Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje: The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football

The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football is the story of a dazzling football dream built on the club successes of Ajax and Feyenoord. It is the celebration of a footballing counter-culture, a revolution, and a flame that burned so brightly but so briefly.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 384 pages
\n Publication date: 14 June 2021
\n Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
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The Unfulfilled Glory of Dutch Football is a captivating tale that revolves around a dazzling football dream. Built upon the club successes of Ajax and Feyenoord, it represents a utopian ideal that blazed with a bright but fleeting Oranje flame, scorching the football pitches of the world in the 1970s. Although Dutch clubs dominated the European Cup from 1969 to 1973, the Oranje had failed to qualify for a World Cup for 36 years. However, two finals followed in successive tournaments, as Total Voetbal burst from its chrysalis, proudly revealing to the world its wings adorned with vivid shades of Oranje. The winners were the brides, and it was their day, but the Dutch sides were more beautiful, yet so fragile, and football loved them for it. This is not merely a tale of bridesmaids who came so close yet failed gloriously. It is the celebration of a footballing counter-culture, a revolution, and a flame that burned so brightly but so briefly. It is the story of those Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje.

\n Weight: 546g\n
Dimension: 145 x 224 x 37 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781785318467\n \n