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Returning to their hotel, the joyous Netherlands players bound in, dancing and singing and cheering and savouring their achievement of reaching a World Cup quarter-final.
Happiest of all, though, is the man masterminding the campaign. Louis van Gaal, with his zest and enthusiasm, illuminates this 35-second clip.
Louis van Gaal's Holland were impressive in a 3-1 World Cup last-16 win over the USA
In the septuagenarian marches to the sounds ‘Waka! Waka!’ — Shakira’s song for the 2010 World Cup.
This being Van Gaal, though, there would have to be more and so it proved, as he throws an arm around a couple of local gentlemen and does a little jig. It is a joyful scene, a reminder that life is to be enjoyed at every opportunity. Van Gaal was in top form after the Netherlands had swept the United States aside 3-1 to set up a quarter-final with Argentina, even
