The top five leagues in Europe had the weekend off for much needed rest in an already packed schedule. There was absolutely nothing to report on except for some Coupe de France action. Duje Ćaleta-Car was supposed to make a last second move to English side, West Ham, where he would join Croatian teammate Nikola Vlašić. However, the deal was nixed at the last second.
DCC played the full 120 minutes on Saturday as his Marseille side beat Montpellier 5-4 in a penalty kick shootout. Marseille will now play Nice in the Coupe de France quarterfinals.
Interesting about Mbappe. Apparently there will be announcement after he the psg/real clash that he is leaving at end of year to Madrid
He’s gonna get paid a boat load too
Like 50 mill a season
What’s Luka make?
January transfer window is almost closed. I guess there weren’t any big moves for our guys? Westham was looking at DCC, but it likely won’t happen now.
Kačavenda was almost sold to Genoa.
Luckily Kačavenda turned it down. I guess 8 million Euro is a lot of money for Lokosi to turn down, but I’m glad he prevented the transfer.
He should be worth double that if things work out.
Canada vs USA world cup qualifier today at 3pm in Hamilton, ON. It should be an interesting match up.
What a game in the Hammer, nearly froze my toes off hahahha. Herdman is such an underrated manager.
Yeah, no kidding! As long as Canada plays qualifiers at home during the winter, they can’t lose- who else can play in that cold?
Canada finally playing to their strengths and expoiting their opponents weaknesses.
Not sure when this turned into canadasports.com, but the U.S. win over El Salvador on Thursday wasn’t exactly in toasty temperatures.
Croatia is my team. However, I love that Canada beat the USA, and it’s not because I am a Croatian / Canadian, but because it will help Croatia to eventually move ahead of the USA in the FIFA rankings (as they should be).
Modric:
https://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2022/01/30/61f6564f22601db02b8b4567.html
Nadal 21 major tournaments.
Man karma is a bitch for Djokovic.
What’s the “karma” exactly? The Australian government gave Djokovic an exemption then went back on their word after Djokovic traveled there and held him in confinement for a week. Djokovic did nothing wrong. It’s criminal what the Australian government did to Djokovic. And this talk that b/c Nadal got 21 he’s the greatest is silly, 2020 Wimbledon got canceled, 2020 US Open the line judge acted like she got shot and this AO bullshit I pointed out – he was the favorite for all three, he wouldn’t have won at least one of them?
Djokovic is a piece of shit that only got to Australia when tennis Australia lied for him, f**k him and tennis Australia.
On whose the best, that’s easy, Nadal and Djokovic can both get to 25 slams and Federer can stay on 20 but Federer will always be the best, because no one was ever better to watch than Federer, his graceful movement around the court, his beautiful Ivan Ljubicic style backhand, he really was a sight to behold.
The only liars are the Aussie government officials
There was one question on his visa application that tennis Australia answered for him without asking Djokovic himself and if it was answered correctly he never would of been allowed entry into Australia. Tennis Australia and Djokovic tried to pull a fast one and it didn’t work out. F**k them!
Wasn’t the exemption request de-identified?
To ensure fairness, the case reviewers didn’t know the identity of the applicant.
It was only after Djoković confirmed that he got the exemption did the Aussie government scramble to find his application and try to find anything they could use against him.
I’m not even sure all the other tennis players were vaxxed. People just assume they were. There were probably some other exemptions provided, and who knows how many daily exemptions provided to regular travelers.
I’m sure if the Aussie government personally audited every single one of these applications (even after an impartial judge ruled it fair) they would find something wrong with it.
You don’t have to like Djoković, but don’t pretend like this disgusting government overreach is justifiable.
I agree. As an aussie, i can provide context.
When Djokocunt boasted how he was coming, the public here turned against him BIG TIME. They saw it as one rule for elites, one rule for us. Also, our PM is very, very unpopular cos he has fucked up every single thing about our covid response.
So basically what happened is Scott Morrison, the biggest cunt on earth, saw an opportunity to use Djokovic as a political football by booting him out to get onboard with public sentiment, that’s all this is, nothing more or less. It was purely for domestic politics – we have a federal election in a couple of months.
Now, that all being said, i sorta felt a bit sorry for Novak genuinely, UNTIL i saw the reaction on the streets of Beograd, from his parents, from their president and PM, talking about how this is a world war of liberty and all this bullshit, the absolute bullshit they say and overreaction, TYPICAL SERB reaction, totally our of proportion and playing massive victims. Then i thought you know what, fuck em.
So, look, i think there is plenty of blame to go round – BBC just did an investigation which suggests Novak blatantly lied about when he had covid, and we know he went out to events while infection so dont get me wrong he is also a cunt, theres plenty of blame to go round to all sides tbh.
Serbs are the best at overreacting lol. Nobody can beat them in that regard.
I hate Djokovic’s snakey personality, but I do have to give him some respect for sticking to his guns.
He could have easily had some Cedo doctor sign off on a fake vaccine shot and given him the paperwork, but he didn’t go that route.
Iggy, I’m in Melbourne and he can get fucked along with all his Serb cunts that thought he was above our laws. Tennis Australia and most of all, Graig Tiley, tried everything they could do to get him to play. He needs to resign over this whole circus. The federal government gave him a visa on the basis of what TA provided to them on behalf of that Serb fucker!!
I for one am glad he was booted out and now can’t return for 3 years
We have been locked down more than any other city on this planet so it was the only decision that could’ve and should’ve been made.
F$&K that Lego-man headed c$&t.
I don’t understand Cros that root for this blockhead. He’s a cetnik.
His paperwork wasn’t filled in correctly.
Same thing would have happened to anyone else. Except anyone else would have been out of the country on the next flight back out to Gedotown.
https://www.dw.com/en/novak-djokovic-slammed-at-home-for-croatia-world-cup-support/a-44604742
His mother is Croatian. Goran Ivanisevic is his current coach. He’s had Croatian coached in his past too.
Lille was eliminated from the Coupe de France by Lens in the last round, so Grbić isn’t in playing. Unless, of course, he’s helping out the women’s squad and competing in the Coupe de France féminine 😀
“How good is Caleta-Car?
The 25-year-old has some very strange statistical numbers.
Per fbref, he just isn’t a very good defender.
He is in the bottom 25 per cent of defenders across Europe’s top five leagues when it comes to pressures, blocks, interceptions, tackles, clearances, and aerial duels won.”
Why are we so bad at Futsal Euros?
There are not enough weak mali nogomet dudes who can’t run on grass but have some foot skills in Croatia?
Let’s see your starting lineup if we started World Cup today with only HNL guys
Would be a fun one since not much else going on this weekend
That is fun;
————-Petkovic
Orsic—-Ivanusec—Lovric
—-Franjic- Korvinovic
Bockaj-Peric-Smolcic-Mikanovic??
—————Ivusic
Subs Livaja, Muric/Kacavenda, Zaper, Sutalo, and Livakovic
Could this team beat a European minnow?
Ivusic is playing for Osijek today. That’s good news.
Great to see him back. Although, he got scored on by a 16 yo; Zvonarek, who is slated to join the Bayern machine this summer. The Budesliga has been developing our players for years, hopefully it works out for this wunderkid.
As long as they ain’t stealing these kids From us let the developing keep happening
I do think Germany/Austria seems like a better route for most of our guys at least as a stepping stone
Looks like we’re shitting the bed at the Futsal Euros.
Orsic is staying with Dinamo.
I thought he was going to England
I guess even if he did decent in the England he wouldn’t really get a lot of repka time
But you would think salary is lot better for any premier league then Dinamo
Junior grand slam winners don’t always become top players as adults.. but we also won the junior girls with Petra Marcinko today, she is world #1.
https://www.total-croatia-news.com/sport/59747-petra-marcinko
Croatian league starts again this weekend. Everyone can be judge Dalic’s two favourite back up CFs and look at our wingers Orisic and Ivanusec…gotta be some Hajduk and Dinamo fans out there still. Dinamo now has Petar Bockaj; I always thought he could be our next LB some years ago. Probably not anymore but you never know…
Which are these two CF’s?
George Ardelean and Jarek from Poland.
Petkovic and Livaja
Krstanovic and Drmic…