It was what we could expect from a Croatian friendly. A simple training exercise days before the Vatreni take off for Brazil against an African team that will catch the World Cup from the comfort of their own homes. Manager Niko Kovač used 17 Croatian players in the 2-1 win over Mali in Osijek; with Wolfsburg midfielder Ivan Perišić supplying both goals.
In the 15th minute, Perišić received a perfect through ball from Ivan Rakitić, splitting the defense up the middle, for an easy chip over Mali goalie Soumbeïla Diakité. The match would go into halftime with Croatia up 1-0. Changes were made with Sammir coming off for Mateo Kovačić in the 60th minute and Luka Modrić receiving a small cameo appearance, coming in 73 minutes through for Rakitić.
In the 63rd minute, Perišić would score his second goal, tapping in an Ivica Olić header on the back post following a corner kick. Croatia was always in control during the match but let a Traore hand ball goal, which wasn’t seen by the referees, go in the goal in the 79th minute to break the clean sheet.
All regular starters are expected to play against Australia on June 6th in Brazil in Croatia’s last friendly before taking on the hosts in Sao Paulo on June 12th.
MATCH HIGHLIGHTS
I got laid last night….my anus is still burning from it
haha casanova Andrinho is enlightened & tolerant because of all the pussy he is getting
You guys really need to get laid lol
CFC unfortunately these brainwashed sheep will not see the light of day until they become victims of the “knockout game” or have a loved one robbed, raped or murdered by a negro. They are ignorant to the reasons why the negro is the most violent socially destructive race on earth. They don’t ask themselves why blacks have never built or maintained a succesfull civilization or why they are over represented in crime by huge amounts. Fortunately there is hope as many in europe have seen diversity first hand and they don’t like it, euro nationalist parties are rising with each election so there is hope.
Spineless Yugo’s here. Again, how does caring for the people of Croatia and its heritage equate to hating others?
I will ask you how does third and even fourth world migration benefit Croatia? What is wrong with increasing our own population? What is wrong with teaching that the union of man and women is ideal?
@ Poglavnice
AV is great. Much more soft spoken that Tortz, but he’s a good hockey mind that took the Rangers gritty style of play they’ve had the last few years and combined a more offensive flow that’s let the finesse guys find the net.
Between that philosophy change, our D men playing great and King Henrik playing out of his mind, we were due for a nice playoff run but in no way was I expecting a spot in the Finals.
I think we can give the Kings some trouble; Quick hasn’t been playing at the level he was at a few years back plus LA just played three 7 game series, so I think they’re either gassed or on their way to being gassed. I think the series goes 6 games but I’ll be a homer and say the Blueshirts bring the cup back to NYC.
Andrinho: “@H. The people who live in Croatia can worry about Croatia’s future. How are you going to sit at your keyboard in a country far away and tell people how they should live? You aren’t nor do they want you to but if you are so for your views you should move their and preach your case.”
How does the Pope sit in the Vatican and tell people far away how to live?
I’m not telling anybody “how to live”, I’m telling everybody that forcing ALL & ONLY White countries to “assimilate” w/ global herd of 3rd worlders ruins the sugar & doesn’t help the shit.
I don’t enjoy saying this & I OBVIOUSLY wish I didn’t have to. But thanks to moron TRAITORS like you, I have to.
Denis: “I think that the majority of people here are not racist.”
You will get those people that throw out the “n” word and don’t want to see Sammir and Eduardo in the checkers just because of their skin color.”
What do you mean by “racist”?
If “race is just skin color”, then it doesn’t matter if the entire planet becomes white?
Hey homos. I asked some questions.
Yeah, hopefully Puppet Suker confessed his sins to the Bozanic today.
soccer is illmunti created by the english england all is fake time is key any 1 get it when it comes to betting
We all know what this means…
Sammir has to do the chant!
Who would’ve guessed that Šimunić’s Za Dom Spremni chant would not only get him eliminated from the World Cup roster, but also create a spot for Sammir to make it.
Chupe-100%!
@Armada
How you liking Vigneault over there?
Im hoping the Rangers have started a new trend:
Fire Tortorella, and go to he Finals the following year.
@Denis Cico left eduardo off beacuse Prso Olic Klasnic Balaban were ahead of him. Cico gave Eduardo his first caps for croatia and going back to Cico akranjcar he was an asshole drunk and it was all abiut his boy Niko remeber the cico formation was 3-4-Niko-2. At that time Petric corluka eduardo sablic vejic pranjic rapaic all should have went and i know that team had problens tudor was an assholenin the lockerrom but a good coach would have done a good job lets say if Bilic took that team over in 2004 just saying that would have been solid team.
@ Denis
I know that it’s only a few people with these racist views. I don’t really want Sammir on the team – but not because of the colour of his skin, it’s because it seems that he’s only using the repka for career advancement and not for the love of the repka. Dudu is a different story having embraced Hrvatska as his adopted country. Either way, Sammir or not…I cheer our boys on.
Props to Suker for taking the team to Kardinal Bozanic today. Love that he invited him to Brazil and no Jovanovic. 🙂
@ nepoznat
Hvala!! Having either Kovacic in the hole behind the striker is a spot he should produce in. I’ll be interested to see the lineup vs the Aussies and what Niko will try out. We do have quite a few options but given our lack of a solid DM and attacking wing options, someone may have to play out of position. Perisic on the right means Kovac may have Pranjic on the left with Olic up top.
@HAET I didn’t say I want 3rd world immigration to Hrvatska, I just pointed out that it will happen to some degree and the impact that it will have on the repka
@Mali Ante Mateo subbed into the hole behind the striker when he came in for Sammir and ahead of Raketa (and Luka when he subbed in). and Perisic was definitely on the right (again)
Most people look at him as a drunk bastard, but Zlatko Kranjčar left Eduardo at home for the 2006 World Cup. My guess would be that Kranjcar didn’t think that Eduardo was “Croatian enough”. Zlatko would probably never admit his true reasons for not selecting Eduardo, but he was definitely good enough to make the final 23. I mean, Ivan Bošnjak took his spot.
@Mali Ante,
I think that the majority of people here are not racist.
You will get those people that throw out the “n” word and don’t want to see Sammir and Eduardo in the checkers just because of their skin color. For the most part, I think those are the thoughts of just a few people on this site.
What would I do for an interview with Niko Kovac. I would ask him on his “guidelines”. Does he just follow the FIFA rules or does he have his own set of rules like Kranjcar.
@ svima
This racist crap is unbelievable in today’s day and age. Give it a rest. I’d love for any of you spewing this garbage to say it to someone’s face and get knocked the eft out on the spot, it would look good on you…now back to the reason the rest of us go here….
@ Ziva
I agree with your lineup against Brazil. I think Kovac tipped his hat a bit with the lineup against Mali and he feels he must have a true defensive mid against Brazil – only trouble is that unless he completely rolls the dice and goes with Mocinic (highly doubt) we will see Vukojevic start along side Luka….where did Kovacic play against Mali?? Someone mentioned that Peresic was on the right side and I thought I saw that as well (didn’t watch much of the game).
Either way I hope to hell he doesn’t decide to start Jelavic upfront with Olic on the wing…he’s horribly out of form and hasn’t shown much for the last year and a half.
I also think that Kovac really doesn’t trust Lovren too much….interesting as he’s played very well this year.
Where is Mario Mandzukic going? Any credible rumors? I keep hearing Chelsea and Arsenal.
Why does Bayern Munich treat their best strikers like shit? Lately it has been Ivica Olic, Mario Gomez and now Mario Mandzukic. That club has issues at the top level.
@H
The people who live in Croatia can worry about Croatia’s future. How are you going to sit at your keyboard in a country far away and tell people how they should live? You aren’t nor do they want you to but if you are so for your views you should move their and preach your case.
Chupe- although I trust Kovac, for some reason I really liked Bilic…he made his mistakes but I felt he did relatively well. Kovac has discipline, lets see if he has the creativity to go with it?
nepoznat has already said Croatia is done for b/c she joined the E.U. Now he wants to exacerbate the “demise” he says is “inevitable – it’s only a matter of time” by pouring 3rd worlders into Croatia “b/c Croatia is a better place to live than the 3rd world”.
Not after 3rd worlders get thru w/ her.
Everybody’s friendly towards this TRAITOR, and I’m the bad guy?
@nepoznat, you’re promoting 3rd worlders immigrate to Croatia? When will real Croats then get to say no to this non-White immigration and “assimilation”? When Whites are 70%, 50%, 10% of the population of Croatia?
@ Cico
eyyyy stari
Kramaric voted HNL Player of the Year!
KUP JE NAS!
VOLIM TE RIJEKO!
FAIRNESS!
BOG, NIKO KOVAC, HNS, BROADWAY BLUESHIRTS I HNS!!!!
hvala @Blaz I’ll check it out!
defense :
…………………………Olic…………………………….
_____________1/2 lines_______________
……………………….Perisic………………………….
………..Modric…..Kovacic…..Rakitic……………
Pranjic…………………X……………………….Srna
…………_______________________…………
………..I Lovren Schildefe Corluka l…………
………..l Pletikosa l………..
X = marking line ..
(modric or kovacic or rakitic do to mark
avoid for long shoot by opponent)
@Dumdum
We all know we aren’t playing a 3-5-2 and Kovac doesn’t coach that it just fit the players we have since we are missing a lot in defense and have no LB.
The 3-5-2 is like any other formation but you have to know which lines your are playing centrally and in defense. There is no magic behind any formations they all serve a purpose tactically.
Do you guys know that the 3-5-2 is hard to master and this croatia team would get crushed with that lineup?
http://screamer.deadspin.com/croatias-world-cup-strategy-rise-and-grind-1584623130/+GregHoward1
It may be on here already but this is a decent article
This is the lineup I suggest a while ago except I would slot rakitic in next to modri with kova slightly infront of them
………Olic……………………Perisic……..
…………..Kovacic….Rakitic……………..
Pranjic………….Modric…………….Srna
…….Lovren…Schildefe…Corluka…….
………………..SPletikosa…………………
Ko fuck –> give this lines up vsBrazil
you must listen to me, as the master of strategy !
@Chupe Pranjic will be the LB
Man it will be fun 3 games finally get to see NK in a meaningful games and see what kind of Coach he will be for the future. Is he gonna put diff lineups for diff opponents. For Brazil i can imagine tactics like we had v Spain euro 2012, wait fr the counter and you need to take the chances if presented to croatia. From what i read Sifo is ahead of Lovren for now and LB is 50-50, dm is ? and who up front Eduardo Olic Jelavic and Rebic on wing those are questions to be asked and finally answered.
the Rakitic theme continues under kovac. rakitic spends a good amount of time INCREDIBLY deep. its very interesting. he’s nearly parallel with the defensive line many times
any one have any thoughts on this? is this kovac’s way to get the ball in rakitic feet more and let luka and kovacic push forwar dperhaps
@nepoznat
I like the 4-2-3-1 and think we can play it vs Brazil and counter. I know Kovac doesn’t like the 3-5-2 as he has only really played the more modern formations. I prefer to keep Olic more central because as much speed as he has he really doesn’t put in the dangerous crosses and we don’t really have Mandzukic to attack them vs Brazil so a single striker against the likes of Silva and Luiz will be difficult to get to. I’m not scared of Hulk and Neymar as long as we keep our play very compact and don’t give them much space in the final third.
Antwerp- neutralizing Hulk and Neymar will require 100% concentration on whoever is defending them…those types of players can strike at any given moment and I’m pretty sure we’ll be doubling up on our defensive responsibilities….this will really make it tougher for counters…requires a lot of stamina!
nepoznat-he seemed to be more noticeable on the right…as I mentioned before, I saw little but from what I did see he was involved!
Ziva- I knew you meant for the Brazil game…I think we have to outplay Cameroon and Mexico in the midfield…
@slavonac…….i thought the entire team was average on Saturday. Rakitic had some nice balls and very good set pieces. While Perisic did score I wasn’t really impressed with the rest of his play. Not bad or anything, but he was unable to link plays a few times. He wasn’t the only one. I think these guys know what awaits in 10 days and everything leading up to it is part of the daily routine to get to Brazil uninjured.
odjebi rasisti
argue a player’s skills not his color
@Slavonac yeah he has played RW a couple times now under Kovac when we have Olic on LW. And Perisic can play well with both feet so he can make it work (as shown in Osijek)
@Andrinho 3-5-2 is out I would think, Niko quoted as saying he wants to play a more modern formation like 4-2-3-1 or 4-1-4-1. 4-2-3-1 being his preferred formation and for the Brasil match at least it’s a great fit as it is a perfect formation for playing a counter based game
@ Ziva and Slavonac
I agree with Ziva’s line up. Although I would prolly go with Vida at LB, as I believe he would be more effective in neutralizing Hulk on the RW.
Game-plan would be to neutralize Hulk and Neymar, and hit ’em on the counter. A bonafide CDM is needed for this match.
for me, the only reason we use Vukojevic against Brazil because I think Brazil will have more of the possession and we we need someone who is more a defender at that spot. I wouldn’t use him in the starting 11 in the other matches.
Ziva-I think that’s a solid lineup…I noticed Perisic on the right Saturday, am I right?
Jelavic would work only as a horse IMO…pressure them from within our own half and into their zone, if he gets an opportunity from a set piece or from one of our chances…great!
Perisic has risen his stock value recently, just for the simple fact he’s been scoring…confidence can be a crazy thing…if he’s feeling good, I say go with him…something is working for the guy!
I’ve seen Vukojevic have decent games…especially when he plays the true role he’s meant to play…break up the play and make a simple pass…
How was Vrsaljko?
@Ziva,
I don’t mind your lineup even though Vukojevic makes me cringe most of the game. I have mixed feelings with Vukojevic and how he disrupts a good portion of our flow of play with his unreliable passing and you can’t really pass him the ball when there is a defender on him without the possibility of him losing it. International play isn’t as dependent of that CDM role but vs a team like Brazil I think we may opt for it.
I’d preferably play a 3-5-2 vs Brazil and pack the midfield.
Plentikosa
Corluka – Schifo – Lovren
Srna – Modric – Rakitic- Kovacic(Vukojevic) Pranjic(Vrsaljko)
Olic – Eduardo
For me it’s the old 08′ pairing up top with Olic and Eduardo that worked great. It’s a fairly defensive and compact lineup with Eduardo and Olic who do a lot of work in dropping into defensive areas but also Olic who will feed of Eduardo.
It’s tough for Perisic who has no room in the lineup but it’s really a 1 substitution fix to change to a 4-2-3-1 by taking a CB off for Perisic/Rebic in the 2nd half to keep the pace and ware on their defense.
I think we will see a 4-2-3-1 because that is Kovac expertise as a player but it’s something we may do as the unexpected and a formation that is not bad with not a true LB and good for counter football and difficult to breakdown.
I like your formation though and the players. Kovac really hasn’t coached long enough for me to say I can predict what he may or may not do. At this point in time I’d only assume 4-2-3-1 but the players I am not sure of.
@Slavonac……tough to answer your question because Modric only played the final 20 minutes or so. Everything is different with him in there and tough to gauge what our philosophy will be at the WC.
Part of me is beginning to favor this lineup for the Brazil game:
Olic
Perisic (Da Silva or Rebic) -Rakitic- Kovacic
Vukojevic -Modric
Pranjic (Vida) – Schifo – Corluka – Srna
Pletikosa
If Pranjic cant go, then it looks like we will go with Vida at LB. Either route can be problematic. I think we need a true CDM against Brazil and I think Kovac will consider going with Vukojevic.
The other option is going with Jelavic up front and then moving Olic to the wing. I rather have Olic up top. I just dont have any confidence in Jelavic.
Incorrect!!
Look at Ukraine. Would you have classfied it as a Western country with jobs and some form of economy? Yet still economic migrants have arrived there. They have crap jobs selling t-shirts at the Bazaar but no matter to them. It’s better than where they came from. The excuse that Croatia has no jobs is flawed. They will come beacuse eventhough our state of affairs is not good its 1000 better to be in Croatia than in Somalia. The EU will pay them welfare anf there you go. There numbers will grow until you have ghetto conditions. Then when your Baba goes to the local market to do her grocery shopping she will be mugged. Your Dido who lives in a flat in town will have the units around him filled with them. He will be robbed and will ahve to live in fear. You think this won’t happen. Just look at Greece and Athens.
nepoznat- I actually recorded the game but wasn’t able to watch it completely yet, I did a lot with my family this weekend (as usual) and didn’t want to be selfish…I may watch it tonight but thanks buddy!
@Slavonac if you want to watch the whole game I have it in Spanish and posted it on TorrentHR.org (email me for an invite)
oprostite! molim, ja sam zedan – gdje je bevande? ja sam amerikanac ali volim hrvatska i nogomet! – falaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
ziva- BUT is that the game plan? is that how we are expected to attack, switching the play through long balls…how do we utilize Kovacic, Modric…I’m a little nervous after watching that parts that I did…and then reading (I did not watch) the reviews on Mexico and Cameroon…both with good results! I’m not panicking but I’m curious to know the strategy and tactics we will be using!
I wonder if Kovac was disguising his intentions? did he ask different players to work on different things in the game and not necessarily field the team based on his WC strategy? we saw soo many changes and not 1 particular combination we’d most likely see during the WC…thoughts?
@slavonac…..good read. yeah, Rakitic appears to have that ability to know how to play a guy with a long ball, be it across the field or directly forward.
@Jarac I agree young Croats will leave the country more easily, but I also expect the economy to be somewhat better (but the people will be worse off) than in the recent past. What you are missing is that you are comparing economy from Germany to Croatia, but you really need to compare economy from eastern countries, middle east and africa to Croatia and Croatia would look appealing to many people. It may just be to get a foot into the door in the EU, like in Italy. But then once they arrive some may settle and stay for longer, after all there is a lot to like about living in Hrvatska and the economy is/will be better than many of the places the immigrants will be coming from
@Nepoznat
I remember when croatia was in talks about joing eu and many people feared a swarm of immigrants were going to enter the country. I beg to differ, the opposite will happen, young croats will leave the country, due to the fact the economy is shit. I dont expect many immigrants to come to a country like croatia, they will stick to the wealthy ones like germany.
I saw part of the game this weekend, I was really busy but was able to watch certain parts of the game. One thing I noticed but would like some comments on is Rakitic, I noticed he gave several long passes, diagonal, cross field from his own side of the field…his precision was pretty awesome….did anyone else notice that?
nepoznat- good to see your personal experience has given you this view, I think you’re much better at giving opinions based on what you see rather than what you read, this logic is the same for all of us!
I have always liked Kranjcar’s plus side…his offensive abilities… and I know his downside, his lack of speed and defensive abilities…he has a way better offensive side to him than Sammir, but Sammir will be utilized differently!
@Slavonac after watching the u21 game give me Kranjcar over Brozo or Pasalic any day and five times on game day!
Ante B if you want my take here it goes:
Croatia seemingly sealed it’s own fate once it voted to join the EU, now it’s only a matter of time until more immigration occurs and the culture is further diluted. Eventually, maybe in 20 years, there will be multiple non-ethnic Croatians on the squad that were born within Croatia’s boundries
The days of pure ethnic representations will soon be over for Croatia (if not already with Sammir & Dudu already on the squad) as they have been for other countries for some time. Multi-culturalism is a fact of life in many/most/all western countries during these modern times of super easy mobility and wealth disparity between east & west or africa & west, etc. Joining the EU will only hasten that for Croatia
cfc yes u r right u can choose to remain “pure” by mixing with a purebread, just makesure she aint from the sam selo, family tree check
Today’s must read link:
http://gol.dnevnik.hr/clanak/nogomet/reprezentacije/kovac-nema-alibi-a-brazilu-su-se-rugali-tko-to-ima-modrica-i-rakitica—338586.html
And another thing don’t confuse my statements with nazi eugenics either. We need to give preference to European immigrants and force our Communist government to encourage our sweety’s to have more of our own children.
Westen Europe is done but we can still save ourselves.
@Jarac
As a people we have have every right to maintain our ethnic balance especially since we are so few. Every country that has accepted third world migration has suffered. Sweden used to be a beautiful and efficent country. Been to Malmo recently? Its all about cheap labor. We don’t need economic migrants.
@armada
daj dvi fanta molim LOL
@Denis
lol good one.
Now for my final thoughts, the world is an ever evolving place, theres nothing that can be done about that, and it has always been like that. Here’s where the problem lies, when you got fuckers that come to lijepa nasa and dont respect the country, wont assimilate, and wont die for the country, etc. etc. If you will ur a croat, if ur not then you dont belong, AKA SERBS. Thats was the problem with serbs they never loved croatia, they used croatia.
Assistant captain****
The Australian NT captain is half Istrijanac…
paaa, no wonder they made the WC!
😀
moze iman pivo…? da?! falaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
@ IVO people like you create the hate. There is no reason Croatia should not stay Croatian.
Croat sounds like that idiot black zodiac about how great jugo was and tito was the best. Stupidity.
@Jarac,
The fans have a lot more power than you think.
Just like the waiter has a lot more power than most people think.
dude.. if sammir can play well and score hattrick .
may you send me the money via paypal !?
I’d take Mile Jedinak from Australia into Croatias squad.If only
Great speech, Ivo. You’re right, it is not 1943! We’re going to be like Australia…
I assume you think 1943 was bad because Germans accepted that Germany was going to remain white (how evil if only you could’ve linked to a youtube video where scary music starts playing like all of the history documentaries that talk about WWII), yet you make it seem that its going to be fantastic when we all accept the fact that Croats are going to be mixed race in the future…
Am I the only one that sees the hypocrisy? Were the Germans really wrong in trying to remain German, while our generation shoves the idea that we’re all going to be mixed down our children’s throats, not wrong?
We’re all going to be like Australia! Australia’s pretty nice, but you neglected to mention that it’s still +90% white. If you want to talk about how multicultural societies worked out maybe you can check out how that ended up for Brazil
We are a shit narod sometimes.
All these big croats on here promoting their racist views. Where will that get you in life.Thats hate, hate leads to anger and yada yada yada
Enjoy the fucken world cup for what it is . Ive seen chinese at the markets in zagreb talking croatian.
FFS its not 1943. One day we are all gonna be a country like australia. Just a mixed up bowl of chorba. Nationalities of everything.
Sammir is just one player.
Bee seems like we are not the only ones affected by injuries
yes i say just play the second team against aussie;)
ok back to formation stuff.. does vrsaljko work on LB and then pranjic up in left mid… they both seem offended minded guys that can also defend and overlap each other?
sammir nije nigger, sammir je samo cigan thats all we have to say
great great news two great mexico players injured,
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/mexico-s-luis-montes-suffers-gruesome-leg-break-after-scoring-wonderful-goal-210815615.html
now i hope we dont start to many starters against aussie lol and just play our second squad
This is a boring argument we’ve had to deal with since this was Croatian Soccer Report. We have to deal with children who discuss things not having to do with the tread instead of having an actually interesting conversation about topics. Imagine if we actually had a thread to discuss Denis questions about what we’d want as requirements for Croatia internationals or just discuss something without having through spew through 50 comments of Sammir is a nigger, Fuck Sammir, ect… It’s so tiring and senseless. I know Ziva, Denis, and Ante and many others on here actually have commonsense and are able to have interesting conversations but it’s really a killer having to deal with the few who come on here and have nothing educated to say.
I can’t tell you how much better this site would be in a forum style chat where we have to have approved usernames and banning. It really will improve these conversations and eliminate the garbage.
@Croat
I’m an expert of telling you there will never be a Jugoslavia again! There was great things about Jugo but it doesn’t outweigh the negatives and unrest that it leads to eventually. The people today have freedoms that they love and wouldn’t ever go back to the old days. It’s ok kiddo I was a teenager once and going through a rebellious phase. The people of Croatia know what they want not the hrvati who don’t live there any longer. It’s always funny to me the people who don’t live in Croatia try to tell people there how life is and what they want.
@Croat-You have today made the dumbest comments that I have ever read on the site.Andrinho summed it up.
-Hand back your user name and start to use “Jugo”instead.
-You have paid complete disrespect to the thousands that died to achieve todays independant Croatia.
-Croatia has always faced challenges and threats for over a thousand years and will continue to do so (unfortunately)
-Just because a guy by the name of Sammir will be travelling with us to Brazil wouldnt drive many to say”shit,lets go back to Jugo because Tito would not have allowed this”
-There is a reason that we declared independance,you dont seem to understand why or have forgotten.Shame on you.
It’s good to see that we have an expert here named Andrinho who lived in Croatia honestly thanks teacher preacher. Who said if we went back to yugoslavia that it would be communist? stop basing on assumptions.
@Croat
You’ve never lived in a communist nation but you seem so fond of the thought. Why don’t you just go move somewhere where you can live this lifestyle and be so happy? Don’t worry though when you realize it isn’t all that it’s up to be you won’t be able to speak out against it because that’s just not allowed. Did you ever pick up the history book to realize the amount of debt Tito built? Did you know that 20% of the economy came from 8% of the population in Slovenia. Communism didn’t workout for a reason and nobody wants to go back. You don’t even live there and you act as if you know what the modern Croatian wants. The average Croatian teen wants to be educated and wants work. People are realistic and know Croatia will never be Germany economically but they are taking strides one step at a time. You’re ignorance represents a small portion of the population. I’m proud of who I am and where I am today and where I was born and grew up but I no longer can walk to shoes of an everyday Croatian because going back isnt going to provide me a better life. I’m glad Croatia is moving forward a step at a time. There will always be people like you who act as if things were better back in the day but realistically we went through one of the worst wars on the 20th century because of things that didn’t work and going back to something like that is going back to a terrible cheating ex-girlfriend years later because you’ve forgiven and forgotten about how bad things got. I’m glad to see Croatia isn’t going in that direction.
@croatia vs. Antwerp…….you could be on to something. Financial gold mine as well. Think about it…how many times have we been to cro and we hear a diaspora US hrvat trying to order food and drinks or talk to the locals. I mean, we cringe in shame when we hear them speak, right????? Only if someone would be willing to help them. The “za dom…..spremni” lifestyle manual would be a big ticket item. I would include. Bonus section of when to and when not to yell “za dom”. Think about it, Suspension Joey would be at the World Cup if he had the manual and didn’t go the selfish route.
Dude, what are ten years old. Can you have a conversation without it being racist.
@ Ziva
Regarding F, I think you should start a Za Dom Spremni Lifestyle boot camp. It would be a 3-Day intensive assimilation into Croatian culture and history for those whose parents failed them. Also basic phrases should be covered. 🙂
What is more disturbing:
A. Sammir on the repka
B. the miners who died in Turkey a few weeks back
C. One of STD Corluka’s conquests
D. Goran Ivanisevic’s finances
E. The victims of the flooding in Slavonija
F. Diaspora hrvati from the US trying order food/drinks in Cro
As always, your answers and comments are appreciated.
Sammir is the most polarizing figure in the Repka to date. His very presence divides fans across the globe.
Given that he is only 27, he may get called up for years to come. So the debate whether Sammir should be included or not, could rage for a long time.
LOOOL, No I do. It’s the logical answer that we should be turning to if we keep going in this direction that we’re headed with all this pride it will blind us and make us into another France
@Croat-I hope you dont mean what I think you mean ,because all hell will break out on this site shortly!
Too be honest, if we went back to being Jugoslavia we wouldn’t be having this problem or discussing of players like Sammir playing for repka. Not only would it benefit our sports teams but the economy as a country. People would be able to eat, unemployment would decrease. If we stay like this our politicians will only keep being corrupt, people will starve and our entire culture and people will be run over and invaded by muslims/non slavic.
I swear I don’t know is more full of shit on this site. Change in generation I can only assume.
Mamic or his son were making money on Eduardo long after he was sold from Dinamo, could be the case with Sammir as well. The point about Halilovic is valid but he has already been sold too.
To add my 2 cents worth on Sammir,not too happy,didnt expect it.Dont want to see us become a squad of Sammirs,but i also dont think there is that much of a hoo-haah about it,we thinned out on options,he ended up remaining because of it,he may get some minutes as a sub,so what! If he kept a better player out,I would be more upset.As for Pranjic,he would also be able to see the way things worked out in the end,so no reason to expect a walkout from him.
@Rob I-Ahhh,something nice to talk about rather than Sammir/Dammir! Good article!
This is why the Croatian community has provided so much to Australian soccer.
good article
http://www.smh.com.au/fifa-world-cup-2014/australia-2014/croatian-communitys-proud-role-in-australian-soccer-still-reaping-rewards-20140531-zrtuo.html
@svircic
fans can change the situation, what situation, are u out of ur mind fans have no power.
samir nije damir i dudu nije damir, hence u guys should stop pretending you wont cheer cause u have been cheering for years.
no reason for kovac to be pressured in bringing sammir to brazil…he does play in spain, not dinamo, you know.
I hope we don’t need to, or have to play sammir, but if we do and he does score, obviously i would cheer and be happy. I don’t understand how you could not be.
I wish kovac picked Milic, Pasalic, or Halilovic over Sammir, but the guy has a job, and his job is to win. If he feels Sammir will help the team win, of course he would choose him.
Good last comment Denis!
I doubt Kovad had to because of any pressure, I believe he looked at the players available and chose those he thought could best help his team get the result he needs.
After the top 18 he initially listed as his “for sure” players, the rest were almost a crap shoot! Aside from Rebic, most are either too inexperienced or just not good enough…I think in 3 years the situation will be different but as of right now I just don’t see the depth for the 23 man roster.
@say no to drugs,
Put yourself in Niko Kovac’ shoes…
Suker and Mamic tell him, “just add Sammir to the roster, you don’t have to play him.”
However, I really do feel that Kovac thinks that Sammir is croatian enough and chose him on his own. Why would anyone else want Sammir to start?
Kovac chose not to pick Halilovic despite Mamic voicing his opinion. Duje Cop was sent home. I think Niko made the decision on Sammir on his own.
We are thin in midfield and Kovac had to chose a prospect or Sammir.
@ Dennis
Maybe Niko Kovac had to call up Sammir to keep his job? What do you do then?
I have a feeling there was pressure on him and he caved, that is why I think he is a coward. That was definitely the case with Stimac, the savez is corrupt and our team will suffer despite having a very promising generation and in the end many fans will stop caring as they did with Dinamo .
@soul champ
just don;t buy that.
Rakitic and Simunic did it, Hell fight for it if you want to be on the club. I would of expected more from Drmic. Easy for everyone to blame Sammir.
This is our team and frankly this is what we have and I think they can get out of the group stage. Support this team is all that matters.
@Ziva Istina,
Never say never.
@Banda,
Yes, the swiss and Australians were not happy.
To get croatian citizenship you need to speak language and live in cro 7 years in foreginers case. Diaspora croats if parents born in cro child is entitled to citizenship.
@Colin…….you gave me a good laugh. The chances of an American hrvat being good enough for the repka will never happen. Never been one even close to being good enough. Hell, I’m not aware of any doing anything other than the Cro league, the BiH league or 3rd or 4th division in Germany. We hrvati in the US are more worried about ordering drinks (butchered Croatian language of course) than playing.
Rakitic and Simunic how did they do right thing they both respectiley screwed over swiss ans aussies 2 sides to this citizen ship story
@say no to drugs,
I dont know if Kovac is a coward. You don’t know the circumstances.
How many chicks in hollywood, Sandra Bullock, Brittany Spears hahahaha, etc etc have had to sleep with someone or sometwo or somethree to get somewhere in hollywood?
How many reporters in croatia have done the same?
How many managers have someone above them call the shots if they want to stay manager, if they want to prolong their managerial careers?
I’m not saying that its right, in the end its a personal decision.
Maybe Niko Kovac had to call up Sammir to keep his job? What do you do then?
or
Niko Kovac might be fine with Sammir. Niko might think that Sammir is Croatian enough.
@Ante B,
I will not celebrate a Sammir goal.
Question for you: How would Sammir make it to the croatian national team under your guidelines? I will start in 1987, Sammir was born in Brazil…. you finish the story…
@Colin,
Good point. Sammir just barely missed out on my guidelines.
@ Colin
Croatia is their home!!!!!
Prodigal son has returned.
They can learn the language and reclaim their roots.
Once they see who they are it will all come back to them.
Of course they must choose with their heart.
But to deny Croatia to a fellow Hrvat is treachery.
Croatia flows from my parents through me to my kids.
My kids have my name and they are 100% Croat. My wife may give a little variance but they is no confusion in the Dvor.
They will set foot on naša zemlja and feel right home.
Then I would like to see someone roll up and tell me who my kids are.
Za dom spremni .
the rules are if Mamic can make money off you it doesn’t matter where you were born or what languages you speak you will get on the team by hook or by crook. Niko Kovac proved to me that he is a coward and he will be a poor manager.
The topic about Sammir is a tough one, I commend those that oppose him and I commend those that accept him, I would prefer not to have him BUT at this moment, on this team with the player choices they had, I don’t hold it against Kovac for taking him. I’m not extreme either way, I’d rather Kranjcar or some kid is there instead of him….maybe if he wasn’t such a douche I’d be ok with him but if he does score a big goal, although I will be happy, I will be happy for the team and not as much for him!
What do you guys think if one of the diaspora from America got called up to the repka? What if an American born player with Croatian blood (or half Cro blood) was called up? What if he doesn’t know the language? What if he doesn’t have a Croatian last name? Not that I’m advocating Sammir on the team, BUT I’d rather see someone like him play for the repka (knows the language, lives there) than someone with blood that doesn’t.
@ NYC Hrvat
Homie we live in a performance based city.
Joe Drmic should have been integrated into the fold. Savez were sleeping at the wheel.
Sammir distraction took away from actualizing Croatian talent.
Štimac is the poster child of “I don’t produce sranje, but I know all.”
Budala.
Joe Drmic should be upfront for naša repka on June 12th.
That fiasco reminds me of the time when Josip Skoblar and then Luka Modric got disrespected by Hajduk.
It took Tomislav Basic (Otok Vir) to see the potential of Modric and ignite his career.
We need to actualize every bit of talent of every single Hrvat that is walking the earth !
Svircic,
My qualifications have already been met. All you need to do is take a look at Rakitic, Simunic, et. al. All those guys did it the right way.
I agree, only fans can change it…or maintain the status quo.
However, let me ask: Sammir scores the game winner, what do you do? Cringe, let it hurt and then celebrate post alcohol induced coma?
The question I keep asking everyone is this:
What are your guidelines?
and stick to them.
Some of you take into consideration talent.
I gave you my rules and regulations. Sammir came close.
FIFA has rules and regulations: Sammir qualifies.
HNS has rules and regulations: They would put a jersey on a horse if he could play. Sammir qualifies.
Players: for the most part, they get payed at clubs and keep quiet on the national team(Which is wrong in my opinion.) Sammir qualifies.
Fans: Are the only ones that can change the situation. Does he qualify?
we wont need sammir didnt u see that ad where lovren tackles passes to kovacic who passes to mandzu and he bicycle kicks a goal v brazil in the wc final??? ; P
but nah that is a tough Q ante.. i’d prolly have to say id prefer to lose and sammir on the bench
Ante your hypothetical would be relevant if SRAMMIR was actually some kind of a superstar which he is not, but I’ll play along and we can pretend that he is a differance maker as a player. I would absolutely rather lose without him than win with him or any other non-croat import ie. messi. ronaldo
@Ante B,
What are your qualifications for the checkered shirt?
I would rather lose with Damir. However, Sammir came pretty close to my qualifications. If Sammir came to Croatia just 1.5 years earlier, he would make my quidelines.
Maybe the players, the coaches, the savez, the croatian people have different guidelines.
For me, I have to stick to my guidelines. I hope he doesnt make the pitch.
@Chupe,
Nikola Tesla is a serb born in croatia. Last I checked, there is an airport in Beograd with his name on it. Tesla was an amazing man and I don’t care if he is serb, black, white, green, gay, whatever. However, he will be referred to as serb.
Also, if anything, there have been black players in the league way before da Silva or Sammir. Anybody remember Mass Sarr for Hajduk?
@Andrinho
Go ahead and quote one thing I said you perceived as “racist”. I’ll wait. You didn’t respond to any point I stated in particular, you just kept calling me a “racist” and said that I was “spewing hate”. You seem like a very sensitive guy, but if you’re going to have a conversation with me, keep it relevant. I know it’s easy to act like some “holier than thou” figure, but please, save me the bullshit.
Well that’s skipping the point…
Would you rather win the World Cup with Sammir on the field or lose with Damir playing? Don’t skirt around the issue. And, if Sammir scores with WC winning goal, how many of you go insane?
@ Denis thats why the Domovinski rat happened was because of Ethinic background means more than where you were born in my opinion.
@ denis i meant born and stayed in croatia like most of national team.
@Chupe,
“Born in croatia” doesn’t mean much. Predrag Stojaković and Siniša Mihajlović were both born in Croatia. Ethinic background means more than where you were born in my opinion.
sammir is as much of a croat as a poodle is a rottwieler, how many of sammirs ancestors shed blood for Croatia? BTW for you PC people race is a million times more complicated than simply the color of ones skin, the main classification of race is skull shape/size where as a consequence asians have larger brains than caucasions who have larger brains than negroids, I wish people would educate themselves before they just mindlessly repeat things they hear in the media.
tbh i will cringe if sammir scores i think.. i mean ill be glad for the team but idk….
lets hope he doesnt get much playtime in the actual wc anyway..
my preference is for cro players to have cro blood.. i think that’s fair enough and not racist.. it’s not that sammir is black.. if they guy’s name was shakovskoy and he was russian i’d be against that too
My guidlines would be you have to be born in croatia live go to school and second diaspora croats would have to know language and know croatian life and land be worthy of having a domovnica osobna rodni list putovnica,
@Ante B,
If Croatia were to win the world cup with Sammir on the bench or lose all three games with Damir on the team I would go with sammir on the bench.
Listen they gave him a passaporto and deal with i hate it but sto je tu je who would you calll instead who is ready to play tournament football sammir cl and el games with dinamo and has experience thats why he is on this team. and NK said Kome smeta neka ne gleda!
I disagree with some of you being pro-Sammir. If it was up to me, players would need to meet certain qualifications to represent Croatia.
1) Croatian blood. Gets you in the door if you prove your “Croatianness” through language, culture, history, marriage, etc etc.
Example:
Sertic has 1/4 blood but from what I heard could barely put croatia on the map. No free passes. I am open for Sertic, dude would have to show me his love for croatia.
If no Croatian blood:
2) Immigrated to Croatia before his 18th birthday. Learned Croatian language, culture, people, way of life.
example: Eduardo. Dude qualifies. Dude loves croatia more than I do.
Sammir: Moved to Croatia at the age of 19. dude has lived in ZG for 8 years.
Under my guidelines, Sammir wouldn’t be considered because he showed up onto the scene a bit too late. However, looking at the “croatianness” numbers, he doesn’t miss by much.
As far as hating sammir because of his skin color, well that is a different story. So many of us here don’t want Sertic on the team and he’s whiter than snow.
FIFA has their set of rules based on business. HNS is a business too. They just want to win. Wins = $$$$$.
In the end, only the fans would be able to prevent the croatian team to turn into France.
I can’t answer those additions because as soon I see him, I’m turning off the TV. And before the cavalry attempts to call me a racist, please know that I always supported da Silva and that Cico was wrong in not calling him up. So I think my question remains…
Would you rather win with Sammir or lose with Damir?
Sto bude bude. Got to prepare and play smart football. reading alot of lineups that the NP journalist are suggesting NK Kovac will put a line he deems good enough to compete but time after time same questions never answered
1 What is the Cb partnership
2 Who is the LB
3 Who is dm
4 Does Olic work as LW
Andrinho, hv and anon123 are good little sheep, say baaaah
@Ante B,
There needs to be more to be added to that question.
1) Does Sammir play?
2) Does Sammir score?
Here is my question to everyone:
1) Sammir scores, what will you do?
.
Andrinho – you’re a good man Brate.
well said Andrinho
Exhibition games at this point are not as reflective of a true result as in post tournament games. Some teams are expirementing while others are solidifying their tactics, lineups and formations. Each team is at a different phase, some are working on player personnel while others are working on strategy…at the end of the day, we will see the results of all of these exhibitions in less than 2 weeks!
@Mishko and Uskok
I feel bad for you if you are going to point the problems of the world on the color of someones skin but don’t worry as the world changes people like you will be in the past more and more. I’m all for the “za dom spremni” but I’m not an idiot. You can sit and spew your hate all you want but that doesn’t reflect Croatians. If you’ve been to Croatia recently you’d know that it is no longer stuck in the old times and the younger people just want to move forward and live better lives. I’ll gladly keep supporting my Croatian team with “my Brazilians” because that’s the world I live in today and if they put their heart out on the field I don’t care who they are. You feel free to spew your hatred but I promise you that distaste for Sammir is more projected from the media you read rather then the majority of people who actually live their. You can feel free to do what you do but when you go to most parts of Croatia people will laugh at you both for being stuck in something of the past. Move on and support your team and quit being such children and quit acting like such big guys behind a keyboard.
shit cameroon drew 2-2 with geermany in germany O.o
Friendlies mean shit i know its what you do at the turnir that matters but all 3 games ok the Brazil one only croatians think they can win but the second 2 games are huge idemo dalje.
Yeah and Mexico played against Ecuador and Israel. Let’s see how they do against stronger opposition Bosnia and Portugal.
just watched the Germany Kamerun game and kamerun look organized and does meksiko watched the lst 2 games they played its wil be strong 3 games for croatia
@Slavonac i agree thats why Rebic and Dudu are considered midfield player wide players. but Kranjcar is a big loss thats the biggest to me Badelj ilicevic Males have done nothing to make me feel otherwise maybe Brozovic Mocinic wil step it up.
From an offensive perspective, we have some questionable subs….Kranjcar would have been better than any of the midfield subs…30 minutes or less! I’d like to see anyone name one player on the 23 listed as a midfield sub that was better than him! Nepoznat?
The inclusion of Sammir is a direct result of lack of talent in HNL that are ready to go to tournaments. I heard Pasalic was terrible when NK drilled them but Sammir was one of the better ones,When you look at it if Kranjcar Ilicevic Jo Simunic Males Badelj were fit the following would not have gone Sammir,Mocinic,Vukojevic,Vida,Brozovic.
Sammir is a Cro national player and that is that it is what it is they gave him passaport and tako je.
Also i will repeat my self lack of talent that are ready there are alot of prospects but no ready zrili player at this time and moment.
Sammir is a sub and not a solution to the nucleus of this team…he was selected only after everyone else fell due to injury, I highly doubt he would have made the team if this wasn’t the case!
Sammir is the Jackie Robinson of Croatian football. He’s broken the color barrier. In 25 years HRTV will make a biopic on his life: “Sammir: Legenda”
The cult of the reprezentacija ended with the inclusion of Sammir for many players and fans, I believe it is the reason why we struggled so badly in the qualis. Players may not say it publicly but be sure just as there are fans that can’t stand that he is part of the repka there are players taht feel that way too. This multi-culti bullshit has to be resisted or we will end up like countries like Sweden, Belgium that are in real danger of having their cultures wiped out within a generation or two.
Fundamental question to ask is this: would you want to rather win with Sammir or draw/lose with Pasalic/Brozovic? I open that up to everyone.
I’m a BIG proponent of bringing the young talent to the tournaments, however after watching the u21 game vs Ukraine and then the friendly vs Mali it is painfully obvious that Sammir is way way way better than Brozovic/Pasalic at this stage in their careers
note: I am not a fan of Sammir, but right now he is obviously a superior talent to those 2
@Ziva,
“second chance Drmic”
Did the Swiss accept him? Did they even question if Croatia was his first choice?
Will be interested to see what if anything comes of this,
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27654587
Love the timing of it all though, putting the heat on the FIFA henchmen right as they are all getting ready to gather in Brazil for the World Cup.
Love it.
@Aron
two sides to every story
Doesn’t get more blatant than this quote here from Drmic and his father.
“Žao mi je što ne igram za Hrvatsku, tužan sam zbog toga. Ali, nitko me iz Hrvatske nije zvao, ni mene, ni moju obitelj”, otkrio je nakon utakmice Josip. Njegov otac Milko bio je još konkretniji:
“Mi smo dugo čekali, nadali se. Kad mi je sin dao gol za mlade Švicarce u Koprivnici, pitao sam se hoće li nam konačno netko prići. Nisu. A kad je nazvao Hitzfeld, tri mu dana nismo odgovarali, mislili se, čekali. Tri dana smo ga pustili da čeka… …Čekali smo poziv Igora Štimca u kolovozu prije dvije godine. Onda ga je Švicarska stavila minutu u kvalifikacijama protiv Albanije, tri tjedna nakon utakmice u Poljudu. Tada je sve bilo gotovo.”
@nyc-hrvat
He wanted to play for us, but HNS never called him…when the swiss called he felt like he had no choice. Better to play for your second choice than no one at all. Read here:
http://sportske.jutarnji.hr/josip-drmic-konacno-otkrio–nikad-me-nitko-nije-ni-zvao-niti-ponudio-igranje-za-hrvatsku-/1170168/
and here
http://www.hrsport.net/kolumne/471309/nogomet-reprezentacija/ako-je-josip-drmic-zelio-igrati-za-hrvatsku-cega-se-hns-prestrasio/
Can we use the Suspension Joey money (remember, that was the money raised to help out a millionaire), to purchase advertising in Cro to build a campaign to never have Second-choice Sertic on the repka. I think that would be money well spent than paying the fine a millionaire. Just a thought…….
Enjoy your Sunday. Hopefully those of you who don’t live the “za dom……spremni” lifestyle see the light and hit church earlier today.
Second-choice Sertich coming out today and basically admitting he didn’t think the savez did everything they could to get him to be eligible. He said he thinks it might have been done because of the fear he wouldn’t be accepted into the repka because he has never played before and doesn’t know the language……….you think??????
i want replace ko fuck if he don’t get further to quarta
and with The God of Halilovic we will win every match !!
2 of our 23 are not hrvati. Too bad.
That is not the “za dom….spremni” lifestyle that I advocate and care for.
It is what it is. Unfortunately, we have to learn to accept it.
@soul champ
I doubt it was “low self esteem or arrogance” regarding Drmic. If he wanted to play for Croatia he could of made a real effort but he did not. He picked the Swiss and that is fine. His choice.
Rakitic was born in Switzerland but he picked Croatia over the Swiss and good for him. Yes his father recieved threats but he stuck with his choice of Croatia.
@Uskok
regarding their ignorance, read online today where back home they are talking the best thing is for Croatian to revert back to jugoslavia, unfortunately ignorance at all levels
@ Svima
The repka should support Croatian players in expressing their talents in service to our nation.
Why do we need to demean other cultures and human beings that may look different then us?
This is a weakness and debilitating way of thinking.
The issue is not with Sammir but it is with the apparatus that got him anywhere near naša repka.
I have seen a Marcos Sena play DM for Spain and get them over the hump of years of under performance at world competitions. Now I see Diego Costa recruited to Spain and decline to play for Brazil in Brazil at the World Cup !
The core issue is why and how we allow Sammir (b brazilian player) get a spot over a better player like a Joe Drmic ?
Low-self esteem/ARROGANCE!
Ok we made a mistake here.
Let’s be powerful and take responsibility.
But to transfe it towards Sammir speaks to a core dysfunctionality in our individual and collective psyche.
That is what will kill Croatia.
I see the diaspora Hrvati providing leadership and world-class presence for the repka. Kovač – Rakitic add tremendous value to the community. Drmic could have started for us against Brazil! Joe gave his body up in Belgrade !
Say what you want but Sertic could start along side Modrić, putting Rakitic up top and Kovacic on the wing.
Invitation to look inside first before we start throwing stones.
We need to come together as a modern nation state and RISE to the Challenge of competing on the world stage !
Bog i Hrvatska .
85 min ! NOT 90 + min ! Bog !!
For what’s it worth.
The inclusion of Sammir I don’t much like.
He came to these lands to play nogomet for Dinamo. He could have just as easily gone to clubs in Ukraine, Serbia or Ukraine and played for their national teams.
Such possibilities treat lightly the very serious undertaking of representing our people on the world stage.
His reasons for playing for us are opportunistic and cynical.
However, this is not Sammir’s problem. This is the problem of the vision, ethos and direction of the HNS.
So as long as the Savez has made the Sammir situation possible he ought to at least have our civility and respect.
I will still support the Repka with a Sammir in it.
I like that the site permits robust and free exchanges without involving meddling PC despots. Keep it that way.
The churlish minority can inhabit their dark corners and no one much will notice nor care.
90 + Min. NOT 85 ! Bog !!
@sj0c
I’ve accepted the fact that quite a few Croats are okay with Brazilians playing for the NT, their ignorance about the cultural significance of the NT isn’t my problem.
Maldonado should be fighting at 185, no wonder he got knocked down so easily by Stipe. Stipe could have ended it 10 seconds in, but gave Fabio 10 seconds to recover (that’s kind Stipe) when he could’ve just swarmed him and ended it. Oh well, I guess ending the fight in 20 seconds and 45 isn’t much of a difference. Hopefully Stipe gets a more worthy opponent (JDS, Barnett, would love to see him ktfo Overeem) and moves his way up.
IN DA FAYCE
Didn’t see the game… sounds ok for preparing… if the guys are tired they are obviously being worked hard and also probably learning the system kovac wants… learning is hard but hopefully its soaking in
the one thing i got from some comments was the schildenfeld was a beast… no surprise. he played great in euro and everyday he his called upon and if memory serves me correct got very little time under stimac
the guy is a stud… he is the guy ziva was talking about shows up for the repka every time he is asked… ill take 11 of him then guys that just play for club
glad perisic was on… someone said he is a bum.. yes its true he has had his struggles but the dude right now is on his game.. if he falls off after oh well… shit if we had red hot jelavic when he came to england that is all you need a player to do to make that much of a difference
if perisic even gets us one goal at world cup… that might be the difference just like we needed at euro…one goal against italy or spain and we are in the next round after that its anyones game…
ok sammir is a nigger, but we are stuck with him now… i don’t approve when i think we generally ahve better quality then him that are croats but thats life… i will still support croatia till i die, unless it becomes a team of sammirs then jebi ga its over…
PUNCHED HIM RIGHT IN THE FUCKN FACE
FIRST ROUND KNOCK OUT STIPE MIOCIC!!!!
Miocic just knocked out some cunt in a few seconds
i dont think we’ll easily beat either cam or mex.. i think both those games are 50/50
Oh yea and Sammir is a nigger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWHX1gsAWdc&list=TL1_KGCgwMH315Tz4OBHtd-OR7fT7wGuB6
Thank me later guys.
interesting note out of kovac and the players. they all said everyone was extremely tired in today’s game.
seems like they’ve been going through some intense training and are feeling beat down.
is this standard procedure for world cup? train em hard the first couple weeks and then take the foot off the gas into the end?
I know as much as we would like to say teams are garbage and believe that we shouldn’t worry about them but we simply can’t just do that. How many times in the past did we say “oh we are going to beat this team no problem or it will be a breeze” and come out with a loss. Every game we have to be on our toes it’s the World Cup anything can happen
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/world/americas/crime-surges-in-rio-ahead-of-world-cup.html?hp&_r=1
Squad named….
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-01/croatia-finalises-23-man-squad/5492068
Croatia squad
Goalkeepers: Stipe Pletikosa (Rostov/RUS), Danijel Subasic (Monaco/FRA), Oliver Zelenika (Lokomotiva Zagreb)
Defenders: Darijo Srna (Shakhtar Donetsk/UKR), Domagoj Vida (Dynamo Kiev/UKR), Sime Vrsaljko (Genoa/ITA), Danijel Pranjic (Panathinaikos/GRE), Vedran Corluka (Lokomotiv Moscow/RUS), Dejan Lovren (Southampton/ENG), Gordon Schindelfeld (Panathinaikos/GRE)
Midfielders: Luka Modric (Real Madrid/ESP), Ivan Rakitic (Sevilla/ESP), Mateo Kovacic (Inter Milan/ITA), Marcelo Brozovic (Dinamo Zagreb), Ognjen Vukojevic (Dynamo Kiev/UKR), Ivan Mocinic (Rijeka), Sammir (Getafe/ESP)
Forwards: Mario Mandzukic (Bayern Munich/GER), Nikica Jelavic (Hull City/ENG), Ivica Olic (VfL Wolfsburg/GER), Eduardo Da Silva (Shakhtar Donetsk/UKR), Ivan Perisic (VfL Wolfsburg/GER), Ante Rebic (Fiorentina/ITA)
Mexico loses midfielder Luis Montes for WC with a horrific broken fibula and tibia, captain Rafa Marquez suffered a foot injury and was taken to hospital….Mexico is garbage, they are the least of our worries….tie Brazil, wins over El Tri and Cameroon and bring on the next round.
Yea Sammir is a nigger…
I honestly hope Mexico is eliminated from the WC by the time they play us. With the team totally imploding.
They deserve it. They are just too damn cocky.
I was surprised how good Mexico played today. Longest time I have heard on this site how garbage and pathetic they play. Glad Mario will be back in time for this game as we will need him. Mexico is no push over.
sammir is a garbage player
lick my balls n suck my left nut brazil
Uskok and Misho I understand your points but when you look today at the game. The fans were not upset when Sammir or Silva were on the pitch. In fact quite a few times they were cheered and applause was given. Yes even for Sammir. I fully understand you want a Croatian team with only Croatians, but when I see these fans don;t care if non Croats and even our players don;t care. Remember when Pranjic made a stink regarding sammir well he is pretty quiet now. Just the way it is.
Mexico looked good today we need to improve in 12 days we open but the big games are like in 2006 the next 2 good li can see Vrsaljko as left back why not he looks good fast and young. Idemooooo. PLETIKOSA SRNA CARLI SIFO VRSALJKO MODRIC RAKITIC PERISIC KOVACIC REBIC OLIC VS BRAZIL IDEMOOOOOO
I think this generation that 90s croatia spirit is over this young generqtion have a different view to what Croatia is like halilovic he cares for himself he can care less about Croatia. Guys like Zvone Boban Braca Kovac Joey Srna are don we are heading in a new generation of croatiab football no more national pride thats in the past its all about eu and getting sold to big clubs from the pathetic HNL team. Jadno but we move foward.
Andrinho, one more thing. You and Brazil can keep your fucking leftovers to yourself. Our team isn’t desperate nor begging to put your garbage on our team.
@Andrinho
Look bud. Admittedly, there are non-Croatian players that are better than Croatian players. We’re a country of 4 million. I think thats partly why we have so much pride in our team, because despite the fact that we have a small population we still produce great players that can compete and beat much larger countries. The Croatian national team should remain entirely Croatian, because once you start bringing foreigners you’re no longer seeing the best of Croatia. You’re seeing a bunch of foreigners who wear the grb without pride. Fuck that man, I don’t want to see our NT ending up like France. Go ahead and call me racist, it’s definitely not the first time I’ve been called one, but I know that many Croats feel the same way as I do as the NT and we need to make our voices heard that we do not want any non croatians on the team. And for those that say we’re not going to end up like France with foreigners constituting the majority of the team, just keep in mind that they started off with only one or two foreigners as well.
fuck brazil hoolgians will fight za dom
@Andrinho, go fuck yourself. Have you been to LONDON, or PARIS lately? Do you watch the news? Those places are dumps because of the blacks and muslims. You need to pull your head out. I live in L.A. and I’m around them all the time, they’re a useless RACE, that only serves for rape, crime and all around violence, and it’s in their genetic makeup, and let that sink in.
So pull your head out of jew media, muticult, divershity brainwashed ass. Once one knows that Croatia is a good place to squat in, more WILL come. Hell the slant eyed jews from China are in Zagreb. If you don’t like you’re delusional and should seek help.
ZA DOM
@ Andrinho
Well said Brate.
Love Croatia without the need to project self-hating mindlessness.
@ Svima
Kovac needs to pick all the runners to start against Brazil.
Keep that clean sheet for the first 45 minutes and get them thinking … who are these Croatian ballers!
Then Brazil will start open those spaces on the counter for us. Kovacic, Perisic and Rebic take a through ball from the creative axis to shock the world.
Spremni!
There are some sad pathetic people on here. I feel bad for you and the negativity you have to live with. Can we honestly start banning people on here in one way or another? It’s pathetic that we have idiots on here posting such racist things. You’re entitled to your opinion but we’re also not 14 years old and we can make a normal conversation. It really makes the site lose a lot of credibility.
No need to call Sammir a nigger for making the team. He isn’t at fault for choosing to play with us or being good enough to make it on the team. If you want a Croatian player I would love to bring on Pasalic to show you that he isn’t good enough to clean Sammirs cleats and then you sit here and cry about why were so bad. Serious guys start banning this people. Ziva has actual points to not wanting him on the team but Croat is just sitting here bringing nothing but racist bullshit to the table.
Well done Mr. Perisic!
So Bude Bude I only dont like Sammir Jelavic and Vukojevic on this list everyone else is ok. Badelj got hurt because of Vukojevc start same thing with Mocinic Vukojevic start all in all good list anyway its all on the main guys shoulders to pull a 1/16 appearance idemo.
With Sammir on the team that gives us edge in the Alkohol Pijanci WC 11.
Subasic-Srna Carli Vida Rakitic Sammir Olic Mandzukic Rebic Cop Jelavic Izbornik CICO>k.
^ ^
Wow!
How far the “Suker-man” has fallen…
by the way, props to the folks in Osijek. Their own homegrown Puppet Suker was booed and whistled at.
WOW, Luis Montes is done. I fell bad for the guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2ry0ZrKTDs
Also an Italian broke his knee or something.
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@ Poglavnik bravo He’s clearly there by default.
Injuries and a lack of better options good quote,Thats true as much as we keep writing this player that player at this time we dont have. Need to build players
Pletikosa -Srna Carli Sifo Vrsaljko- Modric Rakitic-Perisic Kovacic Olic -Jelavic looks like team v brazil i have no idea why Jelavic he sucks.
Rafa Marquez being injured would be a good thing for Mexico. We need him to be healthy because he is so bad on the field. I would love to have him line up against us in Brazil
http://www.espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1855232/modric-star-shines-ever-brighter?cc=5901
Nice story on Luka!
I doubt having Sammir on the team will hurt the spirit in the dressing room.
Firstly, he’s not a starter or even a player we should ever have to rely on.
Secondly, it’s not like he has a click of friends on the team that would stand up for the guy or contribute to his sulking.
He looks like a lonely man on this team and that shouldn’t affect the other 22 players.
He’s clearly there by default.
Injuries and a lack of better options.
Mexicos best liga player tibula fibula and marquez thats why friendlies are pointless rather get hurt in trianinf than meanigless game happ NK only made 2 friendlies,
Nice run out today in Slavonia.
Perišić goals were manifested by a man who is in FLOW!
Rafa Marquez also headed to the hospital with a possible toe fracture.
The list except Sammir is ok some players i would have called that NK dint thats his choice injuries are part of life and sport but so je tu je, One thing How is Jelavic infront of DUDU in terms of Cfs wtf NK how man chances did he miss.?
poor karadzic is still pissed that argentina beat serbia 6 – 0
now that is embarrassing, sramota
jk about that MVP comment. heard it on TV but nothing backing it up online.
Will be a loss for MX nonetheless.
Luis Montes – Tibia and Fibula fracture
Luis Montes – MVP of Liga MX
Re: Mexico – Both the goalscorer, and one other player went off hurt, I believe.
Yes. Montes
@ Anonymous
Was it the same Mexican player who scored the goal?
Perisic is a joke. Gets lucky in one game and goes to the World Cup. He makes so many mistakes. Always passes to the wrong team. Rather have halilovic in his position.
Mexico player just looks to have broken his leg.
Now if Perisic continues to play like this, he could be that Winger/Forward we’ve been dreaming about.
Naturally 2 footed with a bit of pace and trickery. And a good shot, and Voilà! This guy’s Croatia’s X-Factor.
While the world already knows about Modric and Rakitic. This could be the Tourney where Kovacic and Perisic come of age.
Looks like we have another idiot in charge of the repka, including SRAMMIR in the team is dumb on so many levels, will only create division in the team and among fans. SRAMOTA
motolivo hurt out world cup
Ratings as per Jutarnji list:
Pletikosa 6 – odradio što je trebao, nije imao mnogo posla, gol primio rukom.
Srna 6 – ofenzivno dobar, u obrani s malo posla, ali i jednom dekoncentracijom kad je otvorio akciju suparniku.
Ćorluka 6,5 – sigurno odradio što je trebao, rijetko je uopće morao intervenirati.
Schildenfeld 6 – u prvom dijelu suveren, u drugom s više muke, no on smireno rješava defenzivne situacije.
Vida 6 – bolji u defenzivi nego prema naprijed, ofenzivno nije niti previše djelovao.
Vukojević 6 – igrao na svojoj standardnoj razini, napravio jedan oštar prekršaj
Rakitić 7 – asistirao za gol, izveo korner za drugi, bio je vođe igre Hrvatske.
Perišić 7,5 – dvostruki strijelac, pritom je posebno lijep bio prvi pogodak.
Sammir 6 – par zgodnih poteza, zadobiva sve više povjerenja izbornika.
Olić 6 – od njega će više očekuje na Mundialu, on je najbolji kad se igra najozbiljnije.
Mandžukić 6 – bio je dosta odsjećen u napadu, nije bilo pravih lopti za njega.
Vrsaljko 6 – opasniji ofenzivno, ali niti obrambeno nije loš.
Modrić – premalo igrao za konkretniju procjenu.
Rebić 6 – ušao u 67. minuti, nešto pokušavao, ali utakmica je već bila poprilično revijalna u tom dijelu.
Kovačić 6,5 – krasnom loptom gurnuo Jelavića u odličnu priliku, ali nije iskorištena.
Jelavić 5,5 – igrao pola sata, šansu nije zabio, u toj je zgodi tražio kazneni udarac, u duelima je bio čvrst.
Luka Modric, proof that brains beat brawn
http://www.marca.com/2014/05/31/en/football/real_madrid/1401539407.html
Since time immemorial, battles have been fought by the strongest but won by the smartest. This truth is embodied by Real Madrid’s pint-sized, long-maned Croatian schemer, whose right foot belongs up in the heavens.
Luka Modric was the brains behind ‘La Décima’. The man who kept a cool head when jitters and the heat of the moment were causing everyone else to misfire. ‘Keep calm and Luka Modric’ would be a suitable motto to sum up Real’s victory in Lisbon.
Sergio Ramos’s goal stole the headlines, but the inch-perfect cross that led to it should not be forgotten, nor the way in which – with 93 minutes on the clock – the Croat took a second to breathe, glance at the action in the box and decide where he was going to aim his corner. After picking his spot and floating in the ball at just the right height, Ramos did the rest
n give any teams hope so trueeeeeeeeee
croatia brazil tie so fans wont fight illmunnti shit
you are not mistaken, cigan
we will not injur any brazilians (we want brazil to beat croatia by 10) and we will have a nice scrimage
in your ass
I thought Sammir sucked today (as always).
Surprised to see a few guys here saying he played well.
I actually liked both Vida and Vrsaljko.
Vrsaljko seemed to be getting forward a lot.
Didn’t notice much of his defending.
Also thought Perisic didn’t play that well despite his 2 goals.
Rakitic looked the best.
Calm and composed.
Where was Lovren?!
Modric looks younger than he did in ’06!
He’s gonna regret chopping the locks.
You could tell it was a walk through.
No one was getting stuck in.
We did enough.
On to the next game!
no point of kranjcar is there perisic stepping up
Pletikosa,
Lovren, Pranjić, Schildenfeld, Srna,
Modrić, Rakitić, pranjic
Eduardo,, Olić, Perišić
LMAO, here’s the mongrel serb Karadžić je Heroj. Don’t you have anything better to do.
BTW – You mujos play Brazil in a friendly I think on Friday. Should be interesting to see what the Yugos can do.
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Vrsaljko, but he played towards the end of the game and botched a breakaway opportunity .
croatian master race needs to have negroids on their team? what ever happened to that genetic superiority out of 4 million they have to take a spook
Personally I liked Vrsaljko better.
Vrsaljko*
who looked better at LB Vida or Vrsalko?
I think we played ok. Mali never pressured us in our own half, and we were happy with control. I think we had something like 2 minutes of total control on the ball that led to a good chance by Perisic.
Sammir played well in the first half, but is a just in case sub. Perisic, Olic, and Rakitic played the best out of anybody on the pitch. Could have been 4-0 but we were practicing out there.
A win, no injuries, and Perisic warming up is great for us. The handball goal that Mali scored was unfortunate, but what are you gonna do.
Cause your a good fan bro. Your one of those guys that go crazy during a game. I’m sure any place your at wold hear and see alot of you cause of the emotion you display. Your like me when it comes to going ape shit. It would suck to have you leave a venue when he walks on the pitch cause that venue would then miss out on the energy you bring for cro. All fans like fans like yourself at games. You would be robbing them of the WC experience.
jm – sammir just barely left the HNL and Pasalic at the age of 19 signed with Chelsea lol
Yes it is. Look, you want to watch him, gledaj i boli me goli rimokatolicki kurac. If I don’t care that you watch it while he’s, kaj te boli kurac ako ja ne zelim? It’s a matter of pride for me personally. Pride over compromise.
I”m telling you it’s the haircut and Modric’s long hair is gone,secondly sammir is a nigger
I can understand if you said you wouldnt celebrate a goal scored by him but to say your turning off the tv (in my opinion) is not supporting the other 22 players.
re: Sammir
At this stage I really couldn’t care less. It’s obvious that his callup was greatly aided by the fact that there were a few notable injuries. Barring any further injuries or suspensions, I don’t see him getting that much time in Brazil anyways.
You said you would turn off the tv once he comes on the field. thats not watching/supporting them.
quick comments/observations
– no lovren at all!
-am i wrong, or is schindenfeld really simunic?
– vida at left back? best defensive option but he’s terrible with the ball. will give very little down the left wing on charges
-would’ve like to see the golden triangle tested out: kovacic, rakitic, modric
-sammir is what he is. a guy who will make the b/c of injury. based on skill alone, he probably deserves to be considering he was hnl player of the year and i’m pretty sure palasic is not and may never be. in the end, he’s an uneventful player
– modric: didn’t seem like he really cared too much. i can’t totally blame him
– perisic: volatile distribution of results for this guy. you gotta give him credit for constantly finding himself in dangerous places
– rakitic: played more like we’d hope him to play. some nice threatening passes
If our team starts to look like France i’ll jump ship in a heartbeat. Cause in that case there would be no hrvati to not turn my back on.
“I watching the other 22 players called up.”
As am I
@ Mishko
I don’t understand. I never said that I wanted Sammir on the team, but I gave an honest analysis of what I saw from him today.
Here we go again…..
I’m a fan of the Repka. I watching the other 22 players called up. I’m not going to let one panj ruin the moment for the team and myself.
And you’re the guys who will be supporting it. Cestitam
Imocan – Pasalic is more of an offensive player like sammir. Just saying, Niko could have gave him the go ahead instead of sammir.
Ante – Badelj is a DM Sammir isn’t. I think Sammir was going all along. Your clubs leadership is going to plague our national team more than any other club in the HNL with foreigners.
I was wondering the same thing regarding the boycotters; boycott back on now? Why not boycott again as soon as Sammir made the 30 man squad?
Either way, Sammir on the squad is not terribly surprising after all the injuries (I was surprised he was even called to camp though), but still disappointing.
B,
Exactly. Hvala
I’d rather have Halillovic than that muhdick Sammir.
doesnt matter, this is the team and hopefully they can do something in a couple of weeks, glad rebic made it
Wasn’t expecting that response, were you? Badelj ring a bell? If he wasn’t injured, he would’ve taken Sammir’s place. Pasalic too. Croatia always had some guys who you knew were never going to play or get garbage time (Seric, Krpan, etc.). You asked a question, I answered.
The players that got called are the best we have right now only i would have got rid of Jelavic adio mare. So if everyone was healthy most likely but injuris are aprt of the gane Kranjcar would beat Sammir out. Males Vukojevica ilicevic brozovica badelj mocinica. And Strinic would have made it so Vukojevic sammir mocinic brozovic should thankninjuries
Brozovic excelled under Kovac in the u21’s, and Mocinic is more capable of playing a defensive role over Pasalic.
I didn’t know Kovac knows how to juggle balls
@nije bitno mocinic is also a DM.
plus, i doubt vuko even starts the majority of the games.
i think were going to see a “xabi-modric” pairing….
———Kovacic———
—Modric—Rakitic—-
Kovac could have easily called up pasalic instead of him. Don’t give me the injury excuses. Brozovic and mocinic are not any better than Pasalic (going by their season in the HNL)
Stimac was a clown for calling him up Niko should be a clown in your eyes too for calling him up.
As for him making it, you can’t blame Kovac for calling him up to the final 23 because of the injuries. Backfired on him. Kad ga vidim na terenu, gasim telku. Didn’t watch while he was on the field.
Right here.
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Ne mozes biti posten i kurva u isti cas.
Lord help us in the DM position we are going to need it. Vukojevic is our only legit DM.
Interested to see how Vida and Vrsaljko played at LB. Recorded the game and am going to watch it after work.
Mishko –
http://www.index.hr/sp2014/clanak/kovac-objavio-putnike-za-brazil-otpali-cop-bubnjic-pasalic-i-badelj/750675.aspx
i would have loved to see Pasalic make the list (out of pure favoritism) but i’m ok with Brozovic and Mocinic.
Since Sammir made the team, i’m wondering who’s going to boycott the repka now, like they were saying during the qualifiers that they would. Or does it not count anymore cause he doesn’t play for dinamo anymore? I’m not a fan of his nor do i like the fact hes playing for our repka but i was one of the ones that said i wouldn’t boycott the team cause of him due to respect of the other players. Interested to hear the self proclaimed “hard-cores” responses on him making the team.
yea Sammir is a nigger
@nije bitno where did you see the “lineup” you posted. I can’t find anything.
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@Iggy
based on his play I can see why he was included however he probably will see very little minutes in Brazil
damir made rhe cur>
sufhsh
Good line up.
Badelj is injuried.
@Mainzfeldski, you need to keep your multicult jew bullshit to yourself.
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i wish we got to see mocinic and brozovic play today…
Since vida, and vrsaljko played decent at left back today, there was no need to bring bubnjic.
Cop was never making it.
Badelj is injured.
and i guess mocinic and brozovic beat out pasalic
Did Badelj even play?
Badelj, Cop, Pasalic and Bubnjic got cut
the final 23 just announced
VRATARI: Pletikosa, Subašić, Zelenika
OBRANA: Ćorluka, Lovren, Pranjić, Schildenfeld, Srna, Vida, Vrsaljko
VEZNI RED: Brozović, Kovačić, Močinić, Modrić, Rakitić, Sammir, Vukojević
NAPAD: Eduardo, Jelavić, Olić, Rebić, Mandžukić, Perišić
90 + Min. NOT 85 ! Bog !!
Sammir really tries hard; I enjoyed how he pressured the Mali midfield.
But his passing and his communication with the other CRO players seemed off; Kovacic’s introduction was a very important one.
I was the above comment lol
Lol you guys want them to play 100% in a meaningless friendly and get hurt. This was a walk through. Keep calm.
Then we have some legs to break don’t we Hrvat, Plan B always works
Todays performance was no different to any one of the ten games we played in qualifying.
First half wasn’t too bad, second half WOOO what was that, Jelavic should have at least shot that chance. But yea at this rate if it wasn’t a game to relax then we should gather up a group on this site and go around breaking the Brazilian legs
Let’s hope that was a relaxing send off to avoid injuries. Otherwise, nothing has changed.
Say no to Vrsaljko at LB or we are going to get shredded
lololloll im sorry
DUDES im sorry
\im really drunk at this time of night
forgive me lolol
its 1.50am here im smashed lolol
i kinda wish dicko was the goalscorer
DICKOS PUT IT IN.,, HES SCORED… lpolllooll
iits really rare to find a commentator that says “yeah that was horseshit”
i want more of that tbh
ian chappell does it i naus for cricket but.. it’d be nice to see it for soccer too
lol commentator just said “appeared to strike an arm or two”
i wish commentators would be honest and less diplomatic
@Iggy,
Nah Vuki cleared it out and #20 on Mali’s team hit it back with his hand.
wghat the piss
that was an own goal surely
LOL yeah, total hand ball. Ridiculous.
LOL, the Mali goal came off the arm of the Mali player. So in reality it’s not a goal, but it’s a friendly.
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Modric doesn’t seem to be playing as sharp as he is must be the haircut
Mali just scored.
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ok ok ill try stop
thankfully they both CAME OFF
lololol
ok ok
ok
ok
ill stop now i promoise !! !! loolol
Think it’s pretty obvious kovacic is going to start as the #10 if rakitic doesn’t play there. Big change since he replaced Sammir
omg
SUCKO AND DICKO both COMING OFF
lolololol
@Iggy ok, you’re getting annoying. Please stop.
Thanks,
Mishko
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if u dudes could hear me.. i cant stop fucking cacking into a fit.. lolololol… omg.. this is so good
im gonna vbe laughing for fuking days after this
lol
someone is gonna need to send a paramedic to my house cos i cant stop laughing
SUCKO AND DICKO
ajajahaahahahahahaha
oh my fucking god.. omg.. fuck me.. hgahahjahaha
guys
why arent u laughing at SUCKO and DICKO
lolllllllllllllllll
LOLOLOLOL
Good pass. but yea he wanted to kiss the grass more than to score. Daniel Craig got subbed off Eduardo in
Jelavic still with no confidence.
Olic out Eduardo in
Modic is also coming on, dunno for who.
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jelavic should’ve struck that one early on.
Jelavic, FAIL.
AND THE FIRST TOUCJH FOR DICKO
LOLLLLLLL i srsly cant stop laughing
omg.. guys i am about to die from a heart attsvk gtom slacughuing too much
holy shi thits is good
this is the best thing ever
SUCKO AND DICKO
“HELPED ON MY DICKO… SUCKY NOW DOING HIS JOB”
imagone that one
HE GOT THE FINAL TOUCH
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Since the game is kind of boring… found this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqQf_92dgHM
Japanese singing U Boj, U Boj!
I CANT STOP LAUYGHING DUDES.. WHAT THE FVUCL LOLOLOLOL
Oh Jesus, now Iggy has me laughing at his comments.
DID SOMEONE SERIOUSLY NAME MALI PLAYERS AS A JOKE.. DICKO.. SUCKY.. LOLOLOLOL
I CANNOT STOP LAUGHING AT THIS COMMENTARY AND THES MALI DUDE NAMES
DUDE I AM SRSLY ROLLING AROUND LAUGHING LOLOLOL
Glad to see that sub too. Hope Rebic can show his stuff.
I have a boner
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lmao
AND DICKO IS IN..
DIDNHT QUITE LAY IT OFF AS HE’D LIKE
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Rebic on Perisic off.
WTF Srna?
Well that was cute from perisic, he megged that tall African man
oh fyucking HELL
my coverage blacked out when the goal happened so i didnt see it
gayer than aids
adame: im old im just an idiot lololol.. i like to play like a kid
also.. i must admit i might have had one or 20 shots of vodka tonight lol
Goal Perisic, Olic assist.
Just started watching the game. Sammir is doing… well??? And why aren’t we up 5-0 yet? And why does Iggy get his dick in a tangle when we don’t acknowledge Austalia???
lololllllllllllllllllllzz Also, “Dicko in the box”… Haha yeah. That is funny. I’m 12 years old. XD
PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRISISCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
goooool Perisic
Man I gotta say Schifo is doing phenomenal at CB for today. He’s freaking everywhere.
for some reason everytime i see kovacic with the ball i expext him to run thru every player on the other team with a brilliant run
is that asking too much? : )
Glad to see Kovacic come in at the CAM position. Hope he can do some damage.
lol iggy how old are you
Sammir got subbed off and no one shook his hand MUAAHAHHAAHHA FEEL THE PAIN OF REJECTION TO BRAZIL
imagine this:
“a second change: dicky and sucko coming off”
To be fair we have been creating chances but we just need to finish better, the other teams needs to shoot more
did some comedian choose their names ????? LOLOLOLOL
i cant stop laghing duides.. lololol.. oh god.. oits so good lol
CROSS FROM DICKY.. PUNCHED AWAY TO SUCKO
@ Adame
The journey to moar goals:
Take out Sammir, move Raketa to his spot and sub in Modric in Raketa’s spot. Watch the goals rain like men…Haleluja?
I joke, but seriously that should happen.
sorry, am i only the onelaughing when he says “dicko into the box”
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
i cant stop laughing.. om srsrly rolling around on the ground
ahahahahahahahahaha
“dicko just took a touch in the box”
hjahahahahahahaha1111
These guys need to score some more goals. Granted its a friendly but at the same time its Mali.
ahahahahahah wtf
i just heard one of their players is called DICKO
hahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Aron: english i guess ?
i jest, sammir does speak hrvati…
i thought this thing was a joke
vukojevic and sammir are playing
why is this happening
WHY WHY WHY
Not to sound like Ziva, but when Mandza was speaking to Sammir just before the kick-off what language do you think they were using? This is purely ignorance on my part. Does Sammir speak any Hrvatski at all?
Look Vukojevic is the starting DM! Now that ain’t so bad is it?
Attaboy he’s workin’ hard out there!
CroatHrvat….stfu. U r an idiot.
lol who is the canadian commentator with the weirdest accent ever?
he also doesnt know what year who played who in.. “oh and greece and portugal like that 2006 euro final”
wait, what.. there was a euro the same year as a world cup : P
@ Ivan
Nema frke
true, yeah
i spose ur right
and aron is right
there should be a show
like u know how there’s ghost hunters ?
there should be jocksniff-hunters
where ziva goes into deep dark caverns with a torch to try find ppl wearing jerseys with ppls names on them so he can shame them cos their parents failed them..
lol
someone start a kickstarter on that
Aron Bogdanovic Hvala!!!!
schieldenfeld is solid just like babic back in the day
I think most of you are overreacting, this is just a friendly not the first match of the World Cup, why would we be going all out and risk getting injured? so far it has been good we’ve created chances and so on
LOL Ziva’s jock sniffing patrol is on the prowl. Watch out.
you are admitting to buying the jersey with another man’s name on it?
Geez!
not sure who u hate “ihatperesic” since his name is perisic so dunno bout that.. are u from mali ?
lol
i like samir. has a good control and first touch. def should go to world cup
@Iggy want to watch the actual Croatian feed on HRT2?
http://sportska-tv-wizi.blogspot.de/p/v1.html
Rubbish first half. Just holding the ball, Corluka and Schindelfedl playmakers…this is as bad as the U21’s on Wednesday and the U17’s at the U17 World Cup. I don’t understand why we are not able to work in a system where we are constantly threatening to open up teams. Left, right, left, right, back, forward, back…zZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ
Schildenfeld is beasting.
Before Euro 2012, I bought a Corluka jersey over Rakitic. Talk about a terrible investment. Corluka was the MVP of the Euro 12 qualifying campaign. Now he’s the butt end of jokes and slower than Robert Kovac.
I don’t know, vida looks pretty consistent to me. Defending cleanly in the back, gets up the field well. I don’t know how much more you can really ask of him.
I hate persesic…even tho he scored, he is still soo bad!
oh god my version of the game has canadian ads.. it really is bad lol…
i had no idea canada was this gay
really?
i only started watching after the goal but i thought we were playing garbage tbh
yeah we’re holding the ball well ..
but this is mali
the only good thing ive seen is how beautiful our outfit looks..
red and white check shirts
white pants
blue socks
its very good looking (^__^)
Yeah Vida has made a few very bad decisions that a better team would have capitalized on.
Osijek by far makes the best atmosphere for the team. Zagrepcani would be too arrogant to turn out for a friendly and splitcani would shit on the team the first time they lost the ball.
shame, they need simunic in the back
Nope not at all-
Acl and mcl…
Our through balls look very dangerous. Should be 3 – 0 right now.
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@Allen
Yeah Vida looks very shaky back there.
Also Corluka doesn’t look right. Perisic has been wide open plenty of times, but he never sees it. Very strange.
Vida and Sammir don’t look composed at all. I guess Kovac needs to experiment.
Is it wrong to hope Sammir tears his ACL today?
ITS NOT RACIST IF U LAUGHED
I hate to say it, but Sammir is going to make it on the plane to brazil. I just hope dude doesn’t have any sort of negative effect on the locker room.
hey dudes
i have a terrible joke for anyone who knows gaming and has seen the mail team
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/t1.0-9/s600x600/10171872_744354992254229_7740043159580746649_n.jpg
one thing i think we all have to say is
what a beautiful looking uniform
i must admit i wasnt a fan when i just saw the top .. but with the blue socks and white pants.. yeah, very good looking\
well i exaggerate of course.. i mean like 3-0 or 4-0 or so..
Seems like Corluka is the only one that hasn’t gotten the memo about passing the ball quicker. He just sits on it for the most part and then shoots with forward with no particular player in mind.
but yea Sammir is a nigger
20-0? I think you are still dreaming in your sleep lol
ah i see.. just saw the replay..
okay.. cool
shouldnt we win this 20-0 tho
altho i must admit i didnt see the beginning or who the lineup was etc
woah i just heard SAMIR on the commentary.
ugh
ugh
ugh
ugh
Lol and U boj, u boj, za narod svoj.
I can see the fines already.
LMAO
ZA DOM SPREMI
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in general, we are moving the ball quicker then in the past. good sign
That long hair from Rakitic is what gives him the magic for those passes
Looks like Perisic learned that he doesn’t need to try to kill the ball and shoot right at the keeper. I am almost proud.
shiti just woke up
ok i see its 1-0 already.. can so,eomne fill me in what happened.. im watching now
nice pass from Raketa
gooooooooool Perisic
GOAL Peresic
GOALLLLLL LALALALALAL
He’s going to need to dribble passed a lot of balls if he’s going to play in Brazil
He does, hes playing well. Although I hope he doesn’t see the pitch in Brazil.
sammir looks sharp
damn hate to say it but sammir looks alright.
link 4 on firstrow is in english I think all the others are non-english/croatian
^ Correct, I tried link 2 and it’s still in spanish
yea the commentary isn’t at all in english or croatian right?
Yea what a nigger, and the commentary is spanish damit
Great there;s Sammir
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Damn it, I just ordered GOL TV for the month for $14.99. So I can watch this game and in case I need it for other games this month.
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That’s what I usually use but I’m stuck in a graduation and all I have is my phone.
Try this http://gofirstrow.eu/watch/263047/1/watch-croatia-vs-mali.html It was posted here earlier that’s what i’m using
anyone have a streaming link for this game?
Can anyone give me a link where I can follow the game on an iphone?
Wolrd Cup 2014 – Croatia Profile: Ivan Rakitic
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/may/31/world-cup-2014-croatia-profile-ivan-rakitic
World Cup 2014: Croatia tactics and key questions – the expert’s view by A. Holiga
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/may/31/world-cup-2014-croatia-tactical-analysis
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/5-croatian-players-watch-world-cup-brazil-090302101.html
gotchya ! cheers bro !
only 6 hours to kickoff now
this is one of the incredibly rare times u can have a bottle (or two) of vodka beside u, be sitting in your underwear and be looking forward to seeing HRV play in a DECENT hour for aussies..
in fact this might be the only time i can remember
oh no hang on when we played korea and beat them over there a few months back.. that was even better time.. but this is good too
THANK YOU CROATIA for playing at a time aussies can watch !!! (^__^)
@Iggy-My point is that it gives you kickoff times in AEST.
for any friends who use skype.. u know what is cool.. they have little flags etc.. if u type this:
(flag:hr) (soccer) (flag:ml)
you’ll see what i mean – how cool is that !? (^__^)
My name is Niko Kovač I will be starting Sammir Jorge Cruz Campos against Mali and Cameroon because he is African and he knows their mentality.
@LAknat……dude, you should stop posting. Your line up is silly. You did hear that Strinic is out, right???
that would be fine ante, but i actually want to WATCH the game not just text updates ;P
@Iggy-Go to Livescore.com. Its a great site with livescores for soccer games globally.Times quoted are in AEST.
its 11.5 hours away from now.. i dunno when that is in london
here is the link i’ll be using
it wont be working until the game starts obviously
http://gofirstrow.eu/watch/263047/1/watch-croatia-vs-mali.html
hey so does anyone know any links for tomorrow’s game to watch? its 3pm london time right?
@ Slavonac, ma ca su te neke mutande? Mozda si mislija na mudante? Nismo mi talijani 😀
…………….Olic………………………………….Perisic…………
……………………Kovacic………….Rakitic…………………….
Pranjic……………………..Modric…………………………Srna
……………Vida…………..Lovren…………..Corluka…………
……………………………..Subasic………………………………..
give this lines up to Brazil :
…………….Olic………………………………..Perisic………….
……………………Kovacic………..Rakitic……………………..
Pranjic……………………..Modric…………………………Srna
…………..Strinic………….Lovren………..Corluka…………..
………………………………Subasic………………………………
and give me the money -> send me via Paypal (if we Win)
NICE JOB IGGY
We scored some good goals during our campaign.
Just proves that our best is awesome and when things go right we can be a real threat to any team in the world.
@Rijecanin
Nobody is mixing up Serbian words with Croatian here.
Nobody said hleb, fudbal, etc.
Paradajz however is a pretty Yugo word, and even though I grew up using pamidore, I know a lot of Hercegovci like to use paradajz. Nobody uses rajcice, lol.
Vinooooo na usnamaa nek nocas cuje se pjesma do jadrana! Nek nocas znaju svi da si me opilaaaa. Sretno Hrvati! Poz domovini
Nice job Iggy-
Anyone have links to tomorrow’s meaningless match?
what is it with germany and banning things cos of music? not the first one ive had blocked there : /
anyone actually in cro ? i couldnt find proxies for cro without changing my net settings and u know.. lazy : )
Works in Canada too my nigga Iggy.
@ Iggy
Nice Video. It works here the USA!
@ Iggy
Video doesn’t work in Germany.
Thanks Iggy.
I’ve watched it and I really loved it.
u kinky fags.. jeez
armada:
how is a timeanddate converter going to help me when it’s listed in ET up there ? ^^ i hjave no fucking idea what ET even is or pacific time or any of your american horsefuck so dont go pissing about over that.. do you americans know what AEST is?? does it help u if i say its 12.00 AEST ?
fucking americans.. so fucking ethnocentric.. get over yourselves
of course i looked it up in a few seconds, i was making a point about how inconsiderate u fuckers are
now onto another note since im being so friendly can u cuntbags do me a favour
youtube has taken down one of my cro vids `in some countries’ but won’t tell me WHICH countries.. so can u fuckers just click the link and let me know if the vid works and then tell me which country it does/doesnt work from so i can figure that out ? it’ll only take 2 secs (less than finding out when the game time is according to armada) and id appreciate it !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRRI-9YPhIc
Cheers buddies ! (^__^)
this song has been playing in my car every single day, I never get tired of it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNga1vyOUR0
srce vatreno!!!!!
@ hawk
sto mislis? pane?
😉
@ armada
what are you talking about kruh?
don’t you mean pane ?
who calls kruh, hleb in Croatia?
someone failed someone in that scenario…
You guys are mixing up some Serbian words with Croatian.
Such as pamidor and Paradajs, vlak I Voz, Kruh I hleb, tava I Tigan, football I nogomet.
jm- I think no, playing as an entire team is different than 3 or 5 guys on the same team…different surrounding, different strategy, different strengths and weaknesses…a big part of all this has to do with the fact its a tournament…
question for the crowd:
do you think croatia is disadvantaged to other teams b/c all our players play abroad and do not play together regularly? Whereas most other teams at the world cup will have teams that play in their domestic league and often many of the national players will be grouped on the two best eams in that league? i.e. all the german players on borrusia and bayern, all the spanish players on real and barcelona, etc etc
there are only two croatians that play together and that is olic and perisic. croatia probably has the highest number of club teams represented on any roster of a world cup team
@Chupe, I noticed that also. I want to see if I can get GOL for the day or just buy that program. Dunno.
Anyone watching the friendlies. England looks like shit.
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Didnt read this forum but to the USA dijaspora the Croatia Mali game is on GoL tv 10 am the channel Bundesliga is on for those who care.
Dalmatinci say Balun instead of Nogomet too lol.
cakavski is rough… especially in Istra and the Kvarnerski otoci where there a bunch of Italian words mixed in…
but let’s not forget cakavski is the oldest dialect…
funny when I slip a “porko dioooooo” to a non Istrian and get a odd look hahah
Looks like the lineup tommorow looks like
Pletikosa-Srna Corluka Lovren/Sifo Vida-Vukojevic Rakitic Perisic Sammir Olic Mandzukic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtNz8caOz6U
from the other thread, somehow with all this thing crept back into my head – happy Friday and your welcome
there’s a huge difference from Slavonski Brod and Zadar…and then it gets worse in the villages surrounding Zadar…ie:
nuga=noga
mutande=gaće
piat=tanjur
pomodor=rajcica
jesi ija=jesi jeo
and then on Korcula…maybe I’m wrong but since when while speaking to your own mom, refer to her and say “hi mama, kako ste”? kako ste to your own mom?
My family uses a lot of Germanizams: aufinger, rit, furt, all the verbs ending in “-l” (otisel instead of otisao), so that was new to my friends growing up.
Try growing up with dalmatinci…šugoman, pijat, pomadore or wtf, gremo ca, asti Gospe, gace for pants instead of hlace (that one always got me into trouble)…Licani didn’t make it easier for me either: verenika, cukrice, pendzer. Hercegovci using their tudice: viljuska, kesa, korpa…
Or when they push the književni word “Rajčice” on every menu, even though everyone calls it pamidore or paradajz.
The difference in Croatian dialects aren’t anything like other parts of the world where people speaking the same language sometimes can’t even understand each other.
Kajkavski sometimes took me by surprise especially when I first heard the word “Zakaj” instead of the word “Zašto”. But the differences in the dialects are minor to me.
What’s more of an issue are the actual words used in different regions. Like when people say “luk” and mean onion instead of garlic. That one always throws me off. Or when they use words like “somun” instead of “lepinja”. I was like… wtf is a somun?
@Ziva
A crni sine di si bas izabra bodule? Kud ces gore od piceka, pajceka i striceka……………….
Try going a little bit north in Zagorje with that proper Zagorski dialect. Even I can’t understand them. A tek Istarski…ajmeeee
I’d go with the boduli.
Although, when you first get to ZG and talk with true purgeri it does take a short while to get adjusted to their dialect.
to all,
I have a question….in your opinion, whats the worst Croatian dialect?
anyone ever listen to those in BiH say…”pa dje si bolan”? sta ima??
OK decki, so here’s the roster and formation that Brazil will most likely start with. Thoughts, comments…how sweet is it that the Hulk plays for them? Wolverine would be good for us because he’s super hairy.
http://www.index.hr/images2/brazilSastav11.jpg
Ziva- ma kakav sistem je to bio?
@ Svircic
regardless, I think most in here would throw it in her
although I liked Boksic, he often missed easy goals and got injured all the time…his strengths were his speed, work rate and he wasn’t afraid of anything!
@dannyj
Štimac was either a genius or a retard.
Maybe his “keep everyone guessing including myself” system was something beyond our time. I’m sure it will be revered by the sports world in the future, when all of us simpletons are dead and gone.
@Ante B
Bokšić wouldn’t have scored much, but he would’ve wore out defenders to death. Lilian Thuram wouldn’t have had the energy to kick the ball in that second half, let alone score two goals on us.
wtf was his system… throw a bunch of random guys out there and then put blame on individual players
thats not a real leader… real coaches will try to figure out why something is not working then to blame others
@Ivica…..agreed. of course we have every reason to be optimistic based on the way many of our guys played this year or ended the year.
@slavonac…….”system” je propalo
dannyj- in order to be successful you have to have a system and players have to buy into that system. I clearly recall reading Mandzukic saying that Stimac had a system but the players didn’t understand it very well…thats called system breakdown!
guys its no different then going to work for a shitty boss… good bosses can make shit jobs much better
now picture going to work every day for your passion and able to play for your country and now whether or not he has the “tactics” yet you respect the guy most as a former player and friend but more importantly a leader… not like stimac taking them out and getting drunk at the bar
thats all fine and dandy for celebrations but business is business… and there ain’t no more important business right now for them then to making some serious noise at the world cup.
you can’t sit there and say even with our holes that we can beat any team in the world right now with the guys we have? its all about being motivated in the right way….
even though i ain’t american look at the us hockey team against the russians way back when, this is not even a good comparison cause we have absolute world class players
we have to believe in kovac, his staff and most importantly the team. we can unite better then under bilic
Imagine what we would’ve done with Boksic in ’98 if he was in the line-up.
Ivica-playing and performing on your club team is one thing, hopefully we will feel the success of our players uniting as they did for a big portion under Bilic…its doesn’t always happen!
I do agree with you about the “campaign”…that’s history, Kovac has established a totally new environment that includes work rate and discipline at a very high level and I believe that the players 100% have bought in and trust him….look at all the comments, everyone is dying to make his team!
Živa,
I get the point you keep trying to make with Asanović, but we had players back then that were World class that sometimes didn’t perform for the repka (we almost missed France 98 because of it!).
You can’t cite our poor campaign being the reason to dismiss what underachieving World class players can do in a tournament. If our players are currently making “best eleven” lists in the best leagues in Europe, people have every reason to be excited as there is always the potential of a France 98 déjà vu with this caliber of players.
@Denis……I would be inclined to say serb because serb women are more “whore-ish”. But, its not like our hrvatice dont go around chasing jerseys. Hell, one of the top soccer players in the game knocked up a cro jersey-chaser and paid for it.
Svircic-for sure ona voli kurca…moze biti i bosanka!!
Ziva- I’m no grammar expert but please do me a favor….if you choose you flip from Croatian to English and back, please ensure you properly utilize the spelling, I wouldn’t want any of our players accused of wearing a dress…when you meant dres!
Big difference in the two!!!
😉
Something for Ziva…..
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/ddb5J?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=nba
Is she Serb or Croat?
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yep…….
that is why i dont get worked up when our players have success at the club level. Mandza doing great in the Bundesliga and winning a CL title, Modric woving all of Europe with his skill and winning a CL title. Rakitic playing out of his mind, Olic continuing to produce in his mid-30s, potential with the young kids…..that is all nice. But, if we go out of the group stage again, guess what, their club performances mean nothing.
We hear a lot of talk from the guys on the repka on how much it means to play for and wear that dress. Well, its time to show it. Qualifying they looked like shit even with the positive early results. Maybe it was all Strucnjak Stimac’s fault. Maybe all of them also felt the same way I did and thought Strucnjak Stimac even getting the job was a joke. I know I would have had issues playing for him as a coach and maybe the current players did as well.
Ziva- I absolutely 100% agree with this:
“Asanovic and Mario Stanic”…I might even throw in Soldo for all his tireless work.
@Ernest…….you could be on to something, then again?????
Listen, those lists are nice and they usually drive eyeballs and increase the website hits. That is all Bleacher Report was for a long time. I don’t really pay attention to lists. Those lists give too much weight to forwards and attacking mids and not enough recognition to guys in the back.
Just give me a bunch of guys who come up big for the repka, Players from the past like Asanovic and Mario Stanic would never make any list, but they performed for the repka.
I got faith in Kovac and I really think Rakitic will perform at a much higher level now for the repka. But, what if he doesn’t. What if we see the same Rakitic as we have before for the repka. If that is the case (and for you clowns who have trouble reading and comprehending what I write, I am saying he will perform) then his club season means zero to me and should mean zero to all of you.
Luka Modric was recently names #2 in Champions League Performers!
Great call Ernest-
SMM top 50
Sevilla boy – 40-60 range
Modric to 25
We need our top 250 players to perform above their level.
Lol under the guise of being objective and taking emotion out of things, Ziva just points out the negative things about our athletes. Basically 95% of the time thats the case. Sprinkle in a little analysis and minimal praise here and there and you have Ziva Istina. Take nothing away from that man/woman (unidentified right?) because it seems to work on this site.
espn doing the top 50 players at the world cup. i would argue there is a strong argument that mandzukic rakitic and modric should all be on the list. i don’t think mandzukic will make it. since they are at number 36 already, i don’t think rakitic will make it although this shoudl be classified as an outrage. modric will be on the list in top 25 probably
lol bingo.
Doper Cilic out of another grand slam before the round of 16.
Cilic really battling againt Novak on Marins worst surface. Here comes Ziva with the Doper comments. 3. 2 . 1. go.
@Ziva, bull shit. You will stroke your dick at 7-0, at least touch it!
+ 1 iggy
the result against Mali is meaningless. Slavonac is correct. This is about some experimentation and some tactical reads.
A 7-0 win or a 1-1 tie means the same thing. We won’t be playing any type of opponent like Mali in Brazil.
I don’t expect anything outrageous for this game, we may see an experiment or two, I highly doubt we’ll be amazed by anything in particular. Kovac is preparing the team, I think he’ll want to see how certain players respond to certain situations, he’s most likely going to be working on strategy and responsibility!
@ Iggy my bad it was fox sports 2 for the aus match and kick off will be at 9 am
The main picture is Niko’s response when Samir asked if he was starting against Brasil, he kept the expression till Samir left the room, Jelavic walked in next high fiving Samir on the way out!
Thats for the Mali match
@ Iggy 12:00am EST Sunday (1st)
@Iggy Cro vs Aus is 8.30 am EST next saturday (7th) on fox sports 3
@ Iggy
you know comments like the ones you just left elicit return comments like this:
have you used the internet before? simple math little buddy … or a quick internet search. what worries me is I think you’ve mentioned being in school still … which scares me since you should be a pro at internet searches and knowing where to look…..
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
FYI – that took me all of 6 seconds to find via Google.
You’re welcome and have a fantabulous weekend.
@ Soul Champ
Agreed. This does open the door to see if some of the younger talent we have to offer right now. I’ve said it before but I think Rebic offers something we don’t have…a big, strong and fast true ‘run at you’ attacking winger.
Vrsaljko has played well for Genoa this year and although is a true RB/RM should be given a run to see how he does. I didn’t see the under 21 game but I guess he played well judging by some of the posts here.
My guess, barring any injury we see the following lineup against Brazil…..only trouble with this is not having a true holding mid to protect our back line.
———————-Olic———————–
Perisic ——— Rakitic ———- Vrsaljko
———Kovacic———-Modric————-
Coruluka – Schildenfeld – Lovren – Srna
——————Pletikosa———————
Off the bench….Eduardo, Rebic, Pranjic
Our injuries have definitely hurt our depth. It would have been nice to have a Kranjcar off the bench for 20…..I guess there is always Sammir lol….joking aside it really would be sad to have him make this world cup roster. Looking purely at our current talent and injury situation, he probably makes this roster.
I call my laft ball Mali.
Actually see all these injuries as an advantage to both Kovač and the team selection process.
Now he will be able to more of his u21 studs that know his system and have the young legs to respond to the physical Challlenge of Brazil 2014.
We have enough quality and experience with Modrić, Rakitić, Mandžukić and Srna. Olić is a Transcendent baller and Supreme competitor.
Lovren had a breakout season with South Hampton. Perišić has gotten into his groove the last month.
The more we can add to the young phenom crew the better.
Kovačić, Rebic and Vrsajlko will start.
Most of the injuries are to our mediocre players who have been weeded out.
I would rather have the young engines supporting the genius of the Modrić and Raktic.
You need young legs in a World Cup.
Looking forward to seeing some speed, stamina and dynamic movement from the Vatreni.
Tie for a 23 man spot should go to the younger player.
Spremni .
can u give a time useful for people not living in america for a bloody change.. i mean fuck my balls not everyone is in america give us local game time or GMT or something ya lazy fuckers