occur anytime.
after watching the Bundesliga Cup final yesterday, I hope all those wonderful Bayern NT defenders start for Germany. We should have no problem scoring given the way Dortmund shredded them.
You know all those flags, I like it. But it annoys me that all those people who disgust football all of the year and don't even know the rules (you know who I mean) , are having the biggest mouth on tactics and are all dressed up like it's carnival. Like Durkheim said: celebrating the social, in times where individuality and irreligion is growing..
http://nos.nl/video/373407-spannende-dag-voor-narsingh.html Judging by this video, Narsingh and Luuk de Jong made relatively good impressions.
No Urby, Buttner and Viergever.. So our LB at the EC is either going to be 34 yr old Bouma or 18 yr Willems.
To Euro 2012: No Emanuelson No Maduro No Wijnaldum No Buttner No Ola John No Viergever No Cillesen No Mulder No de Vrij The new selection consists the following names: Keepers: Tim Krul (Newcastle United), Maarten Stekelenburg (AS Roma), Michel Vorm (Swansea City) Defense: Khalid Boulahrouz (VfB Stuttgart), Wilfred Bouma (PSV), John Heitinga (Everton), Joris Mathijsen (Málaga), Ron Vlaar (Feyenoord), Gregory van der Wiel (Ajax), Jetro Willems (PSV) Midfield: Ibrahim Afellay (Barcelona), Vurnon Anita (Ajax), Mark van Bommel (AC Milan), Nigel de Jong (Manchester City), Siem de Jong (Ajax), Adam Maher (AZ), Stijn Schaars (Sporting Portugal), Wesley Sneijder (Internazionale), Kevin Strootman (PSV), Rafael van der Vaart (Tottenham Hotspur), Attack: Klaas Jan Huntelaar (Schalke 04), Luuk de Jong (FC Twente), Dirk Kuyt (Liverpool), Jeremain Lens (PSV), Luciano Narsingh (sc Heerenveen), Robin van Persie (Arsenal) Arjen Robben (Bayern München). 4 players from this group will still drop out.
I can understand why Emanuelson is dropped. He has always been a horrible defender and we simply have better attacking midfielders.