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Titilope Adeuja
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Van Gaal also questioned the preferential treatment awarded the host-nation in the 3-1 win of Croatia in the tournament's opener and will also play first following the Netherlands' game verses Chile.
"FIFA have advertisements at every match and publicity around the theme of 'Fair Play' and things like that.
"But FIFA play these tricks. It's not a good thing, of course. It's not fair play."
"Well, we're going to focus on getting a victory and I don't think that will be affected by the fact that Brazil will be playing after us.
"I'm just assuming that they will do their sporting duty, but it's always a matter of discussion when they do that, so why on earth would FIFA create that situation?
"That's why you're asking that and it's a justified question."
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