Dutch Football - National team of the Netherlands - Euro 2012 - Euro 2012 - Van Marwijk: "We should be able to qualify

"The intellectualisation
of football has
always foundered
on a simple problem-
-the players. Doing
all your most
rewarding thinking
with your feet seems
to dull the philo-
sophical impulse.
Unless, of course,
you are Dutch.
According to legend,
Europeans played
a moronic, muscular
version of the world's
game, until Holland
proclaimed its vision
of total football in the
1974 World Cup,
and enlightenment
dawned."

From:
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

Euro 2012 - Van Marwijk: "We should be able to qualify"

Sunday 07 February 2010

The national football team of the Netherlands were drawn into a group with Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Moldavia and San Marino for the Euro 2012 qualifications.

Holland manager Bert van Marwijk is content with that result.

"It's difficult to look that far ahead. Qualifications don't start for another six months and in between there's the World Cup. But it's great that we're going to play the team of Erwin Koeman."

"Finland, Sweden and Hungary are the better known nations, in theory Moldavia and San Marino should be the lesser two. But I have said it many times: you can not underestimate any opponent.

Van Marwijk thinks Oranje have a good chance to qualify for the finals in Poland and Ukraine in the summer of 2012: "Let's not walk away from it. When reach our normal level we should be able to get through."