Hugo Borst's column in the AD People ask me often - while the WC is still seven months away: "Do
you think Holland will win the cup in South Africa?" Does God exist? Is there life on Mars? Does
Oranje Angel have a Brazilian wax? There's a good chance, but how do we
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On an unrelated note, I was browsing uefa.com in hopes of finding some love "Greek-loving"
publications when my an video on the side panel caught my eye... "How to deal with pace" Lars
Lagerback on stopping the threat of quick strikers like Thierry Henry. Suggestion: Cut his hands
off.
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On a chilly night in Donetsk, the Greek National Team warmed the hearts of its supporters as
Dimitrios Salpingidis netted a quality strike to post a 1-0 win over Ukraine at the Donbass Arena
on Wednesday. After a score-less draw in Athens on Saturday, Greece secured their spot in next
summer's
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I don't care about friendlies. Whether we win, lose, play new players, old players, no players...
It doesn't work for me. Too much factors in play to seriously come to conclusions... How motivated
were the players? What were the special tasks the coach gave them? How motivated was the opponent?
The
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So, that's what a victory tastes like. After five games without a win and four without a goal
the Bialo Czerwoni finally managed to defeat their opponents, though we had to wait for a game
against the mighty Canada for them to do that. Mind you, what I find more important is that two 20
year olds, Maciej Rybus and Maciej Sadlok, showed some national team promise.
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As a fan it was hard to go back to watching the German national team get back to playing football.
It brought a smile to my face, however, when the Ivory Coast came out of the dressing room
reminding us all of the common noble spirit of football and human
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The following is an excerpt from a letter addressed to Robert Enke from the national team before
the match with the Ivory Coast... Wir spielen heute für Deutschland, wir spielen für die Fans.
Aber wir spielen vor allem für Dich. Für einen guten Freund, durch dessen Tod wir alle noch ein
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We are going to South-Africa! Quick notes while I spend the next hour writing this one up: -
Meireles paved the way with his first goal during this campaign! Great display. - Fifth consecutive
win during which we scored 10 goals and conceded none. Where will we stop? - I'm exhilarated with
the result
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Arsenal confirmed that Robin van Persie will be out for six weeks. He tore his ankle ligaments
against Italy and was stretchered of after a tough Chiellini tackle. Van Persie will travel to
Serbia this week to undergo a unique treatment. PSV midfielder Engelaar informed the Gunner about
this method and
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Hello all Russia fans. Russia will be playing Slovenia today (in about 30 min) in Maribor. As you
all know this is the final hurdle before the World Cup in South Africa next summer. Russia I think
that Russia have to work hard not to concede a goal as Slovenia have all
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Hello to all Russia fans. As we all saw on Saturday, Slovenia were able to scrap a late goal to
give them the valuable away goal. I will just briefly provide my view on the match. Russia Russia,
in my opinion played well for a home side but could have preserved the
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Poland will have to compete against Canada without the injured Kuba Blaszczykowski and Ireneusz
Jelen. The game is a perfect occasion to finally score a goal, the first in five games. Franz Smuda
is also going to use it to test players who are, at the moment, considered backups for the starters
in the national team.
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Young Oranje made a huge step towards the play offs for the Youth EC in 2011. Cor Pot's team won
2-1 against Spain at the Sparta Castle in Rotterdam. There's seven tickets for the Denmark EC 2011
for grabs in the play offs. The confrontation with Spain was the first serious
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November, 18, 2009
Bilino Polje Stadium, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
19:45 Lisbon, London; 14:45 New York; 20:45 Zenica
24 hours to go for the all deciding match at Zenica.
Bosnia Herzegovina needs to come back from the marginal defeat picked up last Saturday in Lisbon
and win by a margin of 2 goals.
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I really don't like friendlies. I don't like the fact that people read so much into them when
the players really don't care as much; I don't like the fact that we spend so much time analyzing
them when they're little more than practice sessions against players of a different nationality. At
best they can show the desire of fringe players to step it up and make the first team.
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