Johan Cruyff believes the former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/PSV-c40281 Eindhoven captain is fit enough to travel with the Oranje to the European championships and gave him his backing for a fruitful trip.
Ibrahim Afellay’s adventures with Barcelona earned him European and Spanish honours on the domestic level last season. However, the 2011/12 season has not been kind on him as he battled with a serious knee injury for the major part of the campaign.
The exciting attacking midfielder succumbed to a horrendous knee injury in late September and subsequently had to wait until the final match of La Liga season to make his first team comeback.
Afellay’s performance got him rave reviews from the outgoing http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 manager, Pep Guardiola, who opined after the match that his understudy is ready for the Euro 2012.
Dutch legend, Johan Cruyff, echoed the sentiments shown by the Catalan manager and stated that Bert Van Marwijk should take him to the national footballing extravaganza being jointly hosted by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032.
Reflecting on his delayed appearance for La Blaugrana, Cruyff commented that he was surprised to see his compatriot back in action, who did not show any signs of rust during his prolonged absence from first team affairs.
Afellay did not complete the match and was substituted before the half hour mark. Cruyff explained that his coming off was a tactical decision after the red card to Dani Alves.
"I saw http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dani-Alves-c9869]," Cruyff said in his weekly column for De Telegraaf.
"He was replaced by a defender because Barcelona were reduced to 10 man, but he had already shown by then that he is more than ready for Euro 2012.”
"The Dutch national team have a real luxury problem up front with Afellay's return. The coach has [Klaas-Jan] Huntelaar, [Robin] van Persie, [Dirk] Kuyt, [Arjen] Robben and Afellay to pick from."
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Portugal-c2984 for company.
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