The Netherlands is a country now that is in a festive mood.
This is only because the Dutch soccer team managed to beat the Brazilian boys recently.
This is quite an achievement.
The Brazilians are the best and they have been several times the world champions.
By playing what is called "Samba soccer".
Light, brilliant, fast, flexible and heavenly soccer.
The team from the Netherlands did find a way to respond to this Samba-thing and won with 2 to 1.
While it could have easily been 3 to 1 or even 4 to 1.
That was how dominant and superior the Dutch were.
The current joy in the Netherlands comes also from the fact that the next opponent, in the half finals, is Uruguay.
The team of Uruguay is not considered very strong.
Besides, their top player is injured and not available.
The match against Uruguay, this Tuesday, is already seen as a walk over and the Dutch expect to play the final to decide who is the world champion.
That will be against Germany or Spain.
And the Dutch people have high hopes, after beating the giant Brazil, that they have a good chance playing Germany or Spain to become the best in the world.
This exhilaration and excitement can be very well noticed here in Holland.
Besides, the sun is shining and it is warm: beautiful weather.
Therefore it is unique to be in this country now.
The good and positive vibration lifts up any spirit that may be down.
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1 comment:
this is truly fantastic. i admire the dutch. such a small country and just a few million people. great hockey and football teams and pioneers in so many other things. really remarkable. we have 1300 million people in india and we are about 150 in fifa football rankings. pathetic. it could well be a holland-germany final, and maybe the germans will win. who knows???
great going holland. your game is not flashy or enjoyable but you have got the basics right.
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