WC2010: Oranje group leader
What?? The WC2010…? We’ve just quallified for the EC? And haven’t finished discussing that yet.
Saturday, Oranje is part of the nine European group leaders for the WC2010 qualification series, thanks to the position on the FIFA world ranking.
After losing versus Belarus, Oranje tumbled from the 7th to the 9th spot, but still enough for group leadership since Argentina and Brazil are number 1 and 2. Three till eleven are: Italy, Spain, Germany, Cech Republic, France, Portugal, Holland, Croatia and Greece. And these are the nine group leaders.
The fact that both Marco van Basten and KNVB chief Henk Kesler traveled to South Africa to witness the WC draw tells us something about the intentions of both parties after the EC2008.
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Jan, what are these responses posted to your most current blog? They all seem to simply repeat the article you wrote–what gives? As long as van Basten is THE coach, he will do those things that national team coaches do, including traveling to SA for the WC draw. As to the Netherlands being ranked 9th in the world, that is as silly as the United States being ranked 18th. All part of the humor of international football!
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Yeah Bob, I know, it’s irritating… I don’t know what it is. Some sort of spam I guess. I try to block it, but it seeps through the spam-killers…
I’ll see what else I can do….
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Netherlands in the same group with Norway, Iceland, Scotland and another team. Not tough but who know ….
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I think this is one of the best groups for Holland to be in. None of these teams play destructive football like all of the Eastern European Oranje played during the EC qualification…
They should have an easier time.
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Bruce – i think all of these teams play destructive (anti)football…
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Scotland for sure plays anti-football, and I think Macedonia do too, but Iceland is normal, and Norway i haven’t seen a lot of, but from what I have seen, they don’t play anti-football.
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Dirk: don’t worry,comparing to norway scotland plays almost brazilian football. don’t expect anything magic from the likes of riise and co.
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Gloom and doom all round after the Euro Cup draw. What hope does Oranje have in a group with Italy, France and Romania ?
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