Netherlands In The World Cup 2014

Date: 13th June 2014
The 2014 World Cup has finally arrived. I'm not a big football fan but on occasions, I will sit and watch it. I can understand why the world cup is such a big hoha, but to me it's just like all the other previous football matches. However that all changed on Friday 13th June 2014. My brothers were watching the Spain Vs Netherland match, and I had decided to join them after half time. It was by far the one of the best decisions I have ever made, football related, of course. Van Persie's goal and Arjen Robben goals are beautiful. 



I was born in Netherlands, Deventer. So you can imagine how proud I had felt when they won 5- 1 to Spain. This match was said to be a revenge match after Netherlands lost to Spain four years ago at the 2010 World Cup. Which as quoted by many, they 'thrashed Spain. But all is not yet over. 

Date: 18th June 2014


The Netherlands played against Australia, beating them 3-2. It was so close as Mile Jedinak (Australian) was given a penalty shot scoring on the 54' minute, given them the lead with 2-1, but not even 4 minutes later, did Van Persie (NL) score a goal giving us a tie. After another 10 minutes later, Mephais Depay (NL) scored a goal giving us the lead and the win. Our first goal was taken out from us, when Tim Cahill scored literally a minute later, and you could just see the sadness on our dutch players. That goal most certainly was a reason for them to not celebrate too early. Nonetheless, they won and I'm proud. 

Date: 25th June 2014
On the 23rd of June, Holland played against Chile. The game was shown on ITV at 5pm. I actually didn't watch this one, but I've looked over the highlights and seen some of the plays and can honestly say that it was a tough game. The Chilean players are good. But obviously not good enough in this match as we won 2-0 to them.
The first goal was made by Leroy Fer. 

 This is the beautiful header that he shot on the 77th minute. I think this was a time where all if not most of their supporters had lost hope. Not even 13 minutes later, Netherlands scores another goal. 


The next goal was made by Memphis Depay. He scored the goal with the assistance of Robben. He scored the goal in the extra minute that was given and made it a final win for Holland. We currently reside on the top of the board for Group B and have the most points: 9. 

Their next match is versus Mexico and it is on Sunday 29th June 2014, at 5pm.

Date: 1st July 2014
As I had expected and hoped, the Netherlands won the match against Mexico. To be honest, I didn't really feel as if they had put 110% into this match however they still managed to score and win. 
The first half was spent just really passing the ball around, there was some action and some great saves but still a bit boring for the first round. It was because of a cooling break which was taken at the 30th minute that must have triggered some sense into both teams and soon it became a fight for survival- which coincidentally worked for Mexico as they scored their first and only goal on the 48th minute (an added 4-5 minutes was given due to their cooling break). 
After the first half, the Netherlands were back into gear. They were struggling for a while to actually get the ball near the goal and I have to admit that Mexico was playing them around and did a good job (for the most part), but somehow we managed to score a goal just three minutes before the game was to end,thanks to Wesley Sneijder who shot it. This goal put us equally against mexico and therefore the game went to extra time. 

The penalty was given because there was contact between Arjen Robben and Rafael Marquez, which was classed as a foul. 

The penalty itself was taken by Klaas Jan Huntelaar and this goal was what put us in the lead and now have been placed as one of the 16 teams that went through.

We will be playing Costa Rica on Saturday 5th of July at 9pm. 

Date:10th July 2014

The match against Costa Rica was a good one, we had somehow managed to do the impossible and score a goal before the 90 minutes was up, leading us to victory, 2-1. On Wedneday the 9th of July, we played against Argentina in the semi-finals. The full 90 minutes was basically spent just passing the ball around. On a rare occasion they would try to actually shoot but luck was not on their side. Finally the game went into extra time and then pentalties. We lost 4-2. After losing that match we had one last game and that was to determine whether we will be crowned 3rd place or 4th.
We played against Brazil who also lost a spot in the finals by losing against Germany 7-1. Robin Van Persie scored within 3minutes via a penalty and that was shortly followed by Daley Blind on the 18 minute and our last goal was made by Georginio Wijnaldum in the one minute extra time. So after that game we were declared 3rd place in the World Cup 2014.

I would also like to take this moment to congratulate Germany for winning against Argentina, by scoring a goal during the extra time, giving them the name and the world cup.