Changing the face of football forever versus winning a throphy..... Ask anyone about 1974 and they will awnser 1. Cruyff 2. Total Football. You gotta learn to look at the bigger picture here! At least our football legend was an attacker adored by the whole world... Versus "der Kaiser"!
Losing finals seems to have become our tuesdays with 74, 78, 2010 we played the most finals as a country without winning it ever. Still stings not having a star on our chest (And i don't mean "that kind of star")
Do not denigrate the Kaiser! He had the lead over The Beatles in the charts for one solid week with his smash hit "Gute Freunde". (That was the time frame for people to actually listen to that record and warn everyone else about the abomination contained within it.)
And of course you need to qualify in the first place before you can win anything. I wouldn't be surprised if the WC 48 team extension was pushed by the Dutch after losing against such luminaries as Iceland in the 2016 qualifiers.
Der Kaiser...... how are his tax returns doing?
"The French had Bardot, The English had the Beatles. Thank god we had Cruyff!" - Nico Dijkshoorn
Also funny how you guys needed Louis van Gaal to finally start playing attractive football after so many decades!
Goddamit our KNVB is in such bad shape..... Like literally fucked it all up within 2 years. No one wanted Danny Blind as a coach, We all wanted Ronald Koeman, still the fucking board decided for Hiddink then Blind. Even Kept Blind in place while he fucked up eventual placement for a 24 team EC, while he had all the chance....... Literally no one in NL has faith in the KNVB managment and the national coach atm. We missed the EC, our clubs lost UEFA ranking and now we lost direct Champions league spot... still we are not in crisis according to the former Chairman.....
Current generation is a sack of potatoes with a shitty mentality (think they are all that and they dont need to put in any effort)...Which doesn't help at all. Robben talked about a giant rift in mentality with the younger players in an interview after 2014 WC. Bad generations happen especially since we are a small nation, and tbh we had a few amazing generations after eachother since 88' Just wait a few years, we have some wonderfull talents running around in the youth that will put current "pop-stars" to disgrace.
48 WC is fucked up btw, not looking forward to any of that.
To you Dutchmen, reaching the final was one of the greatest achievements you are still talking about decades later, so you probably do.
To us Germans, winning it was Tuesday.