Ruud has vowed to perform in Germany to prove the critics wrong.

''I am sick and tired of United players telling me Holland are a team who never win anything,'' he told the Sunday Mirror.

''They say to me 'You have a good team but you will never win anything'.

''I keep telling them Holland reached the semi-final of three major tournaments but that doesn't impress them.

''All the time the United boys go on about the problems in the Dutch camp.

''I am fed up with their jibes. I want to shut them up.''

''I have an advantage because I have played so few games over the past couple of months,'' he added.

''I trained really hard, did a lot of extra things. The whole preparation for this World Cup was a joy for me.

''I'm raring to go. I cannot explain or tell you how sharp I feel.

''I am bursting to perform in Germany.''

''For every individual player it is important to show what you can do in this tournament,'' he added.

''The best players in the world come to this event and the whole world is watching.

''We have to wait and see but I am very confident. We will see in two weeks time what more we can say.''

Written by Daniel

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