Comments on: First choice experimentations

By: carrington

carrington — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:27:30 +0000

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!

By: alaa

alaa — Thu, 25 May 2006 19:39:56 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 May 2006 18:47:43 +0000

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

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 25 May 2006 18:37:29 +0000

@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.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 25 May 2006 18:34:47 +0000

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

By: alaa

alaa — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:58:38 +0000

@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:)

By: alaa

alaa — Thu, 25 May 2006 17:37:53 +0000

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

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 May 2006 16:25:10 +0000

Ah, great stuff.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 25 May 2006 15:29:46 +0000

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.