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Spain has finally shaken their decades-long underacheiver tag with their first major trophy in 44 years. It is a far different Spain who celebrates tonight from the nation who won the European title in 1964 under the repressive fascist regime of General Francisco Franco — a man who saw success in football as a utilitarian way to sow the superficial seeds of national unity. Tonight’s win is the first under Spanish democracy, the notion of which was harmoniously reflected in the open, pass-oriented play the national side displayed throughout the Euro 2008 tournament. While they may not have been watching on big screens in the squares of the Basque city Bilbao or the Catalan capital Barcelona, you can bet that the majority of the citizens of even these separatist regions were glued to their TV sets to watch Catalan players (Xavi, Puyol, and Fabregas) join with Castillian players (Torres, Casillas) to cement the nation’s place in football history.

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Spain beat Germany by 1-0 in EURO 2008 Finals to hold the cup for the first time in 44 years in Vienna. With this win Spain also continued their 100% winning streak.
A solitary goal from Fernando Torres in the 33rd minute was enough to hold off a German side who rarely looked like scoring as Spain had the majority of the chances in the second half.

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A first-half goal from Liverpool’s Fernando Torres was enough to beat a defensively inept German side in Vienna. Torres struck just after the half hour mark, after muscling his way past Lahm and poking it over the advancing Lehmann.
Predictably the match started as a relatively scrappy affair, with neither team able to take the initiative. Nerves were surely playing a big part, as both Germany and Spain tried to ‘play themselves in’. Spain were seeing a lot of the ball, but were happy to play it around at the back, while the German’s were closing down quickly, and attempting to gain some early control.

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España, campeona de Europa. Suena raro, pero es así. Por una vez, un torneo de máximo nivel premió a la selección que mejor fútbol hizo durante tres semanas. Se habló de Holanda y después de Rusia, se incidió en la maldición de los cuartos de final, se objetó la competitividad de Italia y, ya al final, la eterna suerte de Alemania. Nada de eso. Ni hablar. Un gol de Fernando Torres en el viejo Prater de Viena en el minuto 33 de la primera parte dio a España su segunda Eurocopa. Al fin, una bella historia que contar a los nietos.
Debían ser los nervios. O la responsabilidad, quién sabe. Quizá fue el saberse, aun a tantos kilómetros de distancia, representantes de un país paralizado, de una España entera pendiente de unas imágenes, de unas pantallas, de un televisor. El caso es que la Selección no se pareció en el arranque a nada de lo que veníamos viendo en las últimas tres semanas. Por primera vez, Casillas rifó balones, por primera vez no se buscó el centro del campo, por primera vez veíamos balones volando por encima de las cabezas de nuestros pequeñitos.

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Germany – you jammy bastards! I’m really feeling for Turkey right now, yet again they played a key part in one of the tournament’s most dramatic games, making the most of their limited resources that were even more depleted than usual through injuries and suspensions brought on by lung-busting efforts in previous games.
And bloody hell did they push Germany hard tonight. In fact, for a long time, the tournament favourites barely saw the ball. Turkey could already have been ahead before Boral knocked in, and when Schweinsteiger equalised there was a strong sense of it coming against the run of play. Klose gave them the lead following Rustu’s cock-up, but you almost knew that there was another twist – Semih making it 2-2. Shame there was one more twist after that, as Lahm compensated for a poor game defensively by scoring with a great finish.

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Turkey found themselves on the wrong end of the scoreline in yet another exciting Euro 2008 match. I cannot remember a tournament that has had so many last minute goals to decide a match.
In the Euro 2008 semifinal between Germany and Turkey it looked as though the match was heading into extra time before a late goal to Germany’s Philipp Lahm settled the affair in the 90th minute. This time there was no amazing comeback from Turkey.
The fact that Turkey had levelled the match with an 86th-minute strike from Semih Sentürk was dramatic enough.
You would have been a supreme optimist to think the Turkish side would be able to summon one last dramatic equaliser. You can only do this so many times. Just like the run of Dinara Safina in the French Open where twice she came back from seemingly lost positions it is tough to do it four times running.

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Germany coach Joachim Löw said his side were lucky to book a place in the Euro 2008 final with their last-gasp 3-2 semi-final win against Turkey on Wednesday.
“Turkey were very strong technically and there were sections of the game when we couldn’t get a grip,” Löw said after watching his team fight back from conceding an early goal before securing victory with a 90th-minute Philipp Lahm goal.
“We saw how Turkey had come back three times at this tournament to turn games completely on their head, so we knew what was coming. In the last few minutes we were trembling but we were lucky enough to score in the 90th minute.
“We were pretty convinced then that they wouldn’t be able to come back for a fourth match.”
“Turkey were combining excellently in midfield, though, so I thought it was the right choice to stick with one forward and not sacrifice our strength in midfield,” the coach added.

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When Ivan Klasnic headed in Luka Modric’s cross with a minute of the overtime period to play, Croatia looked to have booked their place in Wednesday’s semi-final against Germany. However, for the third game running, Turkey sensationally hit back at the death to force the first shoot-out of these finals when Semih Sentürk drove in from the edge of the area. They went on to win 3-1 on penalties after Rüstü Reçber saved Mladen Petric’s kick following earlier misses from Modric and Ivan Rakitic. Turkey coach Fatih Terim, though, will struggle to get a team together to play Germany with Emre Asik, Tuncay Sanli and Arda Turan all suspended along with Volkan Demirel after being booked here.

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International football proved itself yet again to know no boundaries when it comes to cruelty, as Croatia were sent packing from Euro 2008 by Turkey in the most astonishing circumstances. If football was run on a basis of commonsense like most other sports, and timed matches offically rather than leaving it up to one individual’s watch, Turkey would now be on their way home. Instead they scored the latest goal ever in the history of the European Championships, 121 minutes and 4 seconds into the match, which was 4 seconds after their time should have been up.

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It was astonishing finish to a dreadful game, especially for Turkey keeper Rustu, who made an awful error that looked to have given Crotia victory before his free-kick set up Semih for the leveller as referee Roberto Rosetti prepared to blow the final whistle.
Croatia coach Slaven Bilic, who had celebrated what he thought was a famous victory with his players only seconds earlier, could not lift his deflated players and they looked a beaten side even before the penalty shoot-out.

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Yine inanilmazi basardik !.. A Milli Takimimiz, yine inanilmaz bir maçla EURO 2008′e yari finale yükseldi !..
Hirvatistan ile oynadigimiz maçin 90 dakikasinin 0-0 sona ermesinin ardindan, uzatmalara gidildi. 119. dakikada Rüstü’nün büyük hatasiyla Hirvatlar 1-0 öne geçti. O anda tüm Türkiye dondu kaldi, herkes buraya kadarmis dedi ama Türk mucizesi bir kez daha kendini gösterdi. Semih Sentürk 121. dakikada skoru 1-1′e getirdi. Bu kez Hirvatlar yikildi, Millilerimiz o moralle penaltilari 3-1 kazandi ve yari finale çikan takim oldu.
119. dakikada Hirvatistan golü buldu. Gelisen Hirvat ataginda Modric ortaladi, Rüstü’nün ve savunmamizin büyük hatasiyla Klasnic kafayla skoru 1-0′a getirdi.
Ama bitmedi !.. 122. dakikada Semih skora dengeyi getirdi. Ceza sahasinda topu önünde bulan Semih nefis vurdu, maç penaltilara kaldi.
Ilk penaltiyi Modric kaçirdi, Arda atti: 0-1 Hirvatlar’da Srna golü 2. penaltida buldu. Semih ile tekrar öne geçtik: 1-2 Rakitic de kaçirdi. Hamit ile 3-1′e getirdik skoru. Petric’in son penaltisini Rüstü kurtardi, Millilerimiz EURO 2008′de yari finale adini yazdirdi, Avrupa’nin en iyi 4 takimindan biri oldu!.

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Russia, the team which – despite its recent form – had to be considered the underdog in this, its biggest match in years, pulled off a stunning victory over tournament favourites the Netherlands, to move into the semi-finals of Euro 2008.
The Dutch looked somewhat unsettled even at the beginning of the match, especially after Zhirkov whistled a free kick that took a real effort from van der Sar to tip away. Kolodin looked intent on proving that he’s got a cannon in place of a leg, blasting two wicked shots from 30 and 40 yards, respectively (again, van der Sar had to be very sharp to tip the first one over the bar.) The Dutch weren’t completely inactive either, with van Nistelrooy very nearly opening the scoring, but inexplicably failing to get his foot on a pass into the goal area. Sneijder also had a couple of chances, as did van Persie.

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Destiny beckons for Russia’s national football team as they face the biggest game in the country’s modern history. The tournament’s favourites, Netherlands, are their opponents in Euro 2008 quarter-finals in Switzerland’s Basel. Russia’s Pavluchenko, Torbinsky and Arshavin scored the goals on 56th, 112th and 116th minutes.

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Saturday’s Euro 2008 quarter final affair between Russia and The Netherlands was one for the ages if you are a believer in the impossible.
Russia, a country that no one expected to progress out of the group stage had out played and eliminated the heavily favored Dutch side with a score of 3-1 slowly turning their doubters into believers.
What most expected was a highflying Dutch attack that scored nine goals in the opening round but it was Russia who held the tempo testing keeper Edwin Van der Sar throughout the first half.

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В полуфинальных матчах Euro-2008 с немцами и испанцами сборным Турции и России из-за дисквалификаций не помогут несколько игроков основного состава. Никто из трех футболистов сборной Испании, “висевших” на карточках, а именно Альваро Арбелоа, Даниэль Гуиса и Карлос Марчена, не был предупрежден в игре с Италией. Поэтому ничто не помешает им в четверг принять участие в матче с россиянами, если на то будет воля Луиса Арагонеса. У Гуса Хиддинка ситуация сложнее, ибо ему придется найти замену центральному защитнику Денису Колодину и хавбеку Дмитрию Торбинскому, которые в поединке с голландцами (3:1) получили по второму “горчичнику” на турнире.

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Much like anticipated in the days preceding the match, this was hard-fought and tightly-contested battle. The Spanish working their way with their short passing tactics, attempting to penetrate a well-organized (yes, you have read correctly!) Italian defense lead by Christian Panucci and Giorgio Chiellini, while on the other end the creativity of Antonio Cassano and lay-up work of Luca Toni tried to hit Spain on counter-attacks. Carlos Marchena and Carles Puyol were however keeping close guard as well and at the end of the day, there weren’t many real chances to make the highlights reel. Mauro Camoranesi had a good rotating strike inside the box (saved by Casillas) and there was a long-range blast by Marcos Senna (parried, then fumbled by Buffon onto the post). Other than that, a lot of ball possession and many shots wide for Spain.

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Spain beat Italy 4-2 on penalties here on Sunday to reach the Euro 2008 semi-finals and in so doing break a number of painful hoodoos.
Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas saved penalties from Daniele De Rossi and Antonio Di Natale before Arsenal midfielder Cesc Fabregas buried the winning spot-kick after the match had ended 0-0 after extra-time.

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Onto the last quarter final of the UEFA Euro 2008 and this one has Group D winners, Spain, who won all 3 of their matches. Their opponents are world champions Italy. They left qualification late until a 2-0 win over France in their final game.
Roberto Donadoni was missing influencial midfielders Grande Gutusso and Andres Pirlo as they both recieved their second booking of the tournament vs the team they defeated in the World Cup final. Luis Aragonés on the other hand goes back to his original line up after playing the reserves in their dead rubber game vs Greece, which they won thanks to goals from Ruben de la Red and Daniel Guiza.
At the 10 minute mark, Spain had a shocking 72% to ITaly`s 28% possession. BUt despite having so much more of the ball, they had not done much with it.

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España venció 4 a 2 a Italia en una definición con remates desde el punto del penal y avanzó a la semifinales de la Eurocopa 2008, después de que ambos equipos terminaran igualados sin goles al cabo de 120 minutos de fútbol en Viena.
El arquero español Iker Casillas atajó los disparos de los italianos Daniele De Rossi y Antonio Di Natale, antes de que Cesc Fabregas sellara con un preciso tiro junto a un palo la clasificación del equipo ibérico.

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Portugal came into the match favorites, after storming past the group stage, with impressive displays against the Turks and the Czechs in Group play. The Germans, on the other hand looked out of their element in the Group stage, having lost to Croatia. The Germans made three changes pre-match, including finally taking out ‘Super Mario’ Gomez, while the Portuguese stayed with the same lineup that did them wonders in their first two matches. However, as the match started and Joakim Lowe watched from the stands, the Germans took the match to the Portuguese. They simply dominated proceedings early on, and finally, on a string of beautiful one touch passes leading to the feet of Lukas Podolski, he crossed it in towards the recently suspended Bastian Schweinsteiger, and he simply beat Paulo Ferriera to the ball, and struck it past the stranded Ricardo for a 1-0 lead.

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Perhaps it was never to be Portugal year to win European Championship 2008. So much promise, so much hype around the players, and none greater than its star Cristiano Ronaldo. Yet to be honest, the 2-3 scoreline in Germany’s favor flattered Portugal.

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Germany beat Portugal 3-2 in the first quarterfinal match of Euro 2008 here on Thursday, braving into the semifinals of the 24-day tournament.
Midfielder Bastian Schwienseiger and sriker Miroslav Klose scored in the first half while captain Michael Ballack regained the lead with a score in the second half to gift Germany of the surprising victory.
Portugal, which finished as winners of the Group A, found face back with two scores, one from captain Nuno Gomes in the 39th minute, the other from Helder Postiga’s header in the 87th minute.

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Russia is celebrating a thrilling 2-0 win over Sweden and the country’s first European Quarter Final place in modern history. Andrey Arshavin and Roman Pavlyuchenko both scored in a game dominated by Russia. Sweden had few chances to score while Russia missed countless opportunities.

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Russia paved there way in the quarter final & set up a fantastic football match with Holland with this more than easy win over Sweden. This bring Guss Hiddink against his native country & what will be a interesting match. Sweden on the other hand were very poor couldn’t handle Russia at all & they don’t know where they go from here but as a ageing team they don’t look like a team that could improve in the future or have any starts in the waiting.

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Andrei Arshavin returned from suspension to earn Russia a place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008 with victory over Sweden in Innsbruck.
Sweden only needed a point themselves but had no answer to the Zenit St Petersburg playmaker, with Dutchman Guus Hiddink now set to face Holland on Saturday after guiding Russia out of Group D.
Roman Pavlyuchenko opened the scoring at Stadion Tivoli Neu before Arshavin sealed the win Russia required after the break.
Since starting to compete as Russia, in 1992, it is the first time they have been out of the group stages of a major tournament.

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Да, Игроки Российской сборной и в этот раз нам показали класс. Победили Шведов, со счетом, 2:0. Хотя мне показалось что попадания были по принципу “рандом”. Лично я смотрел матч, сидя в более или менее тихой кафешке (пока не пришли участковый с охраниками) в компании друзей и подруг. Без смеха и кучи позитива в общем, конечно же у нас не обошлось. Хотя бы надо было видеть напрягшиеся лица зрителей сидящих в кафе, когда друг стал играть со звуком телевизора, управляя им с телефона. Или снимание на видео коллегу друзей, изрядно выпившего к моменту моего приезда. Лично мне он пытался что то дать послушать на телефоне.

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Croatia have steamed into the Quarter Finals of Euro 2008 after stunning tournament favourites Germany 2-1. Croatia took the lead off the boot of Darijo Srna. Ivica Olic then doubled the score for Croatia before Lukas Podolski gave the Germans a late consolation goal. Germany must now beat Austria to assure themselves of a quarterfinal berth. In another group B match, Austria held Poland to a 1-1 draw via an injury time penalty strike from substitute Ivica Vastic. Earlier, Roger Guerreiro had scored for Poland.

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Croatia bristled with imagination and inspiration as they dealt Germany a 2-1 Euro 2008 Group B defeat here on Thursday in one of the biggest surprises of the tournament so far.
The Croats were well worth their victory – which came 10 years after the biggest result in their history when they beat the same opponents 3-0 in the World Cup quarter-finals – as they took charge of the group and are now almost guaranteed a place in the quarter-finals.
Coach Slaven Bilic, who played in the 3-0 win in Lyon in 1998, said the Germans should not be written off.

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Well what a night. As if defeating Germany wasn’t good enough, but a late late penalty converted by Ivica Vastic (karma anyone?) saw us not only qualify for quarterfinals, but qualify as group winners regardless of how our match with Poland plays out (head to head is the first criteria).

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U Klagenfurtu koji je jucer bio Hrvatska u malom. Procjenjuje se da je samo na stadionu bilo oko 30.000 Hrvata. Naši su nadigrali Nijemce koji su bili bez ideje. Kljuc pobjede je to što smo natrcali Njemacku. Bili smo puno konkretniji. Njemacku mrežu naceo je Darijo Srna u 24.minuti.na asistenciju Danijela Pranjica. U prvom dijelu smo imali još dvije odlicne šanse Nike Kranjcara, ali na poluvremenu je bilo 1 0. U drugom dijelu Nijemci su nas malo stisnuli. No Hrvatska se brzo oslobodila tog pritiska i ponovno preuzela inicijativu. U 62. minuti nakon odlicnog udarca Ivana Rakitica lopta je iznenadila Jensa Lehmanna od stative se odbila na nogu Ivici Olicu koji ju je pospremio u mrežu za 2 0Do kraja smo imali još jednu dobru šansu ali, samo je u 79. minuti Lukas Podolski smanjio na konacnih 2 1. Predstojilo je još teškiih jedanaest minuta do kraja. Hrvatska je to odigrala sjajnoi nije dozvolila Njemackoj izjednacenje. U 90. minuti je još Bastian zaradio I crveni karton zbog udaranja Jerka Leke. Bez ikakve pristranosti moram reci da je belgijski sudac Frank de Blekere odlicno je odsudio utakmicu. To je uostalom I potvrdio naš ugledni sudacki kriticar Mateo Beusan.

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Italy clinched a quarter-final meeting with Spain as they sent France crashing out of Euro 2008 with a deserved win.
France had a nightmare evening, losing key man Franck Ribery to a serious injury after only seven minutes.
Eric Abidal was then sent off after 25 minutes for fouling Luca Toni to give away a penalty, scored by Andrea Pirlo. Thierry Henry deflected in Daniele De Rossi’s 30-yard free-kick just past the hour as the world champions joined the group winners Holland in the quarters.
Raymond Domenech’s side carried all the appearance of a spent force and their display will now surely herald a changing of the guard for a group of players that has enjoyed so much success.
Italy, in contrast, celebrated their recovery from an opening defeat against the Dutch to move into the last eight – although they will lose influential midfield pair Andrea Pirlo and Gennaro Gattuso through suspension.

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The Azzurri’s Euro 2008 adventure continues to the Quarter-Finals. With rage. That of Andrea Pirlo, master sniper from the spot, and Daniele De Rossi, serving a thundering set-piece drive into the net.
It would be hasty to say “the World Champions are back”, but they’re on the right track. Today, the team looked in better shape, more motivated, more concentrated. And luck, the factor the Azzurri were so cruelly lacking until now, finally lent a helping hand to Roberto Donadoni & Co. France’s match went from bad (Franck Ribery’s injury in the 10th) to worse (Eric Abidal’s foul on Luca Toni inside the box, and resulting red card) in less than 15 minutes, and Thierry Henry’s deflection on Daniele De Rossi’s 62nd-minute free-kick was just the ultimate insult for Raymond Domenech, who will undoubtedly have to step down following his team’s elimination.

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No surprises in the last matches of the Group C of the UEFA Euro Cup 2008. France lost against Italy. Italy played, as usual and to the bore of football fans, defense and to throw themselves to the floor each time they could to try to cheat the referee.
And as usual, Italy got their pass to the quarter finals of the UEFA Euro Cup 2008, with an accidental goal and with no football at all. France on the other hand, was one of the worse teams of the UEFA Euro Cup 2008. I am sure that even Austria or Switzerland could have defeated the French team.

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L’Italia parte benissimo ma Toni spreca una quantità industriale di palle gol. Al 10’ la prima doccia fredda per i francesi: Ribery, facendo fallo su Zambrotta, si fa male ed è costretto ad uscire. Al suo posto Nasri che, però, non avrà un impatto determinante sulla partita, anche perché non giocherà molto: al 24’, infatti, dopo altre occasioni per Toni e Panucci, Pirlo lancia il bomber del Bayern che, stoppato il pallone in area da solo davanti a Coupet, viene travolto da Abidal. Rigore per gli azzurri, espulsione per il difensore francese e sostituzione proprio per il franco-algerino Nasri, che lascia il posto a Boumsong. Pirlo va sul dischetto e sigla il gol del vantaggio azzurro. L’Italia continua a rendersi pericolosa: prima è De Rossi che fa sudare freddo Coupet con un gran tiro dalla distanza, poi è Grosso su punizione a centrare il palo, poi è ancora Toni, con uno spettacolare (e involontario?) colpo di tacco, a mancare di poco il bersaglio grosso. La Francia è rimasta in albergo.

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The Netherlands secured their place in the UEFA EURO 2008™ quarter-finals with a game to spare after producing another devastating display against France in Berne, with Dirk Kuyt, Robin van Persie, Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder all scoring in a memorable win.

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Invincible’s Dutch, the phrase matches with the Euro 2008 Netherlands team. In their two league matches they simply outclassed their opponents. In first match they defeated World Champions Italy, and today they defeated one more Group Fav. France with score of 4-1. The way Netherland attack and defend is really commendable. Besides, the way they are playing in my opinion make them the strong contender for the title.

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Even though I’m not a very big football fan (soccer for you Yanks ), I do enjoy a good football match. This night’s soccer match between the Netherlands and France was a great match with good football coming from both sides. The french did put up a good fight but weren’t as fortunate as the Dutchies. Anyway, getting kicked in the ball by us dutchies must feel like punishment. 4-1 and 3-0 to the number 1 and 2 of the WORLD. That must count for something.
Anyway thanks to France for a great match. Fortune has mistreated you. Kudos to the dutch guys as well. You’ve been marvelous.

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Het Nederlands Elftal heeft zich al na twee wedstrijden in de groepsfase geplaatst voor de kwartfinale van het EK Voetbal 2008. Dat is het gevolg van de 4-1 overwinning op Frankrijk, twee jaar geleden nog verliezend finalist op het WK 2006. Oranje zette ook dit topland met ruime cijfers aan de kant, na afgelopen maandag de wereldkampioen te hebben gedeklasseerd. Daarmee is Nederland met glans door de ‘poule des doods’ gekomen. Zelfs na de dikke overwinning op de Italianen hebben waarschijnlijk weinig mensen deze uitslag tegen Frankrijk voorspeld.

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