Can do one. Not waking up at / staying up till 4:00am to watch these two utter shite teams destroy football. Sorry Kuyt, you're a nice Red, but you're playing in a piss-poor side under a dick.
Van Gaal on Brazil and the 3rd/4th placed game:
[article]"I will stick to the facts," Van Gaal said in a news conference. "The facts are that Brazil started first. And Brazil again has played first again and we played a day later.
"These are the facts. I am not going to beat around bush. Then you know what the implications are if that is the case.
"The question is why? I think Scolari should think about that if he wants to do that and is allowed to do that."
Van Gaal's annoyance has clearly been heightened by the fact that Brazil have had another day to prepare for the third-place play-off.
"We have one day less than Brazil," Van Gaal added. "We have to get into shape in two-and-a-half days, which physically is hard."
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The former Bayern Munich and Ajax coach has changed his tune slightly since then, though.
Van Gaal does not count the Netherlands' exit to Argentina as a loss as the scores were level after 120 minutes. He therefore sees the match in Brasilia as a chance to do something the Dutch have never done before -- end a World Cup without defeat.
"There is still something for us to do here -- we can still write history," Van Gaal said. "Holland has always lost a match in a World Cup. That happened in '74 and '78 (when they made the final).
"I hope I can prepare them to play a good match. It will be my last match and the players may want to give me a present in the form of a victory so we can leave undefeated.
"It's quite something to go seven matches unbeaten."
Van Gaal said it may be hard to raise spirits for the game because of the agonising nature of Wednesday's penalty shootout defeat.
"It was very, very sad," he said. "A dream has been broken and this dream is not going to come back. It was all about being number one so to lose this way is the most terrible way.
"I would have rather lost 7-1," as Brazil did against Germany in the other semifinal.[/article]
Source:
http://www.espnfc.com/netherlands/s...still-angry-about-brazils-favourable-schedule
By the way, didn't Mourinho work under Van Gaal for a bit at Barca? If he did, we can see now where he got his classless obnoxious form from.
Van Gaal on Brazil and the 3rd/4th placed game:
[article]"I will stick to the facts," Van Gaal said in a news conference. "The facts are that Brazil started first. And Brazil again has played first again and we played a day later.
"These are the facts. I am not going to beat around bush. Then you know what the implications are if that is the case.
"The question is why? I think Scolari should think about that if he wants to do that and is allowed to do that."
Van Gaal's annoyance has clearly been heightened by the fact that Brazil have had another day to prepare for the third-place play-off.
"We have one day less than Brazil," Van Gaal added. "We have to get into shape in two-and-a-half days, which physically is hard."
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The former Bayern Munich and Ajax coach has changed his tune slightly since then, though.
Van Gaal does not count the Netherlands' exit to Argentina as a loss as the scores were level after 120 minutes. He therefore sees the match in Brasilia as a chance to do something the Dutch have never done before -- end a World Cup without defeat.
"There is still something for us to do here -- we can still write history," Van Gaal said. "Holland has always lost a match in a World Cup. That happened in '74 and '78 (when they made the final).
"I hope I can prepare them to play a good match. It will be my last match and the players may want to give me a present in the form of a victory so we can leave undefeated.
"It's quite something to go seven matches unbeaten."
Van Gaal said it may be hard to raise spirits for the game because of the agonising nature of Wednesday's penalty shootout defeat.
"It was very, very sad," he said. "A dream has been broken and this dream is not going to come back. It was all about being number one so to lose this way is the most terrible way.
"I would have rather lost 7-1," as Brazil did against Germany in the other semifinal.[/article]
Source:
http://www.espnfc.com/netherlands/s...still-angry-about-brazils-favourable-schedule
By the way, didn't Mourinho work under Van Gaal for a bit at Barca? If he did, we can see now where he got his classless obnoxious form from.
