I really have to say something about DENNIS BERGKAMP as he bades farewell to top level football and sails into the sunset. You could call him specatacular, awesome even use tremendous but those words do not seem enough.
He was ICE, you know the street word for "DIAMOND"
Because that is what Arsenal did when they bought him. They unearthed a diamond. He epitomised class and talent.
I do not really say much about a player from another team but I would rate DB as the reason I would watch an Arsenal match. As a matter of fact him and Ryan Giggs are the only non-Liverpool players I enjoy watching and have admiration for.
He has a career filled with highlights particularly when he would don the Dutch uniform. How can one forget his goal against Argentina in the 1998 WC. The way he controlled the long ball, beat the defence and slotted it in coolly. And cool he was and he was dubbed the "Iceman".
I believed that in Euro 2000 he showed the football world why he had to be considered one of the best. He led the Dutch to the semi's only to be denied by the goal post. The Italians (their opponents) did not do a lot to stop him, DB just could not get the ball to bounce the right way. But he tore apart the Azzurri defence with his creative flair and passing.
That is what I enjoyed about him. He was a great team player and an amazing creator for goal scorers. How much better or easier did he make life for Ian Wright and Thierry Henry when playing behind them.
And this was a player who Inter Milan president Mossami Morratti said would "be lucky to score 10 goals in a season". He may have been stiffled by the boring and grinding style of Italian football but when he crossed the channel he came to the fore.
This is one player I would have loved to have seen in Liverpool red. Still I enjoyed him when he play everyone bar LFC. Arsenal fans should note that he was the reason why you had that renaissance, why you won titles and why your team succeded.
He PIMPED Arsenal! The Arsenal team colours should have changed to a ice cool blue hue just to recognise what he brought to their club.
Dennis Bergkamp a true legend. 120 goals during 420 plus EPL matches. European player of the year in 1993, Euopean cup winners up winner, a UEFA cup winners cup, 3 EPL titles, 4 FA Cup titles and 1999 PFA player of the year in England.
As Ali G likes to put it...
RESPECT
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Dennis Bergkamp is truly a legend. And yes, I agree, he was the piston that fired the Arsenal combustion.
I was truly sad to see his farewell testimony last weekend and was overjoyed to watch Cruyff, Van Basten and the old Arsenal team taking the field.
To me, his goal against Newcastle is plausibly THE GREATEST EVER goal in English Premier League history. No one will ever be able replicate that. I'm gonna miss the bloke.
Will always remember Bergkamp for two reasons.
The first is a goal that broke my heart in the 1998 q-finals against Argentina. The way he took down a long pass from Arthur Numan, seemingly defying the laws of physics that said he should be going one way, turned Roberto Ayala the wrong way, and with the balance of a ballet dancer, slotted the ball beyond Carlos Roa, who knew it was a goal the moment the ball hit Dennis' feet.
The commentator said "The REAL Dennis Bergkamp shows up when he is needed." He said it all.
The second was the missed penalty against Man Utd in the dying minutes of the FA Cup s-finals in 1999, which was only eclipsed by Giggs' wonder goal where he slalomed past the entire Arsenal defence before slotting it beyond the helpless David Seaman.
The second rock that was the treble (the final against Newcastle was a yawn).
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