2014年（128）
分类： IT职场
2014-07-11 15:03:34
Continuing in a similar vein was Maxi: “Germany have their own style, they know what they’re doing. But we’ve got to play our game too. Against the Dutch we played a brilliant tactical game and we’re going to need to do that again. ”Sharing, without realising, some of the ideals of those who declared his country’s independence all the way back in 1816, Mascherano signed off in balanced though determined fashion. “We’re going to be playing in the most important match of our lives, but we need to enjoy it too, because the road here has been very long and we’ve taken a lot of knocks along the way.
Right now there’s happiness, a sense of responsibility and expectation in the air. Let’s hope we’re up to the task. ”Consolation is hard to come by for any side that misses out on a place in the Final of the FIFA World Cup on penalties. That was the fate suffered by the Netherlands on Wednesday evening, as their hopes of returning to the tournament’s showpiece match four years on from their last appearance were dashed. Yet for the likes of Arjen Robben, Robin van Persie, Wesley Sneijder, Dirk Kuyt and Nigel de Jong, the very fact that they worked themselves into such a situation once more is cause enough for satisfaction, even if their first reactions to losing to Argentina after a goalless 120 minutes should, understandably so, be dejection and disappointment.
Those five veterans form part of a select group of players who have finished among the top four on the planet at two consecutive world finals, an achievement that not even the Spanish artists who beat the Dutch to lift the Trophy in South Africa can lay claim to, having been knocked out in the first round with the considerable assistance of the men in orange. “It’s a very good generation. A defining one, even, ” Patrick Kluivert, an assistant of Louis van Gaal’s and a member of another distinguished Oranje side in the late 1990s and early 2000s, told. “I just hope that the Netherlands can nurture more like them in the future.
