Japan-Croatia - M. Blazevic: "Japan deserves our congratulations" 20.06.98 18h03 CET Miroslav BLAZEVIC:
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"JAPAN deserves our congratulations. They're a team that we know is tough and they proved it once again today. They also made sure it was a good game to watch. Nonetheless, we deserved to win. Now we've achieved our aim and we're very proud to join the international elite. We mustn't forget that CROATIA is a young country, which doesn't have the experience of the big football nations. Physically, it was a very difficult match SUKER (9), who's one of our players who runs the least, lost four kilos. From now on anything's possible, and we're going to try to meet the challenge."