Soccer World Cup 2006 / Netherlands

The Dutch national football team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Netherlands	27: 3	32
2	Czech Republic	35:12	27
3	Romania	20:10	25th
4th	Finland	21:19	16
5	Macedonia	11:24	9
6th	Armenia	9:25	7th
7th	Andorra	4:34	5

	Netherlands - Czech Republic		2: 0 (1: 0)
	Pierre van Hooijdonk (2)
	Macedonia - Netherlands		2: 2 (1: 1)
	Wilfred Bouma, Dirk Kuyt
	Netherlands - Finland		3: 1 (2: 1)
	Wesley Sneijder, Ruud van Nistelrooij (2)
	Andorra - Netherlands		0: 3 (0: 2)
	Phillip Cocu, Arjen Robben, Wesley Sneijder
	Romania - Netherlands		0: 2 (0: 1)
	Phillip Cocu, Ryan Babel
	Netherlands - Armenia		2: 0 (2: 0)
	Romeo Castelen, Ruud van Nistelrooij
	Netherlands - Romania		2: 0 (1: 0)
	Arjen Robben, Dirk Kuyt
	Finland - Netherlands		0: 4 (0: 1)
	Ruud van Nistelrooij, Dirk Kuyt, Phillip Cocu, Robin van Persie
	Armenia - Netherlands		0: 1 (0: 0)
	Ruud van Nistelrooij
	Netherlands - Andorra		4: 0 (3: 0)
	Rafael van der Vaart, Phillip Cocu, Ruud van Nistelrooij (2)
	Czech Republic - Netherlands		0: 2 (0: 0)
	Rafael van der Vaart, Barry Opdam
	Netherlands - Macedonia		0-0

Dutch contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Edwin van der Sar	Manchester United	October 29, 1970	4th	0	0	0	0
22nd	Henk Timmer	AZ Alkmaar	December 3rd, 1971	0	0	0	0	0
23	Maarten Stekelenburg	Ajax Amsterdam	09/22/1982	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Kew Jaliens	AZ Alkmaar	09/15/1978	1	0	0	0	0
3	Khalid Boulahrouz	Hamburger SV	12/28/1981	4th	0	1	1	0
4th	Joris Mathijsen	AZ Alkmaar	04/05/1980	3	0	1	0	0
5	Giovanni van Bronckhorst	FC Barcelona	02/05/1975	3	0	2	1	0
12	Jan Kromkamp	Liverpool FC	08/17/1980	0	0	0	0	0
13	André Ooijer	PSV Eindhoven	07/11/1974	4th	0	1	0	0
14th	John Heitinga	Ajax Amsterdam	11/15/1983	3	0	1	0	0
15th	Tim de Cler	AZ Alkmaar	11/08/1978	1	0	1	0	0
midfield player
6th	Denny Landzaat	AZ Alkmaar	05/06/1976	3	0	1	0	0
8th	Phillip Cocu	PSV Eindhoven	October 29, 1970	4th	0	0	0	0
10	Rafael van der Vaart	Hamburger SV	02/11/1983	3	0	1	0	0
16	Hedwiges Maduro	Ajax Amsterdam	02/13/1985	1	0	0	0	0
18th	Mark van Bommel	FC Barcelona	04/22/1977	3	0	2	0	0
20th	Wesley Sneijder	Ajax Amsterdam	06/09/1984	4th	0	1	0	0
striker
7th	Dirk Kuyt	Feyenoord Rotterdam	07/22/1980	3	0	1	0	0
9	Ruud van Nistelrooy	Manchester United	07/01/1976	3	1	0	0	0
11	Arjen Robben	Chelsea FC	01/23/1984	3	1	1	0	0
17th	Robin van Persie	Arsenal FC	08/06/1983	4th	1	0	0	0
19th	Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink	PSV Eindhoven	07/11/1978	1	0	0	0	0
21st	Ryan Babel	Ajax Amsterdam	December 19, 1986	1	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Marco van Basten		October 31, 1964

Crew quarters

After landing on June 6th in Lahr / Black Forest, the team had their quarters in the Hotel Adler in Hinterzarten . Training took place on the SC Freiburg facility .

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  Long bench for 11 people made from a silver fir , which was set up in Hinterzarten in honor of the national team

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  Hinterzarten town hall with Dutch flags

Games of the Netherlands

Preliminary round

• Sunday, June 11, 2006, 3 p.m. in Leipzig Serbia and Montenegro - Netherlands 0: 1 (0: 1)
  
• Friday, June 16, 2006, 6 p.m. in Stuttgart Netherlands - Ivory Coast 2: 1 (2: 1)
  
• Wednesday, June 21, 2006, 9 p.m. in Frankfurt, the Netherlands - Argentina 0-0
  

For details see Football World Cup 2006 / Group C

Round of 16

• Sunday, June 25th, 9 p.m. in Nuremberg Portugal - Netherlands 1: 0 (1: 0)
  

For details see: Football World Cup 2006 / final round

Web links

Commons : Elftal in Hinterzarten  - album with pictures, videos and audio files