Oranje broke the deadlock (and the horrific series) against Portugal last night with a draw. Midfielder Strootman scored the Dutch goal in the first 20 minutes of the game, C…
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The Deer in the Headlight look of Paul Verhaegh The first international game in the new season. After that breezy Asian tour, important wins over Indonesia and China, we are…
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Louis van Gaal has announced his squad for the Portugal friendly. Schwarzenegger, Willis, Statham, Stallone, Jet Li.... Oops.. wrong list. Louis has come up with some surprises... We miss Clasie…
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We have had this debate here (and elsewhere) about the Mickey Mouse Competition or the BoyScout Competition as Rinus Michels called it... Well, we've started again. And it does look…
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Do you feel the tickling sensation already? The competitions has started already.... Time for predictions. I will offer up mine here. Dutch Competition If Ajax will keep Eriksen, they will…
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Not a title I have used before, for sure :-). I have used it for Ajax, for Feyenoord, probably for AZ, never for PSV. Because they never really were young…
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Louis van Gaal has almost exactly one more year to prep his squad for the World Cup. Will the No. 5 of the FIFA Ranking have a chance in high…
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Here is my update on transfers. I will not even try to be "complete" in my analysis as I am a bit far removed from the actions and people like…
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I said it here before and many of you concurred: Louis van Gaal is a wonderful coach. Great tactician. Good training material. Yadda yadda yadda. But he's also a bit…
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There is and always has been debate around Robin van Persie in Holland. It seems like we - Dutch - don't understand players like him. We like two types of…
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Yes I agree, it will be close. He's still not on the bench.