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Van Basten distances himself from JC

October 12th, 2007 | By: Jan | 11 Comments »

The farce surrounding Ruud van Gol’s football qualities and JC’s opinion about those has ended, as far as Marco van Basten is concerned.

During a press-conference inwhich the news that Edwin van der Sar is too injured to play any game for Oranje in the next couple of days was broken, the press were interested in Marco’s take on the matter.

Van Basten: “Johan Cruyff is not part of this coaching staff. He advises the KNVB, or at least he did. I am very happy with Ruud. He does very well for Oranje, he does very well for Madrid. I also think he is a good player and I suppose I disagree with Johan on that matter.”

Van Basten is still keeping his cards close to his chest. “Seedorf seems to be the most likely replacement for Sneijder. But, there are many options. We are thinking hard what we’ll do. One can expect the unexpected with us.”

On systems he said: “In fact, with Raf van der Vaart on the right flank, it’s almost as if we’re playing 4-4-2. Sometimes Raf stays on midfield and joins the strikers centrally. It depends on what moment of the match you are determining the system we play. I think we sort of switch between 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 during the game… The most important thing, is not the system, but to keep the flow going, and to stay flexible.”

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Tags: Clarence Seedorf, Group C, marco van basten, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, The Netherlands

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Comments

By Xerox | October 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

Is it van basten’s words?? can’t believe it. the system is not important, JC is not part of the staff, ruud is good, seedorf may play. mention of the ‘diabolic’ 4-4-2!! was that van basten?

By Miguel Rosado | October 12th, 2007 at 3:15 pm

I hope Seedorf plays against Romania. It’d be an insult to bench him now that Sneijder can’t play.

By goose | October 12th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

looks like Seedorf is gonna start .. its about time..just hope he wont be to stressed or to eager, i still remember some pretty crap performences from him but i really hope he does well,

U21 boys won their qualifier 3-0, didnt see the game (estonia) but just saw Drenthe miss a penalty

this is prob. gonna be the starting 11 for tomorrows game

Stekelenburg
Heitinga
Ooijer
Mathijssen
Bouma
Seedorf
deZeeuw
vanBronckhorst
vanderVaart
vanNistelrooij

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By goose | October 12th, 2007 at 5:51 pm

and Babel (something went wrong)

lets all just hope that well have a better game then the last 20 we had with Marco!!

grts

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By tiju thomas | October 13th, 2007 at 7:24 am

hai guys
for get all other things think abt our diffence
we have to find good diffenders for us if we wants euro in our pocket
my diffenders(8 nos)
left
Cavin jong
ryan donk
central fours
andre ooiger
gijs luirink
ron varl
joris math jen son
right
heitinga
bula hruz
dont even think abt jaliens,de cler,melchiot gio vani as defenders

By Lerkot | October 13th, 2007 at 7:59 am

Yes, I think we should play with Cavin Jong, Joris Math Jen Son, Ron Varl and Bula Hruz. But I still think we should put Gio Vani at least at the bench. And maybe van Basten could call up Jasdfknakdf Skasdfkjstam to safen the defense.

That would make me feel very safe.

By goose | October 13th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

hahaa Lerkot

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By Jan | October 13th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

Lerkot, I couldn’t stop laughing reading your post! It really brought tears to my eyes…. Well done!!!

Tiju, you don’t mind having some fun, right….

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By tiju thomas | October 14th, 2007 at 12:50 am

we need rock solid diffenders
our mid and forwards having class
but diffenders poor
we need had working midfeild like davids,dek saaw,cocu etc
hope we will win against
our diffenders sholuld be able to catch christiano,henry,ibrahimovic,toni,etc
do u think vanbronk,bauma,jaliens,elchiot, de cler can do the above
jap stam played in the left of acmilan to catch ronaldinho agaist barca

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By tiju thomas | October 14th, 2007 at 12:54 am

think differently and get the result
i never did anything wrong
i know how much will go with gio,melchiot,jaliens ,de cler and such kind of players
i am thinking abt big games

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By ferenc | October 14th, 2007 at 6:22 am

you’re right tju - i’m thinking about big games too: our defence would be inexistant against ribery,anelka,henry/toni/kaka,ronaldinho/messi,aguero,tevez… btw last night i saw argentina vs chile. i would ask you if i’m alone with my opinion but i’ve been thinking for 3-4 years that argentina is from far the best national team (with really dominant and attractive football) in the world but at big tournaments due to different reasons they always under achieve. do you also think that they are the best national team or am i wrong?

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