In 2010, Johan Cruyff applied the phrase "anti-football" to the style of play used by the Netherlands in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final against champions Spain. The day after the final, Cruyff attacked the "Oranje" for renouncing the Netherlands' long-standing commitment to playing attacking and entertaining football: "They [the Netherlands] didn't want the ball. And regrettably, sadly, they played very dirty. So much so that they should have been down to nine immediately, then they made two [such] ugly and hard tackles that even I felt the damage. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eye-catching, hardly football style, yes it served the Dutch to unsettle Spain. If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they ended up losing. They were playing anti-football." Other commentators had already described the Dutch style of play during the tournament—particularly in the semi-final and final—as "anti-football" prior to Cruyff's comment.