World Cup 2010 South Africa

[no leaf clover]

It's Hup Holland or Hup Nederland

We say Hup Holland most of the time here in The Netherlands

[leomet_2000]

I am hoping for Mexico to pull a miracle against argentina; it will be hard although Mexico tends to give argentina a hard time in official competition (except copa america 2 years ago) but our coach is a complete dumbass of lately and he is killing the careers of three of our most talented young players... we'll see. Last time we were really close, hopefully the youngsters will come through on sunday

i hope not!

[Mr.Metal]

japan just scored an amazing goal from a really long free kick, but i think the danish keeper could have done a lot more!

[unforgiv3n82]

japan just scored an amazing goal from a really long free kick, but i think the danish keeper could have done a lot more!

very nice goal indeed, long distance free kick

[unforgiv3n82]

JAPAN x 2

ANOTHER GREAT FREE KICK

[Mr.Metal]

Another free kick goal, they sure know how to take advantage of them...

[no leaf clover]

It's 1-0 for The Netherlands!

[norbinho]

¿What do you think about the SouthAmerican Teams so far?

i'm very impressed by the performances of chile, also uruguay and argentina are doing a great job so far...brasil is a bit disappointing although they are getting good results...i think paraguay is the worst of the south american teams

¿Why do you think European teams are not doing so well, like italy, france... etc?

it was very obvious that france will show a horrible performance...there are too many so calles stars in that team, some players are very overrated and one could expect they won't work as a team as some of them are too concetrated to put themselves in the focus and not the team.

i also was expecting a bad performance by italy, although i thought they will reach the next round...italy's problem was that lippi had quite a few players in his team who didn't have a great season at all or have their best times behind (camoranesi - one of the worst, i must say, cannavaro - he is still an amazing defender, but he had a bad season in italy and is not in good shape, same counts for zambrotta) or don't really have the level for the national team (iaquinta, marchisio, ...)...another problem was that pirlo (the only creative player, de rossi just destroys the game) was injured until the last match and players who could really/more help the team (cassano) haven't been nominated by lippi.


i also think that in europe counts more the result and not a good match for the spectators...there is too much focus on success than showing an entertaining offensive play....and of course the worst thing in european football is the money...it is so unreal what average players already earn in these times of crisis and they don't care much about the game anymore...they don't show passion and joy for the sport like most players from the south american teams for example

looking forward for your analisis

Cheers

[norbinho]

I like Holland. They have superb players at the moment.

yep, they always had great players...just the success at tournaments is missing...except in 1988 when they won EURO 88 with the goal of the century by marco van basten

Marco van Basten 2:0

[no leaf clover]

That was a real beauty, I've seen the goal a million times now on Dutch TV, on my vcr it's a never boring goal