Size has never been everything in soccer. Way back in the 1950s, the Magical Magyars of Hungary improvised on the field as beautifully as Brazilians — and since the 1970s, the Netherlands, with a population of less than 17 million, has repeatedly produced players who threaten to reinvent the game.

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