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August 16th, 2006 | By: Jan | 15 Comments »

Marco explains more to the press

In a press conference, van Basten decided to go more into detail on the dropping of Ruud and Mark. One can say that captain vd Sar has urged San Marco to fess up. Sar stated publically that he was highly surprised that the two experienced troopers were left out. He told van Basten in a personal conversation, which lasted some hours. He revisited the topic a day later, behind closed doors, and has now told the press about his feelings. “I feel both Ruud and Mark are still good enough to add value to the team. I was very surprised to find them omitted from the list (of players)”, said the Mancunian goalie.

Van Basten welcomed the questions from his skipper “I don’t dislike discussions with players, but at the end of the day, we the coaches decide.”

Marco didn’t want to go into detail on the reasons why he left the two out. “We have had numerous discussions with both Ruud and Mark on these subjects. I won’t tell the public about the contents. That’s between me and them, but they know exactly what I am talking about. It’s hard for them now as it is, and going into detail would probably make it even tougher on them. And I’d like to stress, the doors are still open for them. But now I think the current group is the one I want to give a go.”

On the question if Huntelaar will start against Ireland (August 16 = today), van Basten answered: “That seems to be the logical thing to do.”

The presumable starting line up: Van der Sar; Heitinga, Ooijer, Mathijsen and De Cler; Landzaat, Van der Vaart and Schaars; Van Persie, Huntelaar and Robben.

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Comments

By Football_Italia | August 16th, 2006 at 3:44 am

Has Van Basten lost the plot?!?!

Posted from United Kingdom

By ferenc | August 16th, 2006 at 1:02 pm

bravo marco! he didn’t say anything important,and from now landzaat will usurpe the place of mark?

marco shouls apologize and go to milan and beg clarence to play again for oranje!!!!

Posted from Hungary

By lando | August 16th, 2006 at 4:37 pm

hey cant wait for the match
it will be awesome i hope we destroy them like 3 or 4-0. Damn in Us i dont even have the channel so i cant watch it it sucks. Does anybody know any website that will give this match live??? im gonna go crazy if i dont watch it

Posted from United States

By goose | August 16th, 2006 at 4:39 pm

@ferenc, agree,
I have this feeling that Marco still thinks its all about him (like in the days when he was a player), like hes making up for the attention he lacked cause of his injury at 28..

sure you can say that hes building a team to be at their best in two years, but its so strange Marco closes the door right away on some very decent players..

still cant believe he traits vanBommel like hes done since hes bondscoach, the man plays for the spanish and european champions… so whos Landzaat/Schaars/Janssen etc??? They never played on top european level except Landzaat who played Championsleauge with Willem II…

i mean, if even the captain is openly critical….

well see what tonight will bring us, should never be a problem those Irish (remember 01)

greetz

Posted from Netherlands

By goose | August 16th, 2006 at 4:44 pm

@Lando, not sure if this works, its the dutch channel which has the rights to the game
when you scroll a bit down you see on your left a link which says:

Oefeninterland Ierland - Nederland

http://sbs6.sbs.nl/modules.php?site=sbs6&name=sbs6_programma&progid=43

it starts at 19.25 dutch time

greetz

Posted from Netherlands

By lando | August 16th, 2006 at 5:08 pm

goose thanks a lot i hope it works the game starts at 2:30 in US so thats when i go to the site if it doesent work than oh well thanks a lot

Posted from United States

By lando | August 16th, 2006 at 5:14 pm

one more question as for the netherlands starting lineup
i went on soccernet.com to check the previews for the friendly game and it gave the netherlnads linup(most likely to be not 100% sure) and everybody that is in this blog was there except dirk kuyt will be Center Forward not huntelaar i hope its not true by the way kuyt preformed in world cup he cant score for sh*t

Posted from United States

By lando | August 16th, 2006 at 5:24 pm

what about De Jong ???
he has been left out or he is a sub

Posted from United States

By Kervin | August 16th, 2006 at 6:02 pm

Good job van der saar! but is he the next one to be dropped??? timmer may replace him… jokin

many are loosing faith in van basten, he must prove he is right in his decisions now. But does Cruyff still has belief in his coach??

By lando | August 16th, 2006 at 8:27 pm

that site does not work
anybody know any other site so i can watch the game live????

Posted from United States

By Robert | August 16th, 2006 at 8:57 pm

I don’t know about watching it live but I am listening to it on Radio 1 - http://portal.omroep.nl/radio?nav=utzlCsHdDoBlFyG
It is of course in Dutch.
Huntelaar made it 1 - 0 Sounds like they have a pretty good possesion game going.

By Peter v | August 16th, 2006 at 11:12 pm

4-0 to holland, could’ve been a lot more. Ireland were horrible. Holland played well, van der Vaart and Hunterlaar players of the match.

Posted from Denmark

By Rami | August 16th, 2006 at 11:14 pm

4-0

hehehe … ferenc, goose, I think you owe VB an apology there.

Saw a team playing great tonight guys.. Huntelaar was wow; vdv was amazing as well.

1st game.. I’m pleased

Posted from Russian Federation

By ferenc | August 16th, 2006 at 11:56 pm

i’m happy too,but still think the same about marco and don’t forget: a friendly is a friendly - huntelaar is great:-)

Posted from Hungary

By goose | August 17th, 2006 at 4:30 pm

@Rami, dont think so my friend..just an easy friendly game..i still think that Marco is not able to get the most out of the players he can call on… still think hes ego is to big for the job.. lets wait till we have a decent opponant…

but agree on Huntelaar..this is a very special player who will bring us victories and glory!!!

vanderVaart played good as well, to bad he had this injury during the WC cause in this form he can be a real player…

what about defence??

greetz

Posted from Netherlands

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