Virgil van Dijk Sets Dutch Captaincy Record

On Monday evening, Virgil van Dijk captained Netherlands to a 4-0 victory over Lithuania of their last World Cup qualifying match, placing an exclamation mark on the Dutch nationwide crew’s profitable marketing campaign to qualify for the 2026 World Cup.

It was his 72nd time carrying the armband for his nation, taking the world’s finest centre half previous former high capped Dutch captain Frank de Boer, with the duo each standing on 71 earlier than Monday’s sport. With the victory in his 72nd look as captain, it means Netherlands high Group G with 20 factors.

Second place Poland ended with a commendable 17 and can head to a playoff, however regardless of the comparatively shut factors whole Netherlands’ +23 objective differential in comparison with Poland’s +7 speaks to this present Dutch squad’s high quality and efficiency ranges.

Additional including to the simply how noteworthy his captaincy numbers are, it’s price remembering he missed nearly a complete season as a consequence of an ACL harm, and that if he had been energetic for that point for membership and nation it’s believable he would have been flirting with an astounding 100 caps as Netherlands captain.