# Ongoing Euro '08 matches. Spoilers included

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 10, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ongoing-euro-08-matches-spoilers-included/452387 "2008-06-10T00:47:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ongoing-euro-08-matches-spoilers-included/452387/341 "2008-07-02T12:47:54Z")

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[QUOTE=I’m Not Dennis Bergkamp]  
I don’t think that guy is supposed to be RvP (who is under contract with Adidas), though he is the only current Gunner who also plays for the Netherlands. The guy’s right-foooted, unlike lefty Van Persie. And the first team we see the guy with isn’t RvP’s former team Feyenoord (I don’t know who it is, but it’s not Feyenoord).

I thought he was supposed to represent the viewer - he’s us, some anonymous guy who makes good.  
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that first team is just an amateur’s team, not a professional Dutch team. Wenger doing his own scouting at a Dutch amateur’s club is not very credible, but alas. Anyway, you’re right about Van Persie not being right-footed and being sponsored by Adidas, but other than that he’s the Dutch player who comes closest.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ongoing-euro-08-matches-spoilers-included/452387/342 "2008-07-02T14:54:33Z")

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I figured it was supposed to be me! And it did get me to go to the NikeSoccer site and look around, so it worked.

I’m thinking that the brunette might be one of the Duff sisters?

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**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ongoing-euro-08-matches-spoilers-included/452387/343 "2008-07-02T16:40:39Z")

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> [@DSYoungEsq](#):
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> ETA: You will also note that UEFA’s technical committee asserted that the supposed best player in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo, didn’t make the team because Portugal didn’t advance so far. But there are something like three other Portugese on the team.

How can he be the best player in the world after leaving his German wide open to head in a goal? A critical defensive mistake in a huge game on the world stage disqualifies you from best-in-the-world consideration, I figure. There _are_ strikers who know how to defend, and a guy that tall shouldn’t be losing headers anyway.

> [@Darth Sensitive](#):
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> I figured it was supposed to be me!

It’s me, actually. Guess I’d better lose some weight.

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ongoing-euro-08-matches-spoilers-included/452387/344 "2008-07-03T03:50:31Z")

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Me too - I did go and sign up for their mailing list for the training stuff because of that ad.

But I wouldn’t be on the Dutch National Team, I guess.

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