The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032 in June later this year.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Klaas-Jan-Huntelaar-c21175 is looking forward to his team’s success in the upcoming European competition. The striker expressed his desire to contribute to the team’s success by carrying his superb goal scoring form to the main draws.
He opined that the Dutch side had an outstanding qualifying campaign, and is confident of a successful tournament.
Netherlands were placed in Group E in the qualifying round and finished atop their group with 27 points from the 10 games played. Huntelaar played a major role in helping his side achieve qualification by scoring a staggering 12
goals and was the leading goal scorer in the group.
However, the 28-year-old expressed his disappointment at his team’s loss to Germany in their last friendly game in November, 2011. He opined that the Dutch were completely outclassed on that day, but is confident of turning things
around when Netherlands meet Die Mannschaft in the group stage of the European competition.
The side has been drawn in potentially the ‘Group of Death’ with the likes Germany, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Denmark-c2884.
While addressing the official FIFA website, the former Real Madrid striker further added:
“I've played a lot recently and we had a great qualifying campaign as a team. I managed to set a new scoring record, and that was fantastic. We'll try and carry on from there. Our last friendly against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Germany-c2904 was disappointing
(a 3-0 loss in November), but the build-up to the EURO only starts for real now.”
When asked about his team’s game against the Germans on June 13th, Huntelaar admitted that it will be a special occasion for him to play against most of the German players whom he knows through the Bundesliga. He insisted
that it will be a difficult game as Die Mannschaft have enjoyed immaculate success last year, and are arguably the strongest contenders to win the competition, alongside http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011.
“Obviously, it will be a very special game for me, because I know all the German players from the Bundesliga. Playing Germany at the tournament will be great, and I'm looking forward to it,” Huntelaar concluded.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has also been in stunning form for Schalke and has scored 16 times in the Bundesliga thus far.
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