Dinamo had an impressive road win in Russia last week when they defeated Krasnodar 3-2 in the first leg of their Europa League Round of 32 clash. What’s most important is the three road away goals they have tallied which basically means Krasnodar would have to win by two goals in in Zagreb Thursday night to progress. The match kicks off at 3PM (ET).
Although Dinamo are in the tightest HNL they have experienced in years, Zoran Mamić and his boys have been near perfect in Europe this campaign. Another result against the Russian side Thursday will mean that Dinamo will play in the Europa Round of 16 for the second time in three years. That’s pretty impressive for any Eastern European club outside of Russia and Ukraine.
Maminjo, if you’re already going to Vukovar (great city by the way) swing by Ilok and check out the Iločki Podrumi. Some of the best wine I’ve ever had.
Like the homosex Eurocup pool party
2nd stop, pool party at Dejan’s!
Let’s do a CroatianSports.com Cro Trip.
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First stop: Slavonija.
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We can go to Vukovar and smash some street signs.
What in the world would you do in Slavonija in the summer?
Come visit me this summer in Slavonija, , Maminjo…I’ll take you around Slavonski Brod!
VUKOVAR
Let’s never forget
Relax Slavonac. I just said that because I knew you were listening.
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But yeah, Slavonija is the only region that I haven’t been to. Vukovar is definitely on my bucket list.
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I just don’t wanna go with the wife. I’d prefer to cruise there with friends instead.
Probably do a wife less Cro trip and just go with a couple of buddies.
Not so healthy when you eat them authentically. With plenty of salt and slightly burnt butter.
What if you are from Baranja
I’m still baffled Maminjo said Slavonija is “Too similar to Serbia for me”…and he also said he’s never been there!
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I don’t even know how to respond to such a comment!
Just googled žganci.
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Looks like it’s just like pura, but using buckwheat instead. Interesting.
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It’s funny because I was on a health kick once, and bought a bag of ground buckwheat (It was that popular brand Bob’s Red Mill) for my breakfasts.
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I recall it tasting EXACTLY like pura. That was the first thing that popped in my head. Didn’t know I was eating Purger food.
Pura? Polenta? In Zagorje, it’s called zgonce. At least in the olden days.
I really like the matchup. Tottenham are on the ropes. Nice being the underdog and having nothing to lose. Dinamo are playing well enough to take it.
We hate Tottenham!
Funny example of Croatian food / language:
My family is from Zagreb – Jaska area. My brother’s wife (from Livno) tells him she’s cooking “pura” for dinner. He comes home, expecting a roast turkey, and he gets “žgance”.
Slanina and budola are better than prsut for me.
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Never had dželadija. I always saw it in the fridge, but never took a bite.
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Pure (or polenta) is what I had as a kid for breakfast. Lol, good ol’ yellow corn meal.
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On the farm in Cro, as a kid I used to eat a bowl filled with milk and little pieces of bread (like cereal) and added coffee to it.
It was awesome lol.
There’s nothing like a meal from a good ole Dalmatian peka!
Tripice is not quality.
Its intestines.
It makes haggis look like filet mignon.
Lol. Haha!
Lol. Haha!
your comment was a low blow Maminjo!
Kupus, slanina i pole thank you very much, but please no Dželadija
@Crotown
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Re: your comment…”I’d say we’re up there with the Italians”
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Yup.
That Southeast corner of Europe has (by far) the best food in the world, both in health and taste.
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From Austria/Hungary/Italy right down to Greece/Turkey (including all the former Yugo countries along the way).
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I’ve debated this with Asians, Indians, Arabs, etc. Slaughtered them every time in a debate.
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These Southeastern Euro nations put a strong emphasis on the QUALITY of their meat and base ingredients.
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These aren’t spice or sauce-based culture, where any meat will do (and just just sauce and spice it up to mask the quality).
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Sure, some paprika, salt, pepper, basil, are used in our recipes…Lightly seasoned stuff, aromatic stuff too (like rosemary) that works WITH the quality meats (doesn’t attempt to overwhelm and hide the taste).
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But these other cultures don’t care about the meat and sometimes even used canned meat in their dishes lol.
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No contest man.
That’s a lot of exposure .
Orsic will get transferred for sure after this exposure
Unlucky draw for Dinamo. Safe to assume their Euopa season will now end. On the bright side, it will get guys like Majer, Petkovic and Orsic a ton of exposure. But it would of been cool to see Dinamo get Slavia Prague or Olympiacos i.e. a team they had a decent shot at beating and seeing where they could go from there…
Unlucky draw for Dinamo. Getting Man U or Milan would probably have been worse. On the bright side, our young studs will get the “audition” of their life. Hopefully guys like Petko, Orsic, Majer, etc will be motivated to show the Premier League what they have to offer. I’m sure that Tottenham would consider signing a Croatian talent…remember how things turned out with their last big signing from Dinamo.
Maybe if Petko orsic or majer impress in England they can pad the coffers of dinamo in an inflated transfer move eventually?
^^^looks like I’m wrong, they will play in England^^^
Dinamo got Spurs, well spurs have been very inconsistent this year and the fact that their home game wont be in England. I still consider this a tough draw!
Dinamo draws Tottenham this should be interesting.
Yo .. Maminjo holding this thread down!!
Croatia = Central/Adriatic Mediterranean Europe.
That Jugo soul stunting shit made it a bit too Balkan.
Baba who was from Dalmacija made a world class škampi risoto.
I remember picking up the octopus as little boy for the first time and thought it was from a movie.
I still enjoy my ćevapi and burek, but know they are Balkan fast food.
We need to let go that Balkan baggage.
Love tripica in a stew on Good Friday
Mum will do it again this year
@Becar,
That is plausible. I can’t see it happening to a big team, but one never knows.
I might like tripice today (doubt it) but it was one of those foods as a kid that would literally make me cry when i had to finish it. Havent had that shit in well over 30 years.
Come on Maminjo, you know Baka wont allow bare feet. Put on some papuce!
And id definitely prefer a Turska kava over some cappuccino or latte or whatever those wannabe Italians are into on the coast 😉
Too similar to Serbia for me 😉
You’ve never been to Slavonija Maminjo?! OMG!!!
Poglavnik..I laughed my ass off at your tripice comment…I actually love it. Maybe my mom made it differently but it was great!
Seems to me that you would prefer to eat some kebabs while sitting barefoot on the džamija floor instead. 😉
I’d take a good home cooked meal at Baka’s over a meal at modern Croatian restaurant anytime.
I agree with all those foods when I think of domaci hrana.
Pog
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Take a break from the gange, and go play some Šijavica instead
@Pog
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You suggesting that Hercegovci mainly eat burek and ćevapi?
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Yes, sarma for sure… But I assume you guys eat the same thing as people from Dalmatinska Zagora. Roasted Pig or Lamb, pršut, sir, uštipci, ražnjići, more often than you would eat burek.
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Don’t get me wrong, burek and ćevapi are fine… But there’s much better food in Cro.
Croatian food is awesome- have a Danish brother-in-law- anyone ever eat their stuff- horrid
Broken down open faced sandwiches- some wet fish that tastes like plastic
I’d say we’re up there with the Italians
Maminjo you need to learn some ganga and head to Hercegovina for real food.
And pura rules!
Screw that coastal shit.
I was raised on burek, sarma, cevapi.
Hands down the worst “Croatian” food is tripice. Like a bowl of fuckin rubber bands.
Yea, it’s good…but cevapi and burek are kinda like the Croatian McDonalds. Everybody likes it, but it’s not really something to be proud of lol.
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As you get older, you start to notice the real things on the menu and start eating truffle-based dishes (like truffle steak), roasted duck with mlinci, or Dalmatian Roasted Octopus (braised first, then flash grilled) then you’ll realize what real Croatian food is.
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You won’t care to touch a burek again.
Yeah, the stuff you mention along with brudet, jota, manestra, buzara, fuzi, knedle, etc.
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And yes, to your point, all that ‘traditional Balkan’ stuff isn’t really Croatian food. When I lived in NYC and brought that Balkan stuff home to my parents, say from a Bosnian place, they would look at me like – why did you bother bringing this home?! lol
joking about ZG being Balkan lol
The only reason Dalmatinci have cevapi on the menu, is because Germans are afraid of seafood lol.
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Dalmo could give a rats ass about cevapi (it’s usually just frozen cevaps they toss on the grill), although there are some decent places for cevapi popping up in Dalmacija in recent years.
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So, it’s similar to Istra in that it’s not a primary dish in any way or form.
I’ve never been to Slavonija, but I assume it’s the same there as they have some niche pork products that would take precedence as it is a direct meat-based competitor. Roated pig obviously being king, but there is other stuff.
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Zagreb is probably the most Balkan, as they have excellent cevapi there…but Zagrebacki struki destroys any sirnica (burek).
Nah. Croats treat burek and cevapi like finger foods at a party or fast food. Bosnjaci treat it like a cultural dish.
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Croatia has their seafood dishes, riblja juha, brancun/orada, roasted octopus, plodovi mora, gregada…as well as their roasted lamb/pig, pasticada, roasted duck and mlinci in the north, strukli, truffles and truffle dishes from Istra, oysters from Dubrovnik, eel and other river dishes from Neretva/Metkovic, Slavonski kulen, divlja svinja, venison, anything ispod peke…and their national dish are their various cheeses.
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These dishes and foods are far from Balkan. Not enough phylio pastry and dairy involved, lol.
There are some eastern and balkan influences, but not too much. You pretty much named the big three (burek, cevapi, sarma). But the pride of Croatian cuisine is actually the non-Balkan and non-potato-based Eastern european stuff.
To others points, I think it depends on where you in Croatia. If you go all the way to southern Dalmacija or eastern Slavonija, maybe you do have more of a Eastern vibe? I just know in Istra and Kvarner, we have more similarities to Central Europe. Hell, my parents were born slightly before WWII and didn’t have things like kajmak, pita, burek and sarma (true Balkan dishes) until they came to the US lol that food wasn’t in region until Jugo was in place. I dated girls and had friends from other parts of the Balkans too and while there are some similarities… Serbs, Bosnians, Montenegrins are pretty different culturally compared to people from Istra and Kvarner.
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Saw it was Dudu’s birthday yesterday. Always play that what if in my head – if he doesn’t break his leg, does he break Suker’s all time goal record?
Good win by the modri today. Hopefully they get a favorable draw.
@maminjo…I agree 100%. Also, we are not Balkan.
@fellow
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I saw it. I think the difference here is that the ball went out of play after the 3 minutes of added time. If it goes out after 2 minutes and 56 seconds, usually the ref let’s you take the corner. In this case it was after 3 minutes and 7 seconds.
sooo…I remember when Mandzukic signed with AC Milan and my worry was that he might not be physically ready…and it looks like I was right. so far he’s already had 2 injuries. I totally understand it…he’s not played a competitive match in far too long and being in shape is totally different than being game fit and taking the knocks all game long!
Kvartuc, take this advice from me buddy…don’t argue with Maminjo, he’s like a walking encyclopedia! 😉
I thing Maminjo is right bout this though!
Anyone catch the end of Milan-Zvjezda? Can’t think of a time a ref ended the game after a corner was given and before it was taken.
Credit to Orsic for putting it in the net, but that goal was ALL Jakic.
How much money do they get for that win?
Good for them
They should have a quality opponent and more exposure for the young talent
Great experience for our repka guys
Olmo leaving didn’t seem to hurt that much
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Wow, Dinamo with 6 clean sheets in 8 games.
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Livakovic is a star 😉
@Dannyj
I think you’re thinking of the Shakhtar Donetsk game, where we were about to win, then lost in the last minute (special thanks to our foreign defender that we always seem to buy, but for no apparent reason).
Never heard of Southern Europe? C’mon meng.
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Portugal, Spain, Italy…always referred to as Southern Europe.
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Greece (despite being much further east than us, and an Orthodox nation) are always considered Southeastern and NEVER Eastern.
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Croatia is also always considered Southern or Southeastern too…but due to their slavic language group and also being part of communist Yugoslavia, are usually wrongly referred to as Eastern European in the lazy mainstream media.
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but IMO, Croatia is kinda culturally split. I consider Zagreb to be more Central Europe (like Hungary, Slovenia, Czech)…
and I consider Istra, Kvarner and Dalmacija to be more Southern or Southeastern Europe (like Italy or Greece).
No part of Croatia is anything like Eastern Europe though.
I forgot last year they were in charge and the wheels fell off that one game
Anyone refresh memory on last year
@Dannyj
They made the round of 16 once… assuming we win since we have a good lead right now, we would be tying our best finish in Europa league.
damn that was a pretty sweet team goal
Nice goal that
Southern Europe is the Spain Portugal south France Italy Malta the Balkans and Greece
Cmon ante come up to speed buddy
What’s the highest dinamo has been in Europa
Nice build up on that goal
Petko with nice skills. Nice finish orsic
Serious statement
Orsic should be higher up on the pecking order then brekalo right now
The Eastern Block baby!! Southern Europe?? I’ve never heard anyone call anything in Europe Southern Europe.
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Geographically I 100% agree with you. But I’m not talking about geography here.
Mislav Oršić with opening goal:
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1365037293707345922
Spoken like a real splican
Well done Maminjo
Anyone with link.
@Ante
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No, geographically, Croatia is absolutely not Eastern Europe.
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Hungary is further east than Croatia, and it is never regarded as an Eastern European country (they are always considered Central European).
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The UN Statistics division considers Croatia as a part of “Southern Europe” and the CIA World Factbook considers Croatia as “Southeastern Europe”. They both have “Eastern Europe” as a category, and Croatia is in neither.
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The associations with being Eastern European are largely defined as being a part of the former Soviet Union, as well as being on the Eastern Orthodox side of the Christianity division.
Croatia is neither.
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So, Croatia is neither culturally nor geographically an Eastern country.
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Due to being part of a slavic language group, both Croatia and Slovenia are wrongly and ignorantly included with these countries, but they shouldn’t be.
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Don’t add to the ignorance.
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Signed
– Maminjo
If Ari plays for Krasnodar, Dinamo needs to be careful.
Borna Barišić with another penalty goal for Rangers in the Europa League, this time at home vs Royal Antwerp
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https://twitter.com/spflfanview/status/1365022911116017667?s=20
Cmon boys
Croatia is south central eastern Western Europe
Clear as day
I hope Dinamo does well so Livakovic petka and Majer ademi get big club moves over the summer
Maybe Orsic and Ivanusec too
With them gone Hajduk might have a chance next season with Livaja bringing back the glory days back
@ Maminjo,
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Cant tell if you’re being sarcastic or not but absolutely it is. Culturally, not geographically of course.
Except that Croatia is not an Eastern European country 😉
Conte on Brozo:
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https://www.fcinternews.it/in-primo-piano/i-brozo-i-ecco-la-maturita-attesa-assist-e-km-nessuno-come-lui-in-a-eppure-l-estate-scorsa-si-attendevano-offerte-361819
Make us all proud today, Dinamo.