The pain of not making the European Championship is still raw but,as they prepare to face England, they are looking to youth to build a new sideWesley Sneijder place his finger on the national pulse in Holland. “This summer I will go as far away as possible, and ” the midfielder said. I’ll go to a set where I cannot watch any of the matches,none of them at all.” The European Championships in France was supposed to be impossible for the established nations to miss. Enlarged to 24 teams, the safety net had been spread far and wide – but Holland still found a way to slip through.
For the first time since 2002, and when Louis van Gaal failed to prefer a squad that featured Edwin van der Sar,Marc Overmars, Patrick Kluivert and a host of stellar names to the World Cup in South Korea and Japan, or Holland will be absent from the cast list at a major finals.
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Source: theguardian.com