Ruud Gullit, star of the Netherlands’ only title-winning team at Euro 1988, said, “At the moment Dutch football is a mess. It hurts me because I want Holland to go to the WorldCup.” The Netherlands, which failed to qualify for Euro 2016, began its 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign with a 1-1 tie with Sweden.
“In Holland we still think we knoweverything,” Gullit said. “We pride ourselves on how good we were with [Johan] Cruyff in 1974. The same as 1988 [when Gullit led Holland to victory in theEuropean Championship]. But that’s a long time ago. So maybe we don’t know everything. Maybe we need something more.”