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Great variety of choices on personal pages
 Nederlandse tekst
AMSTERDAM (Netherlands) -
The website of the Dutch Softball Teams has been expanded with the personal profile pages of the 22 new players who recently were selected for the preliminary rosters of the Dutch Junior Red Team and Dutch Junior White Team.
21 of these players are on the roster of the Junior White Team.
The 22nd new player is on the roster of the Junior Red Team.
The Red Team has more new players on its roster as opposed to the 2011 season, but that are players who promoted from the White Team and already have their own personal pages.
With the addition of the 22 players, we gained eleven more fans of Beyoncé and eight of Rihanna, as these two are mentioned most in the category 'favorite female singer'.
In the 'male category', Chris Brown and Jason Derülo are doing well, as both have five fans.
And we enter the 'favorite music'-category.
For the most that's R&B (8) and hiphop (7), but there is also one who chooses for jazz and another for reggae.
We also have another fan of Sandra Bullock, who is the leading 'most favorite actress' when all persons on this site are included, but their were also choices for Angelina Jolie, Amanda Bynes, Carice van Houten and Lieke van Lexmond.
Channing Tatum, Taylor Lautner and Johnny Depp are doing well what the actors are concerned.
Sixteen different tv-channels were named as favorite, but MTV has by far the most fans with 15, while RTL 4 also has a fine support with 13.
Other top-favorites are ESPN America, RTL 5, SBS 6 and Net 5.
What radio is concerned, there Radio 538 leads comfortably with 19 of the 22 players choosing for this channel, followed by Slam FM (8).
The 22 players combined have 34 pets (dog, cat, parakeet, rabbit, fish, hamster, guinea-pig, turtle) and three opted for a monkey, tiger of elephant as the most exotic animal they would like have when that would have been possible.
Dogs and cats are the 'most favorite animals' for the players, but some also mentioned a cow, rabbit, dolphin and a hamster.
Singing (8) and dancing (3) are high on the list of talents someone would like to have, four would like to improve their softball-skills, but one would like to be able to put her leg in her neck....
What internet is concerned is Facebook favorite for 15 of the 22 players, followed by Twitter (12), Hyves (9) and YouTube (7), but for one player, the site of the KNBSB also is a favorite.
What sticks out in the category 'favorite food' is that 14 players are choosing for some kind of pasta.
This varies from pizza, macaroni, spaghetti to lasagne.
Nine countries are mentioned as 'favorite holiday-spot', led by Italy (7, photo at left Pisa), France (7) and the United States (5) and listed most as 'favorite hobby' is softball (14), followed by shopping (9), but someone also opts for airbrushing, another for fashion and yet another for canoying.
For three players becoming a professional softball player is their 'dreamjob', but one player also would like to have her own magazine and another would like to organize sportevents.
Tien players probably would have choosen for soccer when they wouldn't have played softball, while three possibly would have choosen for dancing, tennis, gymnastics, hockey or basketball.
The most hate lying, but there are also three who hate cleaning up (or be neat) and there is one player who hates liquorice and another hates cleaning the dishwasher.
Jennie Finch (photo right) is for six players their 'favorite softball player'.
By the way, 23 different players are mentioned for this question.
What Dutch players are concerned, Solange Starrenburg, Petra van Heijst and Lindsey Meadows are named a few times, but there is also one player who has 12 favorite players.
Amongst the 22 players there is someone who is born in Fort Lauderdale (USA) and another at Saint Martin.
There is someone who has fought with a fly during a game.
There is someone who has learned the most from Rich Hooff (the Business Manager of the National Team).
We have a fan of horror-movies and someone who has thrown a Perferct Game.
But also a player who slid into home plate together with the preceeding runner and a player who got pitchingtraining in New Zealand and another who has already has made her debut in the Dutch big league this season.
But also a player who became European champion (and was named Best Pitcher) with the Dutch Juveniles Team, another who was named Best Pitcher on an Italian tournament, a player who this year participated in the Little League World Series in the USA and players who gained international experiences participating in tournaments in Italy and Germany.
And another has participated in the Dutch Championship synchronized skiing.
And we have the daughter of a coach, who this year was active in the Dutch big league and the daughter of a former Dutch National Team-player and former Dutch Junior Team-coach.
But also a player, whose great-greatuncle was a wellknown and respected Dutch international baseball-umpire.
As you see, a great variety in this group of new players!
Go to the pages with the roster of Dutch Junior Red and Dutch Junior White and choose for a page (in Dutch) to get to know these players better.
With the addition of these 22 players, there are now 203 personal pages on this site of players, coaches, staffmembers and others.
And this list will only grow in the future.
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