Dutch-German football rivalry
The rivalry between the Dutch and German national football teams is one of the most striking rivalries in international football. Both teams are among the best in the world ; the special rivalry has both historical reasons outside of football and a long and eventful history on the football field.
In their entire history both teams have played 43 games against each other (as of April 2019); there were 16 wins for the German team , eleven for the Dutch team and 16 draws. For both teams, the other is the second most common international opponent. Germany only played more often against Switzerland (52 games), the Netherlands only more often against Belgium (127 games) (as of April 2019).
history
Although the underlying feelings go back to World War II , when Germany invaded and occupied the Netherlands, the rivalry did not establish itself until the 1974 World Cup in the Federal Republic of Germany. The quite turbulent time previously experienced Bram Appel , who during the war from 1943 to 1945 for Hertha BSC played and was subsequently banned by the Dutch Football Federation for collaborating with the enemy until 1947, and Frans de Munck , who in 1950 with great hostility in the home to one FC Köln changed. For Willem van Hanegem , sport and history could not be separated: “I hate them. They murdered my family. My father, my sister, two of my brothers. Every time I saw Germans, I was scared. ”When Willi Lippens, who had grown up in Germany, played his only game for the Netherlands, he was bullied by large parts of the team (especially by van Hanegem and Rinus Israel ) . Lippens was so injured that decades later he refused to appear as a guest of honor at a Netherlands game. Israel later self-critically described his behavior as "incorrect and stupid", and Lippens regretted "not having got off the team bus immediately to play for the Federal Republic". But it was also evident that the German Horst Blankenburg was so well accepted by Ajax Amsterdam that the Jewish teammate Sjaak Swart was his good friend and Ajax star Johan Cruyff wanted to recruit him for the Dutch team before the 1974 World Cup. Blankenburg refused because he wanted to play for the Federal Republic, but was never nominated to his chagrin.
In 1974 the Federal Republic defeated the Netherlands in the final of the soccer world championship. The Netherlands, which had been of no footballing importance for a long time after 1945, qualified for a World Cup finals for the first time since 1938 in 1974. Johan Cruyff's team was shaped by Rinus Michels' “ total football ”. It started out as a tournament favorite and played accordingly. The German hosts, on the other hand, had only started the World Cup with moderate games, including a defeat against the GDR , and were considered outsiders. In the final itself, the Germans saved their 2-1 lead over the second half against attacking, but unsuccessful Dutch. Many Dutch felt the defeat as a second disgrace after the occupation, often referred to in retrospect as the “mother of all defeats”. At the moment of the game there were hardly any explicitly hostile feelings; Dutch player Willem van Hanegem refused to attend the final banquet on the grounds that he did not like Germans and said before the tournament: “The hatred, it was always there. He has backgrounds that everyone knows and that have not yet passed. I wouldn't get over it for the rest of my life if we didn't manage to prevent them from shouting later that they were world champions - and we weren't. ”But he was an exception in the Dutch team: Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff were Personal friends, Johnny Rep and Paul Breitner fought together against the FIFA ban on swapping shirts by swapping jackets and ties at the final banquet.
Special games
1974 World Cup final
| pairing |
 Federal Republic of Germany - Netherlands
|
| Result | 2: 1 (2: 1) |
| date | July 7th 1974 |
| Stadion |
Olympiastadion , Munich 75,200 spectators |
| referee | John Taylor (England) |
| Gates | 0: 1 Neeskens (2nd, foul penalty) 1: 1 Breitner (26th, foul penalty) 2: 1 Müller (43.) |
| Warnings |
 Vogts - Neeskens, Cruyff, Van Hanegem
|
| BR Germany |
Maier - Vogts , Beckenbauer , Schwarzenbeck , Breitner - Bonhof , Hoeneß , Overath - Grabowski , G. Müller , Hölzenbein Trainer: Helmut Schön |
|---|---|
| Netherlands |
Jongbloed - Suurbier , Rijsbergen (68th de Jong ), Haan , Krol - Jansen , Neeskens , Van Hanegem - Rep , Cruyff , Rensenbrink (46th R. van de Kerkhof ) Trainer: Rinus Michels |
Belgium was previously the most important opponent, but Germany subsequently developed into the main rival of the Netherlands, and the teams' games against each other became increasingly emotional. At the 1978 World Cup , both teams met in the second final round. Before the game, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said: “The pressure was extreme. The tabloids inflated the old rivalry again. We knew the Dutch were ready and waiting for us. We had to concentrate. It's a real shame and sad that they use football as an outlet for their hatred because of World War II. ”In that match, Bernd Hölzenbein and Dick Nanninga almost got into a fight when Nanninga punched Hölzenbein in the stomach, which led to Hölzenbein Nanninga grabbed the nose. Both teams ended in a draw and the Netherlands reached the final, while the German team was eliminated.
The official tournament book of the European Championship 1980 noted a "strange rivalry" between the Federal Republic and the Netherlands. Both teams met in the preliminary round. Before the game, Karlheinz Förster announced: “Before the game, I knew it was going to be bad. We vowed to win because winning was so important to our pride. The greatest thing for them would be to beat us. They hate us so much more than we hate them. ”Karl-Heinz Rummenigge complained about the hard way the Dutch played, which more than once went beyond what is allowed. Among other things, Johnny Rep kicked German goalkeeper Toni Schumacher in the stomach when both wanted to reach a cross. The Federal Republic won 3-2 and reached the final, while the Netherlands were eliminated.
1988 European Championship semi-finals
| pairing |
Federal Republic of Germany - Netherlands
|
| Result | 1: 2 (0: 0) |
| date | June 21, 1988 |
| Stadion |
Volksparkstadion , Hamburg 61,330 spectators |
| referee | Ion Igna (Romania) |
| Gates | 1: 0 Matthäus (55th, foul penalty) 1: 1 Koeman (74th, foul penalty) 1: 2 van Basten (89.) |
| Warnings |
/ - van Breukelen
|
| BR Germany |
Immel - Herget (45th Hans Pflügler ), Brehme , Kohler , Borowka - Matthäus , Thon , Rolff , Mill (85th Littbarski ) - Klinsmann , Völler Trainer: Franz Beckenbauer |
|---|---|
| Netherlands |
van Breukelen - van Aerle , R. Koeman , Rijkaard , van Tiggelen - Vanenburg , Wouters , E. Koeman (89th Suvrijn ) - Mühren (59th Kieft ), Gullit , van Basten Trainer: Rinus Michels |
The Dutch successfully took revenge for the 74 finals at the European Championship in 1988 , again in the Federal Republic, when they defeated the hosts 2-1 in the 89th minute in the semifinals and later became European champions. That was the first win against the DFB team in 32 years. After the game, an estimated nine million of the then 15 million Dutch people celebrated victory on the street, singing, among other things, “1940 they came // 1988 we came // Holadije, holadio”. After the semi-finals, Hans van Breukelen said : “I've been waiting for this moment for 14 years. I am happy to give this gift to the older generation, those who lived during the war. ” Ruud Gullit said:“ We made the older generation happy. I saw her feelings, her tears. ”The emotions flared up when Ronald Koeman wiped his buttocks with Olaf Thon's shirt in a demonstrative gesture after swapping his shirt with Olaf Thon . In addition, Marco van Basten spoke laconically about the European Championship victory of a “wonderful feeling, especially because we threw out these disgusting Germans on the way to the final”. After the rivalry was previously an affair mainly cultivated by the Dutch, after 1988 it developed into a mutually cultivated attitude.
World Cup round of 16 1990
| pairing |
Germany - Netherlands
|
| Result | 2: 1 (0: 0) |
| date | June 24, 1990 |
| Stadion |
Giuseppe Meazza Stadium , Milan 74,559 spectators |
| referee | Juan Loustau (Argentina) |
| Gates | 1: 0 Klinsmann (50th) 2: 0 Brehme (84th) 2: 1 Koeman (88th, penalty kick) |
| Warnings |
Völler - Rijkaard, Wouters, van Basten
|
| References |
 Völler - Rijkaard
|
| Germany |
Illgner - Augenthaler , Berthold , Kohler - Reuter , Littbarski , Matthäus , Buchwald , Brehme - Völler , Klinsmann Trainer: Franz Beckenbauer |
|---|---|
| Netherlands |
van Breukelen - van Aerle , R. Koeman , Rijkaard , van Tiggelen - van 't Schip , Wouters , Winter , Witschge - Gullit , van Basten Trainer: Leo Beenhakker |
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In 1989 the two football associations tried to smooth things over by declaring the qualifying game for the 1990 World Cup as a "fan friendly game". The two then very active hooligan scenes from both countries came to the game. In the city of Rotterdam there were riots lasting for hours, including some seriously injured. In Rotterdam's De Kuip , a banner compared the German player Lothar Matthäus with Adolf Hitler. The game itself ended peacefully 1: 1.
In the round of 16 of the final tournament in 1990, a particularly memorable game then took place: Before the German victory there was the famous spitting incident between Frank Rijkaard and Rudi Völler , which was discussed intensively in the media: Rijkaard, frustrated by problems in the team and with his wife, spat Völler a total of two times; Both were sent off by the Argentine referee Juan Carlos Loustau with the red card, Rijkaard later apologized to Völler. The game was won by the Germans, who now saw themselves superior to their big rival in moral terms due to the exposure of Völler, not least thanks to what was probably Jürgen Klinsmann's best performance , 2-1.
Gradual cooling
In the years that followed, the rivalry regularly blossomed again before major tournaments. For example, a survey was published which revealed a negative image of Germany among Dutch youth. Spiegel also reported in 1993 that Lothar Matthäus insulted a Dutchman who was filming him with a video camera at the Oktoberfest with "Oh, Dutch too, they're all assholes anyway, and you must have been forgotten by Adolf". Matthew denied making that statement. Overall, however, these disputes can at best be judged as mutual taunts. It is not uncommon for these to be artificially enlarged by sensational media ( BILD , De Telegraaf ).
After the intense rivalry until the early 1990s, a Dutch-German game is still of particular importance. But physical arguments have become a rarity. This tendency was confirmed by numerous friendlies as well as the encounter in the preliminary round of the 2004 European Championships , which went well without exception. When Lothar Matthäus played his 144th international match in 2000, in Amsterdam of all places, and thus set a European record , the Dutch presented him with a bouquet of flowers. Matthäus, who had been the prototype of the hideous German in the Netherlands for years, received significantly more applause than rejection from the predominantly Dutch fans.
For the 2002 World Cup, for which the Netherlands did not qualify, “Without Holland we're going to the World Cup” was one of the most frequent slogans in German stadiums. At the 2004 European Championships, a “shame, Germany, it's all over” enjoyed popularity in the Dutch ranks after the Dutch team had made it to the quarter-finals at the expense of the Germans. After the Netherlands left the 2006 World Cup, the German ranks chanted “Without Holland we're going to Berlin”, a new variation of the slogan.
Due to the increasingly friendly nature of the rivalry, it is often used for advertising purposes - for example in a commercial for the 2006 World Cup: After Oliver Kahn (based on the lost final of the 2002 World Cup) wistfully set up the dressing room for the Brazilian national team, Michael Ballack appears with a bouquet orange tulips and reminds Kahn that they still have to set up the Dutch cabin. In 2006 a Dutch company brought out orange-colored helmets in the form of helmets of the German Wehrmacht for Holland fans. Dutch Bundesliga players and coaches, including Bert van Marwijk , Ellery Cairo and Kevin Hofland , sharply criticized this idea. The Royal Dutch Football Association also distanced itself from the fan accessory.
In April 2007, the Dutch player Mark van Bommel , player of the German FC Bayern Munich , was sorted out by the then bond coach Marco van Basten . As a result, van Bommel announced that he would apply for a German passport and want to play for the German national team in the future. This report caused a great uproar in his homeland, until van Bommel exposed this as a joke and made fun of the gullibility of the local media, which overlooked the fact that with 40 internationals for the Netherlands he would never be able to play for another country.
During the 2010 soccer World Cup, in which the Netherlands finished runner-up and Germany came third, Die Welt found that the rivalry on the Dutch side had turned into sympathy. It was noted that with Khalid Boulahrouz (VfB Stuttgart), Eljero Elia and Joris Mathijsen (Hamburger SV) as well as the FC Bayern Munich players Arjen Robben and Mark van Bommel (captain) five under contract in the German Bundesliga at this time standing players were used, as well as the former HSV players Nigel de Jong and Rafael van der Vaart and the former Borussia Dortmund coach Bert van Marwijk . Van Bommel and Robben praised the “absolute professionalism”, the lively fan culture and the “perfect medical care” in Germany, and Robben added that German football in the Netherlands had “won a lot of sympathy” especially since the 2006 World Cup. The German national player Thomas Müller praised national coach Joachim Löw as “Louis van Löw”, a play on his Dutch coach Louis van Gaal , who made him a regular at Bayern Munich. In the semifinals of the 2010 World Cup, Spain's victory against Germany, as well as a victory by Argentina against the Netherlands in the 2014 World Cup semifinals, prevented a new edition of the 1974 final and a possible flare-up of the old rivalry. At the European Football Championship 2012 there was a preliminary round match between the Netherlands and Germany. Germany won the game, which was relatively fair with three yellow cards, 2-1.
Artistic processing
The song Holland from the album Extremliedermaching (1999) of the Bonn songwriter duo joint venture deals with the rivalry and at the same time a love for the Netherlands from the German perspective: it is said, "We both ham our Rudi , we ham their never spat on, a good German thinks European, except when he's watching football. ”and in the chorus“ I love Super Skunk and I love Sauce special . But there is one thing: I'm meganational. [...] As long as football is involved, I hate Holland like the plague.
See also
literature
- Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger: Goal! The Story of German Football. WSC Books, London 2003, ISBN 0-9540134-5-X .
- Henk van Houtum, Frank van Dam: Topophilia or Topoporno? Patriotic Place Attachment in International Football Derbies. In: Hagar. International Social Science Review. Vol. 3, No. 2, 2002, ZDB -ID 2266108-6 , pp. 231-248, online (PDF; 79 kB) .
- Ingo Schiweck: Kicking the enemy? The everyday peace behind the German-Dutch football war. MaveriX, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-9810957-4-X .
- David Winner: Orange brilliant. The neurotic genius of Dutch football (= KiWi. Paperback 1038). German first edition, updated and expanded edition. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03994-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Germany versus Netherlands record: All games & statistics. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
- ^ Balance sheet Germany versus Switzerland: All games & statistics. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
- ^ Netherlands - Record against Belgium. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
- ^ Hugo Borst and others: Willem van Hanegem. De Buitenspelers, Kats et al. 2007, ISBN 978-90-71359-03-3 .
- ↑ Willi Lippens wil geen haasje , NOS.nl
- ↑ Misschien was het toch een fout. Well , volkskrant.nl
- ↑ Players on both sides , taz.de
- ↑ A great honor for an almost forgotten soccer hero , welt.de
- ↑ van Houtum, van Dam, 2002, p 244th
- ↑ a b c Kuper 2004 ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Quotes on ajax-usa.com ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ van Houtum, van Dam, 2002, p 243rd
- ↑ Personal details : Lothar Matthäus . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1993, pp. 322 ( online ).
- ↑ Netzeitung : Bundesliga Dutch criticize Oranje helmet ( Memento from January 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), January 12, 2006
- ↑ Van Bommel wil Duits paspoort , voetbalzone.nl (Dutch)
- ↑ Mark van Bommel: “Storm in een glas water” ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , psv.nl (Dutch)
- ↑ Made in Germany , welt.de
- ↑ Van Gaal prijst 'zijn' Duitsland , telegraaf.nl (Dutch)
- ↑ Martin Simon and Götz Widmann: "Holland", 1999, citing the archived website of Joint venture, entry: " Holland ", status 2001, accessed June 24, 2015.
