Dutch double Danes in World Cup soccer

The Danes got the double Dutch deluxe yesterday in Johannesburg, in the first World Cup 2010 South Africa soccer match for both clubs, with Denmark starting off the scoring on itself, but eventually the Netherlands got a legitimate goal late in the match to win and now take a Group E pool lead.


The question of whether Simon Poulsen or Daniel Agger scored on their own net in the 46th minute, early in the second half, is all that is left for one to answer, since the end result was a Dutch win over the Danes. The game featured a scoreless first half, that brought on more yawns than horns, after the dynamic Danish duo of Poulsen and Agger headed in the first goal for the Dutch, Dirk Kuyt gave the Orange a late strike over the Red in the 85th minute, rebounding a shot by Eljero Elia that beat the Danish goalkeeper but deflected off the goalpost back to Kuyt. With a Soccer City official crowd of 83,465, one could guess that if the population difference is anything like Canada or the United States, there was likely way more Dutch than Danes in those seats, which gives another reason for the State of Great Despair to get on with their natural population boom soon.


Though I do not watch much soccer, even when it may be the World Cup which apparently the rest of the world seems to watch much of, I do enjoy seeing Danmark and Nederlanden going at it against each other at least somewhere athletically, my hope is that we see at least another match between these clubs, perhaps a playdown atop their pool.