Germany-Croatia – M. Blazevic: “It's an historical result”

“We’re very happy with this victory. It’s an historical result. A CROATIA team has never achieved anything this important. I would also like to congratulate the GERMANY team for their spirit of fair play.

Even when they were three – nil down, the Germans didn’t stop battling. They were not weakened by the sending off of Christian WÖRNS (2), which was obviously in our favour. But I don’t think that this had a great effect on our game.

We are overjoyed but we are well aware of the fact that we will have to prepare for the semi-final against FRANCE. We are very proud that we’re going to play in the most beautiful stadium in the world in front of 80 000 spectators. That will be a new test for us but today we showed our abilities. We really deserved this win”.