U21 FINAL Holland v Serbia 23/6 19.45 BST / 20.45 CET

dutchies win...

holland win

who cares about FF teams. We just showed up Otto no end. Again.

Drenthe player of the tournament !

(Knowing UEFA it'll be Rigters)

Congrats Oranje

Congrats on winning the Euro U21.

If this is your B Team then what does your A Team look like?

I think Robben could have played in this tournament if you wanted him.

Can the ref legally blow the whistle before 90 mins? He blew up at 89.58

4-1 FT

ORANJE CHAMPS

U21 EC06 champs
U21 EC07 champs

with our B-team.

Endless conveyor belt of talent

Once again Holland saved it's finest football for the final !

Great, great performance by a load of players who were virtually unknowns before this tournament

(Rigters, Pieters, Zuiverloon, Vermeer, Bakkal, Kruiswijk, Jong-a-Ping)

kas wrote:Can the ref legally blow the whistle before 90 mins? He blew up at 89.58

in Holland the clocks go quicker because we are low-lying. Gravity is stronger there and therefore pendulums have a slightly quicker turn.

Wahre Geschichte wrote:Once again Holland saved it's finest football for the final !

Great, great performance by a load of player who were virtually unknowns before this tournament

Congrats.
But many of us already knew about De Ridder, Vlaar, Donk, Maduro, Babel, etc.

toon h wrote:

kas wrote:Can the ref legally blow the whistle before 90 mins? He blew up at 89.58

in Holland the clocks go quicker because we are low-lying. Gravity is stronger there and therefore pendulums have a slightly quicker turn.

So how does it explain the ref's digital watch?

btw, Henry!

just to think this could have been England celebrating....

quite elated.

watched most of the games in Portugal (two at Lisbon airport due to delayed flights, and even had to board halfway through the SF penalty shootout).

kas wrote:
btw, Henry!

kas wrote:

Wahre Geschichte wrote:Once again Holland saved it's finest football for the final !

Great, great performance by a load of player who were virtually unknowns before this tournament

Congrats.
But many of us already knew about De Ridder, Vlaar, Donk, Maduro, Babel, etc.

Yep those were the known entities : also Drenthe and Waterman.

Rigters, the topscorer of the tournament, hardly got any playing time at NAC.

The other half of the team are all low-key players, even for those who follow Dutch football

toon h wrote:just to think this could have been England celebrating....

quite elated.

watched most of the games in Portugal (two at Lisbon airport due to delayed flights, and even had to board halfway through the SF penalty shootout).

Ouch! Did the captain at least announce the result on the flight?

kas wrote:

toon h wrote:just to think this could have been England celebrating....

quite elated.

watched most of the games in Portugal (two at Lisbon airport due to delayed flights, and even had to board halfway through the SF penalty shootout).

Ouch! Did the captain at least announce the result on the flight?

no, I had to worry about it right through.

had to board just when Foppe kicked off before Taylor's penalty...

Foppe = most successful Dutch manager ever (2 EC titles)

Batman wrote:Congrats on winning the Euro U21.

If this is your B Team then what does your A Team look like?

I think Robben could have played in this tournament if you wanted him.

A team

Krul, Vlaar, Donk, Zuiverloon, Drenthe, Affelay, Aissati, Robben, Schaars, Babel, Sneijder, Huntelaar. All eligible among others... I'm forgetting quite a few others...

And our bench would have been awesome with the likes of Bruins and Beerens on there.

Sneijder, Robben, and Huntelaar are still below 21?

kas wrote:Sneijder, Robben, and Huntelaar are still below 21?

You can play in U21 till your 23th...weird I know but true.

Since 1888 wrote:

kas wrote:Sneijder, Robben, and Huntelaar are still below 21?

You can play in U21 till your 23th...weird I know but true.

the rules are if you are under 21 when the qualfying starts you can play in the final. so you can be 23 and play in the finals.

Ahh ok. It would be scary if they had achieved so much already and still were below 21.

Van der Vaart only just turned 24 recently too.

And Robin Van Persie is still 23 too, so he could have competed as well.

Rigters will not stay in the eredivisie.

I reckon he'll go to a club like Bayer Leverkusen or Stuttgart.

Why every one thought Serbia to win this game....?

kas wrote:Sneijder, Robben, and Huntelaar are still below 21?

Sneijder - 22 ?
Robben - 22 ?
Huntelaar - 23

Maximus XIV wrote:

kas wrote:Sneijder, Robben, and Huntelaar are still below 21?

Sneijder - 22 ?
Robben - 22 ?
Huntelaar - 23

Huntelaar, Castelen, Van der Vaart, Heitinga, Van Persie & De Zeeuw are all from 1983 so they were from last years generation.

Robben (Chelsea) 1984
Sneijder (Ajax) 1984
Schaars (AZ) 1984
Aissati (PSV) 1988
Collins John (Fulham) 1985
De Guzman (Feyenoord) 1987
Afellay (PSV) 1986
De Jong (HSV) 1984
Emanuelson (Ajax) 1986
Evander Sno (Celtic) 1987

all could have played in this U21 Oranje

Holland U21 4-1 Serbia U21.....................Just got back from soccer congrats to Holland glad to see them winning the final