While the final was hardly a classic, the 2010 World Cup quarters delivered enough drama to live on in the memories of all who witnessed it
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Becoming the first brothers to win the Euros together was only a small part of the career achievements of Erwin and Ronald Koeman
Exemplifying sibling rivalry, Siem and Luuk de Jong would spend much of their careers fighting against one another
Part of Ajax’s 1995 Champions League-winning side, Ronald and Frank de Boer would follow each other around for the rest of their careers
Thanks to a dispute over Arjen Robben, in 2012, three days after losing the Champions League final, Bayern Munich played the Netherlands
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE London. Marseille. Brussels. Portugal had been in the last four of a major tournament before. Bobby Charlton, Michel Platini and Zinedine Zidane had dumped them…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE It was a Dutch disaster in Amsterdam as the Netherlands suffered repeated jitters from the penalty spot to lose out to a dogged Italy in…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE The final of the European Championship not only produced a winning team that had come so close to international success so many times over the…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Co-hosts the Netherlands cemented their status as the team to beat at Euro 2000 with a scintillating rout of an overawed Yugoslavia in Rotterdam. Having…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE While Marco van Basten lit up the final of Euro 88 with his stupendous volley to seal the Netherlands’ win over the Soviet Union, few…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Plenty was at stake when the Netherlands and the Czech Republic met at the Estádio Municipal de Aveiro on 19 June 2004. Dick Advocaat’s Oranje had…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE When Austrian referee Gerd Grabher blew for full-time, it was one of those rarest of occasions in international football when fans of the winning team…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE The tournament had yet to really take off at this point in the sixth edition of the European Championship. The opening set of fixtures had…
This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE The first weekend of Euro 2008 came to an end with one of the heavyweight clashes of the group stages as the Netherlands faced Italy…
These Football Times’ podcast team go visual and take a look at the Euro 88 final, featuring the talents of Gullit, Van Basten, Belanov and Protasov
The Netherlands women’s team, out of every nation in Europe, are leading the way in innovation and art, both on and off the pitch
Rensenbrink remains a man under-appreciated by many in football. Regardless of that, he will always be a man who hypnotically owned the ball
A powerful striker, hardly in the mould of Totaalvoetbal, Dick Nanninga watched the 1974 World Cup final as an amateur. Four years later, he’d score in it