ANDREW BOGUT
CroatianSoccerReport.com has received credentials from the NBA to cover the Los Angeles Clippers-Milwaukee Bucks game on Wednesday, March 17th at Staples Center. Andrew Bogut, who was born to immigrant Croatian parents in Australia, is the only player in the NBA today with Croatian roots.
Bogut, a first overall NBA draft pick in 2005, is a Dinamo Zagreb supporter even though he was raised in Australia. It is even rumored that he has a Dinamo tattoo on his back.
Our mission: To uncover Andrew Bogut’s roots as a Croatian. Why is he a Dinamo fan? How often does he go back to Croatia? Why did he choose the Australian basketball team over Croatia?
We are hoping that a brief interview before the game can go on as planned while we ask you, the CSR reader, to give us some questions you would like answered by the Croatian-Australian basketball player just as we did for the Igor Štimac interview.
During the game, there will be 32 Croatians (mostly Hajduk fans that hail from Dalmacija) in attendance to cheer (and jeer) Bogut. It will be a night to remember for Croatians. Catch the game on Fox Sports West to hear us chanting or watch an episode of ESPN Sportscenter later that night; we should make the cut if we play our cards right.
~Ante Kvartuč and Denis Svirčić reporting from Indian Wells, Ca as CSR covers Marin Čilić, Ivan Ljubičić and Ivo Karlović at the BNP Paribas Open. Ivica Peroš will be running the CSR ship this weekend.
@Joze,
Yes that was us at Indian Wells. So much fun chanting "hocemo pobjedu, hocemo pobjedu", "javi se, javi se", "mi hrvati, mi Hrvati" and "Mario Ancic" among other things… Everyone at Indian Wells was loving it…
Dennis Aka Hvar Splitcanin Fistonich cheered on two separate occasions after double faults… the ESPN highlight of the night.
Ante and I will put a little something together from Indian Wells…
thanks for your questions to Bogut
@Ante BBB
thanks for your questions for Andrew Bogut. We will just mess with him a little. Game will be on ESPN. Tune in to here… "mi hrvati" from the 200 section behind the backboard near the Bucks bench.
@Ziva istina,
I agree with you that Cilic shouldnt have hired Ivanisevic.
Watched it on Fox Sports in Australia.
I heard "hocemo pobjedu" and thats about it lol. I was only watching the final set but I saw 3 guys in Cro gear and I thought that looks a lot like Ante and Denis.
If you could ask him one or both of the following:
1) What's the biggest Dinamo game he's ever been to, if at all?
2) Biggest Croatian game he's ever been to, if at all?
3) How much fun is it going to be to have all of those 32 losers shut their mouths when Bogut beats LA?
Great job on promoting Croatian unity boys! Next time let's try to single out another player. I mean, after all, he's Croatian and deserves to be booed at for liking the best Croatian soccer club of all time – NK Dinamo Zagreb. Cestitam!
Cilic's problem is that he has Ivanisevic as a part time coach now…..why anyone would want him as a coach is beyond me.
@ Zach,
Denis and I were at the match. He was close in the first set but the Spaniard was on his A game in the tiebreak. After that the wind picked up he completely threw in the towel. Maybe he had a chick on his mind.
@ Joze,
What channel were you watching it on in on? What chants did you catch?
Cilic was pathetic. What happened to him?
I was watching the Ancic game at Indian Wells and I saw you guys in the crowd with all the Croatian gear on.
Ancic as well at Indian Wells. You gotta make sports center
Ask him about his tattoo, apparantly he has a nice Croatian one on his back with a few other things mixed in. I'd love to know the meaning behind the design if it happens to be true.
Also I'd love to know who he supported in the Croatia vs Australia match at the world cup in 2006 seeing as he plays basketball for Australia.
Just some suggestions.