{"id":792332,"date":"2026-10-05T04:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792332\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T04:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T04:42:13","slug":"virgil-van-dijk-reaches-landmark-of-100-international-caps-for-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792332\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil van Dijk reaches landmark of 100 international caps for the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Virgil van Dijk reaches landmark of 100 international caps for the Netherlands\" title=\"Virgil van Dijk reaches landmark of 100 international caps for the Netherlands\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/virgil-van-dijk-netherlands-04102026_1a21da962c5ecdd61a235114b2663eac.webp\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/>Published 10 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Sam Williams<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-hg7nzy\">Virgil van Dijk made his 100th international appearance for the Netherlands on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool captain skippered his country in their UEFA Nations League game against Serbia in Eindhoven and became only the 11th male Dutch player to reach a century of caps.<\/p>\n<p>Wesley Sneijder leads the country\u2019s all-time appearance list with 134, while former Reds forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolfc.com\/info\/dirk-kuyt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dirk Kuyt<\/a> is in eighth place on 104 caps.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, Van Dijk set a new Netherlands record by becoming the player to captain Oranje on the most occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The clash with Serbia was the 84th occasion he has led his nation.<\/p>\n<p>Published 10 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200c Published 10 hours ago By Sam Williams Virgil van Dijk made his 100th international appearance for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[607,608,59,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,599,604,101,600,56,54,55,605],"class_list":["post-792332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-gb","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}