Van Basten was one of the best striker,he had everything rigt leg,left leg,head,free kick,penalty.Sorry for him so many injuries.Stop playing in his prime time.I think he was 27-28 yrs old..What a guy he was...
Here is your problem: even when you praise opponents, you are still looking for excuses. Who did you mean? Terry Butcher? One center back doesn't make a super difference. England lost all 3 games to Ireland and USSR as well. And also England couldn't beat Netherlands 3 months earlier at Wembley
@@esb-ol6yd What you talking about?Who’s looking for excuses? That was a good England side a lot of very good players but the Dutch had some great players Van Basten, Gullit they were simply better than England there’s no disgrace in that. Also it’s fine lines, England hit the woodwork 3 times.
Probably the most complete striker ever - not only was he two footed and good in the air, not only was he strong and quick, his vision was unsurpassed for a traditional number 9. His level of agility, inherited from his mother (who was a gymnast), are unmatched among players who followed. Only Trezeguet and Ronaldo come close. The 1993 EC final, and the foul from Boli that finished him off, still haunt me to this day.
Funny, I remember even Romario himself said that Van Basten was better than him. But Ronaldo Nazario was probably a tad better than him. (Just like we Dutch think that Van Basten was the best Dutch player after Cruijff)
Watching the 2022 World Cup … I failed to see a striker like van Basten who knew where to make a stand or run into space to get an easy goal. What a striker!
It's probably because football has become less direct now. It's more of a passing game, so youngsters want to get involved more as midfielders or attacking midfielders now. Even defenders are more about passing nowadays. Thus the art of the striker is slowly being lost.
If Holland had Van Basten in 1994 and Gullit they would have won.. But they got totally robbed v Brazil in 1994 quarter final.. Two offside goals .. FIFa wanted the perfect final .. Italy v Brazil ... 0-0 AET ..40° heat 3pm kick off ...
i watched that game live , MVB was one of a kind throughout that championship , scored many special goals that i never get tired of watching and rewatching !!!! ....... i'll stop here ,otherwise i could go on and on about this exceptional footballer
Such a shame that van Basten's career was cut short at a relatively young age by crippling injuries, otherwise he'd be talked about as one of the top 5-10 players of all time.
@@partidascompletasdefutebol we are all getting old and romantic about the likes of Gullit, van Basten etcetera. I don't get the idolisation of every action nowadays of players. Qhen someone is doing a nutmeg it's getting rewinded for some 1000 times. The era of Gullit and van Basten is looked over, due to the childish fans nowadays
I honestly think if the game was allowed to flow (and I mean by the officials AND the players) rather than all this stop-start “was his little finger offside?!” rubbish and the incessant playing for fouls that we have to put up with now - today’s football would beat any of this. It’s that size of the game that has ruined if for anyone who remembers what it was like to sit down to watch a match and just watch football. Robson’s goal would never have happened today… he’d have thrown himself to the ground the minute he felt the first ‘contact’ and then we’d have endured 5 mins of wasted time while VAR did or didn’t get it unequivocally “clinically” right as to whether or not he gets a penalty or a free kick.
I miss the 80s so much......world cups of '82 & '86....Euros of '84 & '88....games like the '87 European Cup final between Porto and Bayern...great memories
@@TobiasBurns-jj3zl estás muy equivocado. Échale la culpa a los entrenadores como Southgate o Deschamps, que juegan a especular, a no conceder, a aprovechar el error del rival, a priorizar el físico al talento... el fútbol en 2024 puede ser bello y lo demuestra Guardiola, por ejemplo, o esta España actual.
Best game I ever saw in person. Bought a ticket from a tout at Dusseldorf station and ended up the only England fan in an entirely orange section. Typical of England, shite against the lesser teams and then against the best in the world at the time put in an excellent performance and come up short. Van Basten was superb.
excellent performance...Read Tony Adams and Linekers books on 88. They admitted Eng were out of their depth and the euro club ban was largely to blame. Holland were rampant in this. In 1990 Eng were still far behind the best, but found their rhythm once they stumbled into the SF. Then woeful in 92, 94....England were in a 10 year ditch until 96.
Problem with England was they kept playing Shilton, too bloody old and slow in goal. 39 here, which was ancient back in 88 for any player. He cost them also in 1986 getting out jumped by a midget for the hand of god goal. Better keepers around like Chris Woods.
Holland scraped past Ireland with a fluke goal.. Funny how they lost the first match v Russia .. 8 teams back then .. Finishing with 4 points in your group did not get you through.. England couldn't do Ireland a favor by beating Russia .. ah well ... Football was so much more exciting back then it's horrible now so boring ..and VAR and play acting and 6 subs .. What next water breaks !!!😅
@@ScratchyBaws I have to disagree about Woods being better. Woods was in goal for most of the 1994 World Cup qualifying campaign when we didn't get to the US. Shilton was past his peak by the late eighties but was still the best we had at the time, which is why Bobby Robson kept picking him. He didn't concede a single goal in the Italia 90 qualifiers, and his performance in the away game against Poland was the main reason we qualified. In my view we haven't had any great keepers since Shilton, until Pickford came along who I think has been very good in the last few tournaments.
Me acuerdo como si fuera ayer de este partido. Un resumen de primera. Van Basten un adelantado a su época. Como se ve metía goles de cualquier posición, lo imposible lo hacía posible. Groeten uit Lima Perú 🇵🇪
I don't think Tony Adams played for England for approx another 4 years after this which was unfortunate - what was not taken into consideration was that Van Basten was doing this to hardcore Italian defences in Serie A too and on a regular basis. Still makes your heart melt 30 years after enforced retirement.
That's true yea. I remember in the 90's suddenly seeing Adams being selected for England. Graham Taylor brought him back. He just wasn't reliable enough during his earlier years.
Adams was unfairly criticised. As a young defender he was up against one of the best players in the world at the time. England played fairly well in this game too
I only remember that my mother could not stand the tension and went out of the room and then Marco scored and she came running back. It is too long ago! Man, did we have a good time that summer, I was 17. After that, if the Dutch teams were not scoring we always sent my mother out of the room. ;-)
This was actually finely balanced- only to be undone by Van Basten’s majesty. Thanks for uploading and bringing back memories of Robbo’s equaliser and a glimmer of hope in 1988
One thing i remember of this game is the energy of both teams,England started strong but Holland was playing strong too,it was a great match,you can see it also at the end when the players from both sides shook hands,it was a fair and memorable fight 🎉
In his prime, MVB was the greatest ,pure #9 the world had ever seen. So elegant and deadly at the same time, he had everything a striker dreams of having.
+ Nikos paleologos Van Basten, Baggio Romario and Papin were the best during the late 80s and early 90s. Football World only got to see a rookie Papan in the 1986 WC and not prime (denied 1990 by Scotland, and by Bulgaria in 1993). Euro 88 showed Van Basten to the Football World but the bad style of play and injuries prevented him doing the same in WC 1990 and injuries again for the 1994 WC, retiring in 1995. What the Football World did get to see fully was Romario and Baggio in 1990 and 94 WCs. Brasil should have taken a veteran Romario to the 1998 squad. They would have won with Romario in the WC final.
@@aracelymoran2504Romario was injured and left out of the 1998 World Cup squad. Medical exams had revealed that he had a muscular injury, and he received intensive treatment leading up to the tournament, but he did not recover completely and was dismissed the day of the deadline for the World Cup squad submissions.
@@vja1970 Romario was a goal scoring monster, but there was nothing elegant about him. The most elegant I would argue was Bergkamp, but Van Basten was the complete package no9. We didn't get to see him complete his career properly sadly.
@@trudeausbackbone1304 my point is you need your eyes checked. Romario vs Uruguay 1993.... Romario was more skillful,better dribbler, better touch, he even was good at heading a ball at 5"5' height...
Exactly , Cruyff did the same and it works mental on any defender cause when you get the feeling that you cant touch your opponent all the faith is streaming out of the soul .
Still can't forget 1988.. the first time i followed an international soccer tournament.. Van Basten, Gullit and Rijkaard were the key players for the Dutch but Van Basten was clearly their MVP. The Dutch were so dominant in this tournament, no one challenged them.. even England could only manage to handle them before the game was blown open. 34 years!! Time flies..
Republic of Ireland went toe to toe with them and were robbed in the end. Ireland had a perfectly good goal disallowed and the Dutch goal was offside. The Dutch had to win and Ireland only needed a draw to progress. P McGrath was the best player on the pitch that day.
Van Basten was the best 9 ever after Ronaldo but the netherlands was lucky to get out of the group stage, got beaten by the USSR and didn't deserve to win over Ireland
Dutch had an amazing team. Can't believe that team did not win a world cup. They won 3-1 against a really good England which says a lot. Peace and love
Euro '88 was one of the best, most exciting tournaments with great football. The 1990 WC is regarded as one of the worst ever. Very little goals, lots of cards. Utterly boring final.
That 1988 Dutch side was about the most confident football team I ever saw. Fine defense and a midfield to feed Gullit to feed MvB well, they were uinstoppable that year.
I am from India, 1988 Feb -- final was telecast on Delhi Doordarshan national network. I watch final - Rud Gulit and Marco Vanbastan the best football players in that era.
One thing i remember of this game is the energy of both teams,England started strong but Holland was playing strong too,it was a great match,you can see it also at the end when the players from both sides shook hands,it was a fair and memorable fight 🎉
It indeed could have gone either way if they didn't hit the post twice before van bastard. Lol got it going. But indeed always a nice game against the Dutch
MvB was a football god. Fast, imposing, great in the air, two-footed. Might be talking about the all-time great number nine had the injuries not cut his career short.
Outclassed????? Did you even watch this game??? ENGLAND so unlucky in the first half hitting the post twice, England just didn't have any luck in this match.
@@paulchristopher8634 And yet from all over the world people are still praising several generations and Dutch teams from certain era's, while nobody ever praises the England team. Don't be a sour Brit, just be proud of your Premier League that's been carried by many Dutch topplayers and other foreign players for decade...
He really was in another class Van Basten to anybody else on that pitch, could turn on a sixpence, strike with both feet, volley and header better than anyone of that day and was just so intelligent when making his runs. He was like a wee combination of the great pele & Cruyff mixed. Simply World Class. As a Scotsman i loved watching him and the Dutch teams. Many thanks
Crafty Cruyff turn in the box for Van Basten’s first, a real pity that injury forced him to retire early….ironically the last game he ever played professionally was in the exact same Stadium as the famous volleyed goal he scored against the USSR In the final of this tournament.
1- that Stevens' challenge on van Basten was a foul all day long - should have been a PK 2- van Basten's first goal was amazing 3- and in those days, I just do not remember Guillet ever getting tired - what a player!
Il più grande giocatore di tutti i tempi e di gran lunga : Marco Van Basten !!! Inutile che vengano a raccontarci di Maradona, Pele', Messi, Di Stefano, Cristiano Ronaldo; questo era più completo di tutti loro messi assieme e purtroppo ha dovuto smettere ( a 28 anni, quando un calciatore arriva al top della condizione psicofisica ) quando ancora doveva dare il meglio di se... Quando la palla arrivava a lui sulla trequarti poteva accadere qualsiasi cosa in qualsiasi istante. Una belva inarrestabile
Always epic clashes of two teams, with different styles, who want to play football! Two great generations as well. Respect from Holland for Lineker, Hoddle, Robson and of course Waddle! Brilliant players as well!
@@johndeer6543 it's a close struggle between 1988 and 1984 , absolutely the two best Euro Cups ever as for technical level. 2008 and 2016 the worst in history.
Remember this game from years ago as us being torn apart by the Dutch but it's simply not true. We had plenty of chances ourselves and were unlucky. The better team won no doubt but we weren't as bad as the press made out. Plus we were on a 5 year European ban so players like mvb gullit etc woykd have been a shock to the system for our players.
This was the first time since Holland had become a world class name that these two teams were meeting. The quality of this game is among the best football matches in history. It had all types of actions in both halves. In fact the quality of the games in Euro 88, are all among the best football games and no game ended in a 0-0 draw.
Soy de Chile, me acuerdo perfectamente de este partido que se transmitió acá , desde ese año y con ese equipo que me enamoré de Holanda pa los mundiales y Eurocopa, lamentablemente no he visto después equipazo de Holanda como este , pero sigo " siendo" Naranja pa los mundiales y demás 😉🤟🇨🇱🍻🇷🇺
And just 8 years later, England gave the Dutch an absolute thrashing at Euro '96, completely playing them off the pitch. It's amazing what can happen in so little time.
I was only 5 during these championships but I do remember the striking orange figures of van Basten, Koeman, Rijkaard, Gullit etc……what a group of players they were, Van Basten especially. To be fair to England, hit the woodwork 3 times so bit unlucky to lose 3-1.
For the first goal, Van Basten's manoeuvre inside the box is straight off tbe Cruyff playbook. England fought well against the star studded Dutch side.
Hoddle was amazing for England that day. Sublime passing & also a very unlucky free kick. You can see why Gullit came to Chelsea to play with him when Hoddle was manager .
One of my favorite moments in this match is when Glenn Hoddle evaded from Gullit's attempt to tackle/challenge him. But this video doesn't show it, of course.
@@lexsoft3969 ofcourse they didn’t show it, it’s disgraceful . There was a couple of occasions where Glenn did the same to Van Basten before striking a fantastic long ball to the flanks. Hoddle was a true genius totally under appreciated and wasted .
@@davidbrooks187 He is my favorite of all time. Here is my top 5 of all time : 1. Hoddle 2. Diego Maradona 3. Dragan Stojkovic 4. Juan Roman Riquelme 5. Olaf Thon Yeah... I have my own taste that people won't see some great names in my list like Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini, Zinedine Zidane....
@@lexsoft3969 I met Clive Allen many years ago & congratulated him on his 49 goal season in 1986/87 & he said “it was east my actually, before each game Glenn used to ask me what foot I wanted the ball spun onto in front of goal”.
@@davidbrooks187 Yeah... with Hoddle's side spin, back spin, whatever spin... coming from either of his right or left foot to feed up the striker with inch perfect passes. That made Clive Allen and Marko Falco looked like a world class strikers. 😀
The moment you put it all together and realise that, It doesn't matter that England hit the post multiple teams and somehow Hollands goal lived a charmed life. It matters not because Marco Van Bastan single handedly destroyed England
One of my favorite matches - the stadium, the pitch, the nets, the atmosphere, the Dutch kit, fans, and goals...what a match! Watching this as a kid in 1988. Most iconic moment was here: 3:24-3:28
You should leave the lineups on screen for much longer, most viewers want to rewatch the glories of old players, and seeing the names is half the pleasure.
Van Basten, one of the most elegant strikers I've ever seen before, one of my favorite soccer players in history.
Greetings from Bogotá COL 🇨🇴🇳🇱
A ballerina on football shoes
He had a nice goal against the Soviets in 1988. It was not an easy strike.
Jean Pierre Papin runs him close.
@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 more batigoal
Yo tuve la suerte de presenciarlo en el Rheinstadion y fue un partidazo inolvidable.
Van Basten was one of the best striker,he had everything rigt leg,left leg,head,free kick,penalty.Sorry for him so many injuries.Stop playing in his prime time.I think he was 27-28 yrs old..What a guy he was...
Yes he was 27years when he had injury!
What a fantastic centre forward Van Basten was
One of the greatest of all time
He was..
Van Basten, Romario, Ronaldo, Batistuta, Gerd M., van Nisterooij, Weah, Eto o,...
Yes yes yes 💥💥💥💯💥💥💥
@@mirospajic9929Jürgen Klinsmann and Rudi Völler 🇩🇪
@@mirospajic9929 Henry, raul, villa , lewandusky, milla
That first goal was a touch of pure class..
And the second!
المدافع من سجل الهدف
@@baliksupper6043 and the third!
I’m English but Van Basten destroyed us that day. Such a shame he had terrible injuries. Still one of the greatest ever, what a footballer
Here is your problem: even when you praise opponents, you are still looking for excuses. Who did you mean? Terry Butcher? One center back doesn't make a super difference. England lost all 3 games to Ireland and USSR as well. And also England couldn't beat Netherlands 3 months earlier at Wembley
@@esb-ol6yd
What you talking about?Who’s looking for excuses?
That was a good England side a lot of very good players but the Dutch had some great players Van Basten, Gullit they were simply better than England there’s no disgrace in that.
Also it’s fine lines, England hit the woodwork 3 times.
@@ArchieFatcackie you're right, I didn't read the original post properly
@@esb-ol6yd Props to you for acknowledging your carelessness. We certainly don't see that often nowadays -- especially in the internet!
And then in the final he destroyed Soviets... we were shocked by his magic goal to Dasaev from zero⁰ angle
Van Basten's football IQ was off the charts!
Probably the most complete striker ever - not only was he two footed and good in the air, not only was he strong and quick, his vision was unsurpassed for a traditional number 9. His level of agility, inherited from his mother (who was a gymnast), are unmatched among players who followed. Only Trezeguet and Ronaldo come close. The 1993 EC final, and the foul from Boli that finished him off, still haunt me to this day.
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@@to_infinity_and_beyond_allRomario and Van Basten.....R9 is overrated only kids like him
@@to_infinity_and_beyond_all Hey kid! How old are you? 10 years old? Do you know who is Van Basten? Do you know who is Romario?
Fue muy bueno, pero no llego a la excelencia como lo fue RONALDO NAZARIO y RONARIO. ELLOS SON DE OTRO NIVEL. SALUDITOS.
Funny, I remember even Romario himself said that Van Basten was better than him. But Ronaldo Nazario was probably a tad better than him. (Just like we Dutch think that Van Basten was the best Dutch player after Cruijff)
Watching the 2022 World Cup … I failed to see a striker like van Basten who knew where to make a stand or run into space to get an easy goal. What a striker!
Watching the 2022 World Cup... I failed to see a single game as interesting as this one. Most teams these days are playing boring antifootball
Nuk per nxjre asnje lojtar me te mire ekipi hollandes si Marko van baster
It's probably because football has become less direct now. It's more of a passing game, so youngsters want to get involved more as midfielders or attacking midfielders now. Even defenders are more about passing nowadays. Thus the art of the striker is slowly being lost.
Adding to Van Basten masterclass... Man, what a game from Ruud Gullit. He played every attack position every and each single match!
If Holland had Van Basten in 1994 and Gullit they would have won..
But they got totally robbed v Brazil in 1994 quarter final..
Two offside goals ..
FIFa wanted the perfect final ..
Italy v Brazil ... 0-0 AET ..40° heat 3pm kick off ...
How much better was football back in those days. Full of action
i watched that game live , MVB was one of a kind throughout that championship , scored many special goals that i never get tired of watching and rewatching !!!! ....... i'll stop here ,otherwise i could go on and on about this exceptional footballer
Such a shame that van Basten's career was cut short at a relatively young age by crippling injuries, otherwise he'd be talked about as one of the top 5-10 players of all time.
He wasn't protected by referees at all. Half of the tackles on him were from behind.
Best striker ever, change my mind...
He best striker ever! Certainly top 5 with Maradona, Cruyff, Pelé and Zico.
Old football fans in Brazil love Van Basten 🇧🇷
@@partidascompletasdefutebol we are all getting old and romantic about the likes of Gullit, van Basten etcetera. I don't get the idolisation of every action nowadays of players. Qhen someone is doing a nutmeg it's getting rewinded for some 1000 times. The era of Gullit and van Basten is looked over, due to the childish fans nowadays
Van Basten, what a player! My football hero, definitely.
Me to!
I had him in Pes
He was a solid player.
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The football back then was so much better than 2024.
Totally. Skills level was so much better and matches were so entertaining back then. 2024 Euro is so boring
I honestly think if the game was allowed to flow (and I mean by the officials AND the players) rather than all this stop-start “was his little finger offside?!” rubbish and the incessant playing for fouls that we have to put up with now - today’s football would beat any of this. It’s that size of the game that has ruined if for anyone who remembers what it was like to sit down to watch a match and just watch football. Robson’s goal would never have happened today… he’d have thrown himself to the ground the minute he felt the first ‘contact’ and then we’d have endured 5 mins of wasted time while VAR did or didn’t get it unequivocally “clinically” right as to whether or not he gets a penalty or a free kick.
So so right and the players were better
I miss the 80s so much......world cups of '82 & '86....Euros of '84 & '88....games like the '87 European Cup final between Porto and Bayern...great memories
@@TobiasBurns-jj3zl estás muy equivocado. Échale la culpa a los entrenadores como Southgate o Deschamps, que juegan a especular, a no conceder, a aprovechar el error del rival, a priorizar el físico al talento... el fútbol en 2024 puede ser bello y lo demuestra Guardiola, por ejemplo, o esta España actual.
Best game I ever saw in person. Bought a ticket from a tout at Dusseldorf station and ended up the only England fan in an entirely orange section. Typical of England, shite against the lesser teams and then against the best in the world at the time put in an excellent performance and come up short. Van Basten was superb.
excellent performance...Read Tony Adams and Linekers books on 88. They admitted Eng were out of their depth and the euro club ban was largely to blame. Holland were rampant in this. In 1990 Eng were still far behind the best, but found their rhythm once they stumbled into the SF. Then woeful in 92, 94....England were in a 10 year ditch until 96.
Very good game from both sides. Lineker and Hoddle hit the post in the first half. The English goal was also good.
Problem with England was they kept playing Shilton, too bloody old and slow in goal. 39 here, which was ancient back in 88 for any player. He cost them also in 1986 getting out jumped by a midget for the hand of god goal. Better keepers around like Chris Woods.
Holland scraped past Ireland with a fluke goal..
Funny how they lost the first match v Russia ..
8 teams back then ..
Finishing with 4 points in your group did not get you through..
England couldn't do Ireland a favor by beating Russia .. ah well ...
Football was so much more exciting back then it's horrible now so boring ..and VAR and play acting and 6 subs ..
What next water breaks !!!😅
@@ScratchyBaws I have to disagree about Woods being better. Woods was in goal for most of the 1994 World Cup qualifying campaign when we didn't get to the US. Shilton was past his peak by the late eighties but was still the best we had at the time, which is why Bobby Robson kept picking him. He didn't concede a single goal in the Italia 90 qualifiers, and his performance in the away game against Poland was the main reason we qualified. In my view we haven't had any great keepers since Shilton, until Pickford came along who I think has been very good in the last few tournaments.
Me acuerdo como si fuera ayer de este partido. Un resumen de primera. Van Basten un adelantado a su época. Como se ve metía goles de cualquier posición, lo imposible lo hacía posible. Groeten uit Lima Perú 🇵🇪
Van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Franklin Raykard, the dream of Milan AC, fantastici !
Frank Rijkaard*
Marco Van Basten was an amazing player and one of the best forwards of all times !!
I don't think Tony Adams played for England for approx another 4 years after this which was unfortunate - what was not taken into consideration was that Van Basten was doing this to hardcore Italian defences in Serie A too and on a regular basis. Still makes your heart melt 30 years after enforced retirement.
I madhi marko van Basten ❤
I think Tony Adam's personal issues got in the way of his international career for the next four years, ending with a spot of time in HMP Chelmsford.
That's true yea. I remember in the 90's suddenly seeing Adams being selected for England. Graham Taylor brought him back. He just wasn't reliable enough during his earlier years.
Adams was unfairly criticised. As a young defender he was up against one of the best players in the world at the time. England played fairly well in this game too
I only remember that my mother could not stand the tension and went out of the room and then Marco scored and she came running back. It is too long ago! Man, did we have a good time that summer, I was 17. After that, if the Dutch teams were not scoring we always sent my mother out of the room. ;-)
This was actually finely balanced- only to be undone by Van Basten’s majesty. Thanks for uploading and bringing back memories of Robbo’s equaliser and a glimmer of hope in 1988
hahahahaha
Van Basten admitted this in an interview..
One thing i remember of this game is the energy of both teams,England started strong but Holland was playing strong too,it was a great match,you can see it also at the end when the players from both sides shook hands,it was a fair and memorable fight 🎉
Yes, in my memory England lost badly, but I see it was pretty close.
In his prime, MVB was the greatest ,pure #9 the world had ever seen. So elegant and deadly at the same time, he had everything a striker dreams of having.
+ Nikos paleologos Van Basten, Baggio Romario and Papin were the best during the late 80s and early 90s. Football World only got to see a rookie Papan in the 1986 WC and not prime (denied 1990 by Scotland, and by Bulgaria in 1993). Euro 88 showed Van Basten to the Football World but the bad style of play and injuries prevented him doing the same in WC 1990 and injuries again for the 1994 WC, retiring in 1995. What the Football World did get to see fully was Romario and Baggio in 1990 and 94 WCs. Brasil should have taken a veteran Romario to the 1998 squad. They would have won with Romario in the WC final.
@@aracelymoran2504Romario was injured and left out of the 1998 World Cup squad. Medical exams had revealed that he had a muscular injury, and he received intensive treatment leading up to the tournament, but he did not recover completely and was dismissed the day of the deadline for the World Cup squad submissions.
Van Basten is the finest, most elegant and deadly centre forward to ever play the game.
You didnt watch Romario play then..
@@vja1970 Romario was a goal scoring monster, but there was nothing elegant about him. The most elegant I would argue was Bergkamp, but Van Basten was the complete package no9. We didn't get to see him complete his career properly sadly.
R9 is the greatest CF of all time
Speed agility strength skill dribbling
@@vja1970
I did.
He wasn't as elegant as Van Basten.
So your point is?
@@trudeausbackbone1304 my point is you need your eyes checked. Romario vs Uruguay 1993.... Romario was more skillful,better dribbler, better touch, he even was good at heading a ball at 5"5' height...
Look how van Basten jumps over Shilton at 9.28. today's player would take the dive. Class.
At 4:05
Dive is a smarter move, he didn't score ;)
Most players back then would have dived too.
Exactly , Cruyff did the same and it works mental on any defender cause when you get the feeling that you cant touch your opponent all the faith is streaming out of the soul .
Still can't forget 1988.. the first time i followed an international soccer tournament.. Van Basten, Gullit and Rijkaard were the key players for the Dutch but Van Basten was clearly their MVP.
The Dutch were so dominant in this tournament, no one challenged them.. even England could only manage to handle them before the game was blown open.
34 years!! Time flies..
This football in 1980s, the playmaker and wingers are the difference makers
Van Basten was man to man marked ,, someone needed to unlock defences
Republic of Ireland went toe to toe with them and were robbed in the end.
Ireland had a perfectly good goal disallowed and the Dutch goal was offside.
The Dutch had to win and Ireland only needed a draw to progress. P McGrath was the best player on the pitch that day.
Van Basten was the best 9 ever after Ronaldo but the netherlands was lucky to get out of the group stage, got beaten by the USSR and didn't deserve to win over Ireland
I think they lost the first game to the Soviet Union, beat them in the final tho
Van Basten did not play on the group stage. That made all the difference. He wont that Euro by himself.@@maegalodonus
Dutch had an amazing team. Can't believe that team did not win a world cup. They won 3-1 against a really good England which says a lot. Peace and love
A lot of politics after winning in 88, i think they deserved it more in 74.
@@cyphaborg6598 and in '78
Euro '88 was one of the best, most exciting tournaments with great football. The 1990 WC is regarded as one of the worst ever. Very little goals, lots of cards. Utterly boring final.
Even at their best when the dutch had magnificent skills they were .mentally weak. Always Have been.
That 1988 Dutch side was about the most confident football team I ever saw. Fine defense and a midfield to feed Gullit to feed MvB well, they were uinstoppable that year.
And with Rijkaard, Gullit, van Basten AC Milan was unstoppable for the years to come.
I think they were even better in the seventies
That opening shot by Koeman, I had to watch it back 5 or 6 times to check the footage wasn’t sped up. Just look at the speed that ball travels..
I think he is one of the top 10 of all time. He was my favourite player when I was young
if not top 10, it is an icon.
I am from India, 1988 Feb -- final was telecast on Delhi Doordarshan national network.
I watch final - Rud Gulit and Marco Vanbastan the best football players in that era.
One thing i remember of this game is the energy of both teams,England started strong but Holland was playing strong too,it was a great match,you can see it also at the end when the players from both sides shook hands,it was a fair and memorable fight 🎉
It indeed could have gone either way if they didn't hit the post twice before van bastard. Lol got it going.
But indeed always a nice game against the Dutch
Made in Utrecht: Basten, Wouters, van Breukelen and wonderplayer Vanenburg. It must be something in the water!
What a fantastic player he was M Van Basten 😲👏
MvB was a football god. Fast, imposing, great in the air, two-footed. Might be talking about the all-time great number nine had the injuries not cut his career short.
Van Basten - a legend material 👏
que jogaço!!!! Gullit e Van Basten jogavam muita bola!!!!
0-1 Marco van Basten (44 min)
1-1 Bryan Robson (53 min)
1-2 Marco van Basten (71 min)
1-3 Marco van Basten (75 min)
I think he is the best striker I've seen in my life, I loved Milan for him, he was more than wonderful.
Great, great striker but R9 Phenomeno is the greatest striker of all time.
100% agree, at Ajax and Milan van Basten was incredible!
Van Basten, my favourite football player of all times
👌👍
The best no.9 of his generation
Outclassed in all areas. Dutch were sublime. The atmosphere with crowd noise snd air horns formidably good.
Outclassed????? Did you even watch this game??? ENGLAND so unlucky in the first half hitting the post twice, England just didn't have any luck in this match.
@@petemitchel5622 haha, sour Brit I assume?
And yet two years later the Dutch failed to turn up to the World Cup whilst England reached the Semi Finals
@@paulchristopher8634 And yet from all over the world people are still praising several generations and Dutch teams from certain era's, while nobody ever praises the England team. Don't be a sour Brit, just be proud of your Premier League that's been carried by many Dutch topplayers and other foreign players for decade...
@@billieboybuddha4238 and be proud of the British that you have a country.
He really was in another class Van Basten to anybody else on that pitch, could turn on a sixpence, strike with both feet, volley and header better than anyone of that day and was just so intelligent when making his runs. He was like a wee combination of the great pele & Cruyff mixed. Simply World Class. As a Scotsman i loved watching him and the Dutch teams. Many thanks
Nothing beats the Orange Army. Wish we could go back in time. Society was so much better back then, miss the 80s!
They where awful and extremely lucky v the irish after this.
I hope you found your peace with it now 35 years later and able to sleep peacefully?
@@SnakePliskin762
Totally agree
What the 80s lack was diversity. Things are so much better now, right?
Crafty Cruyff turn in the box for Van Basten’s first, a real pity that injury forced him to retire early….ironically the last game he ever played professionally was in the exact same Stadium as the famous volleyed goal he scored against the USSR In the final of this tournament.
Marco Van Basten forever in my ❤❤❤❤
Marco Van Basten the best top10 players of all time 😢😔🙏🏾🖤🔥
Marco van Basten
One of the best forwards ever
1- that Stevens' challenge on van Basten was a foul all day long - should have been a PK 2- van Basten's first goal was amazing 3- and in those days, I just do not remember Guillet ever getting tired - what a player!
Gullit was like an energizer battery, goes on and on and on
Il più grande giocatore di tutti i tempi e di gran lunga : Marco Van Basten !!! Inutile che vengano a raccontarci di Maradona, Pele', Messi, Di Stefano, Cristiano Ronaldo; questo era più completo di tutti loro messi assieme e purtroppo ha dovuto smettere ( a 28 anni, quando un calciatore arriva al top della condizione psicofisica ) quando ancora doveva dare il meglio di se... Quando la palla arrivava a lui sulla trequarti poteva accadere qualsiasi cosa in qualsiasi istante. Una belva inarrestabile
Milan fan, I guess
@@marvinbrando722With the exception of Pele I agree.
I love John Motson's voice.
Always epic clashes of two teams, with different styles, who want to play football! Two great generations as well. Respect from Holland for Lineker, Hoddle, Robson and of course Waddle! Brilliant players as well!
Van Basten was one of the 10 greatest Goalgetter in History
The late 80s was the era of VanBasten and Gullit not just for the Dutch national team but also for AC Milan
I miss watching Dutch team playing in this quality….loyal fan since 88…
I cannot believe this is now 35 years ago😮😮
Great goals from Van Basten.
Van Basten had 3 ballon d'ors at 26. Imagine if he didn't get injured at 27. He had to stop 2,5 years later, barely played a match since 27.
That Dutch team
Was one of the great sides of all time, just full of exciting top class players.. shame they didn’t win a WC..
I love Netherland in the era of musketeers Ruud Gullit, Van Basten and Frank Rijgaard
Still the best Euro Cup ever.
"Still the best Euro Cup ever."
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In my view, the EC 1984 was even better.
2008
@@johndeer6543 it's a close struggle between 1988 and 1984 , absolutely the two best Euro Cups ever as for technical level. 2008 and 2016 the worst in history.
1:33 Blatant penalty. Only an english commentator would say "good decision by the referee".
Just like the English media for F1.
Depois do Brasil, sempre torço para a Holanda...
Futebol muito bonito ..
Irei torcer pela Holanda no Catar
boa sorte e bora paises baixos
Netherlands played WC 22 SAD, no totall football anymore
Remember this game from years ago as us being torn apart by the Dutch but it's simply not true. We had plenty of chances ourselves and were unlucky. The better team won no doubt but we weren't as bad as the press made out. Plus we were on a 5 year European ban so players like mvb gullit etc woykd have been a shock to the system for our players.
Bryan Robson what a player
First Goal Van Basten ,, Absolute Pure Class, and elegant ,,
Van Basten reminds me of Johan Cruyff there. The same class movement.
Van Basten, what a legend.
もう引退した選手ですが、今でも一番好きなサッカー選手はマルコ・ファン・バステン
It's always a sweet moment when any team beats England. This is one of those many sweet moments.
Nob
spot on love it when England get beat in tournaments....like all the time lol
One of the highlights of any tournament is when England gets beat. Sometimes it's better than the final.
@@ifwecouldvote definitely
I always have that with the Germans 😂😂🎉
This was the first time since Holland had become a world class name that these two teams were meeting. The quality of this game is among the best football matches in history. It had all types of actions in both halves. In fact the quality of the games in Euro 88, are all among the best football games and no game ended in a 0-0 draw.
Back when they were called Holland lol
Sicuramente il giocatore più completo della storia del calcio ...nessuno come lui ...il più grande ...
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Soy de Chile, me acuerdo perfectamente de este partido que se transmitió acá , desde ese año y con ese equipo que me enamoré de Holanda pa los mundiales y Eurocopa, lamentablemente no he visto después equipazo de Holanda como este , pero sigo " siendo" Naranja pa los mundiales y demás 😉🤟🇨🇱🍻🇷🇺
And just 8 years later, England gave the Dutch an absolute thrashing at Euro '96, completely playing them off the pitch. It's amazing what can happen in so little time.
Lol
Yeah but 2 years earlier with that koeman free kick, they denied us USA 1994😢😢
@@MrIreland4ever Koeman who should have been sent off earlier in that same game.
it was liquid football!
@@TherejectionartistFoot like a traction engine at times.
This tournament and Italia 90 were my favourites.
I was only 5 during these championships but I do remember the striking orange figures of van Basten, Koeman, Rijkaard, Gullit etc……what a group of players they were, Van Basten especially. To be fair to England, hit the woodwork 3 times so bit unlucky to lose 3-1.
Marco Van Basten👏🏼⚽️💙
That Dutch 88 team made me a football fan, wasn’t interested in the sport before but they were pure artists
Che spettacolo, grandissima Olanda!
my hero as a kid was Van Basten. i loved him. what a player he was
For the first goal, Van Basten's manoeuvre inside the box is straight off tbe Cruyff playbook.
England fought well against the star studded Dutch side.
Great dutch team, Gullit and Van Basten, 2 all time greats. Shout out to Bryan Robson though, surely world class as well in his time.
Thanks for this match 🙏🇳🇱
I still remember this wonderful game
Hoddle was amazing for England that day. Sublime passing & also a very unlucky free kick. You can see why Gullit came to Chelsea to play with him when Hoddle was manager .
One of my favorite moments in this match is when Glenn Hoddle evaded from Gullit's attempt to tackle/challenge him. But this video doesn't show it, of course.
@@lexsoft3969 ofcourse they didn’t show it, it’s disgraceful . There was a couple of occasions where Glenn did the same to Van Basten before striking a fantastic long ball to the flanks.
Hoddle was a true genius totally under appreciated and wasted .
@@davidbrooks187 He is my favorite of all time. Here is my top 5 of all time :
1. Hoddle
2. Diego Maradona
3. Dragan Stojkovic
4. Juan Roman Riquelme
5. Olaf Thon
Yeah... I have my own taste that people won't see some great names in my list like Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini, Zinedine Zidane....
@@lexsoft3969 I met Clive Allen many years ago & congratulated him on his 49 goal season in 1986/87 & he said “it was east my actually, before each game Glenn used to ask me what foot I wanted the ball spun onto in front of goal”.
@@davidbrooks187 Yeah... with Hoddle's side spin, back spin, whatever spin... coming from either of his right or left foot to feed up the striker with inch perfect passes. That made Clive Allen and Marko Falco looked like a world class strikers. 😀
Thanks for this treasure! MarcUnico Van Basten! Kisses from Milan!
The moment you put it all together and realise that, It doesn't matter that England hit the post multiple teams and somehow Hollands goal lived a charmed life. It matters not because Marco Van Bastan single handedly destroyed England
In the Netherlands we used to say that Van Breukelen had 'a little angel' sitting on the goal. He was often lucky like this. :P
@@terencevangaalen4127 makes sense, but Marco Van Bastan was next level
Van Basten could have scored five that day...
@@gumdeo definately he was next level
هولندة.في.العصر.الذهبي.
Great match two excellent teams
One of my favorite matches - the stadium, the pitch, the nets, the atmosphere, the Dutch kit, fans, and goals...what a match!
Watching this as a kid in 1988.
Most iconic moment was here: 3:24-3:28
You should leave the lineups on screen for much longer, most viewers want to rewatch the glories of old players, and seeing the names is half the pleasure.
Just put pause at the video
Loved this tournament...
And the Klaxons...they really made for a great atmosphere!!
7:50 In this shot, Van Basten's intelligence appears and his good reading of the ball's trajectory, and he returned and then prepared to hit it
Trio menakutkan R gullit ⚽ van basten⚽f.ricard⚽ total football ...juara tak bermahkota
Спасибо❤️👏👏👏 это просто чудо
The Dutch are soccer gods, with a country 😅with only 13 million people the have produced so many legends, truly incredible. Go NL
🇳🇱 VAN BASTEN está no Top 10 de centroavantes do futebol mundial
The best with Brasil Ronaldo. Third Romario.
Van Basten è stato il più elegante centravanti mai visto 😢😢😢😢😢😢GIOCAVA CONTRO DIFENSORI CHE LO MASSACRAVANO😢😢😢😢😢😢
Marco van basten, the best!!!! Ciao a tutti, massimo da Bergamo, Italia.
Van Basten absolute monster at this time.
Euro 88 was wonderful, and the Netherlands were wonderful...and Van Basten was wonderful
Saya ingat pertandingan ini...sdh lama sekali tp serasa baru kemarin.
Van basten is my idol!
He was the Best !
And of course
FORZA MILAN ♥️🖤