The company filed for bankruptcy in 2008, closing down its last production plant in Enschede, Netherlands, making 180 employees redundant.

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When he was 12, his father, a cartographer, took a job in Enschede, a Dutch city near the German border.

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In other friendly action on Saturday, the Netherlands beat Japan 3-0 in Enschede with Robin van Persie, Wesley Sneijder and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar on target.

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