Saturday 8 June 2013 07:54, UK
Scotland manager Gordon Strachan has described their 1-0 win in Croatia as one of his career highlights.
Strachan felt the victory will give Scotland fans some pride back. He said: "I would think so, I would hope so. You play for your country for pride. It's not for money, it's not for anything else. And you give people pride. "It's satisfying. The lads played from their hearts. They played as a group, 24 of them trained as a group, which made this possible. So we thank them for that. "I really feel pleased for everybody who gets on the plane, who travelled, who were watching. When you're with the national side, the group makes the whole country happy." Strachan picked a number of performances as "heroic". He said: "There is heroic in terms of defending. There is also heroic in holding the ball up. Shaun Maloney was doing that, and James McArthur. "Craig Conway and Steven Naismith went on and did well. I think that's as good as I've seen Alan Hutton play. Steven Whittaker as well. As a partnership at centre-half it wasn't bad too. "Other ones have to get up to a level of fitness to play at this level and that's hard work."
