After Saturday it was already certain that we were going to Germany at the World Championship soccer 2006 when the Orange team beat The Czech Republik with 2-0 but they also had to play against Macedonia yesterday evening and I was curious about the score. It was terrifyingly bad soccer and the score was 0-0..... Well even with that we were 1st in the qualification rounds and stayed there till the end.
With the New Coach Marco van Basten and a completely new young!!! Soccer team (Finally we got rid of those fossiles) we are completely ready for the WC.
Why am I so excited.... well this is the first time that the Orange team actually did get there by playing soccer. All the years before that it was just second place in the qualification rounds. Playing a couple of more matches to secure a place... nine out of ten times screwing it up completely and then with the biggest luck of the world still reaching it because another team lost from a lower ranked team and therefor missing just enough points to get the Orange team`s place.
Van Basten, Oranges New coach, did a good job in coaching the guys and he even created a myth around him by not loosing a single match during the Qualification rounds and the friendly matches. In the qualification rounds they played 10 Matches of which 8 were won and 2 a tie, the Friendly matches, 5 in total, were 2 won 3 tie.
This brings us in Second place with only Brazil in front of us.
Well to get back to the ground again with my feet. It are still the 11 boys on the field who have to do the game... let`s see how far we get this time.
I`m looking forward to it.
