30 June 1998
" Our win today is very important for Croatia too. We must not forget that it wasn' t that long ago that there was a war back home. How far can Croatia go? Why not to the final? There's nothing better than that. " Robert Jarni, after his sides victory over Romania   " England played in typical English way, a very solid team. Even though they lost one player we were always struggling. This was undoubtedly the toughest second round game so far. " Argentinian coach D. Passarella after the victory in penalty kicks over England	" I am very pleased that we will now face our German friends in the quarter-finals. It was 2 years ago, I recall, that they knocked us out of the European championship (2-1). Let us not forget that they are our friends, but as everyone knows, there is nothing sweeter than beating your friends " The croatian coach M. Blazevic after his sides qualification for the quarter-finals
29 June 1998
" I only saw two chances for Yugoslavia to score: the goal and the penalty kick. In the quarter finals, I would prefer to play against the England team, who have a game that we can control " rkDutch captain Frank De Boer after his sides victory against Yugoslavia
28 June 1998
" I don't want to blame any particular player, losing is always difficult. We shouldn't forget that these are the same players that won matches and lost today. " Bora Milutinovic, the coach of Nigeria, after his teams elimination by Denmark   " I'm never going to knock the 'Golden Goal' rule ever again. It's an incredible feeling of joy; I promised myself I would score in the World Cup. In the heat of the moment, I didn't even think to congratulate David Trezeguet for his header down. " Laurent Blanc, scorer of the first " Golden Goal " in the history of the World Cup   " I'm very happy at having got through. Of course I would have preferred to win before that point, especially as we had so many chances to do so. It was a very difficult match. French domination wasn't rewarded but it was so overwhelming that we were sometimes worried that we'd make a mistake that would have ended it all. " French coach Aimé Jacquet after " Les Bleus " qualified for the quarter finals	" The first Danish goal came after a few seconds of the match, and that was very important for us. I'm very satisfied with the result, which reminds me of the old Danish way of playing, as we saw in Mexico in 1986. " The Danish coach, Bo Johansson, after his teams 4-1 victory over Nigeria   " We are heroes anyway despite this defeat and we will be welcomed as such when we return home. We have represented our country well " Paraguays keeper JL Chilavert, after the elimination of his team by France
27 June 1998
" After its second goal; Brazil was completely relaxed, and we were not able to do a thing against them. " Nelson Acosta, Chilean coach, after his teams 4-1 defeat at the hands of Brazil.   I think that FRANCE are one of the World Cup favourites. I wasn't very impressed by BRAZIL, but at this level there isn't much difference between the teams. If FRANCE qualify for the quarter finals, I would be very surprised if the Italians succeeded in beating them." The Norwegian coach Egil Olsen after their loss to Italy.	" The most remarkable thing about the match was the tactical aspect. The Norwegians played tactically well, but we succeeded in stopping them. The goal we scored was very much merited. Without exaggerating, it's a goal that should go down in the history books! " C. Maldini, the Italian coach, on the goal by Christian Vieri
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