ALL POSTS TAGGED "Netherlands national team"
UEFA Euro 2024
/ 173 days agoTurkey lose key Euro 2024 player: Why did UEFA ban Demiral?
On Saturday, Turkey will face the Netherlands in a high-stakes UEFA European Championship quarter-final match. However, the Turkish team will be without their star center-back Merih Demiral. UEFA has handed him a two-match ban for a controversial gesture made during Turkey's match against Austria. This decision has stirred significant controversy and debate within the soccer […]
Argentina
/ 382 days agoDutch hero Bergkamp's legendary goal honored on banknote
Dennis Bergkamp, a legendary Arsenal player, will soon have one of his most famous goals commemorated on a banknote. Very few people can forget Dennis Bergkamp's spectacular goal for the Netherlands in the World Cup quarter-final match against Argentina in 1998. All of it—the assumption, the cutting motion, and the goal-scoring shot—was extraordinary. The magnificent […]
Ajax
/ 447 days agoEx-Netherlands boss Louis Van Gaal back at Ajax in another role
Louis van Gaal will attempt to pull Ajax out of their present difficulties. The Dutch powerhouses have been off to their worst start in over 60 years and are looking to turn things around. There will be no return to management for the former manager. However, he will serve as an adviser on soccer-related technical […]
Argentina
/ 475 days agoDutch captain Van Dijk defends Messi after Van Gaal controversy
The shocking allegation that Louis van Gaal made regarding Lionel Messi's World Cup triumph has caused a major uproar in the soccer community. The Netherlands, coached by Van Gaal, were eliminated in the Quarter-Finals by the seven-time Ballon d'Or winner and Argentina. December 10, 2022, was the date of their matchup when in a nail-biter, […]
Netherlands
/ 752 days agoCody Gakpo's meteoric rise for Netherlands and PSV
The face of a well-engineered PSV team poised to make a deep run in the Europa League, and a breakout star for the Oranje, Cody Gakpo is quietly becoming one of Europe's finest players. Before he led the World Cup field in goals scored (tied with a few others) and helped the Netherlands to a […]
USMNT
/ 753 days agoMistakes cost young US, eliminated by Netherlands in World Cup
The United States has proudly trumpeted its World Cup youth, and rightly so. A bright bunch of young 20-somethings, brimming with talent and fresh of body, ready to be uncorked. Yes, all that youthful intent and plucky desire is great and all – until it isn’t. History has taught us, and Saturday’s U.S. result served […]
Leagues: La Liga
/ 5280 days agoWorld Cup 2010: Spain Triumphs In A Match of Contrasting Styles
After Euro 2008, Vicente del Bosque took the reins of the Spanish national team from Luis Aragonés, the man that led Spain to their first international tournament conquest since 1964 when they hosted and won the second UEFA European Championships, known then as the European Nations' Cup. Aragonés' tactical style went completely away from former […]