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Soccer - Netherlands - Van Basten: We Aim To Win Euro 2008

Speaking to UEFA.com, Marco van Basten is eager to repeat as manager his feat as a player 20 years ago. Back then, the gifted forward put his side on track for the winners' medal in West Germany. Now, he's anxious to do the same from the hotseat. He said, "We are now preparing for the final mission. "The friendly matches like this against Croatia are to practice and prepare, but at the European Championship we will go for the main prize. We want to win."

Goal.com - Netherlands/Soccer - Van Basten Gets The ‘Thumbs Down’

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Netherlands/Soccer - Van Basten Gets The ‘Thumbs Down’

an Basten is considered to be one of the best strikers the world has ever seen, but his approach to the game as a manager has earned him few admirers – in the Netherlands, at least. A poll issued on telesport.nl, the online version of ‘De Telegraaf’ newspaper, only hours after the national side beat Slovenia 2-0 leaves little room for doubt. According to the poll, Foppe De Haan is a better coach than Van Basten – or at least so think an impressive 79% of the people who voted.

Having transformed modest Heerenveen into a household name in the Dutch game between 1985 and 2004, now 64-year-old De Haan took over the reigns of Jong Oranje, the Netherlands U-21 side, guiding them to two consecutive European Championship triumphs within a year.