The Netherlands and Germany played to a scoreless draw in yesterday evening’s international friendly at the sold-out Amsterdam Arena Stadium.
What could have been a very exciting match, instead became a match that neither team wanted to lose – it seemed more like an contractual obligation which was signed last year than a game to really measure footballing quality.
It was in some aspects [...] Continue Reading…
Dutch coach van Gaal has announced his provisional 34-man squad for the upcoming international friendly against Germany tomorrow Wednesday 14th November which will be held at the Amsterdam Arena.
He has opted to include Ajax’s left-back Daley Blind, following his recent run of good form, while the Vitesse ‘wunderkind ‘Marco van Ginkel has also made the team.
The best Dutch goalkeeper, Tim Krul ,is [...] Continue Reading…
Swedes may be disappointed, embarrassed and even feel hatred towards the Swedish government over their complete and utter opportunism in the case regarding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
However Swedes will have the complete opposite feelings for their national football team who surprised and delighted the whole nation!
It was to be Germany’s northern neighbour who took on Germany yesterday evening – Sweden vs Germany at Berlin [...] Continue Reading…
The German national football team won their 3rd qualifier in their 2014 World Cup European group match in Dublin against Ireland this last Friday.
Compared to the 2-1 win against Austria in Vienna coach Joachim Loew brought to the game in Dublin Boateng, Mertesacker and Schweinsteiger for the yellow-locked Lahm, the injured Hummels and Kroos. Schweinsteiger led the team as captain on the [...] Continue Reading…
The runners-up team of last season’s Champions League – who lost on the slimmest of margins to Chelsea – the German team Bayern München won their opening fixture 2-1 over Valencia at their Allianz Arena.
They thereby became the 3rd German team to open their CL qualifying games with a win – they are Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, Borussia Dortmund and Bayern München.
All 3 [...] Continue Reading…
In front of some 66,000, mostly FC Bayern München fans and in their own Allianz Arena home stadium – Chelsea of London, defeated Bayern Munich in the final of the Champions League last night after a penalty shootout and thus are recipients of the most lucrative prize in European football.
The capture of this Cup with the ‘Big Ears’ for Chelsea means the [...] Continue Reading…
[ Football pitch with dimensions from Wikipedia by 'NielsF']
Tomorrow evening in Hamburg at 2045hrs the Dutch national football team – otherwise known as ‘Oranje’ or ‘Orange’ – will play a ‘friendly international’ against Germany.
Both teams played tied friendly games last Friday – Germany came from behind and ended in a 3-3 away draw against Ukraine while the Netherlands [...] Continue Reading…
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