CAPE TOWN, South Africa — If you can paint a town orange, that's air 180 what the Dutch will be doing in Cape Town, Amsterdam and everywhere else they can think of. The Netherlands is in the World Cup final, and boy do the players know how to celebrate a big win.Like in an Oranje mosh pit. Or on each other's shoulders, air chaussure leading the flag-waving, vuvuzela-tooting fans in song.The Dutch head to Johannesburg for their first shot at the soccer championship in 32 years after a 3-2 victory over scrappy but outmanned Uruguay on Tuesday air chaussures night.
"We are so close," said Wesley Sneijder, who scored the go-ahead goal. "There is nothing bigger
than the World Cup."That elusive first title is still one win away. But this was such a moment to savor that most of the squad made a buy christian louboutin curtain call nearly an hour after the biggest Netherlands victory in decades, leading about 1,000 orange-clad fans in cheers that figure to last until Sunday.That's when the Dutch will play either Spain or Germany for soccer's big prize."If you win the final, you make yourself immortal, at least in our country," said Arjen Robben, whose winner came three gucci boots discount minutes after Sneijder scored. "We will do everything we can to take the Cup back."It's hard to doubt them, with the Dutch on a 25-game unbeaten streak, including 10 straight wins.
They're not as creative as the Clockwork Oranje gucci on sale of the 1970s, when they lost two World Cup finals to host teams West Germany in 1974, Argentina in 1978. Nor are they as explosive.But they sure are good, and on the kind of roll that gives the Dutch the look of champions with an Oranje hue, of course."This is unforgettable," said Sneijder, tied with Spain's David Villa for top scorer at the tournament . "It was a tough fight and toward the end we complicated matters."Sunday we play in the discount gucci shoes World Cup final. I have to get used to that."Long wasteful with its soccer talent, the Netherlands has found the right touch in this tournament, winning all six matches.
Inside Green Point Stadium it looked like a Florida citrus grove. Outside, a Netherlands fan in a
blue and white bodysuit stood on stilts and played a vuvuzela badly. It was about the only thing
that didn't measure up for the Dutch.And a tournament that looked like a South American fiesta
early on will end in a European showdown for the second straight World Cup. Sneijder and Robben made sure of that.neijder's goal came somewhat unexpectedly because Uruguay had shut down the Dutch offense for much of the second half. His left-footed shot from just inside the penalty area barely ticked the leg of defender Maximiliano Pereira and, with Robin van Persie almost deflecting it again, the ball skidded past goalkeeper Fernando Muslera.Then Robben sent a cross from Dirk Kuyt past a flat-footed gucci shoes online Muslera with a brilliant header. His teammates piled on in an Oranje Crush celebration, and Robben came up from it muddied and merry and with the knowledge that, ahead 3-1, the Netherlands was likely headed to the championship match.Uruguay was without dangerous striker Luis Suarez, whose handball on the goal line in the final seconds of extra time against Ghana saved his team in the quarterfinals. THH
