A huge blow has been dealt to the Croatian national team. Star winger Ivan Perišić has been ruled out for the Spain match on Monday after testing positive for COVID, Yahoo reports.
Perišić is arguably Croatia’s second best player behind Luka Modrić and has already scored two goals at this year’s EURO 2020 tournament. Perišić scored the game winner vs. Spain in group play at EURO 2016 and was warming up at just the right time in front of the Round of 16 clash in Copenhagen against the Spaniards.
Not much more to say. This sucks. Ante Rebić should get the start for Perišić on the left wing in his natural position, where he had so much success at AC Milan this year.
Why are people bringing up vaccine? A vaccine just preps the body to fight it quicker. It’s not an invisible barrier around your body.
“On the flip side, I don’t give a fuck if someone on here gets the vaccine or not. But with someone like Ivan, our Euro hopes have a lot to do with your performance, hence he’s viewed differently.”
That’s hilarious, he doesn’t care what the common man does, but Perisic has to take it, lol!
It is what it is, you have to try beat Spain now without Perisic, and @Slavonac from Canada says you guys “go as Perisic goes.”
Perisic won without Modric, Mandzukic, Vida and Strinic (you had Jedvaj at CB and Vrsaljko at LB) in ’16, let’s see you guys go as Modric, Petkovic (lol), DCC and Bradaric go now.
Can Croatia win, let’s see? I hope you can because I feel you guys would be an easier path to the semis.
Let’s go Croatia.
Go away.
And go Switzerland!
I’m highly suspicious that our best attacking threat happens to test positive for COVIC? Seems awe fully coincidental. I call bullshit. Another Spanish rigging job. Fuck you fifa.
There are some seriously mentally regarded people here commenting on COVID. You are truly special. I just realized that in the real world, most people would just walk away from you if they heard your nonsense. Thus, you feel better by making stupid comments on message boards because you feel like your getting your “message” out. Just stop. Enjoy the game. Scotland lost a player to a positive test and England lost players due to close contact. There’s no conspiracy. Perisic isn’t the first and won’t be the last. And yes, you CAN get COVID twice. And yes, you may get COVID when you’re in close contact with someone who has it and there is there is the possibility that you may not.
Stop using your brain Kruno😂
if you want to know what kruno thinks just watch 30 minutes of cnn.
hate to break it to you snowflakes, but the world is run by conspiracy and media spin is part of the operation. repeat after me sheep. bah bah bah
C’mon man, they invented COVID so people accept these ridiculous lockdowns that have ruined many peoples lives.
In 1919 in Australia over 15,000 died of the flu, only 910 from COVID so far, but the poor Aussies have had to endure many lockdowns, particularly in Victoria, but guess why the figures are so low? Because of those great lockdowns that have ruined more lives than COVID has.
Something doesn’t make sense.
Very suspicious timing. Could be another tool in the cheating toolbox for the powers that be. LOL. I wonder who will be positive next? If we where to overcome Spain, Modric no doubt. This is beyond pathetic.
Seems like it isn’t certain if he got a vaccination or not. In the event he didn’t, Ivan my man… you’re a fucking retard.
Take your “vaccine” but don’t hold it against others for not taking an experimental therapy.
In Ivan’s case, of course I am. He’s a footballer that plays in the 2nd biggest city in Italy and plays for a national team competing at the Euro. Given he lives in a big metro area and is now participating in a tournament that has games in various countries – wouldn’t you want some form of protection so this exact scenario doesn’t happen? Yes, it’s not fool proof, yes, he can still get COVID. If it comes out that he didn’t get vaccinated I’d be disappointed.
On the flip side, I don’t give a fuck if someone on here gets the vaccine or not. But with someone like Ivan, our Euro hopes have a lot to do with your performance, hence he’s viewed differently.
It’s a personal health choice. He’s a fine tuned athlete. Don’t question what he’s comfortable taking.
And the R word is used a little too loosely around here. Really diminishes what you say.
@MKnight
That’s outrageous.
Covid is non-infectious though, this will be proven when no other Croatian player tests positive even though they’ve been in close contact with Perisic.
I think Perisic is a true negative anyway.
Any body in contact with him should be quarantined, Croatia squad Scots Cech England all refs contact with no masks in close quarters. That’s how it works here in Australia.
Spain, which Croatian player do you want out the match. Answer, Perisic. Welcome to clown world. Kary Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize for investing PCR procedure. He campaigned hard to stop it being used as a diagnostic test for HIV. Same applied to why PCR shouldn’t be used for mass testing covid-19. “It doesn’t tell you if you are sick” they are misusing it daily for false positives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXm9kAhNj-4
Haha yeah i agree the chance of Christiano Ronaldo being dropped for covid is pretty bloody low hey.
Don’t start me on what would happen to a leading French player
Well fuck this new world order
Happy to take a bullet to prevent it from happening
Nevertheless should we lose this match there needs to be a full investigation in how this had happened and to prevent this from happening again
If we can’t then make arrangements to make sure it does not happen again
I wonder if Ronaldo or any big name player from England Italy or Spain would lose their top notch player
I think not
I think COVID is just something that’s been made up to further some globalist agenda (we’re all in this together lol, hey, let us have a one world government, a new world order lol). You’ll find that it’s mostly nationalists that don’t buy this COVID bullshit.
The globalists know that all they have to do is get some scientists to talk about it like it’s real, and the keen rationalism of the modern mind will accept every word they say without examination, people are dumb, like you muppets here are all dumb.
Is Perisic’s result a true positive or false positive, we know it’s positive but is it true or false?
You are a special kind of idiot. But then again, your user name is Frenchman. You are gullible enough to believe that France legitimately won the World Cup, and it wasn’t handed to them by FIFA. Let’s put a loser Argentine ref in charge of a World Cup final between two European teams. Got to have a patsy ref instead of a seasoned European ref. Too much money to be lost by Croatia winning.
“You are gullible enough to believe that France legitimately won the World Cup”
What ever helps you sleep at night fool.
You know I did write something similar about your homeland war once, you know the war where your people fought for their communist leader and Tito’s youngest general Frank Tudjman? Were your people gullible, or did they just become commie jocksniffers lol?
Did you know that nationalists would never of joined the EU?
Listen up SRPSKI FRENCHMAN enough with your stirring up Serbo politics.. first of all you are right about the commies holding majority power in today’s Croatia it is very unfortunate indeed.. In terms of our politics much has to do with outside forces like Russia England France Germany that shape the geo-political map throughout Europe for there own interests.. I do believe there are enough pro Croatian nationalists out there that are waiting for there chance to build a better Croatia for Croatians.. not looking to sell themselves for a few bucks….
The damage is done though and the commies sold much of Croatias key agriculture and industry land so forth… and we primarily live off tourism unfortunately.. but we are a small fish in a big pond just like your friends in Serbia.. Yes Tudjman was a commie cause he had no choice otherwise in that political era.. was he a true commie at heart… he definitely was not!!! And the real Tito was killed by the SS in WW2 and replaced with another look alike… obviously the history books won’t say that.. TUDJMAN was a nationalist and certainly not for YUGO.. but he had to pretend otherwise as a political figure in that time or face persecution… he was a Croatian Jew of Hungarian descent.. no other Croatian leader has come close to Tudjman thus far… EU no EU either way all small countries are the slaves to the bigger.. question is which smaller countries will do better… so far Croatia even with political unrest still is better country to live in then Serbia… now eat that CEDO!
And thank Milosevic for listening to other countries to start a Civil War… at the end he ruined the Serbian nation and many innocent people died cause of him!
So commie jocksniffers it is lol.
Actually the war was planned by Tudjman and Milosevic as a means to an end. You say how commies (now commies are athiests) hold majority power in a majority Catholic country but don’t seem to understand how that was made possible.
But lol you think you see how a soccer match was fixed after you see the result (you thought you were going to win before the match lol), but with your war you can’t see how it was a sham.
So which Tito made Frank Tudjman his youngest general?
I don’t know why you have =U= in your username? In my opinion you’re a Yugo at heart, I just don’t understand why you pretend you’re not by having =U= in your username.
You’re petending to be something you’re not lol, just like Tudjman the commie nationalist!
“Mrs. Roosevelt said that she believed Communists should be permitted to be members but not leaders of trade unions. The position seemed illogical to me and I said so. Communism cannot be right for little people, for the workers, and wrong for the leaders. There can be only one moral code for all. Perhaps Mrs. Roosevelt, like myself and many other well-meaning people in America, has by this time learned that there is no halfway house in which you can meet the communist movement. Co-existence is not possible on any level.”
– Bella Dodd
School of Darkness
So you’re saying that Tudjman coexisted with the communists, which would render him, as the commies would call him, a korisni idiot (useful idiot).
Nationalists in Croatia believe that Tudjman was responsible for the murder of one Mr. Ante Paradzik.
I think you’ve fallen in with the lazna desnica that like you are pretending to be nationalists but are in fact globalist stooges.
Massive blow indeed, nothing more to say then all hands on deck and next man up, pray no more positive tests…..
Obviously Perisić is a key player, but here’s where Croatia shows it’s progress as a football nation: Rebić is a pretty great LW too who would be a starter and key player for most teams, and then you have Brekalo and Orsić who would not be starters but are nevertheless quality players who can help off the bench. On top of that, Bradarić played well on the wing in our friendly against Switzerland. So Perisić is a big loss, yes, but there is depth at his position.
I thought I was seeing shit when I heard
Fuck this bloody covid bull shit
Let’s pray no one else gets it
Rebic In his spot
Ivanusec on the right?
Just that Perisic was starting to get on another level
As soul champ I believe says
We go as Perisic goes
This is not our year
But lucky we do have some depth on the wings
I think orsic could do well against the Spaniards
Just a hunch
So presumably he’s gone for tourney if it’s 10-14 days out, even if we win i reckon other players will then test positive after this game. Surely it’s impossible for only one guy on a team to get the virus, the others might test positive later? Then again didnt Engerand get away with only losing one guy somehow? Prob is Perisic has been scoring so lots of hugs and touching on him i guess.
I mean i guess at the last Euro we DID beat Spain with much of a B-team didnt we? Course Perisic had the winner there, though. He’s arguably the most important player vs Spain, maybe more than Luka even, just cos of the style of play we will employ vs them as opposed to anyone else, trying to hit them on a quick break, i imagine.
My guess is (if he did already have COVID back with Inter) then this positive indication is just residual viral material from the previous infection triggered by an overly sensitive PCR test.
If nobody else turns out to have it (which would be odd since they were all hugging and celebrating and traveling on a flight together) then it pretty much confirms that he’s not “sick” or “infected” and it was just a false positive.
Hopefully Brozović doesn’t come back positive (as I think he had COVID earlier this year too).
Krama, Vida and Rebić had it at some point too.
The Croatian FA should have only used labs who scale down the CT threshold on these tests like Portugal and Austria did, to reduce its sensitivity.
I think our own stupidity may be the cause for this.
Everyone else, players and staff are travelling to Copenhagen for the game. No other positive tests per HNS.
Scotland had Gilmour test positive and no other Scottish players did so who knows.
LOL.
How is that even possible?
He is rooming and traveling with them on an enclosed airplane.
He’s not infected. It may have captured some viral material (maybe from his previous infection) but I’m sure if he did a blood test, it would show that he already has antibodies and is not currently infected.
This test for sure is false positive.
It’s such a shame that nobody can challenge this nonsense. Even those two English players who “touched” Gilmour but tested negative, lol. What’s up with that?
** Curveball :
BRADARIC UP TOP!
The guy has wheels, let him fly !!!!!
Chris Paul tested positive too and had to miss a couple of playoff games AFTER getting vaxxed. So that doesn’t have much to do with it.
Well, guess they can test him again and hope it was a false positive.
Any coincidence that they just played Scotland who lost Gilmour to Covid-19?
This certainly is shitty. Insert “game over” gif from the movie Aliens.
I didn’t know you can catch covid twice
Sorry for my cynicism here
Didn’t it rave the inter squad earlier on
You can’t.
All real science shows that if you caught it the first time, you have natural immunity for AT LEAST eight months… And even after that, you still have immunity (though just not as strong, but quite possibly strong enough to avoid infection).
If he really did have the virus earlier this season, then this is the result of a scummy PCR test with an overly sensitive Cycle Time used.
Unfortunately, UEFA won’t allow for any challenges or second (negative) tests to be conducted.
Once it’s “suspected” that you have COVID, you’re a leper and have to sit out for the tournament.
Such a shame.
Whilst this is terrible news
Just like when we lost our Jure Francetic during the height of ww2 in the struggle for independence on the battlefield we must forge on with our remaining warriors on the field
Rebic needs to step up now big time
Za dom spremni as unseen forces are now working against us
Never give up hope
Perisic would also be out for Quarters and Semis due to 10 day isolation period he would need to undertake
Theoretically we could have him back for the Finals …
Next man up Rebic is my favorite player
Go Croatia!
I mean what can you say
This is on perisic most likely
Overwhelmingly the odds are that he didn’t get vaccinated
And now this happens
Let’s hope modric believes in science
I don’t think it matters if he is was vaccinated or not.
The sheeple have spoken. Pandemic? oh we figured that out in record time. take the vax and a buster every 6 months for ever. Cancer? still figuring out how to max profits.
I’ll trust the pharma-science when the profit motive is eliminated.
Yeah, trust the science. Like when they said take any vaccine you can get, they are all good…and then Astra Zenica turns out to be pretty useless except for giving you blood clots. (Pssst…It’s not being administered in a large number of countries.)
The science is definitely not settled yet.
In three months we’ll see the repercussions of these other gene therapy, so called vaccines.
Buyer beware!
Also, why are big pharma absolved of all liability if their products are so safe? Hmmmm.
Way too many unknowns.
Go ahead and be a guinea pig if you want to but who are you trusting…. big pharma, the mainstream media and these traitorous governments who have sold their souls?
Thanks I’ll pass.
Bog i Hrvati!!!
We can without doubt still beat Spain we just have to play with heart!