Here’s who the Croatian teams and other clubs around Europe with Croatian players on their rosters will be playing in the UEFA Cup first round. The winners of these 2-legged home and away matches will qualify for the ‘Group Stage’.
The real tournament begins now- it’s just a shame that Hajduk couldn’t join in on the fun.
The first leg will be played September 18th.
Dinamo Zagreb hosts Sparta Prague at Maksimir in hopes of making group stage for a second consecutive year.
Slaven Belupo opens up home against a tough CSKA Moscow club from Russia.
Spartak Moscow (Stipe Pletikosa) head to Banik (Czech Republic) to try and save their European season.
Hertha Berlin (Josip Šimunić) host St. Patrick’s (Ireland) to start their campaign.
Red Bull Salzburg (Niko Kovač) will face a tough Sevilla team from Spain.
Portsmouth (Niko Kranjčar) will play Guimaraes of Portugal without their young Croatian star midfielder.
Manchester City (Vedran Ćorluka) play Omonia of Cyprus in what should be 2 easy wins for the English side.
Schalke (Ivan Rakitić) head to Cyprus to face an unknown APOEL side.
Heerenveen (Danijel Pranjić) travels to Portugal to play Setubal.
Tottenham and Luka Modrić take on Wisla Krakow of Poland in what should be an entertaining meeting.
Ajax (Dario Cvitanić) will play Serbian side, Borac Čačak.
Borussia Dortmund (Robert Kovač) play middle tier Italian club, Udinese.
Hamburg (Ivica Olić,Mladen Petrić) to host Romanian club, AFC Unirea Urziceni.
As you see, every Croatian national starter, and some key bench players, are playing for the UEFA Cup with the exception of Eduardo (Arsenal), Ognjen Vukojević (Dynamo Kyiv) and Darijo Srna (Shakhtar Donetsk) who’s clubs have qualified for the Champion’s League group stage already. Even recently capped Ivica Križanac’s side, Zenit St. Petersburg, who are reigning UEFA Cup champions, will be playing for a Champion’s League title this season. I only see good things for the future of Croatian soccer. We just need the Prva Liga to catch up.
Anything that pops out as an interesting matchup for you?
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@Denis: Naprijed CSR!
Darijo,
There is no need to feel ashamed of anything. Hopefully, we can have you back on the team. Our dream here at CSR is to one day have hundreds or thousands of Croatian fans all over the world unite on one website. You mean a lot to us buddy. Whenever you are ready, Ante and i would love to see you name again on CSR.com
Ante, thanks for your concern. I feel ashamed about my last comment which was unnecessary and inappropriate. Be assured nothing of that sort will happen again.
Corluka played for City in their 3-0 win over Sunderland. That should put all rumors that the Tottenham switch is not going to happen this season.
Although it ran on August 30th, the article was first published on the 9th of August as it clearly states.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/article1537015.ece
For Darijo and Joze—
Although some Croatian press might have broken the story already, no other media in Croatia or England has confirmed Corluka’s move to London. Once it breaks we will make it official. Thanks Joze for keeping your eyes out in something that might already be official, I’d just like to see a few more sources run with it.
Darijo, you have been a nuisance in no way whatsoever. I hope everything in your personal life is ok and hope to hear from you soon. -Ante
Hello all, for reasons that are hard for me to go into, I have decided to stop posting comments here on CSR. I want to thank Ante, Denis and all regular readers for having accommodated me, and please forgive me if I had been a nuisance in any way.
Best wishes, darijo
looks like it corluka for spurs
http://sportskenovosti.hr/index.php?cmd=show_clanak&clanak_id=3845
Great to be reminded of Zenit’s participation in CL which means Ivica Krizanac will get to play at the highest level against teams like Juventus and Real. I view Ivica with great interest because Vatreni needs a successor to Rob Kovac, and he’s playing against Man U in the Super Cup later.