Veteran coach Dick Advocaat said tiny Curacao's qualification for the World Cup is the "craziest thing" he had ever achieved in his long-standing career.
The Caribbean island of barely more than 150,000 people, which is a self-governing part of the Netherlands, became the smallest country to qualify for the World Cup when it drew with Jamaica in Kingston on Tuesday.
The 78-year-old Advocaat was not there because he had to return to the Netherlands for family reasons.
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