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SkySports.com has reported that 26-year old Wolfsburg center-back Marco Russ has applied for Croatian citizenship and has intentions to play for Slaven Bilić’ Croatia squad in this summer’s Euro 2012; should the paperwork go through. Russ is eligible for Croatian papers through his wife, Janina, who is only half Croatian. Russ is German-born and started his Bundesliga career in 2004 with Eintracht Frankfurt, where he scored 13 goals in 163 appearances. The 6′ 3″ Russ was bought by Wolfsburg in 2011.
“He said that he has been hanging out with Croatians all of his life and that he and they understand each other well,” wife Janina said.
We can only pray that Slaven Bilić does not let this guy play for Croatia. What a shame that would be. Croatia might be light in defense, but there is no reason in the world that we should be letting Germans put on the checkers because they married a half-Croatian.
Dear Slaven Bilić,
Do the right thing. Just say NO.
I am from 7 years in the future. We almost won the world cup in 2018. We finished second but we were robbed. the fix was in.
France 4
Croatia 2
Wallace – seems to be easy to comment about something and somebody that you dont know. In my opinion, if anybody is going to make comments then they should at least get their facts straight first – seems only fair to the person your commenting.
FYI – Darick Kobie Morris is Croatian and has lived in Zagreb from the age of 1. More Croatian than some people I know and even if he can play for 2 national teams his desire is to play for his home country!
@Anonymous
I wear my Ustasa chain with pride!
I had a lot of family that were involved in all Croatian wars of the last century, and without ultra-nationalists like that keeping our heritage alive during all those Commie years we might never have become an independent Croatia.
You are entitled to your opinion, but i’m sure Im not alone in mine.
@Ano, you prefer the Yugos who replaced the Ustasha and took Croatian Independence away and subjugated Croatians to Commie-Yugoslav rule??? You’re a confused mommy professor abused dog.
@Ano, why are you so upset that some quoted Hitler, but not upset that someone quoted Napolean???
EVERY German player on the NT (taking out the obvious Polish Traitors) were born and raised in Germany, so STOP saying that Germany gets “outside help” from Turkey and such, do your research, plus the best Turkish player was Born in Germany (Nuri Sahin, obviously) why does nobody bitch about that?
OT: this is ridiculous, shouldn’t be allowed, Eduardo, I understand, but Russ, come on, he knows he’s not good enough to top Hummels, Howedes or even Badstuber, therefore he looks for another team to have an International career.
This topic of conversation sickens me. As an open minded, proud Croatian the fact people are arguing ustasa is good and something to be proud of is embarrassing. The fact that a dispicable human being like hitler is being used as reference to our place in history and independence is revolting. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and so be it but there is no denying, in the history of the second world war that hitler, ustasa, Chetniks and any one “proud” of being linked to something like that is a black eye on Croatia, Germany and Serbia. Ustasa is NOTHING to be proud of.
haha,
keep accepting ur serbian brothers in open arms.
ajmo u hrvatski, slusaj jugo ja mislim da neznas ni ti rijec u hrvatski, samo pravis se vazan, joj kako si glup, stvarno mi je dao da ima ovakvi glupi hrvati. Nevjerovatno
Boze sacuvaj
@Anonymous, you’re a mommy professor trained Pavlov’s dog who REFLEXIVELY screams “raaasiss” or “jugo” at anyone who disagrees with your anti-White religion of Political Correctness. You got owned, now go back to mommy professor and demand your money and dignity back while you lick your wounds.
@Wallace
Keep opening ur arms to your white serbian brothers, jugoslav!
Colin
Olic hopefully will retire in the next six months from international play.
@wallace
Yes i am all for slavic pride and that includes white pride, i mean if blacks can have black pride an browns can have brown pride, why cant we have white pride without feeling like a racsit. I am all for purity in our blood and preserving that purity.
I know that the iranians from 2000 years ago looked nothing like the iranians these days. That is why i refered to them as proto-iranians. But that still doesnt convince me that they are our ancestors.
I know that some polaks consider themselves as white croats and that we migrated from there, but that doesnt mean that our people made a stop there from persia. Our ancestors migrated from the east but not the middle east.
There isnt enough evidence to say we did.
Compare our nations facial features with other slavics and then do the same with the germans and the english.
Then you should have no doubt from where our roots lie.
@ Denis Svirčić says:
@Ian,
bottom line, I could care less what the rest of the world is doing. I want my team to be 100% Croatian even if that means that we are ranked below Azerbaijan.
100% agree!
Anyway, we don’t have to CHOOSE who is more Cro between sammir and russ, BOTH ARE’NT.
The End.
@Slavonac
Hitler might have been many things, but as a history buff I can tell you he sure did have a high opinion about Croats. Here is a quote from the book “Hitler’s table talk”, a book containing transcripts of his private conversations from 1941 to 1945 (look it up at amazon.com):
“The Croats are a proud people. They should be bound directly to the Fuehrer by an oath of loyalty. Like that, one could rely upon them absolutely. When I have Kvaternik [Croatian military comander] standing in front of me, I behold the very type of the Croat as I’ve always known him, unshakeable in his friendships, a man whose oath is eternally binding.”
There are other similar positive quotes all over the book.
As for the player, I would not be enthusiastic as he is opting for Croatia as a second choice – he can’t make the cut in the German NT. However, I would certainly choose him over Samir or similar, he is European and as such closer to us than some African, Asian or Amerindian.
Jesus was against miscegenation, does that mean Jesus was a naziwhowantedtokillsixmillionjews???
Hmm. Glad my dad isn’t the only one… He said he’d rather me marry a black woman than an English one. But why are we even talking about this anyway?
So how about that Olic? …
@Poglavnik, be honest, when your father said anyone but a Serb or English, he assumed it would be a White girl, right?
@Anonymous, actually it’s race traitors like you who are dying breed; haven’t you heard? anti-racist is a code word for anti-White. It’s all over the internet.
You see, our race is only 8-9% of the world’s population; do you honestly believe that anti-Whites like yourself will continuelly be able to insist on mass non-White immigration and FORCED “assimilation” into EVERY White country and ONLY into White countries forever and ever and ever??? When do we normal White people get to say no to this mass immigration and assimilation into ALL and ONLY our countries? When we’re 5% of the world’s population? 1%? 0.5%? Have a good day anti-White. The future is ours, not yours!
@Anonymous, calling me names says nothing about the points I make, but it tells us all about you.
Brazilian is not a race; there are White Brazilians, Black Brazilians, Native-Indian Brazilians, and various mixes of two or all three. And you call me “ignant”??? LOL!
Race is more than just “skin color” buddy, most Japanese people have White skin, and some Aryans have dark skin.
@Poglavnik, your father would rather have mulatto grandchildren than have a daughter in law who had nothing to do with the war? your father would rather have grandchildren that look nothing like any of your family and our ancestors since pre-ancient times? Okay.
You do know the Germans and Poles have been at each other’s throats forever – this is typical of bordering nations. Check out this story about a small German-Polish community in Brazil:
http://cofcc.org/2011/03/new-york-times-demonizes-all-white-town-in-brazil/
@Poglavnik: Your father and mine must know each other.
@wallace
yea dumb shit I would definitely prefer a hot Brazilian chick over a serbian chick any day of the week.
non-white >>>>> over serb. I would rather my kids be a different skin color, then be of a culture who tried to ethnically cleanse my family.
Hey wallace, I have no problem with preserving you culture and whiteness or whatever, but when u only look at skin color as ur sole judgement of a person, u are truly ignorant and of a dying breed. U guys will die off just like communism.
PS. U still haven’t answered my question, who do u pick eduardo or Russ?
@Ian,
bottom line, I could care less what the rest of the world is doing. I want my team to be 100% Croatian even if that means that we are ranked below Azerbaijan. At least I will know that I can call my boys “naši”.
The Germans are like our big brother. However, a German is not Croatian.
@Wallace
I remember my father telling me when I was young that he didn’t care who I married as long as she wasn’t Serbian or English…
@Wallace
Non-White over a Serb any day is how most hard-core Hrvati would choose I would think…
I don’t understand some of you. Croatia has to compete against counties like England, France, Portugal, etc that have access to not just their own population but also immigrants. We need to compete and we can with this German in the line up. Better him than some Yip from Yiplandia. Open invitation to any Germans who would like to play for us. If it wasn’t for them we would have been slaughtered at the wars start.
@Anonymous, I have no problem with any Croat who hates Serbs, especially those who were most personally affected by the war – I have stated that before on this site BTW.
My point is that turning Croatia into a multiCULTist hellhole is spitting on the graves of those who fought and died in the war against the Yugos, get it now?
@Anonymous, I’m assuming you read ‘Pintar’s’ post at 9:38PM on 2/8/12, and then my post at 6:57PM on 2/9/12? How then could you possibly have come the conclusion that I’m a “Jugo lover”???
Do you understand English?
I answered all your questions, look again: all my answers were the opposite of what you thought. It is my questions that everyone dodges b/c they aren’t politically correct questions.
Answer me this honestly: would you rather your child or sibling marry a non-White or a Serb?
@Anonymous: “you ignant”
LOL!
@Stef…….what a stupid statement……”I’m pretty sure some of them would wear the checkers proudly. If he’s a citizen and paying taxes let him play.”
It has nothing to do about wearing them proudly….the dude is not croatian. What more does it take for some of you to get that throught your think heads. And then you add if he’s a citizen and paying taxes he should be allowed to play. As of now he is not a citizen. And paying taxes in Cro does not qualify one to be on the repka or to be croatian. Every fricken tourist or visitor who has ever entered croatia has paid a tax…..paying a tax does not equate to national team eligibility.
But you fools who think like that go ahead and keep belieiving in what ever it is that you actually believe in.
Some of us on this site are from German decent lol. If our players can play for the Germans I don’t have a problem with them playing for us. The Germans are the only players that I would allow. I’m pretty sure some of them would wear the checkers proudly. If he’s a citizen and paying taxes let him play.
Only if he’s good enough. If not auf wiedersehen
@ wallace,
my point was dip shit, eduardo earned his badge by learning the language and culture, and u would prefer a white man “Russ” who cant speak and hasn’t lived there. Why did u dodge the question, i didnt say sammir i said eduardo. PS u like serbs cause there ur white brothers, u prefer serbs of blacks who have done nothing Cro. Ur ignorant and ur a pro Jugo lover, who loves his white neighbors next door, even though they tried to kill ur family. That is if u are croatian and had relatives there during the war.
Mooooviinnnnnggg onnnn.
For origins, I’ve heard about the Carpathians, (white/bjela) Poland, ancient Persia and the black sea area. I’m not sure what to believe.
I’d be against Messi as well.
I wonder what the response would’ve been to the article if it read “Lionel Messi wants some Kiseli Kupus” instead of this umm, ahh, I forgot this bums name already
NE!
mali HRVAT: “While Obama is not Irish, he does have Irish blood.”
EXACTLY.
mali HRVAT: “BTW many “African Americans” have white blood from their colonial past.”
And EVERYBODY, including themselves, consider them Black and NEVER once think twice about it. We’re finally making progress here.
@Harrison, I have no problem with Slavic pride, I’m all for it. Surely then, you have no problem with White pride. The Polish are the proto-typical Slavic people, even more so than Russians. Are you honestly going to tell me that even just a majority of Croatians look Polish?
There is an area in the Ukraine on the northern shore of the Black sea between two rivers called ‘White Croatia’, this was the first stop and settlement of the original migrating Croatians from ancient Persia; as you know Poland borders the Ukraine. There are Polish people who consider themselves ‘White Croats’, and in an early 20th century U.S. census, apprx 200,000 people identified themselves as White Croats.
Harrison, I hope you are not denying our ancient Persian roots b/c you think that the people living in Persia over 2000 years ago are the same people living in Iran today.
@wallace
I know goths and franks are germanic, thats why i mentioned them.
I do realize that they adopt their conquered peoples customs.
But i was only telling you that we have no connection to the proto iranians as you mentioned. Thats just a theory, and i dont buy it.
We are a majority Slavic bloodline not just part slavic.
SLAVIC PRIDE!
Iceland was definitely one of the first to recognise Croatia’s independence, and I’m pretty sure alot of that had to do with the fact the Icelandic president was married to a Croatian woman.
Bodulac: “Seriously, the racist comments and slurs being bandied about in these comments do nothing but damage the image and perception of all Croats.
This “false patriotism” damages all Croats. There is no place for bigotry or ignorance here or anywhere.”
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Can you define the word “raaacist”?
Can you point to any “slurs” used by anyone here?
Can you describe the “ignorance” that you charge?
or are you just throwing shit at the wall hoping something sticks?
It is YOU who have exposed yourself as the “bigot”, as you are intolerant of any opinion that does not CONFORM to your anti-White religion of Political Correctness.
I really hate to say this, but many of you here are very submissive, you’re so willing to accept the genocide of your own race; it’s really pathetic. We should emulate the Black-African countries – their soccer teams are all Black – and I got no problem with that, do you?
@Harrison, you quoted me here: “If you look at Croatian history (I mean the people, not the land), the original Croatians were Aryans from Persia who migrated west, mixed with Slavic and Germanic peoples, then more mixure with Venitians/Romans. What’s the common denominator here?”
Then you said this in the SAME POST: “What are talking about man? are you trying to deny our slavic bloodline?”
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How can I be denying our Slavic blood lines when I said we are part Slavic???
I don’t “want to be Aryan”, I am an Aryan – I’m White.
Goths and Franks ARE Germanic people.
You do realize that often in history one tribe conquers another tribe, settles in the conquered tribe’s land and adopts the conquered tribe’s language and customs, right?
@Wallace
You said:
“Germany and Austria were the first countries to recognize Croatian independence, they went against the entire world to do that!”
I think Iceland was the first country to recognize croatias independence.
you also said:
“If you look at Croatian history (I mean the people, not the land), the original Croatians were Aryans from Persia who migrated west, mixed with Slavic and Germanic peoples, then more mixure with Venitians/Romans. What’s the common denominator here?”
What are talking about man? are you trying to deny our slavic bloodline?
That proto iranian origion theory is just spectulation and is just linguistcally based, no hard facts.
The most logical theory of our ansestory is that we were slavics that migrated from somewhere between poland and czech to modern day croatia. Along the way mixed with germanic tribes and the franks, assimailated local illirians and mixed with merging gothic tribes.
This makes way more sense.
Get yourself a DNA test and find out how much of you is proto iranian and how much is slavic.
Embrace your slavic roots dont deny them. I know how much you(wallace) want to be ayran, but its not the truth. Croatians are slavic, our culture, music, language, heritage and just take a look at our nations indentifying slavic facial features. What does this spell? We are slavic not proto persian ayrans.
@ Paul…Dado Prso was a Croat…although I believe an Orthodox and I think his parents were Serbs…Prosinecki was half and so was Balaban (who was kinda useless anyways). Today I hear that Kovacic is also half…these guys all have choices…and they chose Croatia…and I welcome them!
Question was Dado a Croat? How about you open a phone book in Dalmatia and look at some of the names in it. Can Catholic Serbs play for the HNS?
No Kobi!!!!!
Seriously, the racist comments and slurs being bandied about in these comments do nothing but damage the image and perception of all Croats.
This “false patriotism” damages all Croats. There is no place for bigotry or ignorance here or anywhere.
@Wallace:
2nd world is a term for the former Communist block. FYI
Every government has its own propaganda. America doesn’t hide the fact that it attacked two civilian targets with nuclear bombs or that Japanese Americans were interned in “camps” during WWII. Every gov’t does un-Godly things including those that win wars.
While Obama is not Irish, he does have Irish blood. BTW many “African Americans” have white blood from their colonial past.
Those of you who say this guy Morris is Croatian is like saying Obama is Irish. LOL!!!
Those of you who say this guy Morris is Croatian is like saying Dominicans or Mexicans are Spanish. LOL!
Why won’t some of you listen? I already said ‘the European Union is dead man walking’. All wars are decided well before the last shot is fired. How can you possibly think Germany and Greece or Portugal can be part of the same economy? There’s a reason why many in Northern Italy want to seperate from the South.
Do you realize Portugal when it was an all White nation was a world Super Power? Granted they had some geographical advantages compared to Central European countries, but they were a relatively small nation that circum-navigated the globe and had numerous colonies and tremendous wealth. Then they brought non-Whites from their colonies into Portugal and started mixing with them, and now they are a second world nation – they’d be third world if the majority weren’t still White. That’s just the way it is folks.
Anonymous: “well I vote no, no croatian blood = no national team, but I know what wallace would vote, HAHA”
I assume the same – Anonymous: “@wallace
This is how u would vote, you would let russ onto the team cause he’s white. You have an allegiance to the white race but not to Croatia, u would rather see a serb on our team the the brazilian born hrvat. Thats how u would vote”
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1) No I would not let Russ on the team simply b/c he’s White, but I’d take him on the team over Sammir.
2)What makes you think I don’t have an allegiance to Croatia? What the hell you think I’m doing here?
3) You’re the one who said “no Croatian blood = no national team” – and you’re accusing me of not wanting Eduardo on the team???
@ IvicA :
His mother is Cro = the guy is Cro for me.
@Pintar, Bravo!
Everybody should read your comment, you hammered the protruding nail right on the head and put it back into its place!
A multiculture by definition is not a culture; patriotism is to multiCULTuralism as oil is to water. A multiculture is loyalty to words instead of people, that’s what Yugoslavia was. And look how that turned out – it resulted in ethnic cleansing. And now some embiciles on this board who claim to hate Yugos want to turn Croatia into a mini-Yugoslavia, another multiCULTist state – except instead of similar peoples with similar languages, they want foreign races from completely different cultures! They want to turn Croatia into a third world ant-colony – so the soccer team is better. LOL!
As Plato said: “the penalty for not being involved in Politics is being ruled by your inferiors”.
@Slavonac,
When Croatia declared Independence in 1991, ONLY Germany and Austria recognized Croatian Independence instantly, the rest of the world was trying to keep Yugoslavia together and did not recognize Croatian Independence until well after the war already started.
Yes, Hitler had a low opinion of Slavs, but did not consider Croatians Slavs; again, they considered us part Persian (that is to say Aryans from ancient Persia) and part Germanic – which there is alot of truth to.
i also heard about the coaches making those moves. where there’s smoke…
@Ivica
Blood over marriage = win.
Just because he’s black….sorry Wallace…doesn’t mean half of him isn’t a hrvat. Shit’s always changing in this crazy world of ours, and this isn’t too surprising since he’s got the blood in him.
@Regarding Capello
A lot of people are saying Redknapp is going due to the talks of Mourinho talking to Tottenham earlier in the week. Mourinho said last month that he would be leaving Real Madrid after this year. He’s fed up with the media there….England’s media has nothing on Spain.
When I saw this, my first thought was for Redknapp to make the move as he’s a highly regarded coach. He’s going to be able to have a better relationship with players, and play more English style (be it better or worse)
With Redknapp leaving I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Mourinho steps into the coaching position at Tottenham. Go ahead and call me crazy, but Levi is doing some big things with the club. He was able to hold onto Modric, and I wouldn’t doubt that he could entice Mourinho over. With him moving into coaching there, look for Luka to have a lot more weapons.
Surprised to hear Darrick “Kobi” Morris being mentioned here, but nobody asking this question….
Does Kobi Morris have more, less, or the same entitlement to playing for the U17-repka than Russ does for the A-repka?
For those who don’t know, Kobi Morris is in fact half Croatian by blood through his mother. He is born and raised in the U.S., and came over to Cro to play in the HNL (but I don’t think he’s lived in Cro for more than a year at most).
Looking at the current England squad and recent call ups, there is some good talent there and they have depth at each position. If they ever figure out how to navigate a midfield properly they will much tougher to contend with. They are not as talented as Spain, Germany, or Holland, but nobody is on the European continent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_national_football_team
If the Greeks can win a Euro almost anyone can. 🙂
The main issue is the amount of games the EPL plays throughout the course of a year compared to the other leagues. By the time a tournament comes around, the players don’t have much gas left in the tank. It is nice to watch them lose though. 🙂
England has talent, but the better question is does any other country other than Spain, Germany, or Holland have a chance at winning Euro 2012? Is it a forgone conclusion that it will be one of the big three?
Who needs loyalty when you have enough money to buy all of the black hair dye factories in the world?
Off topic…
Igor Pokrajac is stepping in to replace the injured Brandon Vera on May 15th against Thiago Silva.
That should be a hell of a test for Pokrajac!
I think Capello was forced to resign because he spoke out against Terry losing out as captain. The FA should have included him in the discussion. His contract forbade him to go against the FA. Fact is, he was England’s best manager. It’s a huge blow to them but like Ziva said, they’ll lose anyway.
And all this talk about allegiances to Njemacka…all true. Germany always was and always will be Croatia’s big brother-god bless them for that because we had no support in the early 90s and they were always there.
That said, Russ has no Croatian blood or citizenship so it’s not going to happen no matter what.
Capello’s a prasac…he’s never been loyal to anyone!
This is huge in England, but removing Capello will help the team.
At the end of the day you win with the people on the field. England is not talented enough to win the Euros with the greatest coach.
@Mihovil
I realise this could be a blessing in disguise for the English, and that Redknapp or whoever replaces him might do an even better job with this team. But at the same time the English media are such animals when it comes to stories like this. The media in that country are a huge distraction to their national team.
I disagree with this..the rules should be if you are not from the place you can not play for the nation, thats club teams this is nation teams!!!
100 comments!
I didn’t think that this article would make his much noise. Open and shut case in my opinion.
Marco is German. The end.
For those of you putting the Croatian shirt for “rent”, shame on you.
In the end, there is no excuse.
@pintar,
Welcome back my friend. Been a long time, glad to see that you’re still with us. Comment whenever you’d like. No pressure.
@Allen,
You are an interesting character. I’m not an NFL fan so I dont know much about the Giants or the Falcons. But showing up to the giants superbowl party after they knocked your team out? oh me oh my. You will never spot me at a Celtics or Clippers party.
take a good long look at your comments and the comments by others. We are all on the same team here. I dont see any Germans on my team.
I didnt…I was in Croatia at a family members funeral and the tournament was not nearly as important…now you know why I didnt know that!
that said…that was once…is that enought to make a meal of it?
@TheGoldenChild
Odd’s makers are saying that it will be Redknapp that replaces Capello.
http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/story/_/id/7555406/fabio-capello-quits-odds-next-manager-england
@Poglavnik
“Great news if you’re pulling for England’s trophy drought to continue!”
I don’t know about that??
He had by far and away the easiest group in England’s World Cup history as they were supposed to cruise into first place and look how that turned out. He is a good coach but definitely replaceable.
Remember this?
http://www.majorleaguesoccertalk.com/media/2009/12/the-sun-world-cup-2010.jpg
@ Slavonac
World Cup 2006. First game for Croatia as they take on Brazil in front of 60000+ in Berlin at the OlympiaStadion. Lijepa Nasa comes on and more than half the team is in tears. Even Cico got into it. Check it on YouTube.
Surprised you didnt know this.
Let the German play!!!
Great news if you’re pulling for Englands trophy drought to continue! 🙂
@Allen . .. “If it was up to me, I be open to a player coming on the team (obviously excluding Serbians) that showed some citizenship and knowledge of Croatia.”
You are certainly entitled to state your opinion but this statement seems to contradict your sentiments above it. You appear to be arguing for a modernized team that takes advantage of every citizenship loophole (nevermind that your cited examples, as has already been stated by Ziva, are completely different situations). Yet you draw the line at Serbs? Why? “Croats” on the NT are more likely to have Serbian lineage of some kind than many other nations and, as has also been stated, players of Serbian lineage have already played for the NT. Your hardline regarding Serbs seems to indicate a sense of devout nationalism or cultural identity that you wish to preserve, yet you welcome all outsiders that may improve our chances of winning (minus this one category). I find the argument confusing.
Capello resigned from England. Not sure if anyone caught that.
Unlike North america or Australia, one cannot be a German or even Swiss national simply by being born in said countries. You must have at least one parent who is a national. However, that said, if you are an exceptional athlete they WILL make an exception, the proof being the number of foreigners in either team, even though it IS their country of birth, it really doesn t matter.
Ireland and other european countries have started to adopt this philosophy given the number of nigerians and polaks (poorer countried) who are taking advantage of their social services…
@ Wallace…did you read what I said? Hitler…his thoughts about Croats (Slavs) are well known…to him we were considered one step higher than Gypsies and Jews! I said nothing about our loyalty or units given special status…let me say this again…Hitler thought of us as one step above Gypsies and Jews!
read it again: “the Germans of today and comparing any Alliance infers a WWII alliance. Hitler didn’t like us…actually he considered slavs a step higher than Gypsies and Jews…and thats a fact!”
what part did you not understand? you are talking about Croatia’s loyalties to the Germans…and then you said they went against the entire world??? what are you talking about? are you saying the world didnt want to recognize Croatia as an independant country?
You guys do realize the side that wins the war gets to tell the story, right? Do you ever ask if they’re telling the truth?
@Slavonac, what are you talking about? Germany and Austria were the first countries to recognize Croatian independence, they went against the entire world to do that! Also, Hitler’s right hand man Himmler said Croatians were part Persians, part Germanic; not to mention some Croatian units were given special status within the Wehrmacht that other German allies did not get during WWII; Croatians were the only German allies to fight to the bitter end; Croatians were more loyal to the Germans during the siege of Stalingrad than even the Germanic-Austrians!
http://www.ihr.org/other/sunic062002.html
@ AllenInnovation
we have already had Serbs play for us…this issue here isn’t complicated nor is it irrational. I think what most here are trying to say is in order to be a NT player you should have blood line (1st or 2nd generation)or be born in Croatia or moved and lived in Croatia and have been educated there or something along those lines…not like this German guy who wouldn’t have an ounce of pride to fight for what we call Vatreni…Fire dude…our domovina…even though the comment has been made that Eduardo looks disinterested during the anthem I understand it. He probably loves Croatia a whole lot…he probably feels like the country gave him opportunity…and he probably learned about our culture (better than most of us), history and was there during the hard rebuilding years after the war…he is as Croatian as any immigrant is American or Canadian, maybe he is a Brazilian first…but he is Croatian!
@Allen……..what you fail to realize is that both Klose and Podolski left Poland at very young ages. I think Klose was 1 or 2 and Klose was around 6 or 7. These guys grew up in Germany. Yes, they had a choice of playing for both countries and selected Germany. Why??? I have no clue because I don’t know them or their situation. But, they grew up in Germany and at the very least experienced Germany, German culture and know the langauge. This Russ character fits none of that. Simply put, he is not a Croatian citizen. Your two examples of Klose and Podolski are German citizens.
Explain to me how the cro national team should “evolve”. if you definition if involvment means bringing in hired guns to play for the repka, that is just a bad and terribly falwed argument.
If you want to argue your point of views at least back up your comments with facts or logic. Your comments lead me to believe that you are no older than the age of 17 or 18.
If it was up to me, I be open to a player coming on the team (obviously excluding Serbians) that showed some citizenship and knowledge of Croatia. I’m a man that wants to win, sure pride is all good but does it really hurt that one or two guys aren’t full Croatian but still play. This is an evolving sport where players can play for different national teams. You can hate me all I want, hell maybe I’m becoming the next (wait I don’t say that guys name). It’s what I believe in and what I feel is right so I don’t give a damn.
I’m a hating individual? You want to bash me? That’s fine because I don’t know who you are but let’s face the facts. It’s not 2004 anymore, it’s 2012. Loyalty is a rarity nowadays so why don’t you face reality that people don’t really care about loyalty. They wan’t their opportunity to shine and to represent something. The fact that Marco wants to play for us is pretty awesome and I’m all for that. Germans are great like we all know and its cool that he wants to help out the team. I’m not going to win this argument so whatever keep going on and on. Let’s just continue seeing a guy like Podolski play for Germany and for him to keep scoring. I do realize he has some link to German but let’s face the facts that he’s Polish! The same can go for Klose as well. God forbid Croatia can’t go outside the box just like they can’t get a foreign coach. That’s why I never get my hopes up with Croatia because they will continue to be this team that refuses to evolve and doing what’s best for success. Thankfully soccer isn’t my favorite sport and I don’t get too upset about this.
@Ivan
figure out which one is Kobie Morris 😀
http://nkzagreb.hr/main.asp?dir=vijest&vijestid=130
@ Frank – mixing comments about the Germans as our allies and making that any type of connection is a poor reason for anything…and, the Germans of today and comparing any Alliance infers a WWII alliance. Hitler didn’t like us…actually he considered slavs a step higher than Gypsies and Jews…and thats a fact!
@ Ante – “shedding tears” during the National anthem? when? who? I cant recall this happening in the last 15 or ever actually…maybe I missed it but when has player shed a tear during the anthem?
Ziva is logical…like it or not! a lot of comments here are coming directly out of passion and feeling, nothing more!
@ Jersey:
I did’nt find picture, but even it’s no a Cro name. But schildenfeld hasn’t too but he is Cro.
@Ziva, I have corrected people on that point too: it was a war between nations, a war for independence. However, to many people it’s just semantics; for example, the South was fighting for independence from the North in what is known as the ‘American Civil War’ – despite the fact that at least half the fighting force of the North were foreign born. Imagine if the Yugos won and erected a huge statue of Milosevic in Sarajevo in the same way the U.S. erected that monsterous statue of Lincoln in Washington.
@Ivan
Look up KOBIE MORRIS, he plays for the Croatia U17 team, black guy
@MelbCro, White normal people have loyalty to people/blood ties: family/nation/race; not loyalty to words – wordists.
@MelbCro, well said, you said it all.
Instead of looking at it from the point of view of “sending whores to romance” soccer prospects. Look at it from the point of view of marrying off your sister or daughter: would you rather (let) your sister or daughter marry a non-White who has a “croatian passport” who speaks Croatian? – you’d have Croatian speaking mulatto nephews and nieces or grandchildren.
Or, would you rather your sister or daughter marry a White guy? – so that you’d have nephews and nieces or grandchildren who look (and act) more like your sister or daughter, and all our ancestors from even before they migrated to the land that is now called Croatia, rather than looking like North Africans, Dominicans, or Mongolians?
Go ask a stranger to guess your ethnicity; then ask that stranger to guess your race.
If you look at Croatian history (I mean the people, not the land), the original Croatians were Aryans from Persia who migrated west, mixed with Slavic and Germanic peoples, then more mixure with Venitians/Romans. What’s the common denominator here?
@ziva
bravo, croatia will not change in ten years, we need an economy and jobs for people to flood into cro, if u ask me i can see more people leaving because its easier to move thru eu countries once ur in. Hope this doesn’t happen though
@Denis,
Bravo to u to, one thing to add, the diaspora should not be able to vote period, if u don’t live there u don’t vote, that simple!
JerseyCro : really? Who?
Just seeing some of the comments here makes me shake my head with laughter……
“l’ll never have a parade cause our national team will likely never rise to the top.”…………..actually our national team has risen to the top, they have qualified for the Euros. If your expectations are that we should win the euros, than you are very unrealistic. Anything can happen in sports and we saw it with Greece in 04, but those type of events are one-in-a-hundred years. Enjoy our ride. if we can somehow get out of our group,e njoy it until it end. If you are a fan of Spain, Germany or Holland you can expect a title, but anyone thinking Croatia should contend for the euro crown is fricken in la-la land.
“Croatia will look very different in the next 10 years due to the EU”……..I’m no fan of the EU or the euro zone, but it wont look too different. Without job creation we wont see an increase in immigrants coming over.
“I think it is a good sign to have Germans wanting to play for us. Most Germans I have meet are very positive towards us. They are our only European ally for petes sake.”………..that has nothing to do with who should play for the repka. He wants to play for us because he is not good enough to play for his own country. I don’t want a rental player and i don’t want someone’s garbage.
Hey, haven’t had time to post on this (or anything else lately), but just wanted to say I’m still here (and listening). Great discussion, guys. To answer a few comments about “this is an overreaction,” the current example isn’t what’s important. It’s the concept itself that’s worth discussing. I also vote no, not that it matters much. The difference between Russ and “adopted sons” is extreme. I certainly bear no ill will toward the man, but one of the things that makes international soccer great to me is the cultural exchange that takes place when two distinct identities (with distinct and representative play styles) meet on the pitch. I realize this concept has been eroding over the past few cups, but that’s not an excuse to let it further erode in our own favorite NT.
So if I marry a German girl, I’m now eligible for the German Nat’l team? If that’s how this guy thinks, he’s in for a disappointment. He’s a great player, but this isn’t happening. In order to be part of a national team, I think you need more than just blood. You need to know the language, the culture, the land, the history, and the people. Blood is important, but I think that knowledge of the culture should come first, which is why Eduardo is an exception. I think even Sammir (Say whaaaaaat? He did not just say Sammir in an argument about who should play for the repka!) has a better chance of making the team than Russ. Not saying either of them should, but if it was a choice between the two, I’d pick the resident of the nation who knows the language ect.
Just to let you guys know, there is already a black guy in the Croatia U19 national team (or U17, not too sure which category)
@ Allen
“don’t all care about if he has THE BLOOD ( oh my god Croatian blood how valuable that is!).”
Wow, you ar the biggest fool on this site. You bet its valuable, our blood is what makes us Hrvati. To mock that with your unintelligent sarcasam really does show the pathetic self hating individual you are.
Maybe some of you should consider this as an act of friendship? I think it is a good sign to have Germans wanting to play for us. Most Germans I have meet are very positive towards us. They are our only European ally for petes sake.
Lets be honest here. Would we rather have a German or an African on the HNS? Croatia will look very different in the next 10 years due to the EU. Prepare. I say if he swears an oath to Croatia let him play. German blood was spilled on our Soil so he has earned a right to play.
Whatever and I’m fine. I’m just a nice guy and don’t all care about if he has THE BLOOD ( oh my god Croatian blood how valuable that is!). Parade was awesome really enjoyable and it was cool. It’s a shame Croatia will never have a parade cause our national team will likely never rise to the top.
@ante…..well said. Many youngsters don’t understand the war and good job mentioning that it was NOT a cIvil war. Too many times I have heard it referred to as a civil war. It was not.
Awhile ago, some Scots made up a website/plan to get into the World Cup consistently.
There plans were similar to the ones Ziva mentioned………they were going to send their women to Brazil to mate with Brazilian men, and breed a new generation of Samba McFootball.
Every country needs a token Brazilian.
@The Golden Child:
I didn’t watch the Dortmund game. However, the highlight video showed Perisic getting two assists from wide left in addition to a goal. Looking Good.
I prefer see Croatian NT loose 100 times with Croatian players; than win 1 time with stranace.
Oh, we’re special…and you’re special too.
“I never had more braver and better soldiers. Croatians, they are best soldiers in the world. If I had only 100,000 Croatians, I would conquer the entire world!”. -Napolean Bonaparte
@Fisto,
I see what you are saying and where you are going with this. But I see it as comparing apples and oranges. The EU is a vote that affects the way you live and for some people that is their only hope. Marko is just a soccer player. Life will be the same in Croatia if he plays for Croatia or not.
however, I do agree with the rest of your first comment.
LOL
@Svircina
I think it’s a fair example. I bring it up from the stand point of Croatia joining the EU will force Croatia assimilate faster like the rest of Western Europe has (which in turn could be a reflection of the NT) I never brought up who should vote or why you should vote or if it is right to vote. That is an infividual choice.
What if he changed his name to Marko Rusic… jk
I agree with most of you as to why Marco Russ shouldn’t be allowed to throw on the checkers. However, I dont agree with some of your examples.
Marco Russ:
1) Wasn’t born in Croatia
2) Wasn’t raised in Croatia
3) Never lived in Croatia(besides a month or so in the summer)
4) doesn’t have Croatian blood.
Marko has no personal ties to Croatia whatsoever. You can’t marry yourself into an ethnicity. What happens when you get a divorce?
Zvonimir Boban can do whatever he wants in his personal life. Divorce a million girls or guys but he will always be Croatian.
Eduardo came at a young age and is considered as our adopted son. Eduardo won’t bleed the Croatian colors as much as boban, but he’s earned the right to sport the shirt.
I was the first to say what the f.. when I read “eduardo” on the back of an U-21 shirt for the first time. Then as I read about Eduardo and heard his story, slowly, I welcomed our adopted son with open arms.
Russ is not a son. Russ is a man.
Ante and Fisto, well said, but I disagree with this….
As far as being the “special” nation, come on now. We are not Jewish. Most athletes in the world are honored to represent their countries. There are plenty of other “special” nations around the world.
As far as the European Union, I feel that is not a fair comparison. I’m a citizen of Croatia and didn’t vote because I don’t live in Croatia. I was against Croatia joining the EU, however, if that is what the people living in Croatia want, then so be it. They are the ones that have to live with that while I am sipping pina coladas under the California sun. Again, just my opinion. Every Croatian citizen has their choice of what to do with their vote.
Two assists with that goal too.
Well done.
Perisic scored today.
http://www.soccer-blogger.com/2012/02/07/holsten-kiel-0-4-borussia-dortmund-highlights-dfb-pokal-2012-video-goals-lewandowski-kagawa-barrios-perisic/
Allen, what kind of Hallucinogens were they giving out at the Giants parade?!?!?!
Listen guys, Croatia is a special country. (trying to be as objective as possible)
It’s a brand-new country rich in history and culture. Remember, independence was won just over 20 years ago in 1991. The majority of us here on this site are older than that. Croatians managed to defend their homeland against the Serbs…it was no civil war, it was a war on Croatians.
This is all very fresh (compared to wars of past, WWII etc) and that is why it is special to be a Croatian. Croatians at home saddled up and the diaspora helped with resources. We all came as one to defend the homeland. One of my favorite things about being Croatian, when we come together as one, it’s one of the most beautiful things ever, in complete sync. (instead we bitch at each other all the time)
That’s why it is a privalage and honor to put on the checkers. All this is still relatively fresh in world history. Our parents lived through it and here we are. You can’t let anyone sport the checkers. It’s special, it’s not about skill, its about heart and Lijepa Nasa….that’s what you have to understand Allen and friends…
Why is it only our players and fans that are shedding tears during national anthems???? We’re special….
There’s a certain understanding we all have with each other. Imagined if the Serbs turned all of Croatia unto what they did in Vukovar. No Croatia today and you wouldnt be here reading this. Whats Russ gonna do (or any other posers that wanna play) when the anthem is blasting and theyre all in tears??? It’s about being one unit for the Croatian fans.
Eduardo is our adopted son. If any of you wanted to move to Azerbaijan when you were 15 and learnt heir culture…marry their women…you get to play for them. You don’t get to play for us because you like a piece of property in Dubrovnik…fucken A
or be like the diaspora who left the country and lost there identity, please don’t start with the bullshit. Croatian in the EU is a lot bigger of a deal and an entirely different topic than the national team.
no hrvat = no national team simple
If it were up to Allen Steven, he wouldn’t mind Serbs, Muslimani, or Chinese playing for the NT. Allen, when are you gonna realize that you can’t sell your soul to the devil? Ziva, said it best, “I rather lose with our own than win with rented help.” I know you hated it while you were in Croatia, but some of us have pride in NOT being like every other country in Western Europe and PRESERVING our identity as a nation. Take the easy way out. Be like the rest of the people in Croatia who took the easy way out and voted for the European Union. We take Marco Russ. And then what? Whats the limit? At what point does it stop? Ronaldo’s right nut sack crossed the border from Maribor and that makes him part Croatian. As the great Tom Jackson says, “C’mooooon man.”
Just because most other countries do it does NOT make it right. Just because FIFA rules allow it does NOT make it right. It would be a travesty to let this Croatian TOURIST play for the NT. I don’t care how good he is or how our weaknesses are. Period.
@Allen…..you do realize the German Turks you are referring to are actually born in Germany or came to Germany as kids.
And correct, we are all nationalists….that is why it is the NATIONAL team. Go figure.
@wallace
This is how u would vote, you would let russ onto the team cause he’s white. You have an allegiance to the white race but not to Croatia, u would rather see a serb on our team the the brazilian born hrvat. Thats how u would vote
@ Allen
“I’m sick of seeing teams like Germany get Turks on their team along”
Yeah buddy, people born in Germany playing for Germany, how outrageous.
@ Slavonac from Canada
“I wouldn’t be againt entertaining Croatian bloodlines in Argentina, Chile or Australia”
Pretty sure there have been 3 Aussie Croats that have played for the repka. Thats more than the zero that have come from Canada lol
I think many of you are over reacting honestly. This story will disappear in a few months, its a story because there really is nothing to talk about (winter break, no NT matches until late February etc…)
For sure he won’t be in the Euro squad, and I doubt he will be in the squad anytime after that.
Over the summer Sven Goran Eriksson gave an interview to Vecernji saying he would want to coach the national team, he was just blowing smoke up people’s asses and there is no way he would work for 100-200K euros 😀
I’m all for change and new talent. If he wants to try to learn the Croatian lifestyle then play for us then I’m all for it. If that makes me a bad Croatian well then so be it. I may be lacking in the whole “you can’t do that department” but i’m not your typical cranky Croatian. Why can’t Croatia evolve when times are troubling? Germany and Brazil are prime examples of evolving when they have some guys linked from Turkey or Portugal like above. I’m not that cranky guy that would be happy to see us fail and no I don’t jump on bandwagons. Besides Croatia winning in Euro Cup 2012? Let’s get serious please when our players actually start playing.
Here we go, again………………..
the word is “patriot” 😉
Sounds like you’d be the only happy one to see us fail. And then you’d probably jump right back on the bandwagon when we start winning, acting like you never talked any shit…
You are all nationalists and I hope you are happy when you see this team continue to fail.
@Ziva
“rather lose with our own than win with rented help”
Couldn’t agree more man!
I agree 100%…pa nismo cigani!
I don’t mind going after players with our bloodlines. We have done that with players from Australia and throughout Europe and that will continue.
But, to approach or entertain offers from guys who have no affiliation – and for that matter any devotion – for Croatia is wrong.
I rather lose with our own than win with rented help.
@ Ziva
what you are saying is probably the way most of us feel…but…there is a whole new way of thinking nowadays. I’d like to keep and conserve our identity as a people…I say this sitting at my desk in Canada (not very credible is it?) and thinking about the health of our identity. in reality, its gonna change…and I think either this coach or the next will start looking to improve his options to make his team more competitive! I wouldn’t be againt entertaining Croatian bloodlines in Argentina, Chile or Australia…as long as they are kinda like us here who love the cutlure and our ways…can speak and read/write…even if the grammar sucks!
@Allen…..the only difference is those Turks are born and raised in Germany.
As for the Portugese getting Brazilans, that doesn’t bother me since Portugal-Brazil have a historic connection. Many of those brazilans are portugese anyway…..either way, that is not the point.
I just don’t see how you can bring a guy into the national team who doesn’t speak the language and has no attachment to lijepa nasa.
@ Ziva
hahaha…jebiga…neko mora!
I love Russ for the simple reason of being a bad ass and going against all the Croatians that NEED to have a Croatian. Whatever I hope he gets called up because it would be a nice upgrade. I’m sick of seeing teams like Germany get Turks on their team along with Portugese getting Brazilians. Let Croatia get an outsider, I wouldn’t mind. It would also drive all you crazy which would be fun to read.
Corluka…..not dating her. He may have banged her, but he isn’t dating her according to my sources/contacts. Corluka likes bad tattoos and hooking up with whores and other various sluts/jersey-chasers.
a random question to anyone…is Corluka dating a German/Serbian tennis palyer…andrea petkovic?
Not Croatian = no NT.
@Bruno B
“Sammir is a real croatian”
HOW?????????????????????
@Harrison, the European Union is dead man walking. Why do you give in so easily to the multiCULTists who want to ruin Croatia and ALL other White Nations?
@Bruno B, hahaha, and Thierry Henry is a real Frenchman, cut from the same cloth as Napolean. And Baloteli is real Italian, cut from the same cloth as Machievelli…………ahahahahaha!
@jersey cro
Oh forget get someone already corrected you.
@Crosports.com
If you guys think a german playing in the checks is sacrilege. Just wait and see when our beloved hrvatska is fully assimilated into the euro union and the vrata is wide open to 50 million immigrants.
Savour these years where hrvatska is for hrvati. Because it wont be for too long.
@Jersey Cro
Bilos chose not to play for croatia, not because he was
ineligible .
da silva is from brazil
@Salvonac…..I think you are correct. I think one of them was eligible for sure. If your grandparents were born in Cro or Cro citizens, then you are good enough to get the paperwork.
The savez does itself no favors when Markovic or Srebric always come out and say they will look at every opportunity and make sure there is never another “slucaj Ibrahimovic”
Ibro has never going to play for us.
I have no issues with France and Germany using players that are not historically German, as someone earlier noted. I could be wrong here, and correct if I am, but these young “turks” that are playing for germany now (senior team and youth ranks) are all kids who were born in Germany to immigrant parents. Technically, these kids are legal german citizens, so I see nothing wrong with them playing for Germany. They have the choice of going with Germany or Turkey or whatever their parents homeland is.
Fuck that! Sammir is a real croatian and deserves a spot but russ aint shit!
@ Jersye Cro
you said “If Bilos and Cvitanich weren’t eligible “…if my memory doesnt fail me Bilos didn’t come because he thought he may have had a chance to make the Argentina squad and he actually was eligible.Cvitanich is no loss…he struggled in europe!
as far as Marco Russ playing for or not…we may not like it but this is something normal in most parts of the world.
Dukic: “hey at least he aint sammir. plus he got that ustasa blood. i say no. not gonna happen anyways.”
The media and mommy professors all agree the Ustasa was even worse than the Nazis! But Dukic’s comment does not get deleted, nobody complains, and nobody calls him a “raaacist”.
All I ever say is that mass non-White immigration and forced “assimilation” with all these non-Whites in EVERY and ONLY White countries is a form of genocide (U.N. Law confirms this), and I get called a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews!
@Dukic, with all due respect, anti-Whites love it when you claim to be Nazi or Ustasa, you are fighting on their fortified turf. You want to smash anti-whites’ skulls in? USE the Mantra, it works – trust me.
Anonymous: “well I vote no, no croatian blood = no national team, but I know what wallace would vote, HAHA”
How would I vote, tell me? and tell me what’s so funny about how you think I would vote?
http://www.vecernji.hr/sport/nogomet/russ-max-zelim-igrati-hrvatsku-clanak-368728
she is in the 7th and 8th picture
Here are some comments from Jurcevic, saying they know about Russ but they have no plans to call him for EURO
http://www.vecernji.hr/sport/nogomet/russova-zelja-da-odjene-kockasto-sad-je-tesko-ostvariva-clanak-368535
Ziva, there were pictures on Vecernji a few weeks ago, I’ll try to find them. She is blonde, and what I gather she is Croatian, not “half”, from the Rijeka area
I’m more interested in seeing what he wife looks like.
I don’t think it’s bashing in any sense, and I don’t see anybody going after Russ’ wife here.
Is this comment needed “because they married a half-Croatian”
You guys are all sweating David Diehl and now you go and bash his wife for being half Croatian??
Pathetic! You ask Bulic what his toughts are about “Big Croats” and seem to agree with his opinion, but here you can’t wait to bash.
And don’t worry, he won’t be playing for Cro.
oh and forgot to mention this, the fact this guy is a CB and can breathe means he is already one foot into the national team if he is eligible hahaha
Over reaction, and this has been in the news in Croatia for at least a month, it was only recently reported in the German/English press. At the end of the day he won’t play for the NT, its just a talking point.
If Bilos and Cvitanich weren’t eligible (who I believe had Croatian grandparents), I can’t see how Russ is eligible just because he married into the family. In the Croatian press it said he will live in Croatia during the off-season which might help the passport process, but I don’t think marrying a Croatian woman can make you eligible…what if say he gets a divorce in 2-3 years.
As far as I know, you can only be eligible if:
a) You have lived/played in the country for 5 years (thats how Eduardo became eligible and how Sammir is eligible)
b) born to Croatian parents
c) have at least one Croatian grandparent
anything beyond that, it will be tough to gain eligibility
goran prpic
Apart from the away game to Greece, the D has been pretty good lately. If he’s better and is eligible, why not?
what position (if he gained citizenship and was called up) would Russ slot into? CB? LB?
I’m against all this crap in the first place. I don’t want our NT looking like France, Germany, etc. where half the squad isn’t from the actual country. But if he’s been looked at as a possible LB, why the hell can’t Slaven give Manuel Pamic a solid look at LB? Is Carli gonna to move over to LB? Cause if he doesn’t, why look to a foreigner when you haven’t even given your own players a solid look?
Lets see how this plays out…..but, if it works for him then it might be time for the savez to get a list of all the top prospects under the age of 19 in Germany, Italy and Spain. With that list they should recruit the finest sluts/whores and potential baby mamas that Zagreb and Split have to offer and assign each of them to one of the players on the list and go tell them to “romance” them.
On second thought…..don’t send any whores from Split. Their mouths and constant nagging would turn the players off to Croatia. Nobody in life should have to deal with splicanke for more than one night.
What a stupid rule!!! It’s one thing to live in the country for a long time like Eduardo, but to marry into a national team!?!?!?!?!
I don’t think he is good enough for Germany, but he is good enough to play for Croatia.
Honestly, how many NT players would be good enough to play for Spain,Germany etc. if eligible?
Rules are rules. This is how the international game is. Half the US NT is German now.
Do you think Eduardo would have played for Croatia if he was on Brazil’s radar? I have watched Eduardo during the Croatian national anthem, and I thought he looked disinterested at the time.
What is Schildenfeld’s background?
I would rather have 11 Dino Drpic’ lineup for Croatia than have this guy throw on the checkers. What an embarrassment. I feel bad for the guy for he has sinned.
surely there is a better serb that can play for croatia with more croat ties then this guy
i swear i will not watch euro cup if they go this low. eduardo is one thing, he has embraced croatia but this guy just wants to play for exposure im sure
surely if we are that desperate we can find a better ringer then that and marry him off quickly to a hot croatian women for exchange to play on the team
well I vote no, no croatian blood = no national team, but I know what wallace would vote, HAHA
Ma kakvi, jebes svabe
hey at least he aint sammir. plus he got that ustasa blood. i say no. not gonna happen anyways.