Quote Originally Posted by Kitdy View Post
Funnily enough, the Dutch aren't the tallest team at Euro, even though they are the tallest nation in the World (I think). I looked at the Euro 2008 site and they had all sorts of charts by age and height etc and the Netherlands were only decently tall, not the tallest.

I was saddened.
being tall is not always an advantage in football, much of the play goes very low. So, the hypothesis that the Dutch are good because they are tall, fails.