Final in 40 minutes at Estádio do Bessa (Boavista's stadium). Squads:

Netherlands: Vermeer; Tiendalli, Vlaar, Luirink, Emanuelson; Aissati, De Zeeuw, Schaars; Hofs, Huntelaar, Castelen

Ukraine: Pyatov; Yarmash, Chygrynskiy, Yatsenko, Romanchuk; Mikhalik, Godin, Cheberyachko, Maksymov; Milevskiy, Fomin

half-time edit: 2-0, both goals by Huntelaar. Holland definitely looking better altho they were lucky as Ukraine hit the post twice. Fantastic environment in the stadium, with loud chants of "Portugal Olé" lol

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Last edited by noikeee on Jun-04-2006 at 19:34

Ukraine nearly scored a fantastic goal a couple minutes ago. Corner, crossed low to outside of the area, 3 players pretend to shoot but leave it run, the 4th hits it to the top corner! Didn't miss it by much, would have been something to watch replays of for a long long time.

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Congrats...
Huntelaar will become a star.

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A big congrats to Netherlands.

Huentlaar should've been included in the World Cup squad, Bad misstake.

Congrats, Holland are deserved winners of the cup. Didn't look candidates at all in the first two games, but how did things improve from then on! Knocked out the two major favourites (Italy and France) and won the final by 3-0.

Several players shone in this cup and should be looked at for the future. Starting from top scorer Klaas Jan Huntelaar of course. Also in Holland Nicky Hofs was brilliant in the semis and final, and the goalie Vermeer showed an outstanding talent for defending one-on-ones. Defensive midfielder De Zeeuw also played very well.

Milevskiy and Fomin shown up as Ukraine's future superstars, this duo of forwards work really well, the first has tons of technique. The french were better as a team than on individual talent, still Mavouba looked great on the group stage. Finally, the danish Thomas Kahlenberg and the serbian Stepanov impressed me as well.

I still managed to end 114th in the fantasy football thing, w00t. Should have picked Hofs or Huntelaar as captain for the final instead of Castelen tho.

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And then to think Belgium played against ukraine to qualify for the championship and ukraine only got qualified in extra time

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Congarts to Holland, they showed how happy and good football should be played imo. Castelen(sp?) with a great game, with two goals by the up and coming star Huntelaar, and several other players that impressed me.
Too disappointed though that Italy nor France got to the finals.