The dream of a player is being able to represent their country playing with the national team. The first call, deserved thanks to good performances in the league, it is usually the first of a cycle, generally medium to long. Not always, though, who joined the national team is really a first choice. It 's the case of Frank Berghuis , Oranje other long-player, or FC Volendam, which has collected 66 presenze e 23 goals. Talento scuola PSV Eindhoven, con cui ha esordito nel 1984, la sua carriera è sbocciata a Volendam, dove nel 1989, grazie ad una serie di buone prestazioni (e di alcuni infortuni eccellenti) guadagna una inaspettata convocazione per l'amichevole, in occasione del centenario della KNVB, tra l'Olanda ed il Brasile di Dunga e Romario. Alla scadenza del contratto con la sua squadra, il ventiduenne esterno sinistro d'attacco, tra una serie di contendenti, sceglie di accasarsi in Turchia, al Galatasaray. Allo stadio Ali Sami Yen, però, Frank non vede mai il campo ed al termine della stagione torna a Volendam, decisamente più la sua dimensione. Dopo una parentesi in Belgio, al KFC Lommel, Berghuis ritorna in Olanda, dove will play his last five seasons as a professional in Cambuur. It is currently youth coach of Twente, where he plays his son Steven, rookie first team last game of Tukkers , won 5-0 against Heracles Almelo.
It was not the result of an unfortunate series of injuries, but the combination of some good performances in conjunction with the need to revamp a team that had lost many players to international call-up for the friendly against Liechtenstein, of Romano Denneboom striker at the time under the NEC. The striker, now all'Arminia Bielefeld, was routinely stopped by the semi-amateur Martin Telster defender pursuant to FC Vaduz and Marco Van Basten, his second as coach of the national team wisely decided to replace it before the return of the teams from the dressing rooms. One of the players who best represents the concept of a meteor in sauce is Willy Janssen Oranje, PSV's young reserves who, without having played a single minute with his team in the beginning of the 1981-82 season, was summoned, along with a young Gullit, Rijkaard and Kieft, for the friendly against Switzerland in Lucerne and giocatasi lost by 2-1 to the Dutch national. Unlike other other newcomers, his career had no peak: Willy left PSV to marry at NAC Breda, relegated to the end the following season, and obviously had no opportunity to wear the orange jersey of the national team.
Fortuna, but also the ability to be in the right place and right time, were the qualities that enabled Heini Otto, FC Amsterdam time, to earn a real appearances for his country. At the time of departure for Belgrade, Yugoslavia where he would play - the Netherlands, the appeal of the squad lacked Van Hanegem, so coach George Knobel decided to join the group also Otto, who was at Schipol only because he had accompanied his companions Jan Jongbloed , and Nico Jansen. His entry into the field to 71 'in place of Peter Arntz, has guaranteed 19 minutes of joy, like the other three rookies (one of which, another meteor, was today's national coach Bert Van Marwijk).
a mere presence, even dressed the goal: this score with the Dutch national Willi Lippens (pictured above right) . His, however, was an abandonment, because certainly did not lack the technical skills. The problem, in fact, was that Lippens, Dutch, had only a passport. Born in Bedburg-Hau, West Germany, a Dutch father in 1945, Lippens had collected less than 102 goals in 242 appearances Bundesiliga and despite several calls from the national Teutonic, was chosen also in question di opportunità, di accettare le offerte della KNVB, la federazione olandese. Schierato titolare da František Fadrhonc nell'amichevole contro il Lussemburgo nel 1971, nonostante il goal, Lippens fu sistematicamente ignorato dai compagni di squadra che lo consideravano tedesco a tutti gli effetti. Gli orrori della seconda guerra mondiale erano ancora fortemente sentiti in Olanda e Lippens, che in realtà non spiccicava più di qualche parola in neerlandese, fu praticamente costretto a rinuciare alla nazionale. Varrà poco, per lui, la consolazione di essere uno dei soli cinque giocatori, insieme a Jordi Cruyff, Jerrel Hasselbaink, Rob Reekers e Wim Hofkens ad essere stati convocati in nazionale olandese senza aver mai giocato nell'Eredivisie.
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