Which Champions League Dutchman Will Be a World Cup Hero?

May 15th, 2010 | by: Ian Rose |

sneijder_robben_van_persia A quick question for all you readers out there on this fine Saturday. A week from today, Inter and Bayern Munich face off in the Champions League final in Madrid. Each team has a Netherlands international who has had a very strong year. The question is, which one (Wesley Sneijder or Arjen Robben) will make more of an impact at the World Cup? We have a few videos to make the case for each.

Sneijder can do this:

Robben watches this and says “Oh yes? Very nice. But I can do this.”:

Don’t ask me why Robben speaks with a Special1TV Jose voice in my head. He just does. Also, I’m not sure if that’s the most or least appropriate music ever for a highlight video. Maybe most, just by virtue of not being “Remember the Name”.

Complicating the argument, they have exactly the same number of silent or soft J’s in their names. Discuss.

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alaaz

I hope robben just because I don't mourinho win, I hope sneijder plays well and scores too.
robertolivier

The question was about the WC . I would've said Robben, but based on the videos I'd say Sneijder by a mile ,so many great plays and free kicks, Robbens videos are replay after replay. Hope they both play awesome. Question is who will take the free kicks Sneijder or VanPersie both are great kickers. Sneijder I hope. Good to have VanPersies' 6'4″ frame at the net for headers and such.
http://england.worldcupblog.org/ Rob

Sneijder's j is that charming dutch refusal to have the letter Y in their alphabet though. Perhaps they are going to make it Metric by reducing the alphabet to 20 letters while no-one's looking.