absolutely_fabregas wrote:niko197 wrote:i know what are you trying to say, but you forgot the fact that in croatia lives 4,5 milion people, so the half of it are man, and germany, spain, italy, france, england have that much registrated football players!
it's not easy for croatian players to become "star" like it is for german, spain or italian player, they are born in rich country with great football history, football infrastructure, training camps, and you don't have that in croatia!!! in croatia, player has only talent, dream, hard work and a big hart! and we still had superstars like suker, boban, prosinecki, boksic...
you can say that (for example) podolski is a big star, but he didn't do shit in last 2 years, but he's a star cos he's german!
on every position we have players that are playing in big clubs, in the first team, so i don't like this "big names" team should be in the semifinals! if you think like that, arsenal is shit team, we have almunia, sagna, clichy, toure, they are not super stars cos united and chelsea has "bigger" names in the squad like ferdinand, evra, carvalho, terry, cole...!? it's the same right?
croatia is playing good attacking football with hart (just like czech before) and if you ask me that's more than enough for me, i don't need stars, i need players!
respect i agree, croatia are a really good outfit etc..., i was just saying purely as a neutral i would rather see a holland v france or portugal germany etc
but.. if croatia werent there would you rather see a scotland v sweden semi or a holland portugal? (not that scotland play the same style as croatia lol but thats not really the point)
Man, if the Croats can play with the same panache as their talented predecessors in Euro 96 then I'd watch them all day long.