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Dutch women draw Finland, Ukraine and
Denmark
Tuesday 18 November 2008
The Dutch national women's team
will play against Ukraine, Denmark and the host nation
Finland at next summer's European Championships.
The draw for the tournament was
performed today in Helsinki where Holland were drawn
into group A.
It will be the first time Holland
play a final of a European Championship.
The team of bondscoach Vera
Pauw qualified by
beating Spain in the play-offs.
Oranje won both games with 2-0.
Holland start the tournament 23
August in Turku against Ukraine, three days later they
will face Finland in Helsinki.
They will play the last group game
in Lahti on 29 August.
"This is a draw that offers
some chances," Pauw said in a first reaction.
Also read: Pauw
proud of Netherlands feat
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"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
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