Klaas Acthuntelaar's Heroics Have Helped Lift Ajax and Holland but, Were It Not for the Folly of Van Basten, He May Have Litup Theworld Stage in Germany
Mail on Sunday › August 23, 2006
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IT'S just a shame that Klaas Jan Huntelaar's ' Who's your daddy' performance in giving the Republic of Ireland a going over in Dublin will gloss over the inept way in which his brilliant emergence has been handled by Netherlands coach Marco van Basten.
In fact, no matter how well the legendary Holland, Ajax and AC Milan striker is looking in the reflected glow of that lovely pass- and-move destruction of a pitiful Irish side, the fact remains van Basten patently has a long way to go in assessing his strikers as brilliantly as he once used to assess millimetre-thin goal chances.See the full content of this document
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Klaas Acthuntelaar's Heroics Have Helped Lift Ajax and Holland but, Were It Not for the Folly of Van Basten, He May Have Litup Theworld Stage in Germany
Although Huntelaar has much to learn and plenty of time to develop, aged only 23, the current Ajax goal phenomenon made it patently clear between January and May that he absolutely had to be in the Dutch World Cup squad.
Given the cavalier way in which van Basten then treated R...See the full content of this document
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