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The miracle did not happen. To escape the disaster of elimination in these qualifications at Euro 2016, the Netherlands had not only to win in Amsterdam before the Czechs but count on a defeat of the Turks who were receiving them, Icelanders already qualified. The equation seemed insoluble and the defeat at home to the Czech Republic (3-2), together with an incredible goal against his side of Robin van Persie, has confirmed Tuesday night. At the same time, Turkey, she earned her direct qualification through third best place obtained following a 1-0 success against Iceland.
Thirty-one years after the last European Championship of Nations failed, when editing 1984 already … in France, the Netherlands saw a second selection almost incomprehensible trauma. While the Euro will be played for the first time in 24 nations, it had to be hard to miss the tournament 2016. Indeed, the first two places in each group were directly qualifying while third place allowed to be given a final fortunate by the grace of matches dam and back. Teams like Northern Ireland, Wales, Slovakia, Iceland and Albania have thus benefited from the windfall to clinch their first.
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To give life to this unexpected scenario, Dutch, fourth in Group A, have managed the feat of bowing five times in ten games, including catastrophic chain on 6 and 9 September: a home defeat against Iceland (1-0) and a defeat in Turkey (3-0). In early qualifiers in September and October 2014, the semi-finalists of the 2014 World Cup had also fallen in the Czech Republic (2-1) and Iceland (1-0).
Brazil is far
Seductive third in Brazil, including a beating inflicted on the Spanish title holder (5-1) and unbeaten (elimination on penalties in the semifinals against the Argentines ), the Netherlands failed to digest the departure of Louis van Gaal. The succession of Batavian technician had yet nothing precipitate since he had announced his departure to Manchester United, even before the start of the World Cup
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Charge to succeed Van Gaal, Guus Hiddink has completely missed his return at the head of Oranje (first pass 1994-1998). And this summer, given the urgency, the leaders of the Dutch Federation (KNVB) have decided to jump into the deep end a virtual neophyte, Danny Blind.
Although he was the deputy Hiddink last three years, the former international defender has the rather limited head coach experience that amounts to a season on the Ajax bench in 2005-2006.
The proverbial shock the appointment of a new coach has not worked. The Netherlands Version Blind lost their first two games in September including the decisive retrospectively to the Amsterdam Arena on September 6 Icelanders face.
I must say that Danny Blind was not helped by his players. From the 33 th minute, defender Bruno Martins Indi was expelled. Seven minutes earlier, the captain Arjen Robben out injured. The misfortunes of the festival was crowned by a croc-en-leg rather awkward Gregory van der Wiel in full penalty area that gave victory to the opponent.
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With the notable exception of Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, the best Dutch striker with 5 goals of the playoffs, the Dutch have not responded stars present. Arjen Robben (31 years), often injured, has scored only twice and again during the victory to Latvia November 16, 2014 (6-0). Robin van Persie (32), the shadow of itself with Manchester United last season and much more in shape this season with Fenerbahçe, scored three times: during the same success against Latvia, against Kazakhstan on 10 October 2014 (3-1) and last night when his team was already eliminated and led 3-1 by the Czechs.
The new generation does not lack talent, although its spearhead, the Mancunian Memphis Depay, World revelation in 2014 with three goals, crossed the playoffs without showing decisive (no scoring and no decisive pass).
In the last game in Kazakhstan Saturday ( 2-1), two seedlings made their debut successfully. Both players Ajax striker Anwar El Ghazi (20 years) and defenseman Kenny Tete (20 years), even received compliments from Johan Cruyff. “With these young people who knock on the door , the current team does not lack talent. The problem lies elsewhere … “ said twice beaten finalists of World Cups 1974 and 1978.
One can easily imagine that the father figure of the Dutch soccer directly targets the KNVB. The Dutch Federation assumes, in any case, his choice since she has already announced that Danny Blind continue the adventure. To cause for hope, it may be recalled that the Netherlands won their only international title at the European Championship in 1988, four years after missing the 1984 edition.
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