absolutely_fabregas wrote:niko197 wrote:ab_fab, you will see that croatian players are quality players, not just because they play with hart, modrić is one of the best playmakers on the world, kranjcar is very talented player, rakitic is only 19, and he is no1 in schalke (11 assists, 2 goals), srna is the captain of ukraine champions! they are playing beautifull football!
portugal, spain, france,(maybe germany and italy) have 11 players out of 11 that are world class
thats 4 players out of 11, im not having a go, just stating the facts, captain of ukraine champs isnt the greatest claim to fame in a world footballing sense
as well as you played against england, england played as bad as they could have with that squad due to maclarens inept management
i wish you good luck though
, the team with the best individuals dont always win
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!
gzagee wrote:So do you attribute Croatia's renaissance after WC2006 to Bilic, the new players, the togetherness or what? Cos i remember the Croats being hopeless in that tournament. No offence intended mate.
yes, we were shit on that tournament and that was kranjcar's fault! (the coach, not the player)
and yes bilic should take the credit for our renaissance, he spend two years learning about the coaching job. he was learning from wenger, mourinho and lippi, and he said that was the best two years of his life, cos he learned a lot! people were sceptic, but he proved that he's class in the first game in moscow!
He put in the squad young players like dudu (23, not now when he started to play), modric (21), corluka (20).
they are now main players in the team! i think that bilic is one of the best young coaches in the world and i will support him even if we lose all three games!