One of the 4 World Cup debutants, Curaçao will face Germany on Sunday evening in Houston. Their skilled coach Dick Advocaat appears to be like ahead to the large test for the smallest nation to play within the competitors’s historical past.
“The fact that we’re playing Germany right at the start is fantastic,” mentioned the coach who is ready to change into the oldest World Cup coach on the age of 78. “We need to advance to the subsequent spherical. An upset is all the time doable. And an upset might be all it takes to advance.
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“We have an opportunity. There’s lots of ambition on this workforce. And when you’ve got that, you possibly can obtain rather a lot.”
Curaçao ended their four-game winless run simply earlier than the event with a 4-0 victory over Aruba. Ivory Coast face Ecuador within the different Group E fixture afterward Sunday.