CAPE TOWN - Netherlands coach Bert van Marwijk confirmed, it will just focus on how his team can beat Uruguay in the semifinals, Tuesday. Therefore, he was reluctant to speak the final.Netherlands reached the final last time at the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Giovanni van Bronckhorst and colleagues now favored to beat the South American representative, in the Cape Town stadium, so that advanced to the final round held at Soccer City stadium, Johannesburg, Sunday.
When asked if he was optimistic about winning the World Cup title when advanced to the finals, van Marwijk will not answer. "I really do not want to talk about the final," he said. "I've heard this conversation too many times, but that that we will encounter are the party of the semi-finals.
"I have great respect for what the team achieved the Netherlands in the past. But I did not come here to meratai failure in the final, but won the final game."
According Marwijk, Uruguay is not a weak team. "If you want to win a tournament, you need to focus only on the initial objectives and does not think ahead. We're really serious mempersiapan themselves facing the team's Latin American origin." They are a very dangerous team, "he said of the Oscar-care team Tabarez it.