Women's European Championship 2025: Netherlands in team check - No highs yet

The collar of the sky-blue jersey is tricolor only at the front, and otherwise dark. The dots are only hinted at on the fabric; the jersey itself remains solid.

Stammtisch knowledge

"Kicking is probably specifically male; whether being kicked therefore makes it female is debatable. In any case, not kicking is female," rambled a Dutchman named Fred JJ Buytendijk in 1953, but even he couldn't prevent the Dutch national team from celebrating its first (unofficial) international match three years later at the Mathias Stinnes Stadium in Essen. Their opponents, in front of 18,000 spectators, were Germany. The Germans also celebrated a first, winning 2-1. That the German Helga Tönnies was subsequently described as the "female Fritz Walter" is another story.