Earning our seat among Europe's Elite 13
By: Bannon | November 7th, 2009 | 1 Comments
Well, its been a roller-coaster this year for our Zhovto-Blakytni, with a lot of close calls...
In a tough Group 6, we held for a couple dramatic ties against Croatia and posted a narrow away loss to England – in both the shark-infested waters of Zagreb and Wembley stadium. Belarussian conviction nearly ended our Ukrainian campaign early - a win in Minsk on Sept 9th could have saved us a lot of anxiety, but it wasn’t meant to be. It took a home victory (largely Internet-watched) over England in Dnipropetrovsk to vault our Yellow-Blues to second, from which they haven’t looked back.
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Team manager Bert van Marwijk confirmed he uses a shadow list for potential Oranje players at last Friday's press conference in Zeist. The coach refused to publish the list, though. "It wouldn't do anyone any good to publish that list. It's not a fixed list either, so then I'd have to go ... 
When Said Husejinović first emerged in the Bosnian premijer liga for FK Sloboda Tuzla, he was touted by some as the best homegrown Bosnian prospect since the end of the war. The talented Zvorničanin had plenty of pace, great technique and a good shot from long-range. In terms of physical predisposition and ... 
For the friendly matches against Chile (Köln) and the Ivory Coast (Gelsenkirchen) Löw has nominated the England prospect Aaron Hunt, the mercurial Thomas Müller, the Bundesliga topscorer Stefan Kießling, and of course the ever present Thomas Hitzlsperger.
Overall this is a good selection, but one wonders why a player like Hitzlsperger merits ... 
Dembele tries...
AZ Alkmaar is a club and a team in trouble. Replacing Van Gaal by Ronald Koeman is one ... 
You know what I hate? Stupid, ill-informed, disrespectful comments about any team when it's unfounded, especially a team who was one of five to go through their qualifying group unbeaten. Rant over.
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OK so perhaps the title is a tad hyperbolic, but really things are getting ridiculous. A quick refresher course for those of you who have missed this: England (as you all ... 
The season is almost two months old and PSV and Twente are above Ajax in the tables. At the same time, Ajax hasn't impressed in Europe yet.
That's too bad. But nothing more than that. Ajax might not play sensational against clubs like RKC or NAC, but there is almost no criticism. That's ... 
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