That, Mr Winner argues, is the way that Dutch football, at its best, works.

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Former Arsenal striker Dennis Bergkamp has completed his coaching badge course with the Dutch football federation (KNVB).

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The Bafana-Bafana player said the international mix of players at Ajax has helped him to settle into Dutch football quickly.

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Rijkaard had a spell coaching Sparta Rotterdam, quitting in 2002 after they were relegated from the top flight of Dutch football.

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Suarez was handed a seven-match ban by Dutch football authorities in 2010 for biting PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakal while playing for Ajax.

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It produced the most innovative tactics and thrilling teams, from the free-flowing Dutch "Total Football" squad in the 1970s to the four-man attack Brazil unleashed at the 1958 World Cup.

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This Dutch have traded in their total game for dependent football, with an efficiently pragmatic, rigid structure functioning largely to feed a supremely talented and liberated front three of Sneijder, Robben and Robin van Persie.

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The Dutch may not have been producing the free flowing football of their qualifying group but offered a threat at set pieces with Rafael van der Vaart producing a curling effort from the right which van Nistelrooy should have converted.

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Johan Cruyff's brilliant Dutch side took the tournament by storm with their revolutionary "total football" but it was hosts West Germany who came out on top 2-1 in the final.

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