Zhang beat joyce again by KO

I am not "Dalicban" but the lad deserves some credit.

Croatia got a easy route to semifinals in 2018 because Croatia tops the group otherwise Croatia would have face France at round of 16 and not in the final.

You could say that the group in 2022 was easy on paper but the same easy Morocco beat Spain and Portugal and have many good players such as Hakimi, Amrabat, Bono, Nasiri with experience in Top 5 Leagues.

Even if we say the group was easy is not like the groups in 2006, and 2014 were more harder Croatia was a better team than Australia and Japan at 2006, and Cameroon and Mexico in 2014, Croatia should have at least reach the last 16 in both world cups and just don't deliver.

2002 is a diferent story, that Mexico team was legit maybe the best Mexico team in the last 2 decades, Italy was a very good team, that time Croatia won the second game against Italy and fu*k everyting in the last game against the Cinderella Ecuador.

Croatia got 2 promising wingers in Pjaca and Rog but sadly they were a magnet for injuries, in an alternative universe Pjaca and Rog are standard player for the Vatreni and Croatia plays a diferent kind of football, more direct with more paced and less predictable but we live in an universe where Pjaca broke his alc more times than Ivana Knoll use Ig filters in a day.

For me Dalic is more like a southamerican old guard coach, he is not the best at tactics and he knows it, so he is more concerned in group management, we could make all the jokes we want about Zlatko "toretto" Dalic and his magic word family but maybe that was what Croatia lacks back then, a more cohesive group and a better enviroment inside the group, players are not machines they are human beings after all and that social aspect is very important too not just in football.

This game could be like the WAC game, that Beli goal change the season.

Cruz Azul is interested in Morelos, he could get there a higher salary than what he was making at Rangers.

If I remember well there was a flag in Maksimir with Nema Predaje in spanish "No hay rendicion"

What happened with Pedro Morales?, I remember he had a good first season he scores many "rockets" and even was called for Chile he almost made the team for World Cup.

Henriquez and Fernandez had good seasons too, there was another player from Chile Carrasco but that guy was a big flop.

Biscan will be an ex before christmas

Yes zhang is not a bad boxer, tbh I was expecting a Slopy Asian Giant who will ended up gassed out after the 6th round, I was bloody wrong, he is old but the lad got thecnique and a "good chin", anyway that fight was a showcase for Hrgovic and he doesn't deliver.

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I used to rate Hrgovic higher but the fight against the chinese was really bad, he was slow and too robotic.

By the way there is a story behind the nickname? Maybe is for his time in miami.

Well guys I know it hurts, I am not Croatian so maybe I can see this games "unbiased"

I don't think Croatia lost the game because the players are infected with a weak/losser mentality that leads them to be selfpitty babies, lets be clear Croatia was the clear underdog not only in this game but, in the final 4 and in the group phase for the reason that even with great players Croatia lacks deep in the squad and is way behind the top teams in terms of quality in some positions.

Croatia is a small nation with a below average League this is a fact not a alibi, I remember when Portugal lost against the Greeks in 2004, the Greeks are for sure the worst side to win the Euro and Portugal even being a small nation got a squad with a lot of talent, they were the host nation and they lost the final against the fucking karisteas and Nikopolidis who got the summer of his life, after that the Lusos think we are fuck, we never will win anything, this was our golde generation, playing the final in Lisboa against Greece.

It was the final for Portugal not, Figo,Rui Costa, Couto, Pauleta and others left the team but Portugal manage to rise again and finally win the Euros with a unexpected hero Eder.

Whats the most important thing after this, keep the consistency to get a shot to win somenthing you need to always be in the mix and then the window will open if Croatia keeps getting out of groups in almost every tournament you could say they already moves up, and can built upon this last 5 years ride if they go back to 2002-2014 form then all this was in vain.

The future well after 1998 everyone was expecting Croatia to be another one hit wonder like turkey, Romania or Bulgaria, after Suker and Boban a lot of people say Croatia will never have again player like that, even after 2018 a lot of people say it was just luck, you already knows that Croatia was not a One Hit Wonder, Modric, Mandzo, Perisic, Brozo, Rakitic and Kovacic enter the chat, Croatia was 3rd in Qatar so it wasn't just luck.

There are already some good players to build the new team, lets see how Baturina and other young guns develop and maybe there are some talents still fliying below the radar,Perisic was more like a "grom iz breda neba" a player who left Croatia very early and came frome Brugges to become a standard player for the Vatreni when everbody was talking about other players.

Salome Elena

Zauvijek Kapetane Aki

Bravo Rile