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Yet More Injuries…?

May 29th, 2006 | By: Mike | 9 Comments »

I know its in Dutch but here’s the gist of it: Jaliens is still recovering and training separately. You should have already read about van der Vaart’s re-injury. Now we hear that Robben and Cocu might have worrying knocks. Here’s a translated bit:

Marco van Basten counted Monday 21 players on the training of oranje. Ears Robben and Phillip Cocu did not train. Two have charge of light ‘ pijntjes ‘ and lagged behind in the player hotel.

‘Pijntjes’ sounds like a cute word or even the name of a delightful little Dutch dog. If anyone can give us a better translation (ie. the severity of the word) we would all be grateful.

Tags: Arjen Robben, Kew Jaliens, Netherlands, Phillip Cocu, Rafael van der Vaart

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By Gerrit | May 29th, 2006 at 6:18 pm

“pijn” is pain and “pijntjes” is the diminutive of that noun………in other words ……. small pains…….

Posted from Canada

By Daniel | May 29th, 2006 at 6:18 pm

Pijntjes means small pains.

The dutch love to make things small by putting ‘tje’ at the end..

ie: The dutch don’t drink beer. They drink small beers. Or biertjes. (Eventhough the glass may be half a foot tall.)

Cocu and Robben’s injuries don’t sound too serious though.

By Jan | May 29th, 2006 at 10:36 pm

Yeah, I read the article in Dutch (my Dutch is fluent) and we do not have to worry about Robben and Cocu, it seems. Just some minor left overs from the Cameroon match. Man, that silly author of the Singapore Death Cheating article… Can’t get over it…:-)

Posted from Australia

By alaa | May 30th, 2006 at 12:07 am

and what about vdv?

Posted from United States

By Martijn | May 30th, 2006 at 1:19 am

Van der vaart will make it. Im pretty sure for that, and if he doesnt, who would you want to trade him in for? Robben and cocu are fine. Its the same when we play football, we get muscle kramps the next day and some bruises. We’ll be fine. Cheers

Posted from Oman

By Jan | May 30th, 2006 at 4:10 am

vd Vaart has a reaction in his ankle but not the same spot. It seems maybe he has forced too much and sort of put too much strain on other parts of his ankle to compensate for the injured part. Something like that. He’ll be ok, I guess. If he is close to being fit, v Basten will use him against S&M.

Posted from Australia

By Martijn | May 30th, 2006 at 6:49 am

I doubt that. If VDV can play without any complaints in his foot, then he’ll put him on. But Van Basten would not hesitate leaving him on the bench if he is not yet 100%. He will be crucial for the Argentina match.

Posted from Oman

By gwynn | May 30th, 2006 at 8:06 pm

vdv is the most important player for the oranje. whether that means he plays against serbia banged up or waits to play argentina. we shall see.

Posted from Canada

By Daniel | May 31st, 2006 at 12:04 pm

Gwynn, I agree that Rafael is a very important player for us.

But, if you had to pick one Most Important player I think it would be hard not to pick Edwin van der Sar..

Posted from United States

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