“This is one of the greatest days of my life,” an overjoyed Vladimir Weiss told FIFA, fresh from his Slovakia team’s historic victory over Italy. “I’m very proud of what my players have done. They played a fantastic match.”
Even after the initial euphoria had died down, it remained tough to overstate his charges' achievement. Appearing at a FIFA World Cup™ for the very first time, the Repre had not simply sealed their passage to the Round of 16 by downing the Squadra Azzurra 3-2 – they had dumped the reigning champions out of the competition.
“It’s fantastic and we’re having trouble believing it,” Erik Jendrisek said to FIFA.com. “I imagine that only tomorrow will we truly realise that we’re in the last 16 of the World Cup.”
No matter how difficult their feat may be to grasp, Slovakia’s runners-up spot in Group F owed nothing to chance and everything to an ability to outdo themselves in order to continue their FIFA World Cup adventure. Forward Robert Vittek did much of the damage with a double, after being positioned in left midfield against Paraguay, and his vital haul also took him level with Szilard Nemeth as his country’s highest-ever scorer on 22 goals.
source:http://www.fifa.com
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