After euro 2008 Marco van Basten is not the dutch bondscoach anymore. Holland have get a New one.
I hope it is gonna be Foppe de haan. He is now bondscoach of young netherland.And is doing it great.
He won 2 times after eachother the cup with this team.

But now first we have euro 2008
and we are in poule:

Italy
France
Roemenia
Holland

HELP!!!

Just be glad you don't have Wales in your group

hahaha ther u go again with your wales.
yea lucky we dont have wales but instead of that italy and france..

January 25 (Euro 2008) - Holland coach Marco van Basten has visited Clarence Seedorf in Milan for clear-the-air talks.

The pair have a chequered history, with Van Basten having excluded the 31-year-old from the squad for more than two years after he was appointed in 2004.

The AC Milan star has been back in the fold in recent times but said in December he "gives, gives, gives" to the national side "but gets nothing back".

Coming after Van Basten had allowed him to return to his club rather than play in the dead rubber Euro 2008 qualifier against Belarus, the coach found the comments surprising.

Van Basten told Friday's De Telegraaf: "Maybe we had a misunderstanding.

"That's why I thought it wise to clear the air. It was a good and open conversation, where we looked forward to Euro 2008."

06.02.2008

Poljud Stadion, Split, Croatia

Dutch team(Friendly match)

Croatia - Netherland 0-3 (0-2).

Who scored: 9. Heitinga 0-1; 38. Huntelaar 0-2; 89. Vennegoor of Hesselink 0-3.

Referee: César Muniz Fernandez (Spain)

Yellow: Corluka, Srna en R. Kovac (Croatia); Heitinga, Huntelaar en De Zeeuw (Netherland)

Netherland: Edwin van der Sar; Mario Melchiot (70. Nigel de Jong), John Heitinga, Joris Mathijsen, Tim de Cler; Demy de Zeeuw, Giovanni van Bronckhorst; Rafael van der Vaart (84. Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink), Wesley Sneijder, Ryan Babel (55. Ibrahim Afellay); Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (75. Urby Emanuelson).

Croatia: Pletikosa; Corluka, Simic (46. Pranic), R. Kovac (90. Knezevic), Simunic, Srna (86. Babic), N. Kovac (70. Leko), Modric, Kranjcar (46. Olic), Da Silva (70. Rakitic), Petric.

Celtic striker Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink scored the final goal as Holland cruised to a 3-0 win over Croatia.

Johnny Heitinga(defender) opened the scoring with an early close-range goal before Klaas-Jan Huntelaar doubled the lead.

Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar parried a shot by Darijo Srna while Arsenal striker Eduardo put a shot over the bar.

Vennegoor of Hesselink came on as substitute in the 84th minute and five minutes later hit a low-footed shot into the net.

It was a good game of holland. Normaly ther are only things to complain about...but this time ther wasnt anything really
Hope they play the same in the EC

Van basten

Just be glad you made Euro2008 unlike England.

Haha yea vennegoor is pretty good
and i dont we ever gonna win the EC with van Basten

happy with foppe? i'm not really.. haha i hoped it would be guus hiddink, but probably not haha!

Huh? whats with foppe? and whats with hiddink?

Did you watch the Croatia friendly?

Do you think Jan Venegoor of Hesselink should be in the Dutch squad?

I think he is a very good player.But we have lots of good strikers.so difficult to choose.
So how is he doing at celtic?any good?

He has had alot of small injury problems which hasnt helped him. He has done very well the last two games.

I hope he can stay fit. I think he gives Holland a target upfront you dont have many big strikers.

well we have Huntelaar who is doing it really good for Ajax. thats what i mean. he scores almost every match (also against croatia) so why would van basten change that?
But in this friendly matches its good if he also give VoH a chance.
Cause everything together....holland is not doing it very good.
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Holland you guys can do it. We beat France no problem so that means so can you

I hope, really do. But Holland didnt do it good at all (only the last match against croatia)
after EC Marco van Basten is leaving Holland.
Oh well. lets hope for a wonder

haha probably wrote it at the wrong place;) thought you said something about that you wanted foppe as the new coach or something.. but i'd rather have hiddink;)

yea true. hiddink is a great manager!!

maybe a bit late...but last week we had a friendly match.

austria-holland.

i didnt see it.. but heard we started very bad..in de first 30 minuts we wher 3-0 behind.
then ther was a comeback run... huntelaar maked the in the first helft the 3-1
then in the 2nd helft heitinga made the 3-2, vennegoor of hesselink 3-3 and huntelaar scored the winning goal...3-4

im glad we won cause against austria your not alloud to lose
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First 30 minutes was atrocious. Timmer played like a schoolboy in goal and combined with Mathijsen and his kamikaze defending it was a real nightmare. It wasn't until Bouma was put in along with Seedorf that they settled down a bit and started playing.

Can someone tell me what has happened to Boulahrouz? And, why Drenthe doesn't get a call-up? Marco needs to get some type of solidarity with his line-up, and I realize there are injuries but he always seems to have a mixed lineup of players from game to game. I hope it's all sorted out come the opening whistle at the Euro's.......

yea marco van basten always have some strange things.
nobody really know why he is doing that.
like i think seedorf must ALWAYS play...but he doesnt

Big Jan Venegoor of Hesselink saves the day for Holland yet again. Scored the equlaiser and set up the winner!

Let hope he is also ther with the EC...
and that they do ther best...

Netherlands coach Marco van Basten named the following 30-man provisional squad on Tuesday for the European Championship finals in Austria and Switzerland in June.


The squad will be reduced to a maximum of 26 players on May 16, with the final 23 to be named on May 28, Van Basten told the Netherlands Football Association Web Site (www.knvb.nl).

Squad:

Goalkeepers: Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United), Maarten Stekelenburg (Ajax Amsterdam), Henk Timmer (Feyenoord), Sander Boschker (Twente Enschede)

Defenders: Wilfred Bouma (Aston Villa), Tim de Cler (Feyenoord), Urby Emanuelson (Ajax Amsterdam), John Heitinga (Ajax Amsterdam), Kew Jaliens (AZ Alkmaar), Joris Mathijsen (Hamburg SV), Mario Melchiot (Wigan Athletic), Andre Ooijer (Blackburn Rovers).

Midfielders: Ibrahim Afellay (PSV Eindhoven), Giovanni van Bronckhorst (Feyenoord), Orlando Engelaar (Twente Enschede), Nigel de Jong (Hamburg SV), Denny Landzaat (Feyenoord), Hedwiges Maduro (Valencia), Clarence Seedorf (AC Milan), Wesley Sneijder (Real Madrid), Rafael van der Vaart (Hamburg SV), Demy de Zeeuw (AZ Alkmaar).

Forwards: Ryan Babel (Liverpool), Klaas Jan Huntelaar (Ajax Amsterdam), Danny Koevermans (PSV Eindhoven), Dirk Kuyt (Liverpool), Ruud van Nistelrooy (Real Madrid), Robin van Persie (Arsenal), Arjen Robben (Real Madrid), Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink (Celtic).