It hurts when I see Sweden advance even further into the World Cup. It hurts bad. With all the "heavy hitters" going home early, imagine what we could have achieved...…
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Dear friends, I've been withdrawing from writing and blogging as work and World Cup took over priorities. But, now, with the group stage behind us, it's nice to revisit the…
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Around this time, there is always talk about great players who won't be at the tournament. In this case, the likes of Frabegas, Sane, Nainggolan and others come to mind,…
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In the last years, heaps and heaps of questions arose around Dutch football, the national team, our development and football vision and more. When Koeman came on board as the…
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Koeman's new Oranje had a bland loss against England, an aggressive win against Portugal and now a tw0-faced draw against Slovakia. Koeman will stick to his 5-3-2, with good reasons,…
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Ok, here's the highlights of the CL finals, Liverpool - Real Madrid: - Ramos illegally wrestles Salah to the ground and dislocates his shoulder, Salah needs to come of -…
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Memphis Depay was traveling with the Olympique Lyon Foundation last January, for some benefit dinner for the homeless... They drove past a Roma camp outside of Lyon, a desolate little…
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Lots of developments again in Dutch football! Apologies for the late post again, just busy busy busy, but also lots of football to follow... Can I say a big thank…
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....against England. It's interesting, the Dutch were reigning supreme in the Golden Age, with the English Empire and the Portuguese seafarers... And England and Portugal are our up and coming…
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We had our time, for crying, for mourning, for self-obsessed analysis and for memories... Now is the time to look forward again. As our EC2020 campaign will start now basically!…
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JB, each time you tell me more about it, the gift seems cooler and cooler. And your son came up…
Despite probably not impacting our positioning in the next round, I hesitate to start looking too far ahead. We need…
I have just checked the World Cup table. Morocco beat Haiti and finished 2nd in Group C. If the Netherlands…
Sounds great! Thanks Johan. I live in the US and grew up in the DC area. My mother's family were…
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Great story. Cruyff would probably just say: “Good, but you still didn’t get it right.” 😉 Serious though — it’s…