Rotterdam: The Netherlands will face Germany in Wednesday's friendly international without in-form Robin van Persie after the Manchester United winger pulled out of the squad on Monday with a thigh complaint. Van Persie played for the full 90 minutes in United's 3-2 win at Aston Villa on Saturday, setting up Javier Hernandez's 87th minute winner with an inswinging free-kick. The scorer of 31 goals in 71 internationals is likely to...
09:23 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Berlin: Injury-stricken Germany will be without playmaker Mesut Ozil and their only out-and-out striker Miroslav Klose when they take on Netherlands in a friendly in Amsterdam on Wednesday as the injured list grew on Monday. The Germans are already without a handful of starters with midfielders Bastian Schweinsteiger and Toni Kroos and defenders Jerome Boateng and Marcel Schmelzer picking up injuries over the weekend. Real Madrid's Ozil was nursing a...
08:15 PM, Nov 12, 2012
Moscow: Russia moved into the top-10-ranked football nations this month, FIFA announced on Wednesday. Fabio Capello's team rose three places from 12th to ninth on the back of 1-0 victories over Portugal and Azerbaijan in last month's World Cup qualifiers. World and European champions Spain remain cemented to first place, followed by Germany in second and Argentina, who moved to third following wins over Uruguay and Chile. Portugal were edged...
05:28 PM, Nov 07, 2012
Amsterdam: A Dutch court has again ruled against Apple in a suit against South Korea's Samsung Electronics, saying that Galaxy tablet computers don't infringe an Apple patent on touch screen interfaces. The Dutch case is one of many Apple is pursuing against Samsung in their reciprocal patent war. If Apple had been successful in the Netherlands, it could have disrupted Samsung's ability to distribute in Europe through the port of...
06:32 PM, Oct 25, 2012
All the three nations have got it as part of the governing body's Targeted Assistance and Performance Programme (TAPP) in place to facilitate competitiveness. ...
07:11 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Amsterdam: Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal recalled Rafael van der Vaart on Friday for World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Romania. Van der Vaart was dropped for the first two qualifiers as he returned to full fitness following his move from Tottenham to Hamburg. Also back in the squad were midfielders Ibrahim Afellay and Nigel de Jong, who also have proved their match fitness after summer transfers. Afellay moved from...
07:16 PM, Oct 05, 2012
Amsterdam: Riot police broke up crowds of youths who turned violent in a Dutch town late on Friday after several thousand people descended on the community following an invitation to a birthday party posted on Facebook, Dutch media reported. Media reports said six people were hurt, including three seriously, after disturbances broke out in the northern Dutch town of Haren. Reports said shops were vandalized and looted, a car set...
11:30 AM, Sep 22, 2012
Budapest: Jeremain Lens scored twice to lead Netherlands to a 4-1 win over Hungary in a qualifier for the 2014 World Cup on Tuesday. Lens scored his first in the third minute, heading in a pass from the right side by Luciano Narsingh, only for Hungary to equalize four minutes later through a penalty by Balazs Dzsudzsak after Jordy Clasie fouled Zoltan Gera. The Dutch regained the lead for good...
09:11 AM, Sep 12, 2012
London: Italy were held to a disappointing 2-2 draw by Bulgaria as the rest of Europe's leading sides made winning starts in their first matches in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup on Friday. Showing little of the form that took the team to the European Championship final, the Italians were denied victory in their Group B opener when Georgi Milanov equalized for Bulgaria " ranked 89th in the world...
08:39 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Zurich: Brazil stayed outside the top ten of FIFA's highly questioned ranking system on Wednesday, with England, Denmark and Greece all ahead of the five-times world champions. The South Americans, who hit an all-time low of 13th last month, climbed one place to 12th thanks to a 3-0 friendly win in Sweden. But their placing, one below Greece, is still surprisingly low as they have won 10 of their 13...
04:07 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Arnhem (The Netherlands): A 15-year-old Dutch boy was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention on Monday for stabbing to death a girl whose Facebook posts reportedly led to a contract for her killing. The case, known in the Netherlands as the "Facebook murder", caused widespread debate about the role of social media in violent crime. The court said the boy did not know the victim and had murdered her...
12:26 PM, Sep 04, 2012
London: Lionel Messi scored and missed a penalty in Argentina's 3-1 win in Germany and Belgium stunned Netherlands 4-2 as a flurry of new coaches and debutants cut their international teeth in friendlies on Wednesday. With 2014 World Cup qualifying games approaching fast in September, Didier Deschamps had a dull start as France coach with a 0-0 stalemate against Uruguay and Fabio Capello's first game in charge of Russia ended...
08:56 AM, Aug 16, 2012
The Hague: Wesley Sneijder has replaced Mark van Bommel as the new captain of the Dutch football team, head coach Louis van Gaal announced ahead of Wednesday's friendly match against Belgium in Brussels. Van Bommel announced his retirement from the national team after the early exit at Euro 2012. The 28-year-old Sneijder has played 87 internationals and was being considered as the natural leader of the team, reports Xinhua. Van...
05:09 PM, Aug 15, 2012
London: The Netherlands retained their women's Olympic field hockey title with a 2-0 win over world champion Argentina at Riverbank Arena on Friday. The Dutch scored off two second-half penalty corners to join Australia as the only three-time Olympic champions. The final was riveting until Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel scored from a rebound of Eva de Goede's corner in the 40th minute. Then the Dutch turned rampant, and after...
02:19 AM, Aug 11, 2012
London: Nippy striker Billy Bakker and penalty corner shooter Roderick Weusthof scored three goals each as Netherlands stormed into the final of the Olympic men's hockey with a thumping 9-2 victory over hosts Great Britain. Netherlands, bronze medallists in the 2010 World Cup, played a brisk overlapping game to hammer six goals in the second session to silence a vociferous home crowd last night and earn a title contest with...
09:31 AM, Aug 10, 2012
London: The defending champion Netherlands beat New Zealand 3-1 in a penalty shootout on Wednesday to reach the women's Olympic field hockey final. Ellen Hoog scored the winner, backhanding the ball past New Zealand goalkeeper Bianca Russell to end a semifinal in which the Dutch came from a goal down each time to make it 1-1 at halftime and 2-2 at the end of regulation. Neither team scored in extra...
11:28 PM, Aug 08, 2012
London: Britain ended Germany's domination of equestrian team dressage by winning the Olympic gold medal at Greenwich Park on Tuesday, adding to its first team show jumping gold in 60 years that it won a day earlier. Germany took the silver and the Netherlands the bronze. In dressage, the horse performs a carefully choreographed routine of movements that showcases the animal's training: prancing trots, extended strides, twirling pirouettes and a...
09:31 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London: His Olympic gold medal in windsurfing already guaranteed, all Dorian Van Rijsselberge had to do was stay on his board and finish the final race. He did much more than that, the Dutchman skimming across the waves to finish first in the medals race and clinch his gold in style on Tuesday in windsurfing's farewell to the Olympics. After winning the race, the 1.90 meter-tall Van Rijsselberge, who shaved...
07:06 PM, Aug 07, 2012
London: The Netherlands pulled off the first major upset of the Olympic Games men's hockey competition on Sunday when they posted a 3-1 victory over defending champions Germany to surge to the top of the pool. Netherlands posted their fourth successive victory in Pool B to move to 12 points, while Germany are on nine from four outings and South Korea have moved to six after their 4-1 victory over...
03:51 AM, Aug 06, 2012
London: Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands won the 100-meter freestyle at the London Olympics on Thursday. Kromowidjojo clocked 53.00 to improve on her own Olympic record set in Wednesday's semifinals. Aliaksandra Herasimenia of Belarus touched in 53.38 to take the silver medal and Tang Yi of China finished in 53.44 for bronze in swimming's signature event. ...
02:06 AM, Aug 03, 2012
