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I've been a fan since that Euro 96 play off when Patrick Kluivert dumped Ireland out and ended Jack Charltons reign as manager.I just always associated the dutch with great football.But dutch football is not in a good place right now.Apart from Ajax last season dutch clubs have been rubbish in europe for years.The Netherlands didn't lose a game at the last world cup but they didn't qualify for Euro 2016.They got hammered by France last night and are in serious danger of not qualifying for next years world cup.What has gone wrong?Is this just a blip and the Netherlands will be back as a force sooner rather than later, or is there a serious terminal decline and rot setting in.Whatever it is the sooner dutch football sort's itself out the better for everyone imo.
 

There have been periods where Dutch football has been stuck in the wilderness before. I mean, they didn't qualify for a single World Cup in the 80's for instance

This period is really troubling though. I don't think they've ever missed out on two consecutive major tournaments in my lifetime

There just isn't much money on the Dutch league outside of the main teams, and it's hurting the national team

@Dutch Toffee what are your thoughts?
 
They were the best team at the 1974 world cup the 1998 world cup and Euro 2000.Dutch teams traditionally play great football.They would go into tournaments being favourites to win it, and they would still find a way to blow it.I think it's the flawed genius of dutch football that i find so intriguing.With hindsight giving the national team job to Danny Blind (a legend of a player but poor manager for the Netherlands and Ajax) was a mistake.
 

I recommend that anyone with a passing intrest in Dutch football, buy a copy of Brilliant Orange by David Winner.It's one of the best football books i have ever read.It's one of those books that keeps getting better with every read.
 
flibbyflob said:
They are to football what Pakistan are to cricket. Unpredictable, talented but crazily bad at times and you can't not watch them because of it.
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I know yeah they could be dull clinical and boring and win all the time, like the Germans.But dull and boring is not the dutch way!I think that's what people love about them imo.
 
Mikey_Fitzgerald said:
There have been periods where Dutch football has been stuck in the wilderness before. I mean, they didn't qualify for a single World Cup in the 80's for instance

This period is really troubling though. I don't think they've ever missed out on two consecutive major tournaments in my lifetime

There just isn't much money on the Dutch league outside of the main teams, and it's hurting the national team

@Dutch Toffee what are your thoughts?
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Think the biggest problem we're facing is that a lot of our professional teams opt to play at plastic pitches. Something like 8 out of 18 teams in the highest division do and something like 14 out of 20 in the 2nd division.

Completely ridiculous and also harmfull for our international stature. It's a completely different ballgame playing on such a surface. Even more bemusing seeing that we're worldwide reknowned for our grass pitches and a lot of foreign clubs opt for Dutch grass (I know, I know:cool:)

Our youth players already have a preference to play on them rather than natural grass. Totally different ballgame. As soon as they play teams on natural grass they have huge problems adapting.

Finally seems that the Dutch FA is aknowledging the problems and dangers of doing so and there's a lot of discussion about it currently.

Can understand the amateur clubs opting for such a pitch as it is low maintenance, but professional clubs shouldn't be allowed to do so. If you want to play professional football than make sure there's room in your budget for natural grass


That and of course we're just crap atm;)lol
 

Supported them as a second team since 1988. Quite sad to see the decline, going from world cup finalists in 2010 to where they are now. These things tend to go in circles i suppose so I'm sure they will be back eating at the top table again.
 
Its all about money. Normally players were staying till 25-27 but now clubs like man city, chelsea, man utd and arsenal are bringing in 16 or 17 year olds. Couple of years ago holland u17 won the european championship with 7 players from Feyenoord. After that tournament 4 of them left to England.(Bruma, rekik, ebicilio and ake)

The dutch league is some kind of a youth league at the moment. Last year before the Europa league final i saw a piece about man utd spending more money in the last three years than ajax since WW2. That tells you everything.
 

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