<p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3"> <font size="2">The death of tulip<br/> After Ruud Gullit not very successful manager career in Chelsea and Eomundo Rijkaard's striking<br/>leading performance in FC Barcelona, Marco Van Basten, one of the trinities who were then play in AC Milan that brought this Italy club countless glory and in Late 1980s and early 1990s, will direct the new Netherlands National Team whose average age is just under 25 to give their first debut in 2006 world trip. Before that, Mass media's picky criticism revolves round Basten's chose of 23 list for the world cup for he brushed aside Edgar Davids, Clarence Seedorf, and Japp Stam who have shown quite fruitful experience in big games and still in their peak period of career, out of the national team. <br/> "I know we need veterans which will help us a lot in such important games but what counts most is the dynamism and teamwork that absolutely substantial and crucial for the construction of a team.” Said Basten in the qualification games of 2006 world cup. Most professionals and critics even Netherlands supports with shrewd observation know that the reason Basten blindly favoring younger player whose name is not that glorious as those big names like Seedof and Davis but they are quite tough and difficult to deal with is just for the consolidation and integration of the team, well, this is acceptable if only it's good to Holland.<br/> Basten's decision looks right as Netherlands just made through a rather easy and smooth course in the squad qualification of European by the record of 15 goals and 4 lost balls in a dozen of games. <br/>"This team is in the upsurge wave of their competent stage, all the aspects show we'll be one of the <br/>strong follows of the title that we have never touched." Van Basten was full of confidence when he <br/>received interview of the media. <br/> Netherlands’s 1st game show demonstrated us at least not the least bad though their performance was still a far cry from meeting the critical supporters of Netherlands in the match against Serbia and <br/>Montenegro in which Arjen Robben conducted his monopoly by dribbling his personal strides in left <br/>fields as usually he does in Chelsea in England Premier. To be frank, his dash is still sharp and promising, pushing Holland's Forward to be close to the penalty box and even the goalmouth quite <br/>effectively with his marvelous dribbling techniques, Robben almost dominate 80% of the whole team's attack which is supposed to be finished by a 11 player team. So Van Persie criticized Robben's selfness, saying, "Robben's performance is quite good, but we're a team, we would have played much better and got more chance to score more points if he had share his ball to others." Such criticism even arose after a victory which manifests this Holland is not a very united team. <br/> And it's inevitable that the gap between the players as well as the footballers and coach are being widen. The 2-1 defeat over Cote D'voire didn't cover Holland's incapability to control the whole game running in their own rhyme for they can't stop Cote D'voire's player continuous crash and attack again an again. Africans technique, harmonious body advantage and teamwork is totally out of their expectation, they only keep their one point lead with the help of referee's. So after a draw match with Argentina, Holland fix their seats in the 2nd and will face their old friends Portugal, who ousted them in quarter final with Maniche's whim ball. <br/> The result is acceptable while the course of that match shocked almost every fan all over the world in which the game appear to show 16 yellow cards which is only 2 cards less than in the 2002's cup when Germany Vs Cameron, and an unprecedented 4 red cards displayed just in one match to give the world cup a gray history. And this 16 yellow cards coupled with the passed has hit the total amount of 1998 cup's record with 11 games left to reach a newness. We do not hold forth on referee's performance in this match, we just want to look at the young footballer of Holland's when they lagged behind Portugal they didn't collaborate with each other like a team, just sinking themselves in the wrath of opponents deliberate fouls and fouling back, and again and again. Even more, Heitinga refuse to kick back the ball to Portugal whose GK got injured by rushing to the Portugal's goalmouth rudely.<br/> It seems that fantastic and incredible team who is called the champion without crown that ever bring us several times joy and pleasure has lost, all we see from this team is just aggressiveness, rudeness, haste rather than calm, care, and more important, teamwork. A scene just proved my thoughts when the end of the match Van Basten stand at the side of the grassland to ease his players, only few of player communicating with their head coach, Robben passing, Van Persie passing, Van Nistelrooy who was suspended throughout the match, passing. I are unable to know what Van Basten is thinking at that moment, perhaps he is regretting why not call back those experienced players, if he does, the result would be totally another thing. Perhaps he is doubting such a young team should have been a very consolidated community who is expected to go far in this tour. Perhaps he's asking himself whether he's decision of being a coach is right, anyway most of the coaches who used to be a good footballer get few chance to prove themself a good leader of a team. Gullit failed, Zico failed, Viali failed. Only Jurgen Klinsmann is still under the position and will creat a new record to grasp the wold cup both as a player and a coach like what Franz Beckenbauer did. Then what about Van Basten? Who knows, maybe he's a good coach, maybe not, we need to be a little bit more patient if he's still a coach of Netherlands after his failure of this 2006 trip.<br/> As we all know that tulip is a symbol of Netherlands for elegance, nobleness, treasure, love, romance, and love that should have offered us a very pleasant and fantstic enjoyment Netherlands National Team ought to entertain us as a blossoming flower. Pitifully it failed to show its beauty and boom it should have done results from Basten's not good team strategy and not united teamwork. When will Netherlands be back, when will Basten prove himself, when will this delicate and ariscratics like tulip blossom in the fresh air of coming Spring? I don't know, we will have to wait...........</font></font></p><p><br/><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">   uppy wrote home on 28 June, 2006</font></p><br/>
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