After Fifa Coins booking passage to their first world final as anindependent nation with a win over Austria in Fifa Ultimate Team Coins the Last Four onWednesday, some of the Czech U-20 players were at a loss for wordsand struggling to come to terms with what they hadaccomplished.
It is just a beautiful thing, said midfielder JakubMares who plays his club ball for Usti nad Labem. When weleft home for Canada over a month ago very few people thought wecould go far, but here we are now in the Final. It's hard toput into words. This is the best feeling I've had in mycareer.
Speaking of expectations, Tottenham youth team standout TomasPekhart talked to FIFA before the finals and had mixed emotions- some doubts mingled with optimism. I feel we probablywon't win the World Cup, but we have a really good team and anumber of excellent players, said the striker and onlyoverseas-based player in the squad, before adding: Thefavourites are definitely Argentina, the defending champions. Butwho knows, maybe we can spring a surprise.