Despite their great traditions, generations of top players and leading clubs, neither the Dutch nor the Spanish have ever had their hands on the game's top prize.
European champions Spain have never previously gone beyond the quarter-final stage while the Dutch emerged from their glory years in the 1970s having lost in two successive World Cup finals in 1974 and 1978.
Spain's mesmerising passing game this time was too much in the semi-finals for a Germany team that had impressed so many with their crushing wins over England and Argentina but succumbed to a 1-0 defeat.
"Spain were the better team against Germany and really deserved to win. They are the best team in the world at this moment," he said.
"It doesn't interest me who is favourite for the final, I just don't care what the whole world is saying," said Van Marwijk.
"We will just go out and play our own game - we see it as a great challenge to play them," he said.
Spain's success has come despite the lack of form of their leading striker Fernando Torres but David Villa's five goals have made up for the Liverpool forward's problems and dangerous winger Andres Iniesta is hitting his stride at just the right time.
Although Spain's brand of quick, short passes and retention of possession does not make for wide open games, it lends itself to fascinating tactical battles and - as Germany found to their cost - the counter-attacking approach is hard to apply.
"We will try not to let the win over Germany blind us to the tas
