One doesn't have to be exceedingly brilliant to be an agent. Can be just the opposite, in fact. Pretty sure Arjen Robben's agent, Tscheu La Ling, also a long time Ajax player, falls under the latter category. Arjen, more commonly known as Mr. Glass, is currently hurt. Shocking, I know. Not because he's injury prone, [. Click to continue reading...

Benjamin Franklin once said there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes. We'll give Ben the benefit of the doubt because he was a couple centuries early, plus he did a couple other mildly intelligent things to pad his CV, but there are actually three certainties in life. So we can now amend [. Click to continue reading...

MADRID, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Real Madrid new boy Rafael van der Vaart scored a hat-trick to help the champions thrash promoted Sporting Gijon 7-1 in the Primera Liga on Wednesday.

Sporting were subjected to a 6-1 beating at home to Barcelona on Sunday and were quickly on the back foot at the Bernabeu as Netherlands midfielder Van der Vaart completed his hat-trick in the 46th minute. Click to continue reading...

My little bro was in town so I skipped the game and took him to the BRONX ZOO. Based on the highlights I saw and commentary it looks like I missed another SNOOZEFEST. Winning like this is good for the standings but bad for the soul of a team that is supposed to be about attractive 'futbol'. Anyways here's what GOAL. Click to continue reading...

There was a time not so long ago that United seemed to lose out to Chelsea on transfers all the time. Whether it was Arjen Robben or Michael Essien, the top talents in Europe wanted a piece of Chelsea's money and sucess, whilst we settled for Djemba-Djemba shaped crumbs. The tides have turned somewhat since then, [. Click to continue reading...

Robben for PSV Some years ago, PSV broke with tradition by attracting young Dutch players to play in Eindhoven. Think Mark van Bommel, Wilfred Bouma, Kevin Hofland, John de Jong and Arjen Robben. This summer, PSV does it again. Director Jan Reker presented PSV's new signing, FC Groningen talent Stef Nijland (20 Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid defeated Valencia with 9 men on the pitch. ok. Robinho didn't play. ok. Madrid played better with Raul and Guti off the field. ok. Robben can't score, dribble, pass or take on defenders better than Robinho but at least he can run down the right and left flanks with passionate strides of skillful dribbling until Real Madrid figure out what to do with the outstanding Brazilian who looks like he is on his way to Chelsea. Click to continue reading...

The La Liga outfit now sports four Dutch internationals after today's official announcement concerning the acquisition of midfielder Rafael van der Vaart.  The 25-year-old has penned a five-year contract.  Along with winger Arjen Robben, forward Ruud van Nistelrooy, midfielder Wesley Sneijder, and youngster Royston Drenthe, Real Madrid looks prepared to field an Oranje-centric squad. Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid will complete the signing of Dutch ace Rafael Van Der Vaart according to reports in the Spanish newspaper Marca today.

Currently playing for Hamburg, Van Der Vaart is well above his depth at the Bundesliga club, and has been linked with a move away from them for some time. Liverpool and Chelsea have also been mentioned along with Madrid amongst the clubs vying to snatch up the 25 year old. Click to continue reading...

Here he is.. you can have him for £24 million!! Yesterday Barcelona bid £12 million and was shot down like a dodo bird with Zenit saying he's worth £24 mill.

This strapping 27-year old fellow lead Zenit St Petersburg to the UEFA Cup victory. In the final he managed to tally two assists in their dominating 2-0 victory against the Scottish side Rangers. Click to continue reading...

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Bei der Abstimmung zum besten Tor der EM 2008 auf der Website der UEFA hat Wesley Sneijder mit 40% der Stimmen klar gewonnen. Auch in diesem Video mit den Lieblingstoren von Youtube-Benutzer vandervaartowned ist Sneijders herrliches Tor gegen Frankreich die Nummer 1. Die anderen 9 Tore aus seiner Top 10 sind ebenfalls sehenswert, wenngleich die Bildqualität dürftig ist.

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While the goals are still fresh in our minds, I'd love to find out what your favorite goal of Euro 2008 was. As quid pro quo, my top five are below:


Five: Arjen Robben's near post rocket against France that helped crown the Netherlands the kings of the Group of Death.


Four: Semih Senturk's 122nd-minute equalizer against Croatia to send this quarterfinal to penalties. Click to continue reading...

WickedDeflection.com had a Euro 2008 fantasy football mini-league, in cooperation with Soccernet.com, and as I was thinking about who I would put in a tournament 11, I cut and pasted the players with point totals of 12 or more. I'm still looking for France players in the list. Strikers Lukas Podolski, Click to continue reading...

Oranje will start in the same line up as it did against Italy and France. Khalid Boulahrouz will play as right back and Engelaar will play as holding midfielder. Arjen Robben was supposed to play but his groin injury has returned. Van Basten: "Arjen has trouble again. He won't be Click to continue reading...

It's the Guus Hiddink Grudge Match in Basel as Holland face Russia in quarterfinal #3. The current Russia and former Holland coach said he hopes to earn the title of "the traitor of Holland." If he's to do so, his men will have to bring down the tournament's highest-flying team.

Holland stormed through the Group of Death, winning their three matches by a 9-1 margin. Click to continue reading...

With the number of upsets in Euro 2008 so far, will we witness another one in this live online and radio commentary Euro 2008 quarterfinal between Holland and Russia live as one of the overwhelming favourites will have to cope with the tactical genius of the Russian manager. It could turn out to be a very cagey live online streaming match for the Dutch as while they claim to be one happy bunch, their traditional choker tag might come back to haunt them as there are a few of them in there like Van Persie and Arjen Robben. Click to continue reading...

French sponsors take a cheeky pop at Arjen Robben and co. Clever ad, but the French may be laughing the other side of the road if they're knocked out by Holland this evening. We'd like to see a C-Ron Portuguese... Click to continue reading...

For all those of you who understand a bit of Italian (at least enough to scan through headlines of sports websites), the big boot's topic of conversation these past few days gravitated around a Dutch-Romanian "biscotto". Huh? Biscotto? Doesn't that mean "biscuit"? Indeed it does, but in the language of Dante Alighieri it also has [. Click to continue reading...

The second round of the group phase is in the books, which means it's time to pin a shining blue ribbon on the lapel of its most exciting goal. Once again, I'll be pronouncing a winner from the Olympian heights of being the only person who knows my account password, but you're warmly invited to [... Click to continue reading...

Liverpool's Dirk Kuyt opened the scoring as Holland continued their impressive start to Euro 2008 by defeating France 4-1 on Friday night. Kuyt headed home from a corner inside 20 minutes to give Marco Van Basten's side the lead.

Holland, who defeated World Champions Italy 3-1 in their opening game, were impressive again with Kuyt replaced at half time allowing Arjen Robben and Robin Van Persie to combine to make it 2-0. Click to continue reading...

Forget that Group C is the 'Group of Death,' I AM THE KISS OF DEATH!!

Not only has Italy failed to win a game so far but in every other game that I wanted a team to win - they haven't!!

In yesterday's games Chelsea players past and present had significant contributions.

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Italy 1, Romania 1
Holland 4, France 1

Any questions? Holland continued their dream run through the Group of Death with a 4-1 win over France. The win clinches the top spot in Group C for Marco Van Basten's men after a sweep of the finalists from the 2006 World Cup. As they did in their opener, Holland took the early lead but never let up on the pressure. Click to continue reading...

Italy 1, Romania 1
Holland 4, France 1

Any questions? Holland continued their dream run through the Group of Death with a 4-1 win over France. The win clinches the top spot in Group C for Marco Van Basten's men after a sweep of the finalists from the 2006 World Cup. As they did in their opener, Holland took the early lead but continued to press from there. Click to continue reading...

Ah the possibilities are endless on creating your own headline including the Dutch nickname. I'm sure glad I got up at 5:30 AM to watch half two of France-Netherlands. Not only did I get to see a decent performance out of Robin Van Persie - still not injured, keeping fingers crossed - I saw a wonderful game played by the Dutch.

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Adrian Healy -- "It's a Dutch Oven, and the French are toast." Arjen Robben deserves his own post, even if his bones are 50 percent glass. What a strike son. (All that was missing was for Andy Gray to tell him to 'take a bow.' Wait a tic, he did just that for Wesley Sneijder's strike in extra time -- which might have been better. Click to continue reading...

Netherlands
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Italy

Monday, June 9th, 2045 CET
Berne (Switzerland) - Travel to Berne

THE BIG PICTURE

For starters, this is just a game in Group C, and all six will be worthy of watching with all three teams ranked in the top dozen in the world by FIFA.

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Holland (Netherlands) Vs Italy Live Streaming & Match Preview UEFA EURO 2008 GROUP C : Live Online Date: Mon 9 Jun Kick-off: 1945 BST Venue: Stade de Suisse Wankdorf, Berne Arjen Robben is set to miss Netherlands first Euro 2008 game, the Real Madrid winger has picked up an injury in training, Marco van basten will be wondering what he [. Click to continue reading...

It's been 18 years since we won back to back LA LIGA Championships, so it's unfortunate that I had to miss the REAL MADRID victory over OSSASUNA. I'm sure my fellow NYC MADRIDISTAS were full of joy and celebration and smoked several cigars in honor of us being crowned LA LIGA champions for the 31st time! Click to continue reading...

After watching last night's Roma,Real Madrid replay its obvious Real suffered with the absence of Van Nistelroy and Arjen Robben. The Dutch duo could have provided some teeth to the Madrid attack.

On a positive note as a Roma fan,a mark of a good team is Roma understood how to kill off a wounded team. Click to continue reading...

Robinho's absence due to an abdominal muscle tear he suffered against Valladolid a couple weeks ago is casting a huge shadow over the Santiago Bernabeau. Real Madrid is in shambles, not just the midfield but the entire team has been exposed as nothing but one dimensional unimaginative old men(raul, ruud van nistelroy, guti, salgado, cannavaro, heinze), hard working uncreative strong men(Baptista, Diarra), injury prone saviors(Pepe, Robben), frustrating but promising youngsters(Drenthe, Marcelo, Higuain, Balboa, Torres) and the quality players who hold it all together(Sergio Ramos, Casillas, Sneijder, Gago). Click to continue reading...

Julio Baptista. Goal! Raul. Goal! Robben. Goal! Raul. Goal! Guti. Goal! Guti. Goal! Drenthe. Goal! With the exception of Werder Bremen at home in the Champions League, every team that has tried to go toe to toe with Real Madrid and try to outplay us has been blown out. Valladolid joined this club with a 7-0 loss to the Merengues. Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid - Valladolid 7-0
1-0 Baptista
2-0 Raul
3-0 Robben
4-0 Raul
5-0 Guti
6-0 Guti
7-0 Drenthe

Comfortable win despite the absence of Ruud Van Nistelrooy!

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Rumors for this January transfer window is that AS Roma are interested in signing Arjen Robben & Royston Drenthe from Real Madrid.

The first is Real Madrid winger Arjen Robben. The 23-year-old only signed for the Spanish-giants in the summer, however he has struggled for form and fitness in the first half of the season.

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ROBINHO SCORED & CONTINUALLY THREATENED MURCIA

The game started at a frenetic pace as the NYC Madridistas witnessed a tremendous goal which began with a Gago pass into the right corner of the penalty box to Guti who one touches a wondrous cross to Robinho who calmly heads in the games first goal(9" min. Click to continue reading...

Much will be made(and rightly so) of how Baptista created an outstanding overhead bicycle kick goal(85' min.) from an errant Guti pass and a crafty back headed ball from the mighty and unheralded Mamadiou Diarra. Baptista's goal sealed Real Madrid's 2-0 victory against a pesky Real Betis side that just wouldn't go away. Click to continue reading...