{"id":14871,"date":"2018-11-08T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T07:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=14871"},"modified":"2018-11-08T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T07:43:41","slug":"miedema-dutch-must-qualify-to-maintain-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=14871","title":{"rendered":"Miedema: Dutch must qualify to maintain momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d3-o-article__body fi-article__body\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/s9efkcdalemlkxgjfamc-e1541662901379.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14872\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/s9efkcdalemlkxgjfamc-1024x448.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Vivianne Miedema has hit 14 goals in her last eight Arsenal games<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Her football addiction began when she was just three<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>She discusses the Netherlands&#8217; France 2019 playoff against Switzerland<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI like football\u00a0<em>way<\/em>\u00a0too much,\u201d Vivianne Miedema kicked off to\u00a0<strong>FIFA.com<\/strong>\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FIFA &#8211; It was 13:15 in London \u2013 a time requested not to work around the 22-year-old\u2019s lunch or a spot of shopping in Knightsbridge or Mayfair, but because it was half-time at Vitality Stadium. Not even a second of Bournemouth-Manchester United did the Arsenal striker entertain missing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We soon discovered the 66-cap, 51-goal Netherlands international, who netted twice in the 4-2 victory over Denmark in last year\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JAubDsltNDU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UEFA Women\u2019s EURO final<\/a>, began her love affair with the beautiful game before adulthood. Long before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--social fi-o-article__body-part--social\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><center>When most little girls were playing with Barbie Dolls and Furby Babies around the turn of the century, Vivianne was relishing going to De Kuip and pestering her parents into lingering around post-match to attempt to get a snap with Pierre van Hooijdonk,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/3ZGfatJidO\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dirk Kuyt<\/a>\u00a0or particularly Robin van Persie.<\/center><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8 col-sm-offset-1 col-md-offset-2 d3-o-article__body-part--text fi-o-article__body-part--text\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>\u201cMy parents were both big Feyenoord fans,\u201d said Miedema. \u201cI started going to the matches when I was about three years old. I got to meet loads of the players, which I loved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I used to get back and kick around anything I could. I would hit everything in the house \u2013 my mum would go crazy!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Little brother Lars, now an 18-year-old striker on the books at PEC Zwolle, came along three years and eight months after Vivianne. The siblings have been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BSgo3V9gNOE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined at the hip<\/a>, by a football, ever since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe and my brother, we were always playing football together, every day,\u201d said the 22-year-old. \u201cWe had a football pitch right in front of our house. We used to play all day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when we weren\u2019t playing football, we were watching it \u2013 we\u2019d watch everything, Shanghai against Beijing, anything \u2013 or playing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/fifaeworldcup\/\">FIFA on the Playstation<\/a>. We both always wanted to be Feyenoord, so we\u2019d always be fighting over that, and we\u2019re both not good at losing. Our mum used to go crazy and say, \u2018That\u2019s enough Playstation\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivianne Miedema has hit 14 goals in her last eight Arsenal games Her football addiction began when she was just three She discusses the Netherlands&#8217; France 2019 playoff against Switzerland \u201cI like football\u00a0way\u00a0too much,\u201d Vivianne Miedema kicked off to\u00a0FIFA.com\u00a0on Saturday. 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