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NETHERLANDS: THE ORANGE OF PAUL VAN ASS- BEST START IN 46 YEARS

When he was appointed national coach, Paul van Ass expressed the ambition to create a spectacle with the Orange Ladies. After eleven international matches under his leadership, we can conclude that the super attacking game is already having an effect: the Orange is having its best start under a new trainer since 1977.

The Orange Women won – in strongly varying compositions – ten of their eleven international matches under Van Ass and played a draw once. The number of defeats is still zero, thanks in part to the great comeback after a surprising 0-2 deficit in Tuesday’s Pro League game with the United States (3-2 win).

Under Van Ass, the Orange booked big victories over Great Britain (6-0), the United States (6-0), Australia (7-2), Ireland (5-0) and China (4-0) and was among others archrival Argentina also twice in charge (3-1 and 2-0). Ten of the eleven international matches took place in the Pro League country competition, only the game against Ireland was an official friendly international match.

Paul van Ass encourages his team during the Pro League game against the United States in London. Photo: WorldSportPics/Frank Uijlenbroek.
Paul van Ass encourages his team during the Pro League game against the United States in London. Photo: WorldSportPics/Frank Uijlenbroek.

Best start since 1977

We have been used to more beautiful statistics from the Orange Ladies in recent years, but we still have to go far back in time to discover when the team started so energetically under a new national coach. In 1977 – 46 years ago – the Dutch national team of Huib Timmermans did even better in the first eleven official appearances: eleven resounding victories.

Under Timmermans, at the time the first male national coach of the Orange Women, the team only suffered a defeat for the first time in its twentieth international match, after nineteen victories in a row. That happened in an insignificant friendly match against Great Britain: 2-3.

Four goals per international match

What is also striking about Van Ass’s Oranje is the deluge of goals. After eleven appearances, an Orange goal could already be cheered 45 times, an average of 4.09 goals per international match. Yibbi Jansen accounted for a quarter of that production (see box below).

If we compare that with the productivity of all other national coaches in international history, only Marc Lammers’ Orange scored more in 2001: 52 goals in the first eleven matches, thanks in part to two monster victories against weak Malaysia (twice 13-0).

Kader VanAss1 - NETHERLANDS: THE ORANGE OF PAUL VAN ASS- BEST START IN 46 YEARS - The Orange Women won – in strongly varying compositions – ten of their eleven international matches under Van Ass and played a draw once. The number of defeats is still zero, thanks in part to the great comeback after a surprising 0-2 deficit in Tuesday's Pro League game with the United States (3-2 win).

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