I sincerely hope that this is a foretelling dream about Holland making it to the finals of the World Championship Footbal in South Africa, here we go :

May 4th 2009 at 4.15am :

"I was waiting in line somewhere and I had a yellow towel wrapped around my neck. I saw someone standing a little further and walked towards the spot, it was a guy and he too, had a yellow towel wrapped around his neck.
It turned out that he was a tough guy, some expert in karate and because of this I noticed that I was a tough guy too.
We came across the ticket control and I was allowed to walk further, while they (the ticket controllers ?)were tearing the guy's towel a bit on the sides and because of that it shortened so that in this way it didn't fit around his neck anymore.
He was annoyed because of it.
We walked further and we really were the tough boys and warriors.
We came across Pati-prana and I thought that she appeared a bit lonely. She walked to a little boat and with someone else she boarded the boat to sail on a lake.
The rest is vague, but I ended up with some people, I was looking for Pati-prana.
Then I walked in the centre of my city of birth, Rotterdam, at the end of the Meent, a street there.
Holland was playing the finals of the World Championship Footbal and I ended up at the cafe/bar at the end of the Meent.
I saw that there were a lot of people dressed in orange sitting and they were looking at the footbal game and there was a lot of cheering everywhere when Holland scored 1-1 !
I saw how the goal was scored and it was a beautiful goal.
Suddenly I became Marco van Basten who didn't play and walked further, I was doubting if I would go to the team to play with them.
I decided to participate and walked to the place, that direction, to join the team

To be honest, I don't think this dream is foretelling anythign about Oranje being in the finals... not that they might not be... but this dream has too many elements in it concerning and pointing towards you. You're just too present in the dream to have it not be mainly about you: it starts with you and who you wish to be (strong, tough), but also acceptable (the ticket control), then the one team and the sport Dutch identify the most with - 'Oranje gekte' with soccer, they reach their "goal", and you turn into soccer hero of the 80 and early 90s Van Basten, and decide to join the team. Basically, you're setting "goals" for yourself that requires you to be strong but also a good sport. You hope to meet the requirements and apparently do with the ticket control. You "pass" the control (and a "pass" is another soccer term). And you're so good for the goal you have set for yourself that you actually become a mythical Dutch soccer hero. That's when you feel you're ready for it... to go for it, to not be succesful, but to be a team player.

Wow, Sweetsunray,

that's a nice interpretation, I guess the dream has a double meaning then, because I think the dream actually foretells Holland to be in the finals, anyway, time will tell, thank you for the interpretation, surprising !!

I found another football dream yesterday, when I was searching through my dreamjournals :

Januari 2nd 2009 at 1am :

"I saw that football was being played on a small field. It was the Dutch team against Italy.
It was past half time, the second half was about to begin, but the Italian team didn't come back and Dirk Kuyt got himself the ball, a small ball and scored a goal.
But I can't remember if it was 2-1 for Holland or just 1-1.
Fact was that only two Dutch players were on the field."

Now I don't know if this is just a game or if it's connected with the World Cup Football in South Africa, only time will tell.....

I have found two other dreams connected with the World Championsship Footbal 2010 in my dreamjournals, there's a lot of symbolism in it, so I had to think deeply about it before I got it, here they are :

July 28th 2009 after 8.30am :

'Then a soccer match was played, it's Belgium against another country and it is 3-0.
Then it becomes 3-2 and 3-3 and the coach sents, on the last moment, a substitute player into the field.
He goes to the goal where a corner is being taken and gives a header, but the ball goes over the goal through the keeper.
Then again a corner and now he, with his head again, gets the ball in the goal.
It is 4-3 and, although I don't which team wins, they all cheer and the substitute walks to a fan who wants to kiss him.'

Now, I thought that Belgium has to do with me, living in Belgium, because Belgium doesn't participate in the World Cup. I am Dutch, so there is the connection with Holland, so in this dream, Belgium symbolizes, through me, Holland.
So this dream foretells that Holland will be in a game that ends with 4-3 and a substitute heading the winning goal, it must be a fantastic game.

The next dream :

August 4th 2009 at 3.50am :

'I was watching a soccer game and saw that the team with the goal on the right side was winning the game. The ball was being played against the chest of the keeper from the winning team and the ball fell on the field.
And there was Vanessa (a Dutch female entertainer, more like a singer from long ago) with her big boobies on high heels and she scored by kicking the bal into the goal.
Now the other team had won, it was just before the end of the game and there was no time anymore for the other team to equalize.
The keeper was Koos Posthuma (a Dutch tv host from the past) and he began to roll over the field with Vanessa, cheering.'

Now, as Vanessa and Koos are both Dutch, I presume that Holland will win a match on the World Cup, just before the end of the game. Although it might be confusing who will be the winning team, but let's go for Holland.

So sofar I had dreams about Holland, winning two matches and scoring 1-1 in the finals of the World Cup.......let's see if these come true and if I will find more football dreams, I still have a few books to read....

I guess we will see As I said, as far as I know a bit of soccer I think Oranje has a chance to win the world cup. So, whether they can or will is not the cause of my response in this post. I respond to what possible mistake you might be making in approaching the dreams.  

So far, from what I know of the scientifically collected material regarding predictive dreams, and from my own experience, predictive dreams often relate to persons we will meet or have met in our lives, and you know it's predictive for unclear reasons the moment you wake up. Also, even predictive dreams are never literal in imagery. That is because while dreaming any real life association center in the brain is non-functional. Whatever you dream, including predictive dreams, are always using symbolical language, because only the symbolical language brain centers are at work while dreaming. The only literal elements in dreams are emotions. I' ve had two predictive dreams that I know of, but as expected both were immersed in symbology. And when I woke up, I made an instant prediction, that seemed to have no literal basis in the dream (in the first dream at least). I think you are taking these supposed predictive dreams too literal.