Meet Juan Manuel Pertica.
Pertica is born and raised in Buenos Aires but has been a diehard Croatian football supporter since 1998. He cheers for the Vatreni in every match, even when they played against his native Argentina three years ago at the 2018 World Cup. Pertica is all about Croatian football and even lived in Zagreb for four months where he told CroatianSports, “I might have been born in Argentina, but my heart belongs to Croatia and its people. They are amazing!”
Pertica runs the @PrvaLigaNews Instagram account where he reports on all things Croatian HNL.
During his live Instagram feed of the Croatia-Russia match on Sunday, Pertica went absolutely nuts (in Spanish) when the Russian own goal hit the back of the net in Split. Has there ever been a call like this in Spanish when Croatia was playing against another European side – not named Spain? I don’t think so.
I think it’s fair to say this video encompasses how we all felt when Russia scored on themselves and we all knew Croatia was headed to the World Cup.
It’s pretty cool to see people around the world – with no bloodline to Croatia or its people – be so passionate about the country.
Muchos gracias, Juan.
Im just glad hes not the grandson of a Nazi that fled after WW2 but just a regular argentinian so thats awesome!
Legend! Does he post on the site??
Laknat you are Croat blood though?
The god of halilovic has to be Croat:)
Dalic is gonna go with a modern system he said But expect to see either lovren or vida playing next year(most likely lovren).
Maybe tho he makes some better moves going forward
He looks like he should be playing in a narcos series on Netflix.
Dude is badass!
That was awesome, lol.
Another born and rise in another country is me O_}
have been rooting for Croatia National Team since 7yo -> 1998
even watched their play 1996 – and bought their checkers when I was 5yo
but I am not blind like him and I want politics out of sport |+
it’s not about games anymore (we need to go back for the spirit 1996-1998)
ALL OF YOU watch the game and say :
“I want to watch them play and win/lose come from behind”
BUT NOT FOR ME watch the game and say:
“We have everything we need right here | the best players |
We need an ultimate formation but the MANAGER ruins it!
and I still keep waiting for this to happen | as we played against Malta
sure this is what I want! :I –> I am not a plastic fan at all
Absolute chills! This guy is a legend
Gracias por tu apoyo Juan!!
I’m pretty sure thats Maminjo aka Juan Manuel Pertica in the video. I can tell by his passion!
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There is only one photo of me on this site, and it was from a long time ago 🙂
When?