![]() ![]() It’s been so many years since the Netherlands last played a major tournament, and that goes back to the way the orange-clad team made it to the World Cup semi-finals in 2014. Final reached.ĮURO 2020, Group D Preview: England & Croatia in a group of dark horsesĬroatia will face a team on Sunday that has been refreshed after losing 2-1 and not having a chance to win another big title at the 1966 World Cup. Not even when the first game was played at Wembley in 1996.Ī quarter of a century later, England opened another continental campaign at their national stadium against the team that three years ago prevented Gareth Southgate’s side from making the World Cup. In nine attempts it has never won an opening game of the tournament. ![]() There is a clue as to why England never won the European Championship. (From L-R) The Dutch Ronald Koeman, the Ukrainian Andriy Shevchenko and the Austrian Franco Foda pose with the EM 2020 trophy (file photo).
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