Museumplein Amsterdam

A summery Sunday evening on Amsterdam’s Museumplein. Why the square carries that name isn’t important right now. In any case nearly all the museums are closed for renovation – and for a lengthy period. In the Rijksmuseum the country’s history is being reinstalled under the watchful eye of the construction cranes. Will this turn out to be an historic day? Dutch football fans, attired in orange to a man, seek each other out: hoping, fearing. The Dutch team is on the attack but they don’t make it to the goal. The World Cup Final 2010 is being played in Johannesburg, South Africa. All over the world millions of people are watching intently. Here on the square we’re even more caught up in the spectacle – after all, these are OUR boys. A few seconds later and it’s all over.