Let's not forget that with such a small talent pool, Croatia also produces champion Handball team, champion water polo team, champion skiers, and various other sports champions.

@damirglavas7940

Жыл бұрын

World silver in football. ✔ World bronze medal in football. ✔ X 2 World bronze in basketball. ✔ World champions in handball. ✔ World water polo champions. ✔ World champions in rowing. ✔ World champions in athletics. ✔ World champions in gymnastics. ✔ World champions in sailing. ✔ World champions in taekwondo. ✔ World champions in judo. ✔ World karate champions. ✔ World bowling champions. ✔ World bocce champions. ✔ World champions in archery. ✔ World champions in beach handball. ✔ World silver in kayaking. ✔ World bronze in wrestling. ✔ World bronze in table tennis. ✔ Olympic silver in basketball. ✔ Olympic champions in handball. ✔ Olympic champions in water polo. ✔ Olympic tennis champions. ✔ Olympic champions in rowing. ✔ Olympic champions in athletics. ✔ Olympic champions in sailing. ✔ Olympic champions in taekwondo. ✔ Olympic skiing champions. ✔ Olympic weightlifting champions. ✔ Olympic archery champions. ✔ Olympic silver in swimming. ✔ Olympic silver in gymnastics. ✔ Olympic bronze in boxing. ✔ Paralympic champions and medals. ✔ European bronze in basketball. ✔ European silver in handball. ✔ European bronze handball player. ✔ European champions in water polo. ✔ European champions in rowing. ✔ European champions in athletics. ✔ European champions in gymnastics. ✔ European champions in sailing. ✔ European champions in taekwondo. ✔ European champions in karate. ✔ European champions in beach handball. ✔ European silver in volleyball. ✔ European silver in table tennis. ✔ European silver in kayak. ✔ European bronze in canoeing. ✔ European bronze in wrestling. ✔ Davis Cup won. ✔ Won Wimbledon. ✔ Won Roland Garros. ✔ Won the US Open. ✔ Won the Australian Open. ✔ The Skiing World Cup was won. ✔ Women's Skiing World Cup won. ✔ Pride Grand Prix won. ✔ Won the K-1 World Grand Prix. ✔ The fight for the absolute champion of the world in boxing. ✔ The best soccer player in the world. ✔ The best handball player in the world. ✔ The best water polo player in the world. ✔ The best rowers in the world. ✔ The best skier in the world. ✔ The best female skier in the world. ✔ The best hanger in the world. ✔ The best thrower in the world. ✔ The best taekwondo player in the world. ✔ In just 30 years.😏😊

@fraserbailey6347

Жыл бұрын

Croatia also makes a lot of good wine!

@powderskier5547

Жыл бұрын

Even Table Tennis (Zoran Primorac) and BMX Freestyle (Marin Rantes)

@Frosty-py9jp

Жыл бұрын

No one cares

@damirglavas7940

Жыл бұрын

@@Frosty-py9jp It hurts you inside 🤔? Yeah ,we know 😊...it's called ...jealousy 😏Suck it up ,snowflake🤫

Its because they are great. I am magyar. I live 60km from the border of Hrvatska. We always travel to Dalmacija with the family every summer. We love it. I consider it my second home. I go there since i was a little child. I try to use the langauge in shops and restaurant. I think they are very similar to us. In my dreams i move to the island of Vis and just eat fish and drink wine. Živila Hrvatska 🇭🇷

@klaudiokanida369

11 ай бұрын

You are more than welcome to live here, thank you man

@mario-mk6gc

11 ай бұрын

🇭🇷❤️🇭🇺

@user-ht2yk2zi5g

11 ай бұрын

Tényleg?te magyar vagy

@markodrazetic7077

9 ай бұрын

A half of my family is from Korčula in Dalmatia and a another from Zagreb and you are always welcomed❤

@richardbas7574

6 ай бұрын

Yes! Magyars are always welcome!! Good people you are who love your country b

I‘m polish but always when Croatia is playing I watch a game on TV I just admire with how much dedication they are playing

@LukaLMR988

5 ай бұрын

🇭🇷🫱🏻‍🫲🏽🇵🇱 💪🏽

I know my Croatian cousins very well, I grew up with a lot of them in western Sydney. They have this unbelievable love and pride for Croatia, the rest is Genetic. Heck even in the Australian soccer team, there has always been Croatian Aussies! Pozdrav do HRV od MKD

@EmergingEcho

2 күн бұрын

Bratko, we also produced World cup bronze medal winning team in 1994, however we no longer have the same winning mentality. Incredibly corrupt, selfish and destructive leadership in sports and in economy in general. I believe that the smallest nations to ever reach World cup medals are Uruguay, Croatia and Bulgaria.

As a Croatian this video made me very happy, thanks for acknowledging Croatia and their success on the international stage 🇭🇷 ❤️

@InTer75398

Жыл бұрын

Jazavac mali, jesi sretan bio kad su proveli anketu da su Hrvati najgluplji narod na svijetu 😂😂😂

@steezmonkee4712

Жыл бұрын

najjači smo

@AnAncient76

Жыл бұрын

Actually this video is wrong. Half of the team who won second place in 2018 is from Bosnia, including selector Dalic. So the area from where these players come is much larger, and with more people. Besides, size of the country means nothing because you have the same number of players on both sides. It's not like one country with much larger population plays against other with small population. It's about the will to play.

@borbas9059

Жыл бұрын

@@AnAncient76 Zar nije BiH dio Hrvatske 😉

@basylpeterjones

Жыл бұрын

@@AnAncient76 To say the size of a country's population means nothing is ridiculous. Imagine England only being able to select a squad born in London - and that's well over double the size of Croatia.

6 world cups played and 3 medals that is crazy

Croats are very intelligent and strong people🇭🇷🎩

@InTer75398

Жыл бұрын

In the guestionnaire most stupid peoples in the world 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@tomislav4929

Жыл бұрын

No there are stupid because they always pick hdz to lead the country. Stealing 30%bdp every year.

@nikturk9566

Жыл бұрын

svaka jugoslavenska nacija je dobra u sportu jer nemamo ništa bolje za radit

@mimma6992

Жыл бұрын

@@nikturk9566 yu ne postoji, valjda si to shvatio.

@nikturk9566

Жыл бұрын

Ex*

Even the GOAT have some Croatian blood. Grande Diego. His doughter and grandma are called Dalma after Dalmatia region in Croatia.

@misocveticanin578

Жыл бұрын

Maradona is Dalmatian

@ytubeu7450

Жыл бұрын

Y. T.,, El TRINCHE KARLOVICH,, 🇭🇷

@andrijanasluganovic3100

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂MAŠTA RADI SVAŠTA 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@dtikvxcdgjbv7975

Жыл бұрын

Yes, grandgrandmother is from Korčula

@goodside1807

Жыл бұрын

@@andrijanasluganovic3100 to nije mašta odi na Google pa vidi za sebe da je istina

Playing for Croatia is like going to war. You give it your all. This is why Croatia always looks great playing the best teams.

3 podium places since 1998 is impressive

Croatia had a stacked squad in 2018. Still remember Modric scoring that screamed against Argentina. Glad we got our revenge in the last WC but also glad the Croatians were able to get a medal.

Long live Croatia 🇭🇷 from a Scottish yank 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇲

@vesnastrenge7249

Жыл бұрын

👍👍✌️😘

@frankoelek3168

Жыл бұрын

Scotland❤️✌️🙏😍 Greetings from Croatia.

@damirglavas7940

Жыл бұрын

🥰🤗👍✌🤜

@lillic4712

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot !! Love Scotia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇭🇷❤

@garymorrison4675

Жыл бұрын

@@lillic4712 thanks ! Greetings to all in Croatia 🇭🇷 from the Scot in the States. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇲 . Hope to visit you all one day.

Croatia is going to win a major international trophy before England. Croatia is honestly a nation that major clubs in europe should invest into, Barca, Real Madrid, PSG, Bayern, Dortmund, Man City, etc

@bosanskislavonac

Жыл бұрын

Croatia is already more successful than England.

@mitonaarea5856

Жыл бұрын

@@bosanskislavonac Which international trophies has Croatia won?

@johannesgunterman5498

Жыл бұрын

@@mitonaarea5856 nakitute natako

@djesidjenis4576

Жыл бұрын

Mito...not a single one yet. But which mayor international trophy England win? And please don't answer WC which was in prehistorian time when few nations played on it and was also rigged. So England haven't won anything. And if we add that WC it is still as not as good as Croatia did, cause Croatia play since 30yeras ago as independent country and have 2 medals from WC, while England have nothing in the same time. So yes, Croatia is more succesfull.

@josephcro2138

Жыл бұрын

@@djesidjenis4576 3 medals*

RIP Miroslav Blazevic Ciro The man who led Croatia to 3rd place at the 1998 world cup Laying the foundation for Croatia's future success in 2018 and 2022 May he rest in peace Let's pay our respects

@kresimirskoric3960

Ай бұрын

Ciro je car

Proud to be be Croat. 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷

Fighting is in the Croatian nation's blood. We managed with help of other surrounding nations to stop the Turkish invasion of Europe not once, but for 400 years on our territory. We won our independence war although at the beginning we didn't have an army or many weapons. Napoleon stated that if he had one hundred thousand Croat fighters he would conquer Europe. The fighting spirit is deeply rooted in our genes.

@herzog1857

Жыл бұрын

Napoleon said that about the Poles, not the Croats, after the Battle of Somosierra pass in 1808. He also did not say "I will conquer all of Europe" but "I will conquer the whole world".

@zvonimirzubcic3962

Жыл бұрын

nope he said that about croats because of Marko Šljivaric ( Marc de Slivaric ) who was commander of croatian troops whic stud by him in Moscow when his Grand le Armee run away, they saved him in moscow from geting captured by russians

@herzog1857

Жыл бұрын

@@zvonimirzubcic3962 First and foremost le Grand Arme did not "run away from Moscow and leave Napoleon" but received an order from Napoleon to retreat (as well as the Croatians in that same Grand Arme). Secondly, Napoleon was almost captured not in Moscow but in Maloyaroslavets and thirdly, Napoleon was not saved by Marc de Slivarits but by Jean Rapp

@zvonimirzubcic3962

Жыл бұрын

@@herzog1857 nope, source pls

@ivanbrankovic1628

11 ай бұрын

@@herzog1857 how I remember and learned in school is: If I had 100,000 Croats I would conquer the world - NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. btw Google confirms it.

As a Rangers fan I am extremely grateful to Croatia for some outstanding players, Prso, Jelavic, Kranjcar, Katic, Colak and Barisic.

@buzzerbeaterbuzzerbeater9001

6 ай бұрын

Prso was best

@joschmo4497

Ай бұрын

@@buzzerbeaterbuzzerbeater9001 I was gonna say, Dado Pršo, the man

@buzzerbeaterbuzzerbeater9001

Ай бұрын

Besides Prso, physically ready Kranjcar and maybe Jelavic, the rest is pretty average in my opinion.

Napoleon je jednom rekao: "dajte mi 10000 Hrvata i pokorit ću svijet"

Quality over quantity

This was great, huge fan of Croatia 🇭🇷

I think croatian players are still underrated and big european clubs should buy more young croatian players like they buy players from some other countries . They are not more talented but they give much more money for them. If Gvardiol was brazilian, french, english or spanish, the money wouldn't be a problem.

@hellothere9763

Жыл бұрын

Seriously. It feels like top6 nations occupy like 90 per cent of top5 leagues. And I don't think that's unfair, but I think our talent isn't appreciated enough like iin Scandinavian teams or Belgium for example where we should be comparable. Our next gen talents look better than ever and apart from highs being so high what makes me like our football is average is much higher then before meaning when youngster is top talent in Croatia he's also top talent in Europe. Everyone is raving about Gvardiol, but that's because he's RB Leipzig player. Players such as Baturina, Beljo, Šutalo should be in top5 team next summer already. Not to mention players like Livakovič, Juranović Sosa and Majer deserve top club already.

@Total_football_and_relationism

5 ай бұрын

@@hellothere9763Honestly it isn’t easy for a player like Rakitic or Modric to make it at a big club. I think there are plenty of Croatians and Uruguayans who would do well at small clubs like Bologna and Monza but the problem is once you perform really well, you start demanding wages that only big clubs can pay and it is harder to win a starting spot. So most players end up going to Saudi or MLS, and then a few years later are back playing in their domestic league.

This is what we are, never give up never give in. Plus talent and love for our country. Faith in God and Blessed Mother of our Lord. Rajska djevo kraljice Hrvata, nasa majko nasa zoro zlata…. Nation of 4 million people is making people to believe in miracles and not only in soccer.

You forgot to mention great Alen Bokšić, the guy that led Croatia to 2 WC: 1998 and 2002 - and never had a chance to be a part of it (that FIRST golden generation) due to his injuries. He was a prototype of nowadays modern striker, great pace, stamina and chips, great club career...sadly he haven't got a real chance to shine in Croatian national squad alongside Davor Šuker during the first Croatian Golden Generation '96 and '98 because he we was injury prone. Croatian football squad needs so badly someone like him - that guy was something really special.

Rarely would you expect an outsider to make such an accurate analysis............well done.

@14Mydarling

Жыл бұрын

Not outsiders anymore. They are a part of elite football! Imagine if they were competing for 100 yrs like other big football nations… And they made so much in 25 yrs. Respect!

@adrian5982

Жыл бұрын

We are not outsiders anymore

@petarjuric5828

Жыл бұрын

@@14Mydarling I feel like your answering another comment then what iam seeing.

@FHF677

9 ай бұрын

​@@adrian5982hes talking Abt the guy who made the video

@FHF677

9 ай бұрын

​@@14MydarlingHes talking abt the guy who made the video

Maybe our golden generation is over but our next generation even better that current is coming and I m sure that this one will finally bring us🏆🇭🇷⭐: Gvardiol, Sučić, Majer, Baturina, Beljo, Ljubičić, Šutalo, Matanović, Vidović, Šimić, Rukavina, Sosa, Stanišić, Brekalo, Vlašić, Jakić, Smolčić, Franjić, Frigan, Crnac, Vušković brothers, Kačavenda, Zvonarek, Babić, Ivković...

@zustiefn2227

Жыл бұрын

Modric 2026❤️😊

@thenightspitter

Жыл бұрын

Samo si se zajebo sa vuskovicem, stariji ce vrlo vjerojatno dobiti dobru kaznu, za ostale se slazem, puno potencijala je tu, na njima je da rade marljivo i da to dokazuju iz utakmice u utakmicu

@dujesimic6647

Жыл бұрын

I Mateo je tu još barem jedno svjetsko...

@modricivan2526

Жыл бұрын

Biuk??

@andrejmicovic7296

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think we’ve ever had as strong of a pipeline of future players. Gvardiol, Majer and Sosa are just the beginning. If we can keep Modric and a few of our senators through the Euro, it will be a perfect transition

Definitely impossible not to talk about this topic without recognising the work of Dinamo Zagreb. They have produced close to half of the last two World Cup squads, and have a SUPERB academy.

@n1troni

Жыл бұрын

I think the same goes for Hajduk, both dinamo and hajduk have Produced 80% of the players that played for croatia in the last 4 world cups. If only rijeka and Osijek stepped up their youth academies

@nylacalvi1142

Жыл бұрын

No , this is only if you look on the situation from the outside! The most talented players come from Dalmatia , the south of Croatia . The truth is that Dinamo has monopolized the whole Croatian League through corruption . Because they corrupted all the football system and have all the money , they buy everything that can play in Croatia and they also have or had the government behind them. The explanation why the are so many good players , is because Croatians are good in Sports and are strong mentally But everything in Croatia is improvisation, there is absolutely no plan behind this , in Croatia corruption is everywhere ... Probably the academy coaches are also doing a good job , but still it's mostly insane talent , because like I said there isn't either a plan or structure in anything here in Croatia

@hellothere9763

Жыл бұрын

They have the best academy in Croatia by far, but they are also the only with reasonable with finances which helps them to buy from other teams.

@robertbauer3419

Жыл бұрын

@@nylacalvi1142 Amen brother! You couldnt have said it better: I am also amazed how in the fuck we produce so many talents in such a corrupt and disorganized system. We must have the most amazing natural talent gene pool for sports in the world because it definitely aint some government program that is creating all these stories of success. I am scared to think what would have happenned if we were actually organized and not corrupt like Norway or Finland for instance. I guess we would either win the World Cup every year or become worse than San Marino.

@nylacalvi1142

Жыл бұрын

@@robertbauer3419 a explanation is maybe this ... one thing that differs us from other nations is that we always had incredible technical ability , you are not getting this if you work systematically like a robot .... If you watch similar nations like us , all they can do is being physical and run , 2 things our players learn when they are transferred from Croatia , yes.. till than it is mostly technical skills and improvisation, which can actually help you a lot when all the others just run ... it's quite possible that Croatia was the slowest Team this world cup , I do really think we were one fast player away from going all the way this WC

Not mentioned in the video: Croatia is in the final 4 of Nations League with Spain, Netherlands and Italy (by beating France and Denmark).

Glad to see Croatia getting some recognition. They are very underatted

@powderskier5547

6 ай бұрын

Not any more

This can be expanded to include other sports as well with Croatia having produced world champions in over 20 sports since independence, for example handball, rowing, boxing, MMA, athletics, gymnastics, etc.

@akeemalleyne5890

Жыл бұрын

Great to hear they're doing well in so many sports.

@comradesam3382

Жыл бұрын

@@akeemalleyne5890 yea, us in the ex yu balkan countries really are an anomaly as far as winning competitions is concerned (mainly Croatia and Serbia but the rest arent far behind)

Yes, Croatia is a small country with under 4 million people. But there are still about 4 million Croatians living outside of Croatia, including me. So we about 8 million

Croatia always had good players even with yugoslavia thy had best players bud Serbs won't play them. Now you see how much Croatia is ahead of the rest of Republics in former Yugoslavia. I am proud Croatian and Thank you for such a beautiful video.

@laganonista59

Жыл бұрын

True

@matija5555

Жыл бұрын

@@historianchad We are best in everything!

@froglifes6829

Жыл бұрын

@@historianchad Massive cope and lies.

@14Mydarling

Жыл бұрын

@@historianchadWhat are you talking about, mate? I’ve been in all ex Yugoslavia countries. Except Slovenia, they can’t be compared to Croatia. By standard, way of life, economic situation , beauty, football. I saw many Bosnians or Serbs working in Croatia in restaurants and bars. But I haven’t seen Croatians working in Bosnia or Serbia because Croatia is richer! Croatia and Slovenia are a part of EU and Schengen for a reason. All other ex Yugoslavia countries are miles ˈbakwərd. Don’t spread misinformations.

@herzog1857

Жыл бұрын

​@@14Mydarling Mete, you are not quite right. Croatia is certainly ahead of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but Croatia also has the advantage of the Adriatic Sea. About 80 percent of the Croatian budget comes from tourism. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that Croatia has booming tourism, but 80 percent of tourism alone is pretty fu..ed up. If one summer, for example, Croatia had a rainy season, it would be felt very much. Also, Serbia and especially Bosnia have different problems than Croatia and had different historical circumstances than Croatia, so please be a little realistic. And if we are already talking about the European Union and who deserves to be in it, Bulgaria and Romania are economically behind Serbia and in terms of infrastructure behind Serbia and Bosnia, but they are still in the EU. So it's not all black and white.

Good analysis. Success of Croatian football and sports in general is a product of a whole lot of things. But what makes such a small nation stand out like that? What does Croatia have that other bigger nations don't? Passion, faith, togetherness, a psychologicaly advanced coach and genetics

Croatia has many talented Football players and year on year croatian team is performing well ...i can see they can win next world cup in 2026. Love from india.

@fapmashina1

Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot pal!

@petarjuric5828

Жыл бұрын

🇭🇷🇭🇷

@sunilindia1979

Жыл бұрын

@@fapmashina1 ...Happy new year brother

@sunilindia1979

Жыл бұрын

@@petarjuric5828 ..happy new year

@petarjuric5828

Жыл бұрын

@@sunilindia1979 Happy new year my friend!

Croatia is great in Football since independence 2 Bronze and one Silver in less then 25 years at Worldcups Also Croatia is good at multiple Sports...

Talented gene pool. Simple as - they're good at a lot of sports ... That team back in the day too had Boban, Suker, Prosinecki, Jarni, Boksic etc... These were some of the best players in their positions in the world and they nearly went all the way back then too. They've been a Top team since day 1 ...

@damirglavas7940

Жыл бұрын

World silver in football. ✔ World bronze medal in football. ✔ X 2 World bronze in basketball. ✔ World champions in handball. ✔ World water polo champions. ✔ World champions in rowing. ✔ World champions in athletics. ✔ World champions in gymnastics. ✔ World champions in sailing. ✔ World champions in taekwondo. ✔ World champions in judo. ✔ World karate champions. ✔ World bowling champions. ✔ World bocce champions. ✔ World champions in archery. ✔ World champions in beach handball. ✔ World silver in kayaking. ✔ World bronze in wrestling. ✔ World bronze in table tennis. ✔ Olympic silver in basketball. ✔ Olympic champions in handball. ✔ Olympic champions in water polo. ✔ Olympic tennis champions. ✔ Olympic champions in rowing. ✔ Olympic champions in athletics. ✔ Olympic champions in sailing. ✔ Olympic champions in taekwondo. ✔ Olympic skiing champions. ✔ Olympic weightlifting champions. ✔ Olympic archery champions. ✔ Olympic silver in swimming. ✔ Olympic silver in gymnastics. ✔ Olympic bronze in boxing. ✔ Paralympic champions and medals. ✔ European bronze in basketball. ✔ European silver in handball. ✔ European bronze handball player. ✔ European champions in water polo. ✔ European champions in rowing. ✔ European champions in athletics. ✔ European champions in gymnastics. ✔ European champions in sailing. ✔ European champions in taekwondo. ✔ European champions in karate. ✔ European champions in beach handball. ✔ European silver in volleyball. ✔ European silver in table tennis. ✔ European silver in kayak. ✔ European bronze in canoeing. ✔ European bronze in wrestling. ✔ Davis Cup won. ✔ Won Wimbledon. ✔ Won Roland Garros. ✔ Won the US Open. ✔ Won the Australian Open. ✔ The Skiing World Cup was won. ✔ Women's Skiing World Cup won. ✔ Pride Grand Prix won. ✔ Won the K-1 World Grand Prix. ✔ The fight for the absolute champion of the world in boxing. ✔ The best soccer player in the world. ✔ The best handball player in the world. ✔ The best water polo player in the world. ✔ The best rowers in the world. ✔ The best skier in the world. ✔ The best female skier in the world. ✔ The best hanger in the world. ✔ The best thrower in the world. ✔ The best taekwondo player in the world. ✔ In just 30 years.🤗

@losteden6390

Жыл бұрын

@@damirglavas7940 that's pretty damn amazing 👍❤

@damirglavas7940

Жыл бұрын

@@losteden6390 Thnx 👍✌man.

Fun fact: Modrić familiy is actually from small village called Modrići (Modriches)

@myristicina.

Жыл бұрын

rlly wow

Croatia's performance between 2018-2022: World Cup 2018: Runners Up. Euro 2020: Round of 16. World Cup 2022: Third Place. England's performance between 2018-2022: World Cup 2018: Fourth Place. Euro 2020: Runners Up. World Cup 2022: Quarter Final. Both sides might still yet to win the tournament and shared two Top 4 finishes. However, if you talk about which one is regarded as best based on tournament's level, Croatia is the winner. They finished Top 4 of two World Cups in a row, which emulated the Netherlands' result in 2010 and 2014 World Cup.

@ToMbA_La_BoMbA

Жыл бұрын

And Croatia is in the final of National League. Croatia Italy Spain Netherlands

@andrijanasluganovic3100

Жыл бұрын

Nikoga Hrvati ne oponašaju. Oni igraju snagom domoljublja i ljubavlju za obitelj i svoje ljude koji ih podržavaju. HRABRI LJUDI. I kada nas podcjenjuju i 'pokradu' ostajemo dostojanstveni jer znamo koliko vrijddimo.

@Darko_Milosevski03

Жыл бұрын

england meanwhile got relegated to nations league b

@ezraezra2928

Жыл бұрын

@@ToMbA_La_BoMbA Don't forget the 1998 World Cup. They actually finished third after beating Netherlands. It might be a good time to see Croatia defeated Netherlands again at Nations League.

@ezraezra2928

Жыл бұрын

@@Darko_Milosevski03 Playing along with Wales, Ukraine, and of course, Greece. 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve been asking this question over and over again . How is such a small country punching above its weight so often . What are they eating in that country . Something they do, makes them mentally and physically strong

@delmaticodsh5281

Жыл бұрын

Hahahaha this is funny

@batinoviczoran

Жыл бұрын

Mangold, Spinat, Sauerkraut, Mandarinen,Kiwis, Vielfalt an Fisch 🎏🐟,Kulen,Pršut,Kukumare,usw,usw 😉😁😉😁

@Educirani_Ulicar

Жыл бұрын

Visit and try.. Lots of sunshine, beatiful nature and fresh food! When you ad genetics and hard work on it-you have the answer.

@trstenik100

Жыл бұрын

"What are they eating in that country" Čokolino

@plaflish

Жыл бұрын

To me, the question isn’t why Croatia is an excellent sports country, the question is why other small nations aren’t.

I appreciate the time and effort that took to make this video, liked it really much. 😉

Great presentation with much appreciation from a Croatian and Australian perspective. Well done, hope you produce many more videos such as this.

Great analysis, the only thing I'd add to this is street football. It is rarely mentioned, but it's an important factor. Croatian kids spend much of their childhood just kicking the ball around and playing five-a-side on local concrete playgrounds, which is a proven way of developing great technique, composure, and decision-making in tight spaces, hence we have so many great midfielders and ball-playing defenders. It's just a big part of Croatian football culture that contributes to developing technically gifted players, much like Brazil's beach football and playing on small favela pitches, or Spain's futsal practices. Luka Modrić started his footballing path by just kicking the ball off the walls in his refugee camp, controlling it, and kicking it back; his early coaches stated that this is the place he learned his famous first touch and turn (probably also his outside of the boot pass because you don't learn that stuff at the academy). Almost every neighborhood and village in Croatia have its local five-a-side tournaments; you would be amazed at how much talent, competitiveness, and toughness you'd see from amateur players, a lot of them being self-thought with zero football practices in their life

@jezzyjeje6891

8 ай бұрын

That is soo true,every village has a football(futsal) field and every day this field are full with kids,that is the big part of this succes.After this resaults from the national team that field bas been crowded with kids and everyone wanna be new Modrić,this is going to lead us to even biger succes.

Its realy easy to answer, genetics and mentality.

I hope another youngster will appear most welcome a striker But I'm very happy with the New additions since 2018. Gvardiol, majer, sosa, orsic, livaja, pasalic.... hope we can get more dangerous infront of the goal because we have the potential there. Just need to figure out how to get the most out of them

@sgtschweinhund

Жыл бұрын

We should have played Oršić more, and Budimir.

@hrvatkanal

Жыл бұрын

Beljo is pretty good and he is a striker

@lanalana7349

Жыл бұрын

Petar Musa is pretty good

Yugoslavia did not help to the development of Croatian football it suffocated it. Ethnic Croats (especially from BosniaHerzegovina) were underrepresented in exYugoslav national team either as players, either as coaches. Playing for Croatian team (especially Dinamo) was also a minus, so a mediocre player from Serbian or BosniaHerzegovinian club had privileged possibility to get into national team. The imposive state policy of "yugoslavization" of clubs, that is artificially (without any sportly reason) increase the share of players of non-native ethnicity in clubs, making it more ethnically diverse, in reality reflected mostly at the expense of Croats and Croatian clubs, bringing more Serbian, Montenegrin, Bos.-Her. Serb or Bos.-Her.Muslims into Croatian club, while local talented Croats stagnated, never having chance to make it into the first team and properly develop. Croatian mentality is Catholic, they are Central Europeans and Mediterraneans combined. Also, Catholic clubs, national teams and players are the most succesful. The rest of major exYugoslav ethnicities are not Catholics: Slovenians are, but they prefer wintersports. Croats play football similarly to Italy and Hungary, unlike Balkan countries like Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina that play similarly like e.g. Bulgaria or Greece. Croats have florished once they got rid of that exYugoslav millstone around the neck that was slowing them down, even retarding them.

@damirglavas7940

Жыл бұрын

Točno tako evo da upotpunim tvoj komentar da se čisto, ne zaboravi... World silver in football. ✔ World bronze medal in football. ✔ X 2 World bronze in basketball. ✔ World champions in handball. ✔ World water polo champions. ✔ World champions in rowing. ✔ World champions in athletics. ✔ World champions in gymnastics. ✔ World champions in sailing. ✔ World champions in taekwondo. ✔ World champions in judo. ✔ World karate champions. ✔ World bowling champions. ✔ World bocce champions. ✔ World champions in archery. ✔ World champions in beach handball. ✔ World silver in kayaking. ✔ World bronze in wrestling. ✔ World bronze in table tennis. ✔ Olympic silver in basketball. ✔ Olympic champions in handball. ✔ Olympic champions in water polo. ✔ Olympic tennis champions. ✔ Olympic champions in rowing. ✔ Olympic champions in athletics. ✔ Olympic champions in sailing. ✔ Olympic champions in taekwondo. ✔ Olympic skiing champions. ✔ Olympic weightlifting champions. ✔ Olympic archery champions. ✔ Olympic silver in swimming. ✔ Olympic silver in gymnastics. ✔ Olympic bronze in boxing. ✔ Paralympic champions and medals. ✔ European bronze in basketball. ✔ European silver in handball. ✔ European bronze handball player. ✔ European champions in water polo. ✔ European champions in rowing. ✔ European champions in athletics. ✔ European champions in gymnastics. ✔ European champions in sailing. ✔ European champions in taekwondo. ✔ European champions in karate. ✔ European champions in beach handball. ✔ European silver in volleyball. ✔ European silver in table tennis. ✔ European silver in kayak. ✔ European bronze in canoeing. ✔ European bronze in wrestling. ✔ Davis Cup won. ✔ Won Wimbledon. ✔ Won Roland Garros. ✔ Won the US Open. ✔ Won the Australian Open. ✔ The Skiing World Cup was won. ✔ Women's Skiing World Cup won. ✔ Pride Grand Prix won. ✔ Won the K-1 World Grand Prix. ✔ The fight for the absolute champion of the world in boxing. ✔ The best soccer player in the world. ✔ The best handball player in the world. ✔ The best water polo player in the world. ✔ The best rowers in the world. ✔ The best skier in the world. ✔ The best female skier in the world. ✔ The best hanger in the world. ✔ The best thrower in the world. ✔ The best taekwondo player in the world. ✔ In just 30 years.🟥 🟥 🟥

@ivanantunovic4882

Жыл бұрын

No, what he meant to say was yugoslavia helped with development of football by building the necessary infrastructure in croatia that made it possible for a lot of the talent to appear. Literally every single village in croatia, no matter how small, has a football pitch where children spend most of their free time, and 95% of it was built between 50s and 70s. That's why there's so much talent to be found, cause every child in every "vukojebina" has the opportunity to play football on an ok terrain from young age. you can argue with it as much as you like, but the impact yugoslavia had on football development in croatia is huge. It's a very similar story with czechoslovakia and hockey, both of those countries are too small to have such a huge pool of good hockey players, yet they're top class. That's cause every town with 3000+ population has a hockey rink. Now what you're saying about the "unfairness" is mostly right, state policy of having a diverse team was indeed often more important than talent. But you kind of missed the point he was making

@mpetrovic8418

Жыл бұрын

We who are born in Yugoslavia detest comments like this especially from ones who knows something or nothing about it. I am Croatian nationally, I love my country but I also loved Yugoslavia and my life in it. Today I live far away and think how my life was beautiful before war which was supported by ones who didn’t want for Yugoslavia to continue, we know who was that. Sa who is not from this part shouldn’t comment and make stupid assumption. Nationalist and haters of people aren’t true Croatian who love God and Blessed Mother oh Jesus Christ who is Kraljica Hrvata. God bless you all !

@iv6872

11 ай бұрын

@@mpetrovic8418 Yugoslavia was a totalitarian sh!thole and those who had a good life were probably living off the communist regime or had family members who were apparatchiks of the communist dictatorship. Yugo could not continue because it was a corrupt backward police state where the central planners called the shots and sunk the ship like all socialists before and after them. It was bankrupt and defaulted on its loans by 1980, a complete disaster and another commie experiment that lead to stagnation, poverty and genocide. The Yugo nationalists nearly destroyed Croatian football, heritage, culture, history, just like they destroyed the economy and forced millions to flee the commie dystopia.

@dtikvxcdgjbv7975

4 ай бұрын

​@@ivanantunovic4882 that was not because of Yugoslavia, but because of political and timeframe they found themselves in. Many clubs in littoral clubs were formed after WWI during Italian occupation, before final determination of borders by Rapalo agreement.

Dinaric type of white man ( Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, partly Serbia) have superior psychical abilities and mental strength. Also beside the Dutch they are the tallest people in Europe. It's been for long talked about that. Someone like Napoleon Marshall Marmont wrote about it long time ago. Also patriotism take big part of this success.

@nc3181

Жыл бұрын

Yes, we're talking about Croats, as Napoleon did...no need to spread the limelight elsewhere and create illusions...

@lovre9038

Жыл бұрын

Idk, if you look at our top 3 players in the last generation only Modric has connections to Dinara, Rakitić and Mandzukić dont, if thats the case Bosnia would be good...

@antiworld-ir8lu

Жыл бұрын

@@lovre9038 still Croatians are genetically in the category called dinaric. And Rakitics mother is from Central Bosnia.

@unin314

Жыл бұрын

I’m a dinaric Serb and yes we are special and very strong people

@dawnkeyy

Жыл бұрын

@@lovre9038 Modrić probably being out best player, he is the opposite of the Dinaric type of man. I do think the Dinaric type of man is responsible for our success in handball though.

Once current U21 players for croatian national team are given proper chance at highest level I strongly believe sky is limit for croatian national team.

It's also a huge amout of patriotism what makes sport in Croatia so successful. Like explained here, it's a very young country, evolving out of a civil war, proud of beeing indipended, to show the world what it's capable of. What are international tournements like the World Cup else, but a tournement with your own country flag behind you. Playing for people, who feel the same like you do. This is pure energy.

When listing sports talents from this area, you forgot Ibrahimovic, who is 50% Croatian and one of the greatest football talents

In Croatia, every village close to itself has a football club. With such popularity, good genetics and an excellent profession, and working with young people, results cannot be missing. In addition, Croats have a strong national charge, they play even better for the national team than in their clubs, they never give up!😍

Croatia deserved all Yugoslav football achievements more than Serbia

@splicoo1950

Жыл бұрын

only problem is yugoslavia never won anything tho hhah in 50 years of existing while Croatia got 3 medals in 25 yrs including finals 2018

@lillic4712

Жыл бұрын

Yes they deserve more !!!

@dobro1021

Жыл бұрын

Not really cuz Yugoslavia wasnt that good and there is a good reason, Serbs were forced in, while Croats out, Jerkovic is perfect example even Pele said he thinks he is one of the better players and doesnt understand why he doesnt play

@froglifes6829

Жыл бұрын

@@historianchad 3rd place in the first ever WC.

@fritula6200

Жыл бұрын

The problem is there is NO YUGOSLAVIA MATE! .... IN REPLY MC... IT'S DEAD AND GONE, IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T BEEN AROUND AND NOTICE.D. WAKE UP AND LOOK UP A MAP OF THE WORLD: AND YOU WON'T FIND IT, JUST IN CASE YOU HAVE AMNESIA! AND PLEASE DONT COMPARE US TO SERBIA: SERBIA IS KNOWHERE IN LEAGUE WITH CROATIA IN ANYTHING : IN EVERY MOLECULE TOTALLY DIFFERENT!!! GET IT !! : YOU HAVE A BIG PROBLEM TRYING TO CO-JOIN US. GO HOME AND BE HAPPY!!

If Fifa allows, in the future could be gold!

@ivanjankovic3740

11 ай бұрын

F Fifa !!!

Great video 🔥

I love Josko gvardiol:) hes my lockscreen lol

If there was no nepotism and corruption..we would be already champions several times!😎

@Educirani_Ulicar

Жыл бұрын

@Oro You missed all football.. I was talking about fifa corruption and who shoul win for them to get better money..and as well Croatian corruption because it is all connected. Per example strong influence of managers on selection etc..Highly suspected Ćiro's moves and changes to save his freedom. You'll see now how Dinamo will be down because of new members on board.We'll discuss it soon again..National team will drop as well.

The secret of success croatian national team is simple: THEY BELIEVE IN GOD AND THEMSELVES.

@tonyjeliccflstudiehandledn7348

Жыл бұрын

plust the gens and the history

I’ll never understand why is it so hard to go on google translate and hear the appropriate pronunciation of the names of the players that you’re making a video on.

@plaflish

Жыл бұрын

Exactly

Mentality of the people, old nation went undercover for a long time. Croatia exists since the year 700 or smth so

@andrijanasluganovic3100

Жыл бұрын

Mentaletet, geni kameni i ljubav za obitelj i domovinu. Te vrijednosti krase hrvatske ljude, ne samo u sportu, nego i u znanosti, medicini. Istražite pa će te otkriti te vrijednosti.

@AnAncient76

Жыл бұрын

What 😆 The first time a state by the name Croatia is created in 1941, as a Nazi puppet state!

@xMoac

Жыл бұрын

@@andrijanasluganovic3100 only wish our politicians had such a mindset and didn’t obey all the dictates of the west.

Well done, fair play for this.

Croatians like to compete, simple as that. They love it and they are good at it.

The best balance between European work ethics and organisation and Balkan magic. Greetings from Bulgaria.

Thank you for this video 🤝🏻

Loved watching this. Very well done. Love from a dinamo and croatia fan💜

Fantastic vid!

you said everything fully correctly, well done!

Uruguay have a similar fotboll culture. Very small country That always Manage to create Great players and have a Great history in major turnaments

@damirglavas7940

Жыл бұрын

True 🙂

Dinamo Zagreb has the best youth program in the world tbh ..rivaled only ny Ajax

@baz3575

11 ай бұрын

My uncle Ante played for Hajduk juniors than Ajax. But this was back in the 50s when there was no money to be made in football. He would later coach in Australia.

Seeing slaven bilic's hair in 3:38 is weird knowing how bald he is now

Dođimo vidjesmo i pobjedimo ,zahvalni - pok. Miroslavu Ćiri Blaževiću i nasljedniku Zlatko Dalić uz Luku Modrića koji predvodi svu igru kao kapetan Vatreni

Croatia consistently outperforms expectations in the world cup.

Croatia is culturally and geopolitically southern part of Central Europe, it does not have anything to do with East, from geographical and cultural point of view.

1. Take the map of Europe 2. Draw a vertical line in the middle. 2. Check if Croatia is on the Eastern side of it.

@miha2451

Жыл бұрын

Anglo-American mentalitiy - Azores west , France middle, everything beyond France eastern europe or russia xD

But the main aspect for such results in Croatia is still and will always be: faith❤

It's history events that shaped DNA of Croatian people. Croatias geographic location is crossroad of civilisations - which means war. Always weaker regarding army size and technology, that's why we had to be handy, crafty, masters of improvisation, quick thinking and physically strong with mental strength (never give up!). Sports just reflect it in measurable way. Just see in what conditions these results are forged, in comparation to big sport nations (take football infrastructure first, than all other sports)

@baz3575

11 ай бұрын

You forgot the most crucial ingredient - unity. Every family fights but when we need to, we come together. This is why we excel as a national team, we comes before i.

When I once complained to my sister that I couldn't cut the fingernails of my right hand with my left hand, she said snidely: "What kind of Croat are you?" So it is our women who drive us to peak performance. 😅😁

@baz3575

11 ай бұрын

Too funny!

Croatia is not Eastern European country. It's Central/Southern Europe

@HZV1492

Жыл бұрын

Its southeastern europe

@igorivanov299

Жыл бұрын

It's still considered Eastern European.

@MrSatelit28

Жыл бұрын

@@igorivanov299 Yes, because Croatia was part of communist Yugoslavia. In every other aspect it is more central or suthern Europe country.

@unwokeneuropean3590

Жыл бұрын

Hrvatske je zemlja istočne Europe. To ima veze s komunizmom. Ono što je vidjelo crvenu zvijezdu je istok, ono što je bilo pod američkim utjecajem nakon drugog svjetskog rata je zapad. Lagano. Nema to veze s geografijom.

@igorivanov299

Жыл бұрын

@@unwokeneuropean3590 Da to je istina.

Thanks Euro Football Daily! :)❤

Independent made in sea of blood, football/sport as only way to show them to world, proud, radical patriotsm, strong DNA from tough part of Europe, complicated history, "sign of David against Goliath"...and much more. This formula cannot be used in football clubs, only in one national team and this is one that you are looking it here... It's simply no need for brainstorming.

Talent in many sports. Genetics, what else? By the way, Croatia is not an East European nation. It is a South-Central European nation.

@Harahvaiti

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, South Central Europe. It has a good ring to it.

@EmergingEcho

2 күн бұрын

Competitive spirit, teamwork and dedication

LUKA MODRIC moje mišljenje (bez kritike prema bilo kome) postao je osvajač zlatne lopte jer je bio nagrađivan najboljim igračem svjetskog prvenstva tijekom cijelog turnira kao kapetan. osim toga, njegova momčad nogometnog kluba osvojila je razne trofeje, a također i njegov odličan osobni rekord tijekom 2018. my opinion (no criticism to anyone) he became the ballon d'or winner for being awarded the best player of the world cup throughout the tournament as captain. . in addition, his football club team won various trophies and also his excellent personal performance record throughout 2018.

@thenightspitter

Жыл бұрын

Odavno nesto gluplje nisam procitao, znaci ako si kapetan jedne ekipe onda si automatski igrac utakmice? Zemljo otvori se

I think that people dont realise that we give everything for our country and we play with HEART. Combined with the talents we have and we are a force to be reckoned with. Dont even care about acomplishments if i see our players dying and playing 3 matches for 120 mins in 10 days for our country. Proud🇭🇷

Not Balkans. Central Europe.

nice video, cheers. the pronunciation of the names is mostly off, but we can live with that.

Very good documentary about our success not just in football, than in all sports. Opposite than football, we have equally bad politicians and leaders that ruin everything. Also, we as a people are not together in other areas of life, as we are in sport. That is sad.

consecutively 2 times, Croatia go to top 4 in world cup, England never achieve this good result and performance

You have forgotten Janica Kostelic, one of the greatest in women sking

Not a bad video, a little sloppy in places when describing the Croatian war and sugarcoating the reality of Tito's dictatorship a tad. Also Lukaku had at best 3 chances, one of them could be considered clear cut, another one was offside in any case, while Croatia had chances of their own and a penalty not given because of a ridiculous offside call. Otherwise, very good vid!

@cevapipapi8920

Жыл бұрын

It's a football video, not "Yugoslav War Explained in 10 mins"

@TheOfficialVatreni

Жыл бұрын

@@cevapipapi8920 well said brate

@iv6872

4 ай бұрын

Just a tad too rosy of a description for a commie dictator and aggression/occupation IMO. Young generations need to learn to use the correct descriptors when speaking about a dictatorship's approach to sports or autobahns alike. @@strklo

Check your facts, Croatia is not in Eastern Europe, it's in Southern Europe.

@dijanacovic

11 ай бұрын

Souteastern Europe btw

@EmergingEcho

2 күн бұрын

Ivica, 10 more years in the EU and after the already ongoing depopulation you will realize that there is no such a thing as central Europe anymore

Croatia ladies are charming & beautiful

Lovren was in Liverpool, Kovačić went to Chealse after RM

Also Mikolčić 18y loan in Cibalia (best miedfelder in Croatian 2nd leauge) , Babić 16y and Cvijanović 16y from Osijek academy ...all three players are for now the best players in Croatia for their yeras in U17 and U18 ....also Osijek U15 team is probably one of the best team ever from Croatia independenty for next generation Croatian U15 team next 2024 ...minimum 9 players will get call for U15 Note: Osijek U15 winners of some biggers Europe and World tournaments last in Malaysia in final beat PSG 2-1 So isn't true that only from Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk are talents in Croatian national teams

@peroperic1893

Жыл бұрын

Dominik Babić is right footed version of Arjen Robben 🚀🔥

@DagaSaga--

Жыл бұрын

Beljo... Taj dečko će daleko

@ytubeu7450

Жыл бұрын

Zvonarek, Vidović - Bayern

@frankdux2057

Жыл бұрын

Almost all the current top players are from Dinamo and Hajduk. Suker was the only top player from Osijek. Vida was pretty good. Will see about Beljo I like his potential. To early to say about 16 year old kids as most don’t male it to pro league football.

Football originated in Dalmatia (part of modern Croatia) more than 2000 years ago and was played by Delmatae people. Modern ball is almost identical by structure to theirs. After Roman conquest of Dalmatia It was spread by Roman legionaries across Europe via Roman military camps. 2000 years later some Englishmen invented modern football rules and standards and that's how modern football emerged.

@dobro1021

Жыл бұрын

Same thing existed in China, it existed all over the world, still Croats came in 7th century

@mariomarino3020

Жыл бұрын

@@dobro1021 Not the same thing but something similar existed all over the world, even in relatively isolated societies like Aztecs. But Delmatae had the same ball ⚽, sewn from leather hexagons 😉 Everyone came at some moment, people move, mix and change. Modern Croats are mixture. And what I wrote doesn't mean anything really, it's just interesting. Cos Dinaric Alps always deliver, tall and agile people, warriors or sportsmen, 2000 yrs ago or today, you choose it. 😉

@froglifes6829

Жыл бұрын

@@dobro1021 croats were there before the 7th century. In the 7th century they started calling themselves Croats.

@fritula6200

Жыл бұрын

CROATS STARTED CALLING THEMSELVES CHRISTIAN IN THE 7TH CENTURY, THEY EMBRACED THE CROSS THROUGH BECOMING ROMAN CATHOLICS. THEY CALLED THEMSELVES CROATS BEFORE THIS HISTORICAL FACT.

Croatia is NOT in Eastern Europe, inform yourself !.

Like one person said.'Their team spirit is 🔥

I always said that Croatia had a secret in graduating geniuses 🤣

It's genetics.

Thing is that there are like 7 milion Crotians all around the world and a lot of them make a decision to play for Croatia.

@matiyak4571

Жыл бұрын

3.9 in croatia and maby 1.5 million outside of it and the rest are third and fourth generatio imigrants that are mixed and dont feel that patriotic or understand the language of culture. Look at Christian Pulsic. Only ones who play for Nationsl team are from Bosnia and from Europe who left during the war. So total is 5.5 mil

@vincemcmahon4438

Жыл бұрын

Reptil Your point?

@Gladijajator

Жыл бұрын

@@vincemcmahon4438 That is not just 4 million people

@vincemcmahon4438

Жыл бұрын

@@Gladijajator so its not just 4 its 5.5 Couse that makes a huge difference. Your point is redundant

@juresibenik5281

Жыл бұрын

@@matiyak4571 Stop bullshiting. Josip Šimunić was from Australija and he came to play for Croatia. Thing is that football is not so strong in United states and Australia so beside Pulišić there were no other contestants good enough to play for Croatia. Pulišić is the only croatian ever in history who was good enough to play for Croatia but choose not to. There is around 4.5-5 million croats around the world and not only first generation imigrants are coming back. There is 600 000 only in BiH

3:19 Croatian Harry Kane

First of all we are not eastern Europe. Thank you :)

@HZV1492

Жыл бұрын

Slavonija is eastern

@Harahvaiti

Жыл бұрын

@@HZV1492 Slavonija is Eastern Europe as much as Split is North Africa

@HZV1492

Жыл бұрын

@@Harahvaiti if Slavonija is not eastern europe then Zagreb is in Siberia

Because we have Geni Kameni! 💪🇭🇷

Thanks for the video. I am afraid times will change for the worse. We haven't been able to produce any high quality forwards and wingers recently, so we still rely on 34-year old Perišić and 32-year old Kramarić there. It also probably won't be possible to keep our current high quality in midfield. I expect a drop in results in the next years.

@baz3575

11 ай бұрын

Life is cyclical. You are not on top all the time. For all we know, the team that will win FIFA gold is only being born now or in 10 years. Or maybe these young boys in their 20s will win it in 8 years. Life is always full of surprises.

@HScorpio1811

11 ай бұрын

@@baz3575 You're right about that. Still I find it remarkable how little we have produced in recent years. There were several players who were hyped a lot (starting with Halilović through Pjaca, Brekalo to Biuk and so on), but none of them has developed well (Yeah, I know, Pjaca was injured and Biuk is still young). I think from birth year 1995 upwards Gvardiol is probably the only class player we've produced. Maybe Majer and Sosa too, depends on the perspective.

@dutchvanderlinde8034

11 ай бұрын

​@@HScorpio1811I completely agree. Crostia's success is not because they produce an abundance of world class players, because squad-wise they're on the same level as teams like Poland or Denmark. It's because of their fighting spirit, mentality, unity and the tactical mastery of Dalic that they achieved so much success in recent years. A team like Germany might have a better squad than Croatia, but Croatia would absolutely spank Germany if they played each other today, just cause Croatia is much more well organised and has a better mentality.

@HScorpio1811

11 ай бұрын

@@dutchvanderlinde8034 Well, a lot of our success is due to our midfield, which is truly world class. I do think we are better than Poland individually but it won't stay that way if we don't produce better young players than we have done lately. We've had way too many talents who flopped recently. But I agree with you that we somewhat overperformed at the last two World Cups, in large part thanks to being good at penalties.