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[koffieboon]

RolStoppable said:

koffieboon said:
We have a completely fucked up group with France, Italy and Romania. So the positive thing is that if we somehow survive our groupstage we won't encounter France or Italy again until a possible final. But to be honest, I really don't see us getting very far this time, its been about 8 years ago that we played good football in a tournament.

How have Austria's results been the last few times? Have they actually qualified for the actual tournaments?

Oh yeah, your country is in the most difficult group, it's really hard to predict who will advance to the quarter finals from that group. And yes, the Netherlands haven't played good football at the last few tournaments.

It's very easy to sum up Austria's results in the previous Euro tournaments: We never qualified. Euro 08 is the first time we are participating in this tournament. The last World Cup we qualified for was '98 and back then we got eliminated in the group stage after two draws (Cameron, Chile) and a loss (Italy).

Oke, a short recap of Dutch results of the last 20 years, just out of my memory:

Euro 1988 won final against Sovjet Union 2-0

WC 1990 lost to Germany 2-1 (in the second round?)

Euro 1992 lost semi final against Denmark on penalties

WC 1994 lost quarter final against Brazil 2-3

Euro 1996 lost quarter final against France on penalties

WC 1998 lost semi final against Brazil on penalties

Euro 2000 lost semi final against Italy on penalties

WC 2002 Did not qualify

Euro 2004 lost semi final to Portugal 2-1

WC 2006 lost second round to Portugal 1-0

Basically we had a pretty good peak in the 90s, usually going out on penalties at the latter stages of the tournament. Looking at the last 2 championships we'll be alright as long as we don't have to play Portugal