WDF World Cup Men Teams 2007

It was sixteen years ago that the WDF World Cup was held in the Netherlands in 1991. Then Zandvoort was the place, this time Rosmalen was chosen as the host city. The darts landscape in the Netherlands, however, had changed completely in the past years after five world titles by Raymond van Barneveld. Unfortunately for the Dutch fans, Barney switched to the PDC a year earlier and was not as a player at this cup. However, there is a lot of media attention and the semi-finals and finals are broadcast live on TV.

A record number of 41 men's teams, 38 women's teams and 15 youth teams find their way to the Netherlands where the Autotron hosts the tournament from 11 to 14 October. Iceland, Iran, Trinidad & Tobago and Turkey make their debut at a WDF World Cup. It will be a successful edition for the organizing country, with enough drama at the end.

In the group stage of the team tournament, there are not many surprises, or it should be that Belgium is eliminated in the group with Northern Ireland and Denmark. The Irish and New Zealanders also do not reach the last 16.

In the quarterfinals, the USA has its hands full with Malaysia, the Americans eventually win the close encounter 9-7. Northern Ireland simply beats Japan 9-3 and will also advance to the semi-finals. The other two quarterfinals are genuine squatters. England wins in a seventeenth and deciding leg against Scotland and the host country The Netherlands wins 9-7 narrowly against Wales.

In the semi-finals, the Dutch quartet Co Stompé, Mario Robbe, Joey ten Berge & Niels de Ruiter have few problems with Daryl Gurney, Roy Montgomery, Richard Dunlop & David Glenn from Northern Ireland, the victory is big, it ends at 9-1. The other semi-final is much more exciting. The USA with Gary Mawson, Chris Linkous, Joe Slivan & Jim Widmayer makes it very difficult for Steve Farmer, Martin Adams, Tony O'Shea & John Walton from England. Still, the more experienced English win the game 9-7.

The final therefore goes between England and The Netherlands. It will be a real thriller; England and the Netherlands will stay very close together and after 16 legs it will be 8-8. Then a player from team must be designated to throw the 17th and deciding leg. In the England camp they reach a decision quickly; captain Martin Adams does not shy away from his responsibility and steps forward. In the Dutch camp it is a completely different story, none of the four players seems to want to play the last leg. In the end it is Joey ten Berge who takes the responsibility and puts a fantastic last leg on the board, until he has to his a double, then the machine falters. He gets more than a handful of darts to decide the match, but it doesn't do in. Adams slowly approaches and he does not fail on the double. England takes the gold medal in the team event of 2007 and that is for the first time since 2001. For the tenth time in history an English quartet is the strongest in the team tournament.

WDF World Cup Men Teams

About WDF World Cup Men Teams 2007

Competitors Of WDF World Cup Men Teams 2007

Øyvind Aasland

Martin Adams

Peteris Alberlins

Juris Aleksans

John Almeida

Abdul-Ghani Amin

Vladimir Andersen

Kyle Anderson

Reza Ansari

Koji Aoki

Romary Arnould

Brad Austen

Frank Avenand

Pascal Barbezat

Hamid Behrouzinie

Nandor Bezzeg

Aegir Bjornsson

Roman Bleistein

Cyril Blot

Michel Boulet

Ian Brown

Harry Brown

Zanis Buklovski

Patrick Bulen

Dietmar Burger

Robbie Cannell

Wayne Carey

Magnus Caris

Simon Carruthers

Richard Cedeno

Theodoros Chorianopoulos

Danny Cunningham

Vernon Daniels

Tony David

Rune David

Paul Davies

Geert De Vos

Pavel Drtil

Ricky Dunlop

Dylan Duo

Vivekanand Dyal

Togkan Edik

Steve Farmer

Connie Finnan

James Fulford

Magnus Gardarsson

Sidney Garland

Nima Ghiysvand

Pasquale Giustra

David Glenn

Quentin Glinton

Robert Grant

Tinus Grobbelaar

Thorgeir Gudmundsson

Daryl Gurney

Romeo Gyalai

Paul Hanvidge

Wayne Harrison

Rahaman Hassanali

Gudjon Hauksson

Antonio Hibernon-Cano

Kenneth Hogvall

Robert Hughes

Ronny Huybrechts

Kevin Jacob

Jiri Jenicek

August Jost

Marko Kantele

Masaki Kazusa

Paul Kelly

Joe Kieffer

Nozomu Kinoshita

Kevin Knott

Karsten Koch

Markus Korhonen

Preben Krabben

Andreas Krockel