Total Football reborn

[...] The comment made by Bob in the World Cup Blog Power Rankings and a phrase from an article I posted earlier got me thinking. The Dutch are really lacking in some areas of player development. We are really getting down to the bottom of the barrel in terms of defending and goalkeeping. I mean no disrespect to the players chosen for those positions but one can’t argue that the pre-provisional squad list on Marco van Basten’s desk was over flowing with quality contenders for the defence and goalkeeping spots. They just don’t exist. The bit that caught my eye in the article was: “In goal, Edwin Van der Sar is uncontested — to the extent that injury to the trusty Manchester United ‘keeper would expose the yawning gap in Dutch goalkeeping.” [...]

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