Articles tagged with "Croatia"
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 5th, 2008
There's only one tried and trusted way of correctly predicting final group standings at major international tournaments.
But replacing every single player and referee with robots ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | Jun 4th, 2008
Or of course, Welcome Croatia!
Seems we always hit the friendliest and warmest places to camp our players in. That's the kind of impression our players ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 4th, 2008
Group: B; Austria, Germany, Poland.
Nickname: Vatreni ("The Blazers")
Jersey: Red and white checkered shirt with white shorts for home, all blue for away.
FIFA World Ranking (as ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 4th, 2008
Time for the second quarterfinal of our Euro 2008 Jersey Poll Tournament, where we're going to find the champion Euro 2008 shirt via your votes.
Today ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | Jun 2nd, 2008
You were warned.
Yes, that was Josip "Joe" Simunic. And yes, that was horrible. I imagine there are few things in life that can catch you ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | Jun 2nd, 2008
If this was Star Trek, we'd probably be at "Yellow alert" by now. "Shields up" and everything.
As it turns out, a wave of pessimism ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | Jun 1st, 2008
Well, that was a rather underwhelming performance from our boys against Hungary. We started furiously, but after 8 minutes (!?), we...well ...we sucked. End of ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | May 31st, 2008
There were some nice goals for Euro 2008 teams in today's warmup friendlies, except France, who couldn't manage one. They could have used the ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 31st, 2008
Things to know:
Why Hungary?
Bilic has said a few times that Hungary's play style resembles those of our Group "B" opponents.
They're described as a solid side ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 30th, 2008
In our poll last week, the vote wasn't even close. The winner was...
CROATIA! With 44%(!!!) of the total votes. Poland was second ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 30th, 2008
Time to pick up pace, here's Meet Your Croat, vol. IV:
Name: Robert Kovac
Born: 6. 4. 1974. (age 34)
Position: Centre Back
Club: Borussia Dortmund
National Caps: 72 (0)
Biography:
Started ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 29th, 2008
That's "Kranjcar" pressure, not "Croatia" pressure. Let me try and elaborate. Between years 2004 and 2006, Croatia's national coach was none other than Niko's father, ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 28th, 2008
When it's labeled as a "turbo swift recovery", I guess it's pretty damn fast.
According to reports coming in from Brazil, Eduardo has apparently ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 27th, 2008
Name: Niko Kranjčar
Team: Croatia
Group: B; Germany, Poland, Austria.
Caps (Goals): 39 (6) - as of May 26, 2008
DOB: August 13, 1984 (23 years old)
Position: ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 27th, 2008
To break some of the monotony, here's Meet Your Croat, The Limited Edition:
Name: One Of Many, The Fan
Born: 20th century
Position: The Stands
Club: Various
National caps: 165 ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 25th, 2008
Exactly two weeks before our EURO mission kicks off, our team decided to lock horns with a fairly modest Moldova side. The match was played ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | May 24th, 2008
Today, four of the sixteen teams going for Euro glory had warmup friendlies against sides that didn't manage to qualify for the big show in ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 22nd, 2008
In case you wanted to take a peek at all of Croatia's goals scored during the EURO qualifiers, here's your chance. But that's not all, ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 19th, 2008
Or five, to be exact. Here's some of the stuff that made the headlines over the weekend:
Supporters page launched:
Over at "www.uvijekvjerni.com" (translated as "always faithful"), ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 19th, 2008
The FIFA World Rankings for May were released recently, the final world rankings before Euro 2008 begins. So here's how FIFA ranks the Euro 2008 ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | May 18th, 2008
Sometimes, you have to take the good with the bad. The following players (so far) have been both called up to their national squads ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 17th, 2008
Here we go again, Meet Your Croat, vol. II:
Name: Danijel Pranjic
Born: 2. 12. 1981. (age 26)
Position: Left Wing-back, Left Midfielder
Club: Left, I mean, SC Heerenveen
National ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 15th, 2008
You can pluralize this one. Back in 1996 Denmark was defending their title having won the whole thing back in '92. In the second group ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 14th, 2008
Besides the Russian flavored UEFA cup final, the second leg of Croatian Cup final was also played today, albeit with much more discretion and a ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 14th, 2008
Rather than his footballing, this time our coach gets a rival in his guitar playing skills. With Bilic flying high with his "Fiery Madness", a ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 13th, 2008
So here we go, I guess I might as well start with the most responsible position on the pitch.
Meet Your Croat, vol. I :
Name: ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 11th, 2008
A crowd of 20.000 gathered yesterday at Maksimir to greet the new/old Croatian First Division Champions, Dinamo Zagreb. That same crowd seemed to have inspired ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 9th, 2008
Remember we told you Croatia coach Slaven Bilić was penning a Euro 2008 fan anthem with his band Rawbau? Well, we weren't making it up. ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 8th, 2008
Some interesting data I've borrowed from Transfermarkt.de :
According to their data, we are apparently the 10th most expensive team in Europe today, with a summed ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | May 7th, 2008
Here it is ladies and gentlemen, the official video for Bilic's "Fiery Madness". Now go grab that beer and enjoy the video.
Lyrics go something like ...
