It's almost 5 years since Oliver left us and I still can't believe he's gone. I'm a grown ass man in his fifties but I cried like my own father died. That's the best way to describe how beloved he was.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I didn't expect anything to beat the emotion of the Vatreni retuning to Zagreb, but Oliver's final journey was incredibly emotional.

@stipe3124

Жыл бұрын

Oliver was soul of Dalmatia so what can Dalmatia do for him after he is gone? A funeral worth of a King, i still am emotional when i see images from Oliver's funeral, it was just something you can't see so often .

@NenadBach

Жыл бұрын

Oliver was the King.

@AnteGV1950

Жыл бұрын

@@NenadBach Long live the King!!!

@NenadBach

Жыл бұрын

@@AnteGV1950 Oliver is immortal. His voice will live forever

Don't forget about all those welcomes in other cities from where the Croatian footballers are. Zadar, Split, Omiš, Livno, Varaždin, Karlovac. So the number rises to about 800 thousand of Croats who welcomed footballers.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Yes very true, impressive all round. Some of the footage in the video is from the Split welcome.

Dear mr Bradbury, so many Englishmen fought in Croatian war for independence. A serious respect and honor to them, my beautiful homeland is their home any time if they wish. And thank you for promoting this small martyr nation telling the truth to the World! God bless you!

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

If you are interested, we recently filmed a really interesting podcast with one English volunteer who has lived in Vinkovci for 30 years, and even has his own English pub. Very interesting chat - kzread.info/dash/bejne/hn6Yp6edpsfNoc4.html

@DivljaVoda

Жыл бұрын

Were there many of them?

Passion and EMPATHY!!

This time we are going all the way 🇭🇷🏆Greetings from London.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You certainly have a great chance. Good luck!

@mariokovac9572

Жыл бұрын

@Paul Bradbury Croatia & Balkans Expert thank you ...since it's not coming home this time ...we are going to avenge England to beat France in final ...and make even for last time we have lost by France cheated. Croatia 2022 WC Champion 🇭🇷England 2026 WC Champions🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 hopefully

I hope you enjoy Croatia as one of us. Thank you for nice video.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. It is a great place to live.

Wow, this is such an interesting way of seeing all this. I never thought of it that way, since I'm on the inside and it's so normal to me. Thank you for the video and such a cool perspective.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

It really is quite special. Thanks for your comment.

Awww , thank you for the nice words. It was crazy how the atmosphere changed in just 2 weeks... from pure joy and happiness to pure sadness. I never experienced that here, especially in Split (I live close to it). Even 4,5 years later we cant wrap our heads around what actually happened at the WC and as well as that Oliver is gone. It was like a family member died to be honest. And also whats happening at the WC 2022... I guarantee you that no matter how this ends there will be a massive party again. Being twice in a row in a semi final and potentially final is something you could not make up.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

It was an amazing time to be in Croatia, that's for sure. Unforgettable.

Kad krenemo gorit ce nebo i zemlja...Andrija Matijaš Pauk 🇭🇷🇭🇷 You will tnx me later Paul

Thank you my dear friend, nice to hear such words. Bog i Hrvati

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome - good luck against Argentina

Very nice explanation of our mentality, good luck with the channel

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Thanks very much, and good luck v Argentina

During 1996 Euro in England we as a nation noticed that our football team was more than average. The spite, the grit, the artistry and lately the unbelievable endurance made them the respectable force they are today.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

They never give up, that's for sure.

Today I feel Croatian 🇭🇷

Im so happy to hear this, you have all my respect. 🇭🇷

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Good luck tonight

Croatia 🇭🇷 ❤ I didn't see oproštaj s Oliverom . Beautiful.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

It really was

Been in Zagreb both in 2018 and 2022 same atmosphere cant wait to get gold medal one day

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

They were both great times to be here

Bravo Sir. So beautiful review. Thanks

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. You guys do celebration so well.

Im proud to Croatian people,im proud to be Croat ! 🇭🇷 have a big ♥️ for all nation and respect everyone ! 👐👐👐👐👐👐

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Good luck tonight

@renatalucic

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury Now at saturday 🇭🇷 thank you

@renatalucic

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury ♥️🇭🇷

Thank you for your kind words from a Croatian..

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome.

This time the whole world is with Croatia if we go to Finals. Thank you for such kind words !

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

It would be an incredible story - good luck!

And we are again 3 in World 🙂! We have many good sportsmans in only less 4 milion people.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Yes, really incredible, and in so many different sports.

Short and beautiful, thanks!

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed.

Respect..

Croatia forever 👍

Thanks but we want to be legit World Champions. Croatia real Rocky Balboa of sports. 🇭🇷

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

I think you have a pretty good chance. Good luck.

thank you for beautiful words!!!we are that!!!

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Yes you are!

Respect 🇭🇷🥳

First time seeing your video and I have to say thank you for these beautiful words, also the way you pronounce Croatian words is perfect.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Lots more videos coming if you like this one and want to subscribe to the channel.

Thank you Paul Cheers 🍷

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Good luck in the semi-final

@JimmyGlo630

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury thank you brother 🏆

Thank you Paul for saying it. Much appreciated. Both mentioned events moves me deeply to the core. Nation that can produce such talent, welcoming and farewelling the same deserves a genuine attention ❤ Paul ♥️

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and good luck in the semi-final.

@NenadBach

Жыл бұрын

Yes nobody can gamble with the luck. No matter what happens we are very proud of our team. Welcome party is already in preparation

Thank You for beautiful words!

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Any time!

Big words for small country! Thanks

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You bet!

@zoom7533

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury Washington Post:Small giants from Europe. 😎👍

Very nice description of our mentality Mr. Bradbury. Thank you for that and also for every time you tried to open eyes of many Croats who are not aware what country they have. I have read some of your texts earlier and I liked them very much. Especially the one about Slavonija since I was born there. Here is a very interesting piece of information for you if you already didn't hear it. On the day of the finals will be the 31st anniversary of the murder of Modric's grandfather. Wouldn't it be mindblowing if he manage to raise that trophy in honour of his grandpa whose name, by the way, was also Luka?

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your comments, appreciated. Slavonia is a magical place and there are lots of positive initiatives happening there. Yes I was aware of the 31st anniversary - what a fitting end that would be to this amazing story. Good luck!

@antepilic7422

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Thank you!

Thank you for promotion of our country👍👍

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome - it is a great place

@peroperic1044

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury YES, BUT CROATIA HAS NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE BALKANS, BECAUSE BALKAN IS A MOUNTAIN IN BULGARIA!

thank you dear sir for your very kind and honest words! i do not know if you speak the language but Oliver is like Sir Elton John...I think if he sang in english he would be more popular then him. If you do not understand croatian put some oliver songs here on yt,find english lyrics and you will see why he was loved by so many people

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Oliver is MUCH better than Elton John

@biserkasertic1208

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury I cosidere him as our Frank Sinatra.

@zagrepcanin82

Жыл бұрын

@@biserkasertic1208 that would be Ivo Robić whose song Sinatra stole

@biserkasertic1208

Жыл бұрын

@@zagrepcanin82 You talk about "Strangers in the NIght"? As far I know Robić sold this melody, it was not stolen.

Croatia and ''balkan'' don't go well in the same sentence.

@willi19391

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, different mentality.

@imeprezime8297

Жыл бұрын

wtf you talking about?

@markospehar584

Жыл бұрын

E sve si fulo u jednoj rečenici

@osmaks1518

Жыл бұрын

Same exact thing. Croatia is Balkan, if you want to be a "westener" move to the west!

@Rusty945

Жыл бұрын

Croatia is still very Balkan . Although evolving at a fast pace

tnx great video

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

thank you

so true,thank you

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome

Thank you

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome

♥️

Yes...be humble...hope for.....dream big👍🙂🍀🎉🥳🍾👌🎶🎆🚀

Yep...thx Paul.....you got us.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Haha

Thank you 🇭🇷😉

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome. Good luck tonight.

You should of talked about the Hajduk Split fans Torcida 70th anniversary celebration. Great video non the less👍

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Thanks - and yes agreed. Those Torcida guys sure know how to put on a show. The 100 years of Hajduk in Split was nuts.

@agnezabarutanski1963

Жыл бұрын

Anniversaries are the only things you can celebrate these days anyway. :P

@futayzs

Жыл бұрын

Ne trpajte se svuda

Little correction....ut wasn't 550K of people in Zagreb. It was 850K. That is almost 1/4 of the whole population of Croatia ✌️🇭🇷

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

My understanding was that it was 550k in Zagreb, and 850k in all towns around the country. Do you have a link to an article with the 850k in Zagreb? First time I heard it.

Republika Hrvatska Croatia🇭🇷✌🏼😁😂🤙🏼🤙🏼🤘🏼

❤❤❤❤

Thanks Paul, but we are not Balkan, we just border with Balkan, but we are Central Europe

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Haha, well that is the subject for another video. Where is the border exactly in your opinion?

@tonyjeliccflstudiehandledn7348

Жыл бұрын

and the Medditerrenian Europe

@bornatona3954

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury learn geography and history.. River sava is border geographical Historical we were live under germans dominance ..serbs lived under ottomans dominance We "live" together only between 1918-1991

@damyr

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury Geographically, we definitely belong to the Balkans. But some of us are too proud to admit that, because the word brings some negative connotations, like being mixed in the same pot with other Balkan nations, which we (sometimes desperately) want to differentiate from, mostly in cultural sense. So, when a Croatian tells you that we are not part of the Balkans, he actually knows we are a part of it, but still wants to express his resentment toward being mixed with other Balkan nations. That's just our pettiness talking, as we want to be recognized as an independent nation, which belongs to the Western (more civilized) culture and society. I hope you understand.

@marinzivkovic4662

Жыл бұрын

Oh my god it’s okay. In politics we’re usually thrown into balkan group and I don’t know why would anybody have a problem with that. Partially we are a balkan country and so he haven’t said anything wrong

true

👍👍

This is nothing compared what happen for a Hajduk Split 100 years celebration, that is some next level shit

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You are right - that was an amazing night in Split.

Sir I subscribed

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@drazensusnjara7606

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury no worries, interesting to see your take on these lands :D

Let us all become Croatian at least for a day....

ty..... 🥃🇭🇷

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

np

🎩👏👏

Thanks for the thoughts and wishes!...but it's probably better not to use term '' balkan'' with Croatia.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Haha. We will be looking at that topic in depth soon. Good luck tonight.

The year was 1983, December 21, Split. Jugoslavija - Bulgaria. It was my first proper football game and the scenes in Split when Jugoslavija got the 3rd and qualified for the European Championship were out of this world. Nothing before or after that game will beat it. Croats, Paul also have another characteristic - A collective amnesia. No one seems to remember anything pre-1991.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Haha

@willi19391

Жыл бұрын

OMG, the servian stench is very strong in the comment from Zoran Orlic. Yeah, we tend to forget the horrible times when we were part of the freak backward communist country which name is starting with Y...

@zoranorlic2423

Жыл бұрын

@@willi19391 I was there fella. Nothing and I mean nothing can erase it from my memory. Grown men in their 50's going potty, teenagers literally jumping off the terraces,. Mental, I mean mental. Regret? Yes, missing the live TV broadcast from Mladen Delic. Pa ljudi moji, pa je li to moguceeeeeeeeee?????????

Hrvatska ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Haha

Thank you Paul Proud to be a Croat

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Good luck v Argentina

@martym159

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury thank you very much

Check the 70y anniversary celebration of torcida.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Yes a few people have commented the same. That and the 100 years of Hajduk were amazing.

Not all French like to riot, just the ones that spend a lot of time "tanning".

Thank you for analysis.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Any time!

You need to check 100 years of hajduk Split and 70 years of Torcida Split.

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Both were amazing events, as I said in previous comments.

The "french"

100 godina Hajduka i 70 godina Torcide!

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

These were two incredible events.

Geographical is the River Sava the boarder, Zagreb and More then the half of the Country is Not Balkan! Politically Croatias East nighbours are West Balkan countries! These are facts😎

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

So you are saying that some of Croatia is Balkan, but the rest not? I will be doing a video next year on Croatia and the Balkans. There is a lot to discuss, and there are a lot of different opinions.

@dragodrazenovic1064

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury The Croatian regions of Prigorje, Zagorje, Podravina and Međimurje were never part of the Balkans.

Paul it is not somehow we where better..

"Somehow, Croatia had beaten England in the World Cup semi final..."??? Somehow 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

haha

I know i live here 😂

Hvala za video

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Nema na cemu

Somehow Croatia beat England??🤣🤣England sucked big time.....

Nice

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

look the wellcome foor ivanisevic in split after wimbeldon

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Yes that was amazing too, but I focused on these two as they were in the same month but so different.

CROATS = Stars... (written from the right.. 😁).. ✨.. 👋..

🇭🇷💪🇭🇷

We win this wc

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

You have better chance than England, haha. Good luck.

Paul (off topic), is there an english word for term "uhljebi" (even "uhljebi" isn't croatian word, the croatian word would be "ukruhsi"), for people doing nothing in made up jobs by government or so... Is there a similar term one word or more that has same meaning? Thx

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Haha, I get asked that a lot. My favourite 'translation' is 'an inbred in bread' - but I wrote a long article which you might enjoy - Welcome to Uhljebistan - a Foreign Appreciation of the Cult of Uhljeb. Let me know what you think - www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/16403-welcome-to-uhljebistan-a-foreign-appreciation-of-the-cult-of-uhljeb

@niksatan

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury Thanks, let me say, something I just remembered... I once needed something burecratic thing for my car, I, as native and modern guy, read all the laws, prepared well, even printed laws and regulations. Then, all the officials were telling me wrong things, they even made up laws... when I caught them in lies, they pretended "its how its done", they called "upstairs", nobody knew what to do. Then they had to "break law" not to "break law"... so many stories, keep up the good work!

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

@@niksatan haha, sounds familiar...

Respect Paul You must make video about Hajduk Split and Jugoplatika 88-91 and perhaps you can explain what is Dalmatia

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Will check it out - thanks for the tip

@martym159

Жыл бұрын

@@PaulBradbury anytime

romans bread and games...stage where slavse make elite entertained...

Only I like people to know. Croatia is Mediterranean country not f...k Balkan country. We have Adriatic Sea who is not Balkan but Mediterranean area .

@agnezabarutanski1963

Жыл бұрын

So, let me get this straight... The Adriatic sea is not Balkan in Croatia, but it's Balkan in Montenegro and Albania? Likewise, Croats are not in the Balkans, but if Bosnia is in the Balkans, what about Bosnian Croats? Why should we be ashamed of being a Balkan nation? It's not the region to blame for all the bad things we experience in our country, it's our own fault.

@peroperic1044

Жыл бұрын

@@agnezabarutanski1963 1. THERE IS NO THE BALKAN NATION! 2. GREATER SERBIA PROPAGANDA FORCES CROATIA AND BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA TO THE BALKANS!

@damyr

Жыл бұрын

We are a Balkan country. Stop talking nonsense and stop crying. Deal with it.

@biserkasertic1208

Жыл бұрын

@@damyr 👍!

@Niki91-HR

Жыл бұрын

Frank, ali ne broji se cijela Hrvatska u Mediteran.... obalni dio je, a Zagreb sigurno ne. Mi smo više stvari, jedan aspekt je mediteranski, ali bome imamo mi i balkanskog u sebi. I bit dio Balkana nije nužno loša stvar. I nije Balkan samo regija bivše Juge....Balkan je i Grčka npr. Riječ Balkan ne triba gledat u negativnom kontekstu.

PAUL..,,we also celebrate your words...thank you very much..m..B...

@PaulBradbury

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!