Marco Basten
Marco Basten
absolutely impressed playing pleased
Robin's development is absolutely amazing. I am really impressed by the way he is playing and training. I have never been so pleased with him.
amazing best robin talent
Robin is an amazing talent. Technically, he is the best in Holland.
aims change prepare shine summer team
That doesn't change our aims in any way ? to prepare our young team to shine this summer in Germany.
dutch enormous father football grand loss man passing training
The passing away of the grand old man of the training camp, the father of Dutch football, is an enormous loss for the football world.
attractive build initiative offensive orange players pleasure proof putting staff team
This staff intends to build a team which is offensive and attractive where the players must show proof of initiative and especially take pleasure in putting on the orange jersey.
difficulty faced minute
From the first minute we faced a lot of difficulties,
control edge emotions explained knife mates team train treat
We train always on the knife edge with a lot of emotion, but I explained to Ruud that it is important that we control our emotions and treat team mates with respect.
improve performance positive top won
We won and are on top now, that's positive but we have to improve our performance,
fit prognosis whether
We'll have to see whether he's fit in time. I can't make a prognosis about that now,
failed moments opponents overall played raise struggled
Some moments we played well but overall we struggled with our opponents because we failed to raise the pace.
absence job moment selecting tough
Patrick is doing well at the moment after a long absence and it is his job to give us a tough job selecting the squad.
break half hardly played poor
We played a very poor first half and hardly got any better after the break
satisfied
I'm satisfied with the result, but not with the way we played,
forward happy looking
I'm happy for Salomon for this decision. I'm looking forward to working with him.