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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2012 at 15:38
Germany advances! Excellent.
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^  Hold your horses.  Denmark beat Germany and Portugal beat Ned
 
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^Could be … but Germany has a very strong team this year, and it wouldn’t surprise me if they won the whole damn thing. Still rooting for Denmark, though. And it would be nice if nations like Croatia and Ukraine did well.
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Points: 34083 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2012 at 16:50
the one thing that the dutch is lacking is team morale I AM LOOKING AT YOU ARJEN Nuke,  and some attackplan and gameplan would also be nice
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^Arjen... Lucassen? (that bad joke could only work in a prog website)
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yes for providing so much cheese (more reddishes please)
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The victory of the Germans was completely justified.
Somehow my beloved Dutch team can make no fist.
It doesn't gel together, and the morale seemed to be low.
The Germans do have a mature team, quite well Clap
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Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

The victory of the Germans was completely justified.
Somehow my beloved Dutch team can make no fist.
It doesn't gel together, and the morale seemed to be low.
The Germans do have a mature team, quite well Clap

If I were a journalist I would make a line in my story about the match out of this:"Germany had a mature team, the Netherlands only had mature cheese". Wink


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Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

In Germany "Holland" is used a lot too, even more than "The Netherlands". There was a well-known series of tv-ads for a certain cheese in the 70s and 80s which had the slogan "Frau Antje bringt Käse aus Holland" ("Miss Antje brings cheese from Holland").
 
I remember Frau Antje indeed. And the most famous Dutch cheese comes from Holland (the western part of the Netherlands. On the image, Holland is colored orange). The name "Antje" is used mostly in Friesland, the leftmost of the two northernmost provinces outside Holland - and in Germany.
 
By the way, as far as I'm informed, refugee's information about the word Dutch is correct.
 
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I also remember the Frau Antje ads. You know what's funny? I had a German pen-pal, from East-Germany (DDR) when that was still a country, and she was called Antje. A real Dutch name for a real German girl.
 
I would not be surprised if the name "Antje" occurs more in Germany than in the Netherlands, even on a relative base. The most Antjes by far are Frisian. I have lived in a students' flat for about nine years, and there has lived a German girl named Antje for a while.
 
Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

The victory of the Germans was completely justified.
Somehow my beloved Dutch team can make no fist.
It doesn't gel together, and the morale seemed to be low.
The Germans do have a mature team, quite well Clap
 
I fully agree.


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Yes impressive win by the Germans even though The Netherlands did come close in the last part of the match.
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

The victory of the Germans was completely justified.
Somehow my beloved Dutch team can make no fist.
It doesn't gel together, and the morale seemed to be low.
The Germans do have a mature team, quite well Clap

If I were a journalist I would make a line in my story about the match out of this:"Germany had a mature team, the Netherlands only had mature cheese". Wink


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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:

Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

In Germany "Holland" is used a lot too, even more than "The Netherlands". There was a well-known series of tv-ads for a certain cheese in the 70s and 80s which had the slogan "Frau Antje bringt Käse aus Holland" ("Miss Antje brings cheese from Holland").
 
I remember Frau Antje indeed. And the most famous Dutch cheese comes from Holland (the western part of the Netherlands. On the image, Holland is colored orange). The name "Antje" is used mostly in Friesland, the leftmost of the two northernmost provinces outside Holland - and in Germany.
 
By the way, as far as I'm informed, refugee's information about the word Dutch is correct.
 
Holland and the Netherlands


Thanks for highlighting the real Holland. WinkSmile
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I also remember the Frau Antje ads. You know what's funny? I had a German pen-pal, from East-Germany (DDR) when that was still a country, and she was called Antje. A real Dutch name for a real German girl.
 
I would not be surprised if the name "Antje" occurs more in Germany than in the Netherlands, even on a relative base. The most Antjes by far are Frisian. I have lived in a students' flat for about nine years, and there has lived a German girl named Antje for a while.
 


Right, I was thinking after my post a bit the same, that maybe Antje would be common in some parts of Germany anyway.
Frisian, I was thinking in the same direction. In the northern part of Germany even the names of towns sound very Dutch, but that is probably more Nether-Saxon (Niedersachsisch) than Frisian?
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Originally posted by Moogtron III Moogtron III wrote:


Right, I was thinking after my post a bit the same, that maybe Antje would be common in some parts of Germany anyway.
Frisian, I was thinking in the same direction. In the northern part of Germany even the names of towns sound very Dutch, but that is probably more Nether-Saxon (Niedersachsisch) than Frisian?
 
Very likely. Nether-Saxon sounds very similar to Dutch and it is spoken in Northern Germany. Maybe some of the names are of Frisian origin. Eastern Frisian had more speakers in the past, but nowadays the number of East Frisian (Saterland Frisian) speakers is limited to only 2000.


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Given the incredible abundance of footballing talent that the Netherlands has produced over the last 40 years and that they have but a single 1988 European Championship victory to their name, ain't it  entirely possible that the individualistic Dutch psyche just ain't conducive to team sports?
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I just think it´s a matter of egos clashing. A team needs a hierachy and everyone on the team needs to accept that hierachy for the team to succeed. Take Huntelaar for example. He has openly questioned the coach decision to put him on the bench thereby putting himself above Van Persie in the hierachy when such a decision is the coach decision and only the coach decision. Yes it´s alright that he is disappointed, but he shouldn´t openly belittle the qualities of Van Persie. EgosErmm
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I was actually reminded of something Gary Linker once said:

Football is a simple game; 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end the Germans always win


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^I wish that was true. Sadly, Germany's trophy drought has lasted over a decade now. I hope this is the year when they get a 4th Euro to prepare them for a 4th World Cup
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go Azure (even if your football is corupt as no-one else) i like a country who have failed on competition and is actually willing to change their style and overall preformance, they have to proove their football prideness, to the world and prove to themselvs that they aint no joke in football
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Go Croatia!!!
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Given the incredible abundance of footballing talent that the Netherlands has produced over the last 40 years and that they have but a single 1988 European Championship victory to their name, ain't it  entirely possible that the individualistic Dutch psyche just ain't conducive to team sports?

They made it to the final in the last  world cup though.
But I do agree,that with their talent over the years ,it's amazing they haven't won more cups. 
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