As far as men’s team sports go for Croatia at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Barracudas were our only shot.
Basketball. Didn’t qualify.
Handball. Didn’t qualify.
Soccer. Didn’t qualify.
After a 3-2 record in group play – losing to Australia and Spain while beating Serbia, Montenegro, and Kazakhstan – the Croatian water polo team will now face off against reigning Euro champions, Hungary, in the quarterfinals August 4th at 7:50PM Tokyo time. Hungary lost to Greece and drew Italy in group play to finish in third spot. Whoever wins this game will face the winner of Greece/Montenegro in the semis.
Croatia last took the gold in water polo at the 2017 World Championships. They were also 2012 Olympic gold medalists in London.
Luka Fucking Sučić
Did anyone just witness that???
https://www.goalstube.online/2021/08/salzburg-barcelona.html?m=m2
It seems to have taken a deflection, but still nice to see.
Where is the Dinamo game streaming? I signed up for Paramount+ so I can watch UCL, UEL and UECL and this game isn’t on smh
The game is on YouTube from a Polish stream. Just look up Dinamo Zagreb vs Legia Warsaw
Their goalie had a great game and stopped everything, ours did not have his best game and I think this made a big difference. They were also nailing outside shots, one after the next. We also had a few too many poor passes. To bad.
Lost 15 – 11
https://sempreinter.com/2021/08/03/ivan-perisic-to-leave-inter-on-free-transfer-in-june-2022-unless-he-accepts-wage-cut-italian-media-report/
Why on earth would he take a pay cut?
Play it out this year.
And choose where ever you want to play to end your career.
The unfortunately named Tin Srbic got a silver in gymnastics too so good job there!
Only silver!?!
Nazad u Srbiju!
lol it really is an unfortunate surname isnt it
Meh.
Serbia’s last president and one of their deputy PMs (who are both hardcore anti Croats) are named Tomislav (Nikolić) and Ivica (Dačić), lol. It was really funny hearing two guys named Tomislav and Ivica bashing Croatia during the 2018 World Cup.
One of their former star waterpolo players (who is Serbia’s minister of Sport now) is half Croatian and was named Franjo Udovičić. He had to change his name to Vanja lol. Guy was being accused of being a Franjo Tuđman supporter.
So, I guess things could be worse than having a Serb sounding name in Croatia, haha.
Water polo quarterfinals at the Olympics are like Russian Roulette.
Spain, Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, and Montenegro are all on par with each other and it’s a coin toss the rest of the way. Greece is oddly good this year too, so any of these seven could win Gold.