After defeating Novak Djoković and making the 4th Round of the Rome Masters last week, Dino Prižmić won his 1st Round French Open match vs. Michael Zheng comfortably: 6-1, 6-1, 6-3. 20 year-old Prižmić will next take on #28 Brazilian João Fonseca in the 2nd Round.
On the ladies side, Donna Vekić made quick work of French wild card Alice Tubello; winning 6-3, 6-2. Vekić has a tough test in the 2nd Round facing off against 4x Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka. Antonia Ružić came back to defeat qualifier Ashlyn Krueger 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. She has also received a tough opponent in the 2nd Round going against #19 Madison Keys.
Both Marin Čilić and Petra Marčinko lost their 1st Round matches in straight sets.
Modric really isn’t that complicated a guy. He really likes to play soccer. Its as simple as that. He’s in no rush to move to a next phase in life where he tries to be a coach or broadcaster or something else that won’t fulfill him as much
He’s going to run this thing till the wheels come off
Wouldn’t be surprised to see him play a few more years and challenge longevity records
It wouldn’t even be a shocker if he didn’t retire from the nt but the world cup is too natural a finish point and he probably wants to make space for the young guys so he will
He should accept a player coach role, and not start games anymore (and only come off the bench as needed like he did at Real last year).
He seems like he speaks from the heart and that sometimes get you in to trouble in this world. Not your typical politician. Shows his emotions.
He is perfect coach to carry off the field when we win the World Cup. No subsequent collateral damage back injuries for the repeat in 4 years.
We can only try him out, would love for it to work.
Hey MORONS –
Modric just denied the fake news
Substitute teacher who never gets called in Grammer Princess believed it – zero critical thinking skills and zero income !!!!
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Anonymous 100% hit rate !!!!
🚨🇭🇷 Luka Modrić has not yet decided whether he will retire after the World Cup.
He does not plan to think about it or make any decision until after the tournament. [Nova TV]
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Quote: “I couldn’t blame him if true.”
“If true.”
Learn how to read, never mind write.
“Grammer.” Isuse.
And denying it doesn’t mean it isn’t — or can’t be — true.
Mama calling, it’s dinner time.
Guy who runs this site politely asks you to limit your posts and you continue to fill it with unreadable trash.
Hey MORONS
Modric has come out to deny the idiot Italian journalists “news”
Substitute teacher Grammar Princess believed it – zero critical thinking skills !!! Bhahahahaha
Anonymous 100% hit rate !!!!
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🚨🇭🇷 Luka Modrić has not yet decided whether he will retire after the World Cup.
He does not plan to think about it or make any decision until after the tournament. [Nova TV]
Prizmic needs to change his look… he could pass for a young mujahedeen Any day now if his beard gets any longer!
Dino was up two sets to none, but Fonesca rallied, and headed into the 5th set. Hope Dino can pull it out of the death spiral.
Dino looked very impressive in the first two sets, however grand slams are played best of 5 to sort out the champs from pretenders.
Critical point occurred in the third set when down 1 – 2 and 30 – 40 on Dinos serve. Dino for some reason complained about the crowd to the umpire and this turned the crowd against him which in fact was already by large majority barracking for the Brazilian. On that point Dino missed an absolute sitter with his forehand and was broken for 3 -1.
He never recovered from that and lost. It needs to be said that Fonseca is only 19 and already ranked in the top 30.
Mohammad Kudus out for Ghana.
Big loss for them.
Thanks for sharing. That is good news for us as he seems like a key contributor for Ghana.
It’s also good news for England too.
So this won’t make much of a difference for our campaign.
We news to play for first place in this group. England is our main opponent. Not Ghana.
Agreed about England being our main opponent, but realistically England has less of a chance of faltering against Ghana than we do regardless of the Ghana lineup. So, I’ll take this injury as a positive. And I’ll welcome all injuries to our opponents best players 😈
Assuming England has less of a chance of faltering than we do is false.
Ghana has several players that play in England and may step up more in their match against England than ours.
Point is, whatever benefit we gain from a Ghana injury will also benefit England, so there’s no point in celebrating it because we should be gunning for first place (and not be satisfied to squeeze in at second place by default of injuries to our opponent).
@Maminjo, I think I share your opinion that Croatia *should* win every match we play. And I’m also never satisfied with squeezing in. I want 9 points.
But sometimes lineup/tactical decisions get in the way or we run into a team that has everything clicking. See the last two Euros for example.
There’s more to it though…Say we have 6 points going into the Ghana game and England has 3 going into their Panama game. Is it far from the realm of possibility that FIFA will try to assist England by tipping the scales in their favor by reffing our game in a way that favors Ghana?
England is back to back runners up at the Euros and typically has the full weight of the FIFA support system (fouls in favorable areas/VAR decisions). I’m assuming FIFA will work extra hard to make sure of favorable results for England…ESPECIALLY, if we beat them in the first game.
I still stand by us having more to gain from Ghana losing one of their best players compared to England.
Prizmic leading ballyhooed Fonseca 2-1 in sets (was up 2-0).
These guys with their fist pumps are making Shapovalov and volleyball players look almost shy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1tp3o4o/nicolo_schira_luka_modric_is_oriented_to_announce/
Pulisic went dead, as well as the rest of the team. Did Modric no favors unfortunately, when he went down. Kind of sad, Modric seemed to be relatively happy there. His career was a good long run.
Will focus on enjoying Modric’s last games and moments this June most likely. Mod-artist in motion.
I hope he attempts his hand in coaching. He really helped Livakovic in 2022. I think he could be a good based on only that some evidence.
Say it aint so, Luka…
I couldn’t blame him if true. That Milan team was trash. Coach certainly didn’t help. They overachieved when Luka was in the lineup.
Yeah, we all know it’s gonna happen one day soon but it’s still hard to hear.
Come on guys
Let’s use our brains
Why would Modric tell a random Italian journalist anything (and before the WC) lol
When it’s time he’ll announce it directly and if he wants any journalists to know it will be the Croatian journalists he’s close to for the last 20 years (like the guy who helped write his bio)
Please stop being MORONS and use ur brains more and apply whatever critical thinking skills u can muster up
These “journalist” make up fake crap every day pretending they have some “insight” while it’s all out of their @ss
Do better
“Fake crap” that you believe/post all the time. Especially if it’s on social media. Good Lord.
Get out of mama’s basement.
“Probably” aka “fake crap” ….
Probably when he was a kid – when his parents took him to stadium to watch their favourite team play – his parents took him home b4 the final whistle because their team was losing – this is most MORONIC bad habit ever u could teach ur kids – u should openly MOCK these people to ur kids and tell they “These are all losers in life – they just give up when adversity presents itself – the game (and life) isn’t finished before the final whistle – whatever the score – u don’t stop/give up until the final whistle – u give everything/100% until u hear the final whistle”
Anybody follow the Swedish league ?
1st place Sirius (8 point lead after 9 of 30 match-days) has a Croatian keeper 23 y/o David Celic who’s played every game
The Swedish league runs through November
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Fom SN
– Rođen sam u Stockholmu, ali mama i tata su mi iz Bosne i Hercegovine. Tata Davor je iz Konjica, a mama Dijana iz Ilijaša. U Švedsku su otišli kad je bio rat, a svako ljeto do 19. godine sam provodio u Zagrebu i na hrvatskoj obali. Inače, baka i djed žive u Zagrebu, u Resniku – uvodi nas u priču stasiti vratar, koji gotovo savršeno koristi hrvatski jezik, pa se tek rijetko posluži engleskim riječima da bolje objasni svoju misao.
– Bilo bi odlično da mogu zaigrati za obje reprezentacije. Rođen sam u Švedskoj, ovdje sam odrastao i zahvalan sam za sve, ali u kući smo razgovarali uvijek na hrvatskom jeziku i zahvalan sam što sam i Hrvat. Ponosan sam na obje svoje domovine – zaključio je David Ćelić,
Cap as many goalkeepers as possible.
That is a position we can’t compromise on.
We even have a couple Croat keepers in the MLS.
Hopefully Pandur doesn’t get shelled too hard next season.
It might shatter his confidence if Hull’s owners keep a small budget and the team just gets dominated every game, leaving Pandur to face a firing squad every weekend.
The Turks are trying to turn Hull into Turkey’s club (they flew a bunch of Turkish fans in to Wembley to wave Turkish flags and chant Turkish songs)
Acun knows all the richest Turkish families e.g. Ulker, Koc, etc (via his previous executive position at Fene, etc) – rumours they (richest Turkish) want to capitalize and invest in Hull while the opportunity is there
Let’s see – but if they get big $$$ behind them – they will be able to big and pay good wages this window (also their 3 window transfer ban (reduced to 2) is over now)
It’s too early to see how it evolves – but definitely will be interesting to see how it evolves and if the rich Turks put their $$$ where their mouth is
***.haberler.com/spor/fenerbahce-baskani-ali-koc-acun-ilicali-ya-veda-18734203-haberi/
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Nico Paz posting a Ghostbusters marshmallow man rendition of Bati
I mean he was a bit of a fattie when he arrived at Como but not this
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Don’t read too much into stuff like this.
They’re 22 year old kids just having a good time and clowning around.
I really hope Como bring in some more Croatian talent like Jagušić or Stojković.
I like the way they play and I’m intrigued with the idea of playing with two CAMs like Como sometimes does.
We are a CAM factory, so this would be yet another formation and tactic in our arsenal.
Baturina would be that Left CAM and Jagušić, Stojko or Luka Sučić could easily be Right CAM.
Peter Suċić or Kovačić playing right behind them.
Would be a solid option for life after Modrić.
As long as they don’t bring in Lovro Majer (who wants to also return to Dinamo lol) – PAO have a new Scandi coach – I think Jaga would do well under a Scandi coach (generalization) as they usually value hard work, attitude, dedication and team-first in their players e.g. Bode-Glimt (I don’t mean the immigrations who born there e.g. Isak) and are typically not very skilled – Jaga has all the attributes a Scandi coach would value PLUS he is skilled – on paper it could work very well (but depends obviously who they bring and sell this summer)
Watched the Vekic match and although she won, she was terrible against a poor opponent. So many unforced errors that had she been playing a top 100 player she would have lost. She will need a big improvement if to have any chance of beating Osaka.
Dino Prizmic is in good form and plays well on clay, however Fonseca is a good player and it will be tough. If he was to win? he would most likely come up against Dokovic in the third round.
Ruzic plays Keys and it will depend on how well Keys plays. Keys has the power game, big serve and shots and if she is on Ruzic has no chance.
In regards to Coric he had shoulder surgery late last year and is still recovering.
He stated last year that he was thinking of retirement from tennis. Injuries over the last 5 or 6 years have definitely curtailed his career.
Boban is PISSED at Dalic for not calling up any Dinamo players
His retribution?
Sign 33 y/o Orsic who has failed outside the HNL and Almena as wingers
Instead of identifying and developing young Croatian winger talent to feed into the NT like Saranic
Dumb
There are Dinamo players on the team, not sure why he would be pissed.
Baturina, Modrić, Gvardiol, Kovačić, etc. Many of the players who have been called up are from Dinamo.
What was the expectation?? He would only call up players from Dinamo??
Look at 2018 for example. The majority of the players were from Dinamo. Things shift when you have promising players like Vuskovic and other prospects from elsewhere.
I think Dinamo and Boban can both relax if that’s the case.
Dino Prižmić seems to have the same body built and excellent strength, court speed similar to Novak J, which could be a good omen. Let see what happens. Alcaraz dropping out is definitely a slight opportunity window to the final rounds.
Definitely in the upswing, latest ranking has him in the 60-70 range. If he gets to the quarter or semifinal’s, he might rise to the top 50.
Borna Corić has disappeared on us.
Yeah, forgot about Coric.
Didn’t he have some mental or psychological issues he was dealing with?
Don’t follow that much, not sure about Coric. Seem like he was in the 10 to 20 ranking for a couple of years. Hope Dino keeps rising though.
LOL What?
Coric had no psychological issues.
He had a lot of surgeries and injuries, all of which came at the worst possible times (usually when he was on the upswing and gaining momentum in his career, he was sidelined with surgery or other injuries).
He had knee surgery, shoulder surgery, then he had recurring back, hamstring, and abdominal issues.
He was easily a top-10 caliber player, but every time he climbed just outside that top-10 mark (I think his highest rank was #12) he would then get sidelined for a year with a long rehab.
Maybe Dino body will be more resilient to injury comparatively to Borna. He efforts to date remind me of Borna’s general playing style, which might not be a good omen regarding future wear and tear pounding.
Even Carlo Alcaraz is out for the French and Wimbledon, at a young age, so no one is spared. Clay the slowest of the court surfaces, translates to very long grueling rallies and a test to the body.
Like to see someone break through to be in the top 5 on a regular basis. We have had are fair share of success even to date.
Jannik Sinner is on PEDs and maybe Alcaraz is too.
This era doesn’t have the competition that poor Borna had to deal with, so if Prizmic continues his ascent, we could have another top-10 tennis player in the World.
I agree.
I always thought both Ivanišević, Ancic, Cilic, and Karlovic were handicapped or blessed with too much height for tennis, where the sweet spot height is 6-1″ thru 6’3″.
Our best players to date have been 6’4″ – 6′-10″. A little too hard on the back where the sport is played low to the ground as well as high. Great advantage for serve and volley on faster courts especially grass, but still limiting for good tennis footwork.
Coric and Prizmic are in the height the sweet spot for great footwork, for all surface play.
If you ask Novak mother’s father if he is Croatian or Serbian, he would say me is Croatian even though he lives in an area defined as Serbia.
Djoker too.
Prizmic is in a little tougher battle next round,
Let’s see how he does
Dino taking down Novak in Rome should be a great confidence builder in his belief. Like you said the positive mental side is required.