In the Dutch national selection that won the 1988 European championship, the first and only great international trophy gained by the Oranje, after two World Cup finals lost consecutively (in 1974 and 1978), there were two brothers: Ronald and Erwin Koeman. At that time Ronald, who was a defender and the most famous of the brothers, was at PSV Eindhoven, where he had just won the Club European Cup in the final against SL Benfica; Erwin (a midfielder), instead, played with one of the fittest teams in that moment, KV Mechelen, a Belgian club that had won the Cup Winners Cup in the final against Ajax Amsterdam on 11 May of the same year. That was an extraordinary year for the two brothers, who became also European champions with their national selection winning the final 2-0 against Lobanovsky's USSR on June 25th.