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Surely bigger football nations like Senegal, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa etc have several referees available who are better than this...?

If you ever happen to somehow find yourself near Elburg in December, 'Kerst in de Vesting' ('Christmas in the City') is kind of neat there https://www.google.com/search?q=elburg+kerst+in+de+vesting&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio3ISkjsX7AhXUQeUKHZ7aBAQQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1920&bih=969&dpr=1

And in case you live in either Whistler local time or CET, this'll do as well, they have their preview thing up with the timetable.

Belgium, seriously? I'd understand Germany/Austria/Northern Italy, but Belgium?

"It was about time", I heard.

I'm happy the Belgium hype in the Netherlands has died down since some years, the 'Belgium is probably the best team' thing was getting annoying for a bit. Sports hipsters

Everyone and their mother agrees, except for this guy apparently Hello Belgian commentator.

It's all good and well to have international representation, but surely CAF has tons of better options than this clown who didn't drop out of referee school but not even started it? It's fun and everything, but at some point enough is enough and he's been showing extreme incompetence for years now

Sure, but better score a goal than not score a goal

Absolutely ridiculous decision to give a penalty there, even worse to make it a yellow! Sorry the TV is on Belgian channel

That's the local Albert Heijn supermarket, thank you https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi459628/ah-extra-puur Cheap but beats basically everything else

They still think they're a country, which is so cute we just let it be

Oooooooh Caaaaanadaaaaa

Germany, Argentina?

I thought this would be worth sharing: yesterday, 299 days after the accident that kept her from walking for two full months, she did her very first running training in the recovery process

Japaaaaaaaaan

Right when I'm going for a quick bathroom break, typical Japan

You missed the 1st half, right? Which is understandable, I also almost fell asleep there (and I was excercising during the 1st half, damn that was not motivating )

It's over, we made it

4.3 million for NED - SEN, vs 5.4 million for NED's first match at Euro 2020/21. In the past 20 years, there have been two opening matches for the Netherlands with fewer than 5 million viewers: 2010, when NED played DEN early in the afternoon on a workday, and NED - SEN, where the time of day was most likely again an issue. A little less than in 2010, but still, 17:00 on a Monday isn't ideal for great numbers Netherlands - Spain in 2014 had over 7 million viewers as opening match.

Much like the Dutch team is when playing a home game against Turkey or Morocco In terms of overall attention and such, this match right now could basically be the second Dutch game of the tournament

And qualifying for 2026 starts in only a little more than 100 days

There's Slovakia beating Italy at the World Cup, and there's North freaking Macedonia keeping Italy out of the World Cup altogether....

Maybe you will in 2042

By the tweet being from 2017, when the guy presumably was still coaching Morocco?