Golden switch

Holland urges, Wesley Sneijder shoots the ball on the post, on the crossbar, time passes, no goals in ninety minutes, not even in the extra half hour of the extension. Penalty kicks. Keylor Navas, the goalkeeper of Costa Rica, is a penalty killer, Jasper Cillessen of the Netherlands is not.

Make up a ruse national coach. That's what Louis van Gaal does. Just before the final signal he changes goalkeepers. Tim Krul, specialist in stopping penalties comes in. Robin van Persie, Arjen Robben, Wesley Sneijder and Dirk Kuijt hit the ball and the backup goalkeeper of the Netherlands turned the effort of Bryan Ruiz. Krul makes stamina in goal, he shouts and gestures to Michael Umaña that he will also stop his penalty kick. And that does Hague Tim, Netherlands to the semifinals. It's called a golden switch. Van Gaal has a hand in it. In 1995, he substituted Patrick Kluivert in the Champions League final against AC Milan in Vienna. It was 1-0, Kluivert's goal.