Sneijder: "It's all very simple"
Thursday, 8 July 2010
In fact a World
Cup is a very simple thing. In the end two teams remain.
"Of those two one will win the final. And that's
us," dixit Wesley Sneijder, Holland's little midfield
genius;
Sneijder is being
named as the player of the tournament. Will he gain
any satisfaction from that if Holland were to lose the
final: "Stop talking about losing. It makes me
very aggressive."
The man who helped
Inter win three prizes this year had a dream last night.
"That dream was about the final. Who won? What
do you think? It was a great game and after the final
whistle I was content. I received another drum for the
Man of the Match. Hahaha, and when I woke up I was in
a canal in Amsterdam."
Holland only once
won a big prize, in 1988. Little boy Sneijder was four
years old. "I have few memories of it. I only remember
standing at the side of the motorway cheering the bus
with the players with an orange cap on my head. We are
going to outdo those guys."
Sneijder has scored
a remarkable amount of goals this tournament. If necessary
"off the referee's arse". Is it just good
fortune? "No, I don't think so. You have to want
to score, enforce it. That's what I do. You have to
be 'horny' for that goal. I'm enjoying everyday of this.
That helps. It's so great to be out on the pitch here."
According to Sneijder
it's never happened that a player has won the league,
the cup, the Champions League and the World Cup in one
season. "I could be the first one, apparently.
Believe, I pay it no mind at all. People have been talking
about the Golden Boot. What's that about? I want that
golden cup!"
He says he's feeling
well. He did give his laptop to his girlfriend two weeks
ago. "People say things about me in Holland. It
annoyed me. We're human, you know, not machines. Often
I get insulted. I know I should shrug it off, but on
the inside it hurts. So no computer for me here."
Still he has less
trouble dealing with such things than before. "When
I get some shit poured over me, I go and sleep for an
hour. After that I will not even react. Whatever. Of
course it helps that things are going well. Had we already
been eliminated I probably would react, or my girlfriend
would have."
He wasn't all that
impressed with the way Spain won their semifinal against
Germany. "A lot had to do with the German approach.
When you play like that against Spain, you might as
well not play."
"Of course
you have to drop back a bit against Spain. Otherwise
they will just play you off the pitch. But the Germans
overdid it. Then you are without chance immediately."
He played Barcelona
a few times this season, and has his plan for the final
ready: "We mustn't lose the ball in midfield. And
when in possession we have to show we have the guts
to take the game to them. When we do that we will succeed
in Soccer City."
"And don't
think that they aren't worried about us. I got a text
message from Sergio Ramos, 'Will you take it easy Wes',
it read. 'You've already got three prizes.' That says
enough, no?.''
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