Dennis Bergkamp; for the love of the game

i cant wait to watch that moment
(on tv) DB has been a class act
ever since he joined arsenal
a very cool n calm figure in the field he always has the winning mentality the patience n vision were his assests
Van der vaart is likened to him n thats pretty much true
anyway he is my favourite player n i alwyas remember his goals against argentina n newcastle utd

Posted from  Nepal

What a hero eh? I remember his debut in Ajax, 17 years old against Malmo. JC had lots of injuries and called upon this schoolkid. He couldn’t travel with the team, since his parents wanted him to go to school that day. He traveled separately and played against Malmo on the right wing. And he was aweful . I remember saying to my wife: look at that bloke, he is a blind racing horse. Only speed, no skills… Oh, the shame. JC loved him and defended him afterwards. Said he didn’t play well, but he performed his tasks. Bergkamp made football look easy. Hardly broke a sweat. Kinda like Zidane.

Posted from  Australia

u said it right jan
Bergkamp made football look easy
But he is a non flying dutch man
i read that incident which turned him to became a non flying
but i really want to kno wat actually made him to decide not to fly
i heard some say it is kind of phobia or sth
but why cud not anyone b able to convince him to fly afterwards(if it had not been a disease or if it was his decision)

Posted from  Nepal

berg camp a scientist in the feild

@sandesh: here the story why Bergkamp doenst fly…

he never liked flying but accepted that it was part of his job as footballer…

then WC94 in the US came up…after we got beaten by Brasil we had to fly home back to Holland. Just before take-off a journalist from De Telegraaf made a joke and told us authorities that he had a BOMB!! so the plane wasnt allowed to leave and was grounded for several hours!!

thats when Dennis lost it… he came back to Holland and vowed never to fly again!

well, i get back on Dennis later..can talk about him 4ever

grtz

Posted from  Netherlands

Dennis Bergkamp represents all that is good and noble and creative about football–a class act in every sense of that term. He also represents, in my opinion, all that is best about the Dutch people. He is well spoken, industrious, prudent, attentive, talented, a family man, a modest man. If the world, and football, were filled with the likes of Mr. Bergkamp, it would be so much easier to see the sacred that is offered to all of us in our lives.

Congratulations to Dennis Bergkamp!

Posted from  United States

hear, hear Bob…a humble man…thats the kind of people i like and respect…remember he got slaughtered at Milan when he played for Inter (worst decission since Napoleon thought:”hell, ill beat them all at Waterloo”…haha) and he was never spotted in trendy night clubs, there was never any scandal..they even interviewed his garderer(!) and concluded that he was the most boring men alive…. what terrible people!!

Dennis never needed to talk..he feet did the talking for him!!

DB 4 ever!!

Singing a song
Walking along
Walking in a Bergkamp wonderland

Posted from  Netherlands

He earned it, just the way he passes, he shoots, he positions makes him one of the greatest

Posted from  Kuwait

HE DESERVES IT!!!!!!!!!!

He should have been best player of the world after the World Cup 1998.

Humble, and mesmerizing-ly brilliant. The only professional footballer that I have hero’s jersey of. Congratulations Dennis, well earned, well earned indeed.

Posted from  Canada

Bergkamp is my alltime favourite player.He symbolises all Dutch round the globe-friendly,sober,polite,true gentleman.Everyone remembers his goals against N’Castle and Argentina, but the one he scored against Brasil in WC94 was also brilliant,out of nowhere.He used to play football of another world.I wanted to name my son after him,but my wife gave birth to a daughter.So I provoked my brother to name his son “Dennis”.Congrats to him.

Posted from  Bangladesh

Makes outrageous skill look easy. I’d say that’s probably the best way to describe him. What a great player. Congrats to him.

Posted from  Japan

@dr., hahahaha, i actually had the very same ‘problem’!! but we have another coming up and Dennis will be his (we know its a boy) second name…after Dennis Bergkamp and also after Dennis Law cause Bergkamp was named after Dennis Law!!
cool that you now have a nefew(?) named after Dennis…

Dennis God

Posted from  Netherlands

btw; heres the WC94 game v Brazil with the beautiful Bergkamp goal…too bad we lost that game

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xwy3ZEBRcU

grtz

Posted from  Netherlands

One for old times’ sake:

When Dennis finally decided to hang his boots, Ernst Bouwes came up with this one in ESPN Soccernet.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=374050&root=europe&cc=5901

I found this pretty interesting. No disrespect at all to San Marco’s goal scoring abilities, but I completely agree with Bouwes on the follwing:

However, where only a couple of Van Basten´s 200 league goals in a ten-year career will be remembered, almost every single one of Bergkamp’s stands out.

It is unfortunate that a player of such class and demeanor has an empty international cupboard in spite of him contributing handsomely in almost all the eliminations that the Dutch played.

Euro-92: He scores a field goal as well as a penalty but Denmark goes through thanks to Schmeichel’s save off MvB.

WC-94: In spite of the stunning comeback from 0-2 down, with him scoring a peach of a goal, Branco takes Brazil through.

WC-98: “That’ goal against Argentina…plus a penalty shot against Brazil could not prevent the heartbreaking dismissal.

The ones which I am not so sure:

Euro-96, I am not sure if he played. Can someone correct me? Anyway that was not a tournament a lot of us would hold close to our hearts (that 1-4 loss in Wembley, Seedorf missing the penalty against France etc.)
EC-00, lesser said the better. Sometimes I feel that the Dutch lost to themselves and not Francesco Toldo. But I am not sure why Dennis did not take a penalty against Italy.

Posted from  United States

@prabal; he did play at the EC96, he even scored a gooal against the swiss after a long kick by vdSar..

dennis was never much of a penalty taker, esp. since his miss in the FA Cup semis v Man.United when he missed in the last minutes of the game wich would have taken Arsenal to the final..

the EC96 was terrible, the biggest trashing i have ever seen Oranje recieve (and hope to never see it again)
the trouble with mr. Davids who tought he was a mean, ghetto, basketball player and needed to talk tough..( i know a lot of you like Davids but i never liked him after this incident)
the cementing of our penalty trauma, wich was started by our friend San Marco and finished by Clarence (whom we all have forgivven btw!)

what a sad tournemant it was.. this shit gernman team with Moller and Bierhof (whos actually quit a nice guy), they had this blond, unknown defender..anybody remember his name..he was an asshole, this i remember!!

Posted from  Netherlands

Thanks for the correction Goose. What was surprising about Euro 96 was that the nucleus of the team was made of van Gaal’s 1995 invincibles. What a huge difference in the game in Ajax of 95 and Oraanje of 96

Posted from  United States

I do believe the one thing had to do with the other. As one sees with a successful team, they can grow “over” it… Ajax 1973 had it, Real Madrid, AC Milan… Some boys think they’re too good to be the workers, others are focused on big contracts elsewhere… Hiddink had the bad luck that the dynamics in the Ajax core was not so pleasant at that time, plus the big leaders (Wouters, Koeman, Rijkaard) had stopped playing so there was a leadership battle being fought between De Boer/Blind at one side and Davids/Kluivert/Seedorf at the other. Poor Dennis should have stepped up and do something but he preferred to go out with his paint-brushes and paint and dedicate time to paint the English countryside while listening to Verdi… Sigh…

Posted from  Australia