Croatia will end the 2024 Paris Olympics with seven total medals, two of which were GOLD in rowing and Judo. Croatia picked up more medals than countries which much, much larger populations: South Africa, Thailand, India (all with 6 medals). Croatia earned one more medal than Serbia (6) even though they got the gold in Water Polo on the final day of the games.
With 7 medals and a population of 4,00,000 people, Croatia averaged one medal per every 571,000th person in the country. To give you perspective, the United States lead the Paris games with 126 total medals. With a population of 340 million people, that is only one medal per 2.6 million citizens.
The water polo team will be disappointed losing to Serbia in the gold medal match. However, Donna Vekić exceeded all expectations in tennis, winning the silver in singles. Croatia handball will be disappointed as well; not making the knockout round of the tournament. All in all, a solid Olympics for the 73 athletes representing Croatia at the 2024 Paris games. One medal per every 10 competitors. Not too shabby at all.
Does anyone know what the current situation is with Orsic? We need him back real bad.
On the bench at Trabzonspor. Needs to leave and find another club ASAP.
https://twitter.com/ESPNFC/status/1823845313339097123
27 and counting !!
Limited minutes for Real will keep him fresh to keep on carrying Croatia till we get another generation going.
Kovačić right behind him at the 6 taking all defensive duties.
Sučić in front of him attacking.
Young legs up top and on wings
Who cares how good they are, as long as the have motors.
He looked smooth — beauty passing — in his 15 or so minutes. Pasalic had a wonderful header that was matched by a wonderful save (would have made it 1-0 Atalanta had it gone in).
So broz gone. Perisic who knows now. Definitely made his bed and will cause more friction with hajduk and national team if he continues with the repka
Raketa is probably like wtf bro you said to come lol
He’s gonna come back to hold it down for World Cup if we are stuck in midfield
So what now, kova defensive mid like Ante has been saying?
Sucic cousins taking over the midfield?
Will the vuskovic bros lock it down central defense as gvardi goes to the left
So we go from Perisic and a wasted national career of orsic to third rate options for now on LW
Vidovic isn’t a LW?
So he’s was another central midfielder we have to play out of position
We may make the 4-6-0 formation a real thing
If Dalić is willing to take a risk, he would just fill the gaps with youth players.
We still have vets like Modrić, Kovačić, Kramarić, Livaković and Budimir who are all in good form.
We don’t need our ENTIRE starting lineup to be veterans.
We have proven young players in Stanišić, Gvardiol and Luka Sučić who should all unquestionably start.
It’s really just three spots we need to fill, and we’re already seeing good club level results from guys like Baturina, Matković, and hopefully guys like Vušković, Zvonarek, Vidović and Sotiček continue to play well.
Worst case scenario would have been Dalić still trying to give 90 minutes to the corpse of Perišić and Broz.
It’s bad enough that he’s gonna squeeze every last drop from Modrić (instead of limiting his minutes) but I’m glad he’s being forced to move forward with our younger guys.
Bice bolje
Best thing for Hajduk is to get rid of Perisic. You want players who want to be there. He doesn’t want to be there. Plus, he looks to be done. He is trying to come back for a bad injury. Gattuso has handled this perfectly. Perisic told him he doesn’t see himself playing for the club this season. What do people want Gattuso to do? Beg him to stay.
Gattuso and Kalinic wont last long at Hajduk, but Gattuso is 100% correct how he handled this.
Perisic vam je kurac od ovce. 18-godišnjak ne bi napravio ovaj potez, kamoli igrač njegov profil.
Don’t worry. Dalić will do the begging for Gattuso.
Broz is gone
What now mr. Dalic sto cemo sada.
Rebuild time lets see what happens.
Next list is coming out next week i think for nations league games.
Livi is number one
No right back at moment most likely Stanisic.
Cbs we are ok at this position
Lb Dont have one at moment Gvardiol is not a lb and sosa is a flop no club at moment.
Midfield ok players
Grandpa Luka leading the way.
Never fullfilling promise talent kova
Id like to see Kova Baturina Sucic play together.
No replacement for broz in my opinion only kova but he isnt a true number 6.
Fowards no comment hahahah
Idemo 2016 ajmo Dalicuuuuu
Looks like Marcelo Brozovic has retired from the NT
I absolutely love everything he has done for the repka, but he probably should have retired before the Euros.
The future is coming whether we are ready or not. Perisic, Brozovic gone, and Modric hanging on by his fingernails. Sad the Perisic Hajduk experiment did not workout.
Hajduk loves drama because they don’t win. Perisic rehabbed at Hajduk and got into minimum level game form at Hajduk pre Euro. Nice little story at the time but would have been better if they won the league. I think he still wants to be in a big environment even as a back up player. Jebiga. And I am certain he doesn’t want to play for Gattuso. So off he goes. Not much of a story if Hajduk was a winner.
Luka Sučić to Real Sociedad ?!
This kid is 21 and our NOW #10.
That is a big time smart move.
Came back from serious knee injury even stronger mentally and physically.
Respect.
Where have you been haha.
This news is like a month old.
It won’t be that wise if he rides the pine all season long …which isn’t an unlikely scenario?
I honestly think an average Dinamo fan would have treated Hajduk with more respect than Perišić lol.
You announce you will surely be coming back, that Hajduk is the one thing missing from your career and that you will win the league with Hajduk. You spend 2 and a half years in a will he/won’t he situation while people are literally begging you to come back in unprecedented numbers. You only come back while having a torn ACL, you put an extremely cheap release clause in and you only use Hajduk as a recovery station to play in the Euros.
You play shit football and you avoid duels so you don’t get injured before the Euros. After the Euros, you tell Gattuso you want to leave because you think you can still play in a top club. You sulk and your on pitch attitude is terrible and you finally come to blows with the coach. The argument goes public, destroying any hype Hajduk had for this season and now you announce you are leaving.
Ivan Perišić, Dinamo legend.
As Hajduk fan I agree with your comments, the only reason he came back was to use Hajduk so as to go to the EUROs. All up he had something like 300 minutes playing time, scored one good goal against Istra from memory and did very little else. Did not tackle, dribble, twist or sprint and was playing at about 60% of his capacity prior to his ACL injury.
Perisic in his current state and form is of no use to Hajduk or the national team. At 35 and barely a year on from his serious knee injury it is hard seeing him play again at the top level. I hope I’m wrong, but time is not on his side.
Gabriel Vidovic starting for Bayern today and a lot of regulars in the lineup- he’s having a very good pre season so far! Hopefully he sticks and plays!
Thats good news
I thought he was largely unimpressive at Dinamo from the random stuff that was said here?
I had hope for him, let’s hope he does well
Where does he go if not playing for Bayern? Loaned out again?
Maybe Vincent Kompany likes him
Didn’t realize he scored a couple of goals too.
Has he seen any time at LW?
If he gets starts during the season, he’ll suddenly be our starting LW.
No, from what I have seen he has been playing in midfield.
He is not a LW player, simply does not have the speed.
Vidovic was at Dinamo on loan for 500 K from Bayern with an option at the end of the season to buy him for 3.5 million. Dinamo were willing to pay 1.75 million for his services, but Bayern refused.
He has stacked up some nice games and moments this preseason, including another goal yesterday!
His touches have looked really fast and clever and seems to fit in really well at Bayern(hard to remember exactly but I think that showed before dinamo as well), He might be they type of player who actually needs good players around him so his game can shine…
Rumour mill is that Perisic may want to leave Hajduk for Barcelona!?
Very interesting not sure what is happening there.
There is no way he plays for Gattuso. Super pathetic scenario. I really don’t know what Kalinic was thinking bringing in such a prickly figure for a head coach to Hajduk. But then again we are talking about Kalinic. If Gattuso doesn’t advance in conference league I doubt he remains as coach.
Gattuso came out yesterday and said that Perisic told him 20 days ago that he wants to leave Hajduk. Perisic has struggled at Hajduk and has not shown a lot on the field in HNL.
Dalic after the EURO stated in an interview on TV that he will not discard senior players if they are playing regularly, and they are in form. Dalic will soon need to name the squad for NL matches in September and on current form and playing time Perisic should not be on the list.
Yup. You’re absolutely correct.
Perisic should not be included in our lineup. No way. Dude is unfit.
His speed is gone. His strength was speed and power and he’s got none of it. He’s not a finesse player.
I’m agreeing with Gattusso here.
He wants to win games not appease the former stars of our NT.
Perišić is 35 and the focus should be on prepping for 2026.
Even though both Oršić and Perišić are on the bench, you have to go with Oršić at least as a depth player in the meantime, until we figure out our LW situation as the season progresses with some of these younger players.
Also need to start looking at in form youngsters who like to play on that left side (like Anton Matković or Martin Baturina).
Can’t continue to waste time with previously failed experiments there.
Barca???He won’t get time for Toronto Croatia WTF
Perisic and a great run, was such a joy to watch all these years. Remember when he was coming up with Jelavic. So dangerous in so many ways. The header against Japan was his Swan song.
If they didn’t play Pletikosa as goalie in his late 30’s, in Brazil, Olic and Perisic would have gone farther that year.
Šotiček scores in his debut for Basel.
Came off the bench in the 75th minute and scored six minutes into his debut.
It was a blowout win anyway, and the starting player he subbed on for also scored. Hopefully he’s not a bench player and pans out for us (as we need some RW options).
Oh nice.
He had an assist too.
But it’s actually his third game. Didn’t realize they were already three games into the season.
For RW options, keep an eye on Halilović this year. He played well last year and already scored in the first match of the season yesterday. I believe in the resurrection of the god of Halilović. If he plays a season of outstanding football, then he’ll deserve recognition for it.
Halilović needs to attend Velika Gospa in Sinj… or no callup.
Not too shabby is right. We’re still producing amazing athletes with little or relatively low funding.
The braca Sinkovic are something else. It made my day. Those dudes are unreal!!
Felt sorry for Sapina. Almost brought it home.
Our Handballers were disappointing, I thought we’d hit the podium there. Rough tournament for them.
Even though it’s fewer medals than in our recent showings… We’re still one of the top nations in the World when it comes to medal rate (per population).
We had a lot of athletes finish just outside the top-3 as well.
With some luck, it could’ve been a fantastic showing for us. Oh well. Next time.