It has been a long time for Dutch football – that the national team are in the Nations League finals, their captain Virgil van Dijk is at the core of Liverpool’s title bid and Ajax reached the Champions League knockout stages for the first time in 13 years.
Van Dijk has been speaking to the BBC premier-league Show, which yields at 19:00 GMT on BBC Two, and it got us thinking about literary legends.
We have picked that which we think will be the 12 Netherlands stars. Find out about them and vote for which one you think is at the base of the webpage.
Tremendously talented forward Bergkamp was named Arsenal’s 2nd biggest player in 2017, only.
In 11 years at Arsenal, Bergkamp won FA Cup Doubles and two Premier League in addition to a third match title in the’Invincibles’ season and also another two FA Cups. He also scored 107 goals in 400 appearances.
His goal against Newcastle in 2002, where he switched Nikos Dabizas and slotted the ball past goalkeeper Shay Given, had been voted the most useful goal in Premier League history by BBC readers in 2017.
Ruud Gullit (Chelsea)
Before moving into midfield technical genius Gullit, that would play nearly anywhere on the pitch,” started his own time because of sweeper. He also scored five goals.
He proceeded onto be player-manager at Stamford Bridge for at least 18 months, leading to the Blues to the 1997 FA Cup – their first key trophy in 26 years.
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