Netherlands News

Matthijs De Ligt follows team-mates Alex Sandro and Juan Cuadrado in missing this weekend's league match against Sassuolo as well as next Sunday's trip to Inter Milan and Italian Super Cup final with Napoli on January 20 due to the illness.

Dutch international footballer Quincy Promes has been arrested in connection with a stabbing at a family gathering earlier this year, which left a relative with serious physical injury.

The Netherlands and Spain will perhaps be among the second band of favourites at the postponed European Championship next summer, when they will be hoping some talented youngsters come of age.

Nations League: Nicolo Barella's first-half header helped Italy beat the Netherlands 1-0 while Erling Haaland netted a brace as Norway thrashed Northern Ireland 5-1.

Ronald Koeman, who won the European Cup with Barcelona as a player in 1992, replaces Quique Setien as the manager of the Spanish side.

Virgil van Dijk nutmegged his Liverpool teammate Joe Gomez in training with a brilliant piece of skill and followed it up with a celebration to match it.

Netherlands and Ajax defender Wim Suurbier, a key member of the 1970s Dutch squad who played in two World Cup finals, died at the age of 75.

Ronald Koeman, 57, underwent a "cardiac catheterisation" procedure at a hospital in Amsterdam after complaining of feeling unwell at his home.

Play-acting and feigning injuries to gain unfair advantages are a scourge that football has not been able to do away with.

Euro 2020: Netherlands, Germany and Croatia join other big names like France, Spain, Italy and England, with Portugal one win away from qualification.