Marco van Basten

Gullit: Arsenal striker Van Persie as important as Van Basten

tribalfootball.com (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

Ruud Gullit has likened Arsenal crock Robin van Versie to his former AC Milan and Holland teammate Marco van Basten. read more

Van Persie can take heart from Van Basten's heroics

Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

Robin van Persie has been paid the ultimate compliment by compatriot Ruud Gullit, who compares him to the greatest centre-forward in Holland's history, Marco van Basten.

Lessons in Calcio – Marco van Basten

The Far Post Report (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

The Netherlands has produced football geniuses in all departments of the beautiful game. In the 1980’s, Marcel “Marco” van Basten emerged as...

• Lessons in Calcio – Marco van Basten - Football Italiano

Scotland: Dutch legend Marco Van Basten enters Scotland vacancy frame

The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009

MARCO van Basten's agent last night claimed the Dutch legend would be interested in taking the Scotland job.

Arsène Wenger: Anelka still loves Arsenal

FOOTBALL: Just Love The Game (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009

Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger believes Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka "still loves" his old club. The 30-year-old Frenchman lines up against his old team in in Sunday's Premier League clash in the Emirates. Anelka spent two years at Highbury, joining as a 17-year-old in 1997, but left for Real Madrid in a £22 million move during the summer of 1999 amid reports he had become...

• Anelka still loves Arsenal - Wenger - Football.co.uk

RYAN BABEL: Yet another victim of the ‘Benitez Effect’

Liverpool FC latest news (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

In April 2009, Holland coach Marco Van Basten criticised Rafael Benitezs handling of Ryan Babel, noting that the player had taken a step backward since his arrival at Anfield. This week, Babel has once again expressed his dissatisfaction with the way he

TEAM PROFILE: Dutch looking to paint South Africa orange

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Amsterdam - Only few countries can match the Netherlands for its football quality, but the nation of Johan Cruyff, Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten is yet to taste World Cup success. Runners-up twice in 1974 and 1978 and close to the final as well in...

Van Persie talks of boyhood temptations

FOOTBALL: Just Love The Game (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009

Arsenal star Robin van Persie believes it could have all been different if he had succumbed to the 'dark side' of life as a teenager in crime-ridden Rotterdam. The Dutchman now uses a photograph of an under-14s football team for whom he played as a reminder of the right choices he made. Van Persie told the News of the World : "My life could easily have been completely different. "I came...

• Arsenal's van Persie's close brush with the dark side of life! - Sify

Milan 1-1 Real Madrid

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009

The two glittering but troubled aristocrats of European football went to war last night on one of the great battlegrounds of the game. Karim Benzema crowned Real Madrid's opening assault with the club's first goal at San Siro for 53 years, only for their chances of beating their opponents for the first time in their history to be pegged back almost immediately by Ronaldinho's penalty. Earlier in the...

Signing players is like playing poker - Arsène Wenger

FOOTBALL: Just Love The Game (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009

Arsène Wenger believes all managers are forced to to "go blind and play poker" when signing players because they cannot know everything about their problems outside football. The Arsenal boss was talking in the light of Marlon King’s prison sentence for breaking a young woman's nose outside a nightclub. The incident raised a national debate about the behaviour of some footballers,...

• Wenger admits transfer gamble - Skysports.com
• Impossible to keep footballers out of trouble: Wenger - Daily News Analysis

Celtic 3-0 Kilmarnock

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009

Arguably Celtic's most comfortable and convincing victory since the opening-day visit to Aberdeen will surely have provided a fillip for players and supporters at the end of a week when the confidence of both seemed in danger of unravelling. The defeat by Hearts on Wednesday that cost them the Co-operative Insurance Cup they won last season had been, with justification, viewed as the kind of morale...

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The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009

Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517. A cyclone devastated India, killing more than 200,000 in 1876. The Lincoln Highway, the first national highway to be built for automobiles in the United States, was dedicated in 1913. It was 5454 kilometres long and stretched from Times Square in New York to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. The Battle of Britain ended in...

AC Milan join the race for Ajax striker Luis Suarez / Transfer gossip

imscouting.,com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009

On Suarez, Galliani admitted "we have tracked him for some time. We hope he will be the new Marco van Basten"

Amy Lawrence: Real hold all the aces against Milan

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009

European football's most decorated clubs meet at the Bernabéu this evening, with the Spanish side very much in the ascendancy Ahead of a trip to the scene of this season's Champions League final, the good news for Milan is that Kaká has promised not to celebrate if he happens to score a goal against the club he loved and left. The not so good news is that any other Real Madrid player...

Arsène Wenger likens Robin van Persie to Marco van Basten

FOOTBALL: Just Love The Game (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

Robin van Persie resembles Dutch striking legend Marco van Basten , according to Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger. Van Basten was perhaps the greatest all-round forward the modern game has seen. He led his country to success in Euro 88 and AC Milan to a clutch of honours two decades ago. Van Persie is hardly a carbon copy but, Wenger argues, the 26-year-old has strong technical similarities. He...