Netherlands manager Bert van Marwijk has named his 23-man squad friendly international matches
against Italy on November 14th and Paraguay on November 18th. Squad: Goalkeepers: Maarten
Stekelenburg (Ajax Amsterdam), Michel Vorm (Utrecht), Piet Velthuizen (Vitesse Arnhem) Defenders:
John Heitinga (Everton), Joris Mathijsen (Hamburg SV), Edson Braafheid (Bayern Munich), Gregory van
der Wiel (Ajax Amsterdam), Giovanni van Bronckhorst (Feyenoord), [.
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Du Nord 25 September @ 04:48 AM EST
By Carl Carpenter
This summer I had the chance to interview two players, Claudio Reyna and Salomon Kalou, after Steve
Nash's second annual celebrity soccer match. Proceeds from the event went towards the Steve Nash
Foundation and the Claudio Reyna Foundation. The set-up is a free, 8-a-side match featuring NBA
players and professional soccer players.
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Giovanni van Bronckhorst (34) looks back at his best international game of his career, the one
against Italy on the last EC. And he looks to the upcoming WC in South Africa: "Of course I dream
of playing there, but if there's a better player on my spot, he should
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To put the finishing touches on Euro 2008, here's my tournament all-star team and MVP. I'll go with
an aggressive 3-5-2 formation, which should be fine since the defenders are so good.
Goaltender: Iker Casillas, Spain
Defenders: Hamit Altintop, Turkey; Carlos Puyol, Spain; Giovanni Van Bronckhorst,
Holland
Midfielders: Andrei Arshavin, Russia; Michael Ballack, Germany; Luka Modric, Croatia; Wesley
Sneijder, Holland; Xavi, Spain
Forwards: Semih Senturk, Turkey; David Villa, Spain
It's a testament to Spain's team that I'm having such a hard time picking a tournament MVP.
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It's the Dutch versus one of their own, Guus Hiddink, coaching a spry Russian squad trying to make
history and reach the semifinals.
Netherlands: 1-Edwin van der Sar; 21-Khalid Boulahrouz, 2-Andre Ooijer, 4-Joris Mathijsen,
5-Giovanni van Bronckhorst; 17-Nigel de Jong, 8-Orlando Engelaar; 18-Dirk Kuyt, 23-Rafael van der
Vaart, 10-Wesley Sneijder; 9-Ruud van Nistelrooy.
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Celtics, Italy, and the Netherlands win. It's an 80's flashback!
Damn, France sucks. I'm not even sure they could beat the U.S. Italy worked hard and grinded out
a 2 – nill victory. The Netherlands' side continued to roll posting an impressive 2 –
nill victory over a hustling Romania.
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The Oranje-loving Unlikely Fan returns with more words of wisdom about Group C. Two key things to
take from his preview of Netherlands vs France today: 1. The French team are like a very
complicated puzzle, and 2. Netherlands fans need to steal Giovanni van Bronckhorst's wallet. Prost!
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Soccerblog 10 June @ 02:45 AM EST
Holland buried the world champions 3 - 0 .Ruud van Nistelrooy scored the first goal - (which they are saying was so offside that he was almost in Austria when he scored it....!) Wesley Sneijder scored the second and Giovanni van Bronckhorst's put the finishing touches with the third.Report.
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The so-called "Group of Death" was dead boring until the Netherlands started counterattacking like Bruce Lee. The second and third goals were some of the best team soccer I've seen in a long time.
Confused
Stuff I'm totally confused about:
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mCalcio 09 June @ 06:25 PM EST
Netherlands 0-3 Italy. The Azzurri's adventure at Euro 2008 could not have started worse. 3 goals like the 3 words which can be used to describe today's match: offside, counter-attack, and defense (or lack thereof).
Why offside? The pivotal point of the match (Italy's poor performance aside) was without question the controversial non-call on Ruud van Nistelrooy's [.
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...And as if by magic, the Dutch and the Italians arrived. Barely half an hour after I finished writing about a match that was described (accurately) by Alan Hansen as "one of the worst games of football I've ever seen", they kicked off in Berne for a match that has finally kicked some life into the body of Euro 2008.
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