Roberto Martinez
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Well, without a doubt, this is an achievement because that's never been done before in Belgian football.
Bronze medal is a memory that will be treasured forever.
You need to see the moment that we arrived in Belgium.
It was incredible, the celebration.
We had thousands of people in Brussels and it was a real get-together and almost thinking of a big achievement.
I think the difference as well is not just the bronze medal.
When you go to the World Cup, you've got two paths.
One is when you face Brazil and the other one when you don't face Brazil.
Because everyone can go to a World Cup and play without playing Brazil.
I think playing Brazil is a real test.
Psychologically, you're defeated.
You go to the stadium, everything is yellow.
Everyone speaks about the team, the only team that has won the World Cup five times.
And you need to find that belief as a team to be able to perform against a team like Brazil.
To be able to beat Brazil and knock them out of the World Cup almost felt a sense of achievement.
And that's probably... It felt...
an achievement rather than just not being able to win the World Cup.
This group know that we can go to the Euros now and we need to try to apply the same focus which is try to win every game, nothing else.
You don't have to hope to win a tournament because at the moment internationally in Europe you have eight nations that they are at the same level and the differences are very, very, very small in 90 minutes.
Pauline, the last year has been interesting.