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Dumfries and the kiss from Van Halen (screenshot)
Denzel Dumfries may have been the star of Holland’s 3-1 victory over the USA en route to the World Cup quarter-finals with a goal and two assists, but no one on the Orange team can surpass Louis van Gaal’s display in celebration. It started back at the press conference, where they sat Both of them and then the coach said: “I gave him a kiss yesterday and I’m going to do it again so everyone can see.”
Van Gaal then really kissed Dumfries in front of the amused journalists and a smiling Dumfries replied: “Thank you.” Ajax’s former midfielder and current commentator, Raphael van der Vaart, who criticized Holland quite a few times throughout the World Cup due to her style, treated the whole story with humor and said of the kiss: “I would have preferred not to score.”
Anyway, Van Halen’s show continued even when Holland returned to her hotel. The players entered between two columns filled with orange flags to the sounds of “Waka Waka” – Shakira’s song from the 2010 World Cup where the Orange reached the final, Memphis Depay entered with a Dumfries mask and Van Hal danced, took pictures and hugged with the locals.
And speaking of Memphis, the Holland star closed an account with Charles Barkley when he uploaded to his Twitter account a photo of the former star with the result and the caption: “Lots of barking, no biting.” As I remember, on Wednesday Barkley bet on the USA in the round of 16: “Holland is in trouble, we’ll win it, I want Spain, Brazil, Germany, France.” ESPN also joked at Barkley’s expense: “Chuck strikes again.”
