Dutch women's national champion of Europe
You also want to know on Thailandblog.nl that the Dutch women's team has become champion of Europe, but how do you make a connection with Thailand?
Well, I saw the fantastic game in the great atmosphere of the Grolsch Veste in Megabreak, where we played the normal Sunday evening pool billiards tournament. There was enough Orange, because the ladies in the service always wear an Orange T-shirt or polo
Let a woman, my good Thai friend Nittha, win the tournament here too – that really doesn't happen that often – and let her also wear an Orange shirt. I treated all the women in the Orange to a drink and the winner, Nittha, also gave another round afterwards. More rounds followed, it became very nice and very late!.
Congratulations Dutch women with this great achievement!
About this blogger
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Bert Gringhuis (1945), born and raised in Almelo in the beautiful Twente. Later lived for many years in Amsterdam and Alkmaar, working in export for various companies. I first came to Thailand in 1980 and immediately fell in love with the country. Been back many times since then and moved to Thailand after my (early) retirement as a widower. I have been living there for 22 years now with my somewhat younger Thai lady Poopae.
My first experiences in Thailand as a kind of newsletter sent to family, friends and acquaintances, which later appeared under the name Gringo on Thailandblog. Many, many articles followed those first stories and that has grown into an almost daily hobby.
In the Netherlands still an avid footballer and football referee, but the years are starting to tell and in Thailand still avid, but the pool billiards is really of inferior quality, ha ha!
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Suppose the Thai women's national team were to become Asian champions. Asia's number one! The very best! And that arch-rival Cambodia, which almost always became champion, would be sent home with its tail between its legs. That television viewing records were broken, games were sold out, and tens of thousands turned out to honor their champions.
And then suppose the Thai Post decided to issue a very special stamp on the occasion of this unique event, made of a very thin layer of precious metal. What color do you think the stamp would be? Of course, Gold!
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Not so in the cosy, frumpy narrow-minded Netherlands, where excess harms and modesty adorns us.
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https://goo.gl/GKRJp5
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What an embarrassment.
With one AFC Women's Asian Cup title, three AFF Women's Championship titles and five Southeast Asian Games titles, the team has a history as the most successful team in Southeast Asia.
In spite of less investment than the men's team, Thai women's football is on the rise, notably winning the fifth place in 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup held in Vietnam which qualified them for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, their first ever FIFA Women's World Cup .
Thailand's women's national football team IS the best in Southeast Asia.
I did not know that. Maybe we can play against them now!
The Thai Post certainly knows how to unpack:
https://goo.gl/photos/8nZtm9czcv3zwiX47
That has also happened before. The women's team of Thailand was in Europe in February 2015 and played against the Dutch national team on February 8: 7-0 for the Netherlands.
The women of Thailand also played against PSV (2-1), Ajax (3-0) and Fortuna Sittrad (1-1). So they never won.