NOTEBOOK: DUTCH STARTER BREAKS LEG DURING PRACTICE.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Left back Winston Bogarde Winston Bogarde (born October 22 1970 in Rotterdam) is a former Dutch professional footballer. Career Early career Bogarde started his career at SVV in the 1988/1989 season and spent two seasons at the club, having played 11 games for them and scoring a goal was hospitalized with a broken leg Sunday, a day after his Dutch team reached the World Cup semifinals for the first time in 20 years. Bogarde, who had been expected to start against defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre Brazil on Tuesday, was taken away by ambulance after going down during a practice session. Coach Guus Hiddink Guus Hiddink (born 8 November 1946 in Varsseveld) is a Dutch football manager. He managed PSV Eindhoven between 2002-2006. Throughout his entire managerial career, he is best recognised for winning the treble with PSV Eindhoven, leading South Korea to a 4th place finish in the said the player had fractured his right fibula fibula (fĭb`yələ): see leg. , the smaller bone in the lower leg. ``It is a terrible disappointment for him personally and for the team after the euphoria of yesterday,'' Hiddink said. Out of play: When it comes to giving the old heave-ho, there's no one in World Cup history like Arturo Brizio. The Mexican referee set a Cup record for ejecting players for roughness when he threw out Arthur Numan Arthur Numan (born 14 December 1969 in Heemskerk, Netherlands) is a retired Dutch footballer. He played as a left back in the years from 1997 to after 2000 and was a regular fixture in Netherlands national football team of the Netherlands and Ariel Ortega Ariel Arnaldo Ortega (born March 4, 1974 in Libertador General San Martín, Jujuy) is an Argentinian footballer, who currently plays for Club Atlético River Plate as a midfielder. His nickname is El Burrito ("The Little Donkey"), thus called Burrito Ortega. of Argentina in Saturday's quarterfinal. That gave him seven ejections in just six World Cup appearances, topping the old mark of five red cards in eight games held by Joel Quinlou of France. FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f , which released the statistic, said it was reluctant to do so but did not see it as a slight to either Brizio or the quality of refereeing in the tournament. ``I don't think it has anything to do with the referee. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time, or the right place at the right time,'' spokesman Keith Cooper said. ``He was in a game that developed to the point where he had to take that kind of action. ``Are we worried (at so many red cards)? No. That's the decision and we'll stand by that.'' A pattern develops: The semifinal field has three European teams and one South American team for the fourth straight World Cup. France, Croatia, the Netherlands and Brazil also continue a pattern that has occurred eight times in the 16 Cups. For Brazil, it's the ninth semifinal appearance, tying Germany's record. There also have been three times when all of the final four were from Europe, the last with Italy, Poland, West Germany and France in 1982. And the presence of the French team in the semis resumes a string of success for the home team. FIFA said the host nation has made the last four 10 times, the only exceptions being France in 1938, Switzerland in 1954, Mexico in 1970 and 1986, Spain in 1982 and the United States in 1994. |
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