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May 25th, 2006 | By: Mike | 9 Comments »

Reader Daniel threw this on as a comment but I think its worthy of a post so that noone will miss it. I’m assuming that the “NOS” is the Netherlands official site? If its not let me know. Great work by all the readers. Feels kinda like a family….*sniff*

Here’s a bit of a quote from the NOS, talking about yesterdays training program:

On the way to the practise duel with Camaroon there were several training matches on the program. Obvious was the preference in the formation of Andre Ooijer over the central defender Khalid Boulahrouz.

As Jaliens and Van Bronckhorst were not present, Jan Kromkamp and Tim de Cler were the wing defenders. Joris Mathijsen finished the defensive line.

Arjen Robben, Ruud van Nistelrooij en Dirk Kuijt formed the offense (hardly surprising.) . Rafael van der Vaart, Phillip Cocu and Mark van Bommel (!) were the mid fielders. In the evening Maduro replaced the missing van der Vaart that gave his ankle a bit of rest. Obviously Edwin van der Sar defended the goal.

“I have a base formation sitting in my head”, said van Basten Monday after the first training in Lausanne. “But I expect that in the coming weeks some things will change.”

“In the three upcoming practise matches I will start with my base eleven, but everyone will get a chance to play.”

Interesting about Ooijer and van Bommel getting very serious looks in to the starting eleven. Great stuff!
UPDATE: I just found an article that has the story. It says nothing new but is a good reference.

Tags: Andre Ooijer, marco van basten, Mark van Bommel, Netherlands

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Comments

By Daniel | May 25th, 2006 at 10:29 am

Yeah, the N.O.S. stands for Nederlands Omroep Stichting Or Dutch Broadcasting Organization.

They put together the Studio Sport program which has a lot of good world cup coverage:
http://www.nos.nl/nosstudiosport

It’s all in dutch of course, but there is some nice day to day video footage of the training camp in Switzerland.

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By Mike | May 25th, 2006 at 11:25 am

Ah, great stuff.

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By alaa | May 25th, 2006 at 12:37 pm

yes, actually i don’t speak dutch, but i found some good clips about the training sessions.
good stuff.
thanks guys

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By alaa | May 25th, 2006 at 12:58 pm

@daniel
i like youe article in “paintmyorange”, i agree with you, we need the cup,we’ve been looking for this title since 74, i hate this stroy of “the best team not to win the world cup”,always we go out in the semifinals and finals in the world cup and in the european cup. we can’t take t anymore, so lets hope well this time:)

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By Daniel | May 25th, 2006 at 1:34 pm

Hey, this is fresh off the NOS presses. Very Interesting:

Van Persie trains in the Starting XI

Robin van Persie got preference over Dirk Kuyt in the practise game of today. The Arsenal player was on the right wing in an 11 vs 11 game.

(This isn’t always indicitive of van Basten’s plans but is telling sometimes.)

Starting XI:

vd Sar, Krompkamp, Ooijer, Mathijsen, v. Bronkhorst, v. Bommel, Cocu, vd Vaart, v Persie, v Nistelrooij, Robben

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By Daniel | May 25th, 2006 at 1:37 pm

@alaa
I Totally agree. I really hate seeing that “The best team to have never won the World Cup” nickname..

Ow, well. It will make that victory that much sweeter, when it does come.

It might be another 50 yrs… But it will happen.

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By Mike | May 25th, 2006 at 1:47 pm

Don’t say another 50 years…I just can’t wait.

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By alaa | May 25th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

wowwwwwwwwwwwww, i would love to see van persie,vns and robben in the offense,personally iprefer him over kuyt, van persie is a huge talent.

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By carrington | May 25th, 2006 at 4:27 pm

comin from an arsenal and dutch fan i would say that kuyt is a much better option than van persie! van persie is very inconsistent even though he does have a lot of talent he is not a regular goalscorer unlike kuyt. also why isnt boularouz being picked hes a great defender and extremly composed! im not sure bout ooijer he usually plays right back not center back!

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