Van Basten was heavily criticised for dropping Ruud van Nistelrooy ( who had scored 28 goals for the Netherlands ) before this game, in favour of Dirk Kuyt, who did not score throughout the entire tournament.

In May 2007, Van Basten announced the end of his long-running dispute with Real Madrid forward Ruud van Nistelrooy, who had previously declared never to play for a Dutch national squad with Van Basten as its manager.

Van Nistelrooy began his career with Den Bosch, before moving onto Heerenveen, eventually making a name for himself at PSV Eindhoven where he won two Dutch leagues.

Van Nistelrooy hit 150 goals in just 219 games for United, as well as being their all time European record goalscorer, but fell out of favour towards the end of his tenure.

Born in Oss, North Brabant, Van Nistelrooy started his professional career in 1993 with Dutch second division side Den Bosch, where he was converted from a central midfielder to centre forward after playing part-time for Nooit Gedacht and Margriet.

Van Nistelrooy capped off the year by winning the Dutch Player of the Year award.

According to a 2001 interview with The Telegraph, Manchester United coach Alex Ferguson said that his son Darren, who was at tryouts for Eredivisie rival Heerenveen at the time, begged his father, " You've got to sign Van Nistelrooy right away, he's fantastic.

" Ferguson sent team representatives to PSV's next league game and signed Van Nistelrooy the next day.

Van Nistelrooy looked set to complete an £ 18. 5 million transfer to Manchester United in the summer of 2000.

Van Nistelrooy playing for Manchester United against Chelsea F. C.

Van Nistelrooy signed a five-year contract after passing his medical.

" During his first season, Van Nistelrooy scored 23 goals in 32 league games.

Van Nistelrooy missed most of the 2004 – 05 season due to injury, but nonetheless scored a Champions League-best eight goals.

At the start of the 2005 – 06 season, Van Nistelrooy scored in United's first four Premier League games.

By the end of his fifth season with United, Van Nistelrooy had amassed 150 goals in fewer than 200 starts.

Van Nistelrooy shields the ball during a match against Tottenham Hotspur F. C.

Van Nistelrooy was benched for the League Cup Final against Wigan Athletic, fuelling speculation of a rift between him and coach Alex Ferguson, which Van Nistelrooy denied.

Ferguson claimed that Van Nistelrooy was angry at the decision and left the stadium three hours before kick-off.

Van Nistelrooy allegedly criticised Ronaldo's tendency to hold onto the ball instead of passing to his team-mates, which sparked the fight, after which Van Nistelrooy remarked, " Go crying to your daddy.

Van Basten scored 25 league goals, and became Capocannoniere again.

At the UEFA Euro 1988, Van Basten scored a total of five goals, including a hat trick against England, the winning goal in the semi-final against West Germany, and a spectacular volley in the final against the Soviet Union.

Van Basten never scored in the World Cup Finals.

* In 1989, American alternative rock group Camper Van Beethoven scored a number one hit on Billboard magazine's Modern Rock Tracks chart with a cover version of " Pictures of Matchstick Men ".

Nakata then helped Roma score the equalizer when his fierce drive from outside the box was parried by Van der Sar into the path of Vincenzo Montella, who scored for Roma in the last minute.

He was nonetheless left on the bench for six consecutive league matches, and though he then returned to the starting line-up and scored match-winners against West Ham United and Bolton Wanderers, fresh doubt spread over Van Nistelrooy's future when he was benched for United's season finale win over Charlton Athletic.

Van Nistelrooy scored a hat-trick in his second league match against Levante and, on 12 November 2006, he scored all four of Real Madrid's goals in a 4 – 1 victory over Osasuna.

Van Nistelrooy scored his first two goals for Hamburg on 13 February 2010 against Stuttgart in the 75th and 77th minutes of a 3 – 1 win, after entering the game just a few minutes prior.

On 11 March 2010, Van Nistelrooy scored his first Europa League goal in the 40th minute of Hamburg's match against Anderlecht.

On 15 August 2010, Van Nistelrooy scored his only competitive hat-trick with Hamburg, in a 5 – 1 win over Torgelower SV Greif during round 1 of the 68th season of the DFB-Pokal.

During a 2006 World Cup qualifying match, he scored in the Dutch's 4 – 0 hammering of bottom-placed Andorra and was yellow-carded for going to Andorra player Antoni Lima and celebrating in front of him, following an incident six minutes before when Van Nistelrooy missed a penalty and Lima laughed at him.

On 8 September, Van Nistelrooy filled Huntelaar's spot, as previously requested, for the qualifier against Bulgaria, scoring in a 2 – 0 victory, and scored the winning goal four days later in injury time of the Netherlands ' win over Albania.

At Euro 2008, Van Nistelrooy scored for the Netherlands in their decisive 3 – 0 victory over Italy in the group stage, and scored the equaliser in their eventual 3 – 1 loss to Russia in the quarter-finals.

* 1995: Stan Van Den Buys scored three own goals in one match while playing for Germinal Ekeren ; his team lost the match 3-2 to Anderlecht.

The park was the subject of a short film in 2011's National Parks Project, directed by Louise Archambault and scored by Graham Van Pelt, Ian D ' Sa and Mishka Stein.

The joint ' workers slate ' was successful and the Trotskyists Tran Van Thach and Communist Nguyen Van Tao scored the highest votes.

La Lutte became an openly Trotskyist paper and in 1939, the Trotskyist candidates, Ta Thu Thau, Tran Van Thach and Phan Van Hum scored 80 % of the vote, defeating three constitutionalists, two Communists and numerous independents.

* 2011 – A powerful 7. 2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands.

* " De formando studio " (= letter 38 Jacobus Barbireau of Antwerp on June 7, 1484, when Agricola was in Heidelberg: see the edition of the letters by Van der Laan / Akkerman, pp. 200 – 219 )

* November 24 – At least 3, 840 are killed in a Richter scale magnitude 7. 3 earthquake of Van and Muradiye in Turkey.

* May 7 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York ( d. 1700 )

* December 7 – United States presidential election, 1836: Martin Van Buren defeats William Henry Harrison.

Two years later President Martin Van Buren ordered 7, 000 Federal troops and state militia under General Winfield Scott into Cherokee lands to evict the tribe.

In chapter 7, poetic names for Freyr are listed, including names that reference his association with the Vanir ; " Vanir god ," " descendant of Vanir ," and " a Van.

Nevertheless, the treaty, passed by Congress by a single vote, and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, was imposed by his successor President Martin Van Buren who allowed Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama an armed force of 7, 000 made up of militia, regular army, and volunteers under General Winfield Scott to round up about 13, 000 Cherokees into concentration camps at the U. S. Indian Agency near Cleveland, Tennessee before being sent to the West.

On February 7, 2012, it was announced that Van Robichaux and Evan Susser were to rewrite the script.

Just hours after Westmoreland was sworn in as Army Chief of Staff on July 7, 1968, his brother-in-law, LTC Frederick Van Deusen ( Commander of 2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment ), was killed when his helicopter was shot down in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam.

Van Buren County was formed on December 7, 1836.

On December 7, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed along the Arkansas River in and around the town of Van Buren resulting in a defeat for the Confederate army driving them south across the river with minimal casualties, however the Union forces captured 100 prisoners, as stated in a battle report by Samuel R. Curtis, Major General of the Union forces.

The Van Pool bus will leave at approximately 7: 30 a. m. and return at approximately 5: 30 p. m.

On December 26, 2011, Van Halen announced a tour for 2012, and released their first album in 14 years, A Different Kind of Truth, on February 7, 2012.

Also licensed to Paulding is WKSD 99. 7 FM, a commercial oldies and sports radio station based in Van Wert.

Mayor: Wendy Van Orman, Position 1: Susan Schuler, Position 2: Josh Beckett, Position 3: David Crump, Position 4: Odin Langford, Position 5: Judi Owens, Position 6: Ryan Romney, Position 7: Cris Kaminskas

Seibu Museum, Tokyo ; Hayward Gallery, London ; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England ; Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland ; Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands ; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam ; Lenbachhaus Städtische Galerie, Munich, Germany ; Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany ; Frankfurter Kunstverein ; 14 galleries and museums in Australia ; and 7 galleries and museums in New Zealand.

Despite scoring 39 points in regulation time and fouling out both Dampier and Keith Van Horn, Duncan only made one of seven field goal attempts in overtime against Mavericks reserve center DeSagana Diop, and the Spurs lost Game 7.

** John P. Van Ness ( DR ), December 7, 1801 – January 17, 1803 ; Vacant thereafter

* November 3-December 7, 1836: 1836 presidential election: Martin Van Buren defeated William Henry Harrison, but Virginia's electors refused to vote for Van Buren's running mate, thereby denying victory to any Vice Presidential candidate.

* November 7, 1840: U. S. presidential election, 1840: William Henry Harrison defeated Martin Van Buren

Christopher Thomas Howell was born on December 7, 1966, in Van Nuys, California, the son of Candice and Christopher N. Howell.

In the weeks leading up to his title defense, Mysterio defeated Cruiserweight Champion Gregory Helms in a Champion vs. Champion match but was defeated by Rob Van Dam at WWE vs. ECW Head to Head on June 7.