Croatia national football team

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Previous lineup from Croatia vs Armenia on Tuesday 21st November Croatia are on the verge of qualifying for next year's European Championships after beating Latvia as Wales dropped points in a draw with Armenia. Wales kept their hopes of qualifying for Euro automatically alive as Harry Wilson scored both goals in a pulsating win over Croatia. Portugal thrashed Luxembourg to extend their perfect start to their Euro Group J qualifying campaign. Football World Cup Croatia Squad.

Croatia national football team

Croatia's best result since gaining admission into FIFA in , was securing second place against France in the World Cup Final , where they lost 4—2. They are second-smallest country by population after Uruguay and land mass after the Netherlands to reach a World Cup Final. The World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of FIFA , the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in , except in and , due to World War II. The tournament consists of two parts, the three-year qualification phase and the one-month final phase. The current format involves 32 teams competing for the title, at venues within the host nation or nations over a period of about a month. It is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 1 billion people watching. Croatia went on to beat Japan 1—0 before losing their third group stage match against Argentina 0—1, in a game which was of little importance as both teams had already qualified for the round of After that Croatia faced Germany in the quarter-finals, in a game which was at the time touted by the Croatian media as a great opportunity to get back at Germany as it was them who had knocked out Croatia in the UEFA Euro quarter-finals two years earlier. Thuram also scored France's second goal in the 69th minute. These were the only two goals Thuram ever scored for France in an international career spanning from to which saw him earn a total of caps. Croatia captain Zvonimir Boban tried to take the blame for the defeat saying that he felt he needed to be substituted but wanted to stay on the pitch just a little while longer it was his defending mistake which led to Thuram's equaliser. After being knocked out in the semi-finals, Croatia looked for consolation against Netherlands in the third place match played just three days later at Parc des Princes.

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The Croatia national football team Croatian : Hrvatska nogometna reprezentacija represents Croatia in international football matches. The team's colours reference two national symbols: the Croatian checkerboard and the country's tricolour. Since , the Vatreni have qualified for every major tournament with the exception of Euro and the World Cup. In June , Croatia recorded its highest-ever Elo Ratings of 2, points. Upon its admission into FIFA in ranked th, they ascended to third place with their debut World Cup campaign.

Luton Town goalkeeper Simon Sluga has also been selected and is expected to act as back-up to Dominik Livakovic. Croatia lost their opening game of the tournament after a defeat by England. They drew their second group game to the Czech Republic on Friday. A win over Scotland means that Croatia finished second of Group D and will progress to the last England find themselves in a group with Croatia, the team that knocked them out in the semi-finals of the World Cup. The star man then, as has so often been the case during his 15 years representing the national team, was Modric. The Croatia captain and Real Madrid legend struggled for form after leading his nation to the World Cup final, their best-ever showing at a major tournament.

Croatia national football team

Croatia's third top-three finish at the World Cup has a "golden layer", said boss Zlatko Dalic after his side clinched a play-off victory over history-makers Morocco. Dalic's side were runners-up to France four years ago and confirmed their status as one of the elite footballing nations with another third-place finish to go alongside that secured in their competition debut in In a frantic opening, Josko Gvardiol gave Croatia the lead on seven minutes with a superb diving header but Achraf Dari levelled just two minutes later by nodding home from close range. Mislav Orsic curled in a sumptuous second for Croatia via the post three minutes before half-time and struck a thumping, deflected drive into the side-netting after the break. The second half could not match the energy of a thrilling opening period and Morocco failed to find an equaliser as a fruitful campaign ended in back-to-back defeats. Dalic said: "We won the bronze medal and it has a golden layer, it is like we have won the gold medal tonight. This is the end of a cycle, end of a journey.

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The Croatia national football team Croatian : Hrvatska nogometna reprezentacija represents Croatia in international football matches.

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