Dutch selection for Ireland friendly
Marco van Basten and John van ‘t Schip announced their preliminary selection ( 31 players) for the friendly against Ireland later this month. Surprise surprise, no Edgar Davids, no Phillip Cocu - he retired - but with Edwin van der Sar and with Ruud van Nistelrooy.
Amongst the usual suspects (Robben, van Persie, Sneijder, van der Vaart, van Bronckhorst), the coaches also called upon five new names: Ron Vlaar (Feyenoord), Klaas Jan Huntelaar (Ajax), Stijn Schaars (AZ Alkmaar), Gijs Luirink (AZ Alkmaar) and Urby Emanuelson (Ajax). Barry Opdam (AZ) and Romeo Castelen (Feyenoord) are back with the group after having been dropped.
August 11 will be date for the definite group selection for the match against Ireland, August 16 in Dublin.
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I am expecting big things from the national team by 2008. I am still pretending I am okay with the WC result.
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Canada




What about Nicky Hofs?
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Hong Kong




Yeah, I was also suprised to not see Nicky Hofs in the selection!
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United States




Good one… Why not hoffs!! We need to look into that… Good point.
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Australia




well the line up looks good as long as huntelaar is there. He is a goal scoring machine. well in other news i heard that fiorntina agreed on a fee with ajax to get Huntelaar from ajax
anybody know anything???
im pissed they did not take Maakay they never take him why do they even need vennegor of hesselink??? just looking at the name he sucks
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United States




He has to be injured. They would not leave him off.
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Canada




hey Holland is good as long as HUntelaar is in. He is a true goal scorer. In other words i heard rumors that he is leaving Ajax and going to Forntina in Seria A in 2006/07 season. Is this true???
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United States




so who’s being dropped in defense?? de cler? mathisen? where could we find the full list??




so is this blog still gonna continue working?? Jan maybe u can create a fresh new blog??
Some have deserted cos i think “http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org” not really a good address.
what do u think??




Squad:
Maarten Stekelenburg (Ajax), Henk Timmer (Feyenoord), Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United); Urby Emanuelson (Ajax), John Heitinga (Ajax), Tim de Cler (AZ), Kew Jaliens (AZ), Joris Mathijsen (AZ), Gijs Luirink (AZ), Barry Opdam (AZ), Giovanni van Bronckhorst (Barcelona), Ron Vlaar (Feyenoord), Khalid Boulahrouz (Hamburg), Jan Kromkamp (Liverpool), Andre Ooijer (PSV Eindhoven); Hedwiges Maduro (Ajax), Wesley Sneijder (Ajax), Stijn Schaars (AZ), Mark van Bommel (Barcelona), Nigel de Jong (Hamburg), Rafael van der Vaart (Hamburg), George Boateng (Middlesbrough), Denny Landzaat (Wigan); Ryan Babel (Ajax), Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Ajax), Robin van Persie (Arsenal), Arjen Robben (Chelsea), Romeo Castelen (Feyenoord), Dirk Kuyt (Feyenoord), Ruud van Nistelrooy (Real Madrid), Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (PSV Eindhoven
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Australia




so is van basten still gonna partner sneijder and van der vaart?? van nistelrooy will start? any suggestions? i think maduro is a good replacement for Cocu.
yesterday against manchester Maduro played quite well… just a pity Huntelaar missed his penalty against van der Sar.
i looking at the list and what a team it would be in euro 2008! sneijder, Huntelaar, Babel, Boularouz! i dont know y i’m always optimist!




Sorry I’m this late guys. I wouldn’t be a good blog-manager I guess. I do know Master Bob is trying to get something together, so I’ll await his actions. Thanks for printing that list, NLfanboy! I’m not sure what’s happening with Mike these days, so we’ll see. I do agree that this group looks promissing, albeit a tad young for now, maybe. We’ll see what happens.
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suprised to see this blog is still active Jan..
havent got over our WC defeat yet,
here a nice clip about my all time favourite player: Christian Ronaldo..very funny
http://www.flabber.nl/archief/017146.php
greetz
WIJ HOUDEN VAN ORANJE
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Netherlands




lol cool clip. ronaldo gonna get booed every week in england now after his world cup…
van persie scored a good goal yesterday and he made an assist for fabregas in arsenal’s champions league qualifying encouter.




nice to see this blog again. huntelaar scored two goals today,I hope he will play in the oranje - him and rvn,and not dirk kuijt!!!
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yeah huntelaar cant stop scoring!! ajax gonna do something special this season. they got a really good team!! Impressive young team! Some of the best players of tomorrow are in this team. Huntelaar, Babel, Stekelenburg, Rosales, Sneijder, Maduro.




@Kervin, did you see Ajax play in Denmark?? It was awfull, theyre just very lucky they have such a great striker, i thought Ajax played ugly and bad (but true, im not an Ajax fan so maybe a bit biased), apart from Huntelaar I would not select a single player from Ajax for Oranje….
greetz
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@goose
no, they are constructing a team, it takes time, but it seems for me it will work(not working yet), let’s see when the league starts. coz we are not seeing the whole picture yet.
not deadly sure it would work though.




Stekelenburg, Grygera, Vermaelen, STam, Emanuellson heitnga, Sneijder, maduro Gabri, Roger, Perez Rosenberg Babel Rosales Huntelaar. What a team we are the winners of the chamions league 2006/2007
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Netherlands




@Brummel, nice little joke there my friend..
greetz
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Netherlands


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