Chris Coleman says he is preparing to enjoy what he calls Wales' biggest game for 58 years.
Wales meet Belgium in Lille on Friday night with a Euro 2016 semifinal place the prize for the winner. Coleman's men start as underdogs against opponents ranked second in the world, but the Wales manager said his squad have taken inspiration from talking to a member of the 1958 side which reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup.
"We had a good week training in Portugal before we came out here and one of the players from the '58 team came out and had a chat with some of the boys," said Coleman. "We we were talking about the 1958 experience they had.
"In those days, when players arrived back off the train they were asked whether they'd been on holiday because nobody knew they'd been at the World Cup.
"We're sure it meant the same to them as to us now, but we have to say we don't need to ham this game up. We know what's at stake, we know we've earned it, and it's a great place to be.
"Since the 1958 quarterfinal, we have to put this down as the biggest game our country's been involved in."
Coleman insists Wales will embrace an occasion which will be like a home game for Belgium.
The French city of Lille is just a few miles from the Belgian border and Wales fans will be heavily outnumbered. But Coleman promised it is a game that his players are looking forward to, and do not see as their final stop in the competition.
"I'm not going to play the occasion down, I'm going to enjoy it and savour it," said Coleman. "But we'll enjoy it when we perform and we put the work in. We've done that so far.
"It's not a feeling that Wales can't lose, they weren't meant to be here in the quarterfinal, we're underdogs. It's not the way we see it. It's a huge challenge, but just another one in a line of them we've already met.
"We've done all these things to get in this situation in the first place, and the pressure is on us from within to keep performing."