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Our favorite defensive midfielder to throw under the bus, Ognjen Vukokević, is being shipped off to Spartak Moscow for the remainder of the season, on loan from Dynamo Kyiv. After being scrutinized by Croatian fans for being more of loose cannon than a facilitator in the midfield following the departure of captain Niko Kovač, the 29 year-old Vukojević may be entering the twilight of his career with this move, never really appealing to Croatian fans.
His starting spot at Dynamo Kiev has been taken away from him as Vukojević has spent much of the year riding the bench. Now entering the last year of his contract, Vuki will play the remainder of the season in Russia; at sixth place Spartak Moscow. He has scored nine goals in 123 appearances for Dynamo Kiev since coming over from Dinamo Zagreb in 2008.
But the question remains: with the emergence of Milan Badelj at Hamburg this season and the decline of Vukojević, have we seen the last of Vuki in checkers? Not only is the answer yes, but it will come as a unanimous yes by delighted Croatian supporters across the globe, who never saw the defensive midfield position filled after Kovač.
Just as long as živa is joking, I take things too personal sometimes, especially if I don’t know the person. I can take a joke živa, just sometimes I’m not sure if your kidding or not.
so does justin beiber, but he is also cuntlike.. popular things will always be shitty since most people are scummy scumbags
Might be cuntish, but they produce money and tv ratings.
you can get on golf too but its still gayer than aids, just like american college sports. Actually just like american sports period which are all boringly cuntish
Because “kid” sports are big time in the US and more importantly can be bet on.
Why are you cunts talking about college sport ? wtf is wrong wqith americans that they follow kid sports ?
Plus California weather is the best in the world. The more south you go, the hotter it is as in real life. Bay Area is perfect. Hot during the day, colder at night.
San Jose is perfect. Downtown bars are near HP as well as good food plus women in business suits. Traffic is on the lighter end and the smell of weed will remind you of being at a soccer stadium in Cro. Sadly, no urine smell.
@Antwerp
Really not sure what’s going on with him. Olic just scored last week, and it baffles me why they paid Perisic and are sitting him. My thoughts
1) most likely his attitude. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s acting like a primadonna because of his age.
2) It’s hard to believe, but maybe he’s just not meshing well with the team.
Either way, to me he’s our most dangerous man on the left. Not sure who else could/would replace him right now.
“Seeds wont mean shit this year. The top 10 teams can all play with each other and there is not much of a drop off with any of them.”
Thats why i said there isn’t a true number 1
I thought since you love Ohio so much you would pick Ohio State lol
Indiana will get to the Final Four because they will be seeded to play their opening round games in Lexington (which will basically be a home game for them since the Indiana border is near by) and the regional round will be in Indianapolis. So, I think they get to the Final Four, but I don’t think they will win. They have one decent road victory this season. Very much a different team away from home.
I’d like to see someone like Gonzaga win it this year.
Seeds wont mean shit this year. The top 10 teams can all play with each other and there is not much of a drop off with any of them.
Indiana is the favorite…But I think Izzo will have the Spartans cutting down the nets in the ATL-
Ziva it doesn’t look like there is a true #1 team this year in college bball, who do you think has the best chances of winning the tourney? I’d put my money on Indiana
I may be in Vegas. I like to gamble on the NCAA basketball tourney and I usually make a road trip to Vegas or to one of sites for the first weekend of action. So its either Vegas or one of the following:
Auburn Hills……too far in the suburbs, so probably not
Lexington, Kentucky…….hotbed for college hoops
Salt Lake City………..no chance with the liquar/bar laws they have in that state
San Jose…….possible destimation
Dayton………it’s in Ohio, so no chance
Austin………one of the best cities to party in the US
Kansas City…….maybe
Philadelphia…..the frontrunner
@ Ziva
You are going to be in Vegas and not hang with the crew and watch the Serbia match?
NO PASS my friend.
HNS poništio 80 ulaznica za utakmicu Hrvatska – Srbija!
http://is.gd/oLYG2u
I like Peresic, i think he will do just fine, coaches give him a chance and he will prove what he can do! I like the way he plays, judging from some of the above comments it’s a fucking beauty pageant, as long as you can play i don’t care if you look like a pair of dogs balls!
@ GoldenChild
Speaking of cold streaks, Perisic is going through a real cold one. He escaped from Bayern’s bench only to land on another one. The coach has been playing Olic in that left wing spot.
@Iggy-Ha ha ha,you are a bad man!a very bad man!Trust me,there is nothing for him to get!nice try though. 😉
hahahah
Ziva, he questioned your sexuality
GET IT !?
Yeah yeah Ziva ,only in the cyber world is where you would do this.If you are in Vegas that weekend,at least drop by to say hi!
Anyhow,I am in Sydney and dont know what “March Madness”There is “Mardi Gras”here tomorrow night which is the annual gay pride march,so not sure if you mean something along those lines which could make sense,but of course “March Madness”could be something else totally,please pardon my ignorance on this. 🙂
@Ante……..squirm????????? what on earth are you blabbing about. Oh, I’ll be in Vegas that weekend, but I’m not going to Vegas to watch the Cro game. It’s the start of March Madness and I usually go to Vegas for that. I’ll watch the Cro game at my buddies place just outside of Vegas.
I don’t know any of you and really have no interest in spending a weekend with a bunch guys I don’t know. If I ever did meet some of you over-sensitive clowns (some not al of you) I would have no issue “explain’en” any of my comments. By the way, which comments would I have to explain…..the comments where I am proven to be correct????
@Bobby V
http://is.gd/XV19Nn
All players go through hot and cold streaks…that’s the agony of playing sports. Kranjcar, Eduardo, Kalinic, etc all had rough seasons for their clubs and came on to propel the repka to victory in the past.
Badelj is the best guy at his position, and he’s proven his value at a club level. I’m sure he’ll be fine come the Serbia game.
lol why are u guys commenting on “the looks” of male players, you raging homos. You must be gayer than aids if that is how u see guys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KA-Tmp_4PAM#!
For all Dinamo Fans sorry NK CROATIA FANS!
@Nick Vujinovic-From memory I think that Ziva always likes to throw in “smelly”comments every time that Lika is mentioned.Its his little thing.But since you ask him about it now ,its”oh no,but I have never met a bad one”If you want to see him squirm a bit,ask him if he is going to Vegas so he can explain his comments to you personally.Thats when he will pull out things like”hanging with a bunch of guys is not his thing”more excuses will follow,but at the end of the day,he knows he cant possibly do something like that .The real world can be quite scary.
@ Anon good we should win since no Hajduk players are on the roster
plus I thought Halilovic will play for bosnia
5 mujos and a cigan and a half serb fits Croatia percect EU!
@anon/cico/sime
good we should win since no Hajduk players are on the roster
plus I thought Halilovic will play for bosnia
Mamic told Stimac the following team must play against srbs,
Kelava Ibanez Jedvaj Lovren Vrsaljko Sammir Kovacic Ademi Modric Halilovic Mandzo
Grlim Liku i Velebit goru
Liko nasa najljepsa u zoru….
@nick????? you sure about that. Truth be told, I like licani. never met a bad one.
Dont take Zivas comments personal hes just like that we like to joke alot and stereotype regions in Croatia and BIH on this site. Like Zadar bjezigrad Rijeka Mala srbija Zagreb full of hercegovian croatian wannabes Split and Dubrvnik full of mujos hahahah! MI HRVATI!
@ živa,
Dude what’s your problem with lika???? My parents are from lika, and I can guarantee you that I’m not ugly!!!
Is the New Orleans bounty scandal arbitrary? Did what happened there make sense? Nothing is as it seems and I trust nobody when large amounts of money are put into the equation.
“By the way….I’d take Vidic and Subotic in our line up anyday over what we have in the backline.”
That was not the point I was trying to make obviously but I will play.
Maybe give Lovren a little more time to have that quality? He will be sold soon and we shall see. I really like Corluka as well. Maybe he is not as good as the other two players mentioned from an athletic point of view but he is clutch and has some magic to him that comes through when needed. At least at the national level. There is something about Charlie that is hard to define. Vidic and Subotic are both absolutely solid defenders that is for sure.
@vrag……..first, your throery is wrong and makes no sense. It’s all arbitrary. My comments were related to the idea the serb players would go out of their way to injury our guys in the lead up to the game. I said it was BS. It was a crazy suggestion (by whoever said it) and I countered and said it was just as crazy as me saying the croatian players will go out and hurt the serb players.
By the way….I’d take Vidic and Subotic in our line up anyday over what we have in the backline.
Badelj is doing just fine – the man is a blue-blooded footballer. This is the Bundesliga we’re talking about, gentlemen. You try and chase down Reus, Gotze, Kroos, etc. on a nightly basis….
He’ll get better and better. He’s only been there for 0.5 a season. That quoted article isn’t that old….
Aside: this is the time of year where we begin to see wear and tear on players. No injuries before the 22nd, please!
It is not in our nature.
You have guys like Vidic, and Subotic that are pure bullies and in comparison you have Modric.
Yep, Modric is definitely going to go and take someone out and hurt them????? Not going to happen. All our players are on the offensive side of ball sans Srna and the worst he will do is flop around.
Vidic is a second degree black belt and Subotic is a big rough and tough type of player as well who is dirty.
Hey, if we go unscathed that is just fine. I would still like to know how the opposite could hold true? Using your, “I’m sure the opposite could hold true as well, no?????” logic that would indicate that if we placed betting odds on either side of the equation that these odds would be even. Even money as they say. You know for a fact that would not be the case given all the information provided. That would mean one hundred percent that the opposite, us trying hurting them, would not hold true.
How is this crazy? You have heard of the bounty scandal? Different sports but the same logic and proof that it does happen.
Rakitic Scores today in 90’+1′ of Copa del Rey match vs Athletico
@ Ziva and Rob
Badelj has hit a rough patch in form. He is lacking in confidence and giving up too many balls.
We will see how he turns out in the next few games. Like Matesic said, our team is deep.
Stimac will be watching Badelj and other players, and will decide who is in the best form to play DM against Serbia. No player’s place should be guaranteed.
now that’s logically sound!
and i agree
either way, Badelj’s performances recently have not been good.
AND it was a false analogy, lol
@Ziva Fallacy of false attribution, historian’s fallacy, and fallacy of incomplete comparison.
You’re comparing a gap of 20 years to a gap of about 3 months. Of course he is not the player he was 20 years ago due to age, etc.
But by all accounts Badejl is still the same player that he was the months ago.
If you are going to make an argument, make it logically sound.
attractive hrvati????????? Not in Lika
And Dujmovic looks like a Neaderthal.
I’m be happy to never see either of them suit up for us again. They are so ugly and clumsy. Giving us attractive Hrvati a bad rap.
easily……if someone is crazy enough to belive serb players will go out of their way to hurt cro players, then the opposite can hold true. Cro player would go out of their way to hurt the Serb players.
Good. He looks like a fucking mongoloid child.
” I’m sure the opposite could hold true as well, no?????”
How can it work the other way?????
Robert, here is a more recent article for you …
http://www.index.hr/mobile/clanak.aspx?category=&id=664936
Badelj’s performance recently concerns me gong into the Serb game. I could be wrong but it seems like he goes through periods when he is hot then periods of being cold. I remember reading an article a few years ago where he admitted that a cold period he went through may have been attributed to his asthma. The kid has talent and potential to be a great player. However, his inconsistency and asthma concern me.
That is nice and all, but that article takes into account what he did in the first half of the season. Since the Bundesliga has started up again in 2013, Badelj has had very shaky performances.
Maybe I’ll find some articles back from 1993 and state how great of a player Romario was.
‘Badelj has been brutal.’
Uhhhhhhhhhh, what?
http://bundesligafanatic.com/milan-badelj-hamburgs-deep-lying-playmaker/
And I could easily add another 10 links, all saying the same thing. Head over to whoscored.com and have a look at his numbers. Also, he has three (3) MotM awards, pretty good for a DM/regista. He’s now an automatic for HNS.
Maybe we don’t like that his name is Milan?
Robert Dumancic.
Badelj may be the long-term solution (lets hope he is), but based on his performances recently I am not at all encouraged going into the Serbia game.
By the way, where are all the blind homers who a few months were saying the serbs players were going to go out of their way and hurt our guys when they met up in club play, with the ultimate goal of knocking them out of the game on March 22. I’m sure the opposite could hold true as well, no?????
@ Ziva
Milan had a awesome start to the season but has dipped in form the last few weeks
Just hope Badelj can take the DM reigns and cement his spot, so we don’t have to see guys like Dujmovic, Vukojevic, etc. again.
RE: “have we seen the last of Vuki in checkers?”
I certainly hope so.
don’t know what you guys have been watching, but Badelj has been brutal.
Kreso
Good to see that the Maltese have high standards…
Rob I
Although maltese prostitution is a big industry, being hairy is frowned upon!
Kreso
What happens if the black Maltese prostitute is hairy? Will that change things again.
Niko Kovac was a beast!
Badelj is DM who can shoot from distance, vital skill for us. As teams defend our offensive players we need guys who can fire from far.
God bless Vuko and the rest of his career BUT we can never have another clumsy player on the field in any position playing again!
Love the depth we got poppin now on the repka.
The best teams in the world have players who competing squad call ups and team spots.
T-22 days.
Need to start off quick and powerful like some of our other operations in the past.
Never know, who ever is playing great football should play, fuck if jelacic scores a few hatricks in the next few weeks things change, then if he starts fucking 100 kilo black maltese prostitutes things might change again!