Jun 14, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min · 12 segments
**Description** This is Series 32: A preview of Netherland’s players for the 2026 FIFA World Cup including analysis, candidates, selections, introductions, predictions of starters, injuries…
let's get on with the show we're dividing this media cast into three sections uh section one will be a little team information uh as a preliminary to what we talk about in section two uh that should be fairly short section two is a look at the uh hang on a second i'm just gonna adjust a little bit here section two is the main part of the media cast though And that is the candidates, a presentation of the candidates.
Their likelihood of selection, we'll start with that, where we... thought they were in terms of selection.
And then we will tell you who was selected and talk about predictions for who are going to be starters.
And then section three is a review of several things.
We're going to throw out a lot of names in section two, so it's nice to kind of put them together into a package.
And that'll also constitute The short version which we're releasing, the short version of the media cast and finally we have some other kind of summary items such as injuries, surprise selections in the squad and big names off the squad.
Let's go then into section one.
Talk about the squad.
Teams are allowed to bring 26 players to the final squad.
Some teams did produce preliminary squads, but not that many.
And Netherlands was not one of them.
So, We don't have a preliminary squad to look at the might-have-beens there.
And there we go.
Before we move on to Section 2 to see who these players were, let's take a look at some games that were played in... over the period the period that we're looking at so we're really going from the 2024 Euro Cup there we include the games when we look at their formations but we don't include them in the player participation count so we begin after the Euro Cup there for the fall 2024 UEFA League Nations game.
Six games there from September to October.
They reached the finals.
So they had two games of the finals in March 2025.
And their World Cup qualifying began in June 2025 with two games there.
And finally, the 2026 World Cup.
Sorry, I should be putting this information on the screen.
So let me just...
Quickly recount, so six games of Euro Cup there, six games of UEFA Nations League group stage, two games in the finals in March 2025, two games in World Cup qualifying in June 2025, and then that continued into September, well, into the fall of 2025, six games of World Cup qualifying there.
We also have two friendlies to look at in March.
that we did include in the participation count.
However, the two games, the pre-tournament games are not kind of part of our research.
let's get on with the show we're dividing this media cast into three sections uh section one will be a little team information uh as a preliminary to what we talk about in section two uh that should be fairly short section two is a look at the uh hang on a second i'm just gonna adjust a little bit here section two is the main part of the media cast though And that is the candidates, a presentation of the candidates.
Their likelihood of selection, we'll start with that, where we... thought they were in terms of selection.
And then we will tell you who was selected and talk about predictions for who are going to be starters.
And then section three is a review of several things.
We're going to throw out a lot of names in section two, so it's nice to kind of put them together into a package.
And that'll also constitute The short version which we're releasing, the short version of the media cast and finally we have some other kind of summary items such as injuries, surprise selections in the squad and big names off the squad.
Let's go then into section one.
Talk about the squad.
Teams are allowed to bring 26 players to the final squad.
Some teams did produce preliminary squads, but not that many.
And Netherlands was not one of them.
So, We don't have a preliminary squad to look at the might-have-beens there.
And there we go.
Before we move on to Section 2 to see who these players were, let's take a look at some games that were played in... over the period the period that we're looking at so we're really going from the 2024 Euro Cup there we include the games when we look at their formations but we don't include them in the player participation count so we begin after the Euro Cup there for the fall 2024 UEFA League Nations game.
Six games there from September to October.
They reached the finals.
So they had two games of the finals in March 2025.
And their World Cup qualifying began in June 2025 with two games there.
And finally, the 2026 World Cup.
Sorry, I should be putting this information on the screen.
So let me just...
Quickly recount, so six games of Euro Cup there, six games of UEFA Nations League group stage, two games in the finals in March 2025, two games in World Cup qualifying in June 2025, and then that continued into September, well, into the fall of 2025, six games of World Cup qualifying there.
We also have two friendlies to look at in March.
that we did include in the participation count.
However, the two games, the pre-tournament games are not kind of part of our research.
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