Forget the starting 11. Holy fuck look at the Dutch bench back then... and Bergkamp is not even on the list here. No idea why Dutch still never won the World Cup 😭
Met vier topspitsen, Nistelrooy, Makaay, Hooijdonk en Kluivert. Supertalenten als Sneijder, Robben en Van der Vaart. Snelle buitenspelers als Overmars, Van der Meyde, Zenden en ook Robben. Barça-sterren als Cocu, de De Boertjes en Reiziger. Ongelooflijk, werkelijkwaar ongelooflijk. En dan mis ik nog Bergkamp, Van Bommel en Van Persie. Van der Sar; Ooijer, Reiziger(F. De Boer), Cocu, Bouma(Seedorf); Sneijder, Van der Vaart, Davids; Van der Meyde, Van Nistelrooy(Kluivert), Overmars
Rody Teulings , Friend to Holland is altijd een sterke selectie geweest in alle competities, wat jammer is als je geen beker hebt gewonnen. Nederland is een van mijn favoriete selecties.
Man I had this game on vhs. Ah the memories. Rewinding and Forwarding towards the goals. Though there was no need for this game since it was so entertaining. Love this generation of the Holland national team.
This is Sneijders debut for the national team. The away game against schotland he wasnt even on the bench. Van der Sar told the coach they needed him. The rest is history
Wat een team had nl toen. Goed als team maar de luchtmacht was ook zeker van topklasse.. De Boer, Van Nistelrooy en noem maar op! Sneijder met z'n knalharde schoten, overmars met zijn dribbels.. echt een top team
I remember watching this match on Channel 5 in the UK. Scotland sneaked a 1-0 win in the first leg but I knew the Dutch would turn it around with ease.
They played with real passion that day, because they had to win. Shame that the same passion never is there during a whole tournament. Somehow someway we always fuck it up. We had the players to do it all does years, butt now there is a shitty generation coming up, with all respect butt it is true. Greetings from Den Bosch.
I hope...then we have something to cheer about. Is het zo dat toen Robben, sneijder en Van de Vaart hun leeftijd hadden ze hoger werden aangeschreven? Ik ben van mening dat het allemaal blijft hangen en deze generatie alleen bezig is met hun smartphones, zo gezegd.
We are the best no 2 team in the flippin' world . And the future looks grim for the Dutch fans like me . I will die with not 1 WC title and only 1 EC crown on memory lane.
This team play very nice ! I remenber Roy Mackay / van Hooujdonjk / v.Nistelroy/ Cocu/ Edgar's / Seedorf / van bommel Frank and ronald de Boer/ Kluiivert/ overmars/ Reizigger/ van bronckoorst/ Athur Numan / v der Saar/ westervelt/ Zenden/winter/ Bergkamp was Go !
Makes you wonder even more considering that after we scored on 20 minutes, we spent the majority of the rest of the game camped in our own final third defending. Despite what happened in the second leg, beating that Holland team at home with a team as weak as ours is still a famous result. You could argue it's more significant than the more celebrated 78 world cup win. The gulf in class between the sides is much wider in 2003, and in 78 after Johnny Rep's screamer to make it 3-2, the Dutch basically stop playing and seem quite happy to take a 3-2 loss because it's enough to get through
Great Holland side but this Scotland team was terrible couldn't defend am Scottish and under Berti vogts it was the worst in our history but brilliant Dutch team
Sneijder and Nistelroy to teamates; "don't touch me now I'm running to the coach now", as if not appreciating that they scroed because their teamates passed them the ball. I never like the two players though. They should have 'thanked' their teamates first, not trying to please the coach or the officials on the sideline.
What a dream team that was - yet... won nothing. Nederlands wasted the greatest generations of their players - now they dont have even half of potential they've had in years 1990-2010.
A lot of the Dutch players were over the hill. At that time this team wasn't that good anymore. The first game against Scotland was lost by the dutch.The following EC wasn't that good also. Lost against the Czechs, draw against Germans, won against the Lets, draw against the swedes and lost against portugal.
There were some transitional periods in which the Dutch team was a pain to watch creating slow paced games with tons of throw ins. It was all due to a lack of cement between individuals. I think those periods are kind of left out of the collected materials here.
