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Match day 9: What have we learned?

June 15th, 2008 | By: Jan | 10 Comments »

This time, San Marco isn’t impressed with Oranje!!

While Jurgen Low suddenly declared Holland to be the favorite!

Guus Hiddink thinks his Russia isn’t up to Holland just yet.

The Portuguese B-team isn’t that sharp.

Turkey played impressive. For 20 minutes or so. And it was enough…

Edwin van der Sar: I’m not too impressed with that Petr Cech!

Germany now blames the players’ wives for their terrible performance. Not the wives’ terrible performance, mind you. That was the whole point: the wives performed great so the players couldn’t.

Jurgen Low: I’m not too impressed with the performance of the players’ wives…

Huntelaar is not high on Marco’s list of important players. He left the Ajax striker all by himself somewhere in Switzerland. They found out at the players’ hotel that they forgot the guy! Huntelaar had to hitchhike back to the camp. After several French and Italians supporters neglected him, it was a Romanian car that took him back.

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By Jan | June 16th, 2008 at 1:20 am

If you keep calling Jogi Löw Jürgen Löw the bad karma this generates will hurt the Dutch team like Jürgen hurt the Dutch team back in 1990.

By Jan | June 16th, 2008 at 3:06 am

Isn’t his name Jurgen???? I thought it was? Jogi? As in Yogi?

Come on?

And what’s with that tight white shirt anyway? And the emo-fringe?

By richard | June 16th, 2008 at 7:49 am

This is appropos of nothing that’s happened in the last couple of days of the tourney, but I’m convinced that UEFA and FiFA should institute instant replay of controversial calls in international games–qualifying matches and tournament games, but not friendlies. Instant replay has been used to great benefit in the America’s National Football League. It works–and even pro baseball, which has resisted for a long time, will be instituting some form of tv review of disputed calls by officials. In football, this is very necessary–as one key mistake by a linesmen or referee can alter the outcome of a game. You don’t review every call, of course–your review key calls involving disputed goals or calls that result in penalty kicks–just the big ones. What you also do is give each coach one “challenge” per half–one time when he can call for review of a call. Goals are precious in football, which is all the morre reason to get the calls right. Thoughts?

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By --HedonistiX | June 16th, 2008 at 8:19 am

Joachim Low is following MvB’s tight white shirt from the last World Cup ….

GO ORANJE!

–H

By Caleb | June 16th, 2008 at 9:52 am

Jan - Did Huntelaar really hitchhike back?? And what’s this about the German player’s wives? I feel so out of the loop…

richard - I hate the idea of brining in instant replay. Sure, it might fix some bad calls, but at what price? I’d rather die than see football (soccer) become full of stoppages so that video can be reviewed like in American football. Bad calls are just part of the game, and unless they can think of some way to fix problems without stopping the game, I think we just have to live with it.

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By Jan | June 16th, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Huntelaar indeed hitched a ride . Don’t know with whom, but yeah…

In Das Bild, the Germant tabloid, the point was raised that German players’ wives spent a lot of time with the players in their hotel and after Germany’s bad result against Croatia, the press blames them - the wives - for the lacklustre performance. Against Croatia, that is

By goose | June 16th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

thats partly true.. Joachim Lowe is not a very strict man…the wifes could walk in and out of the hotel, a very relaxed athosphere, after their win over Poland the atmosphere got even more relaxed and the german press blames this attitude for their loss of form (very funny; the german media never mentions the fact that Croatia is the only decent team in the german group and that it was maybe cause of the croats that the germans played that bad!)

Joachim Lowe looks like a very friendly father…but i reackon hes a tosser, would hate it if the germans would go out tonight..im desperate to beat them

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