NotCanadian

Take care of Niko. He was a class act throughout these NT switches. p.s. as a Hajduk hater, he's the only player that I actually rate

It's okay. It's a selling league where most teams need to sell their best young players every year so it's difficult finding consistency for UEFA competitions. It was a Top 10 league a couple of years ago but now it's barely Top 20 despite improving quite a bit. The way the points are attributed makes the rankings extremely volitile and not a decent way of measuring the strength of any leage. Dinamo is the richest and most successful club and competes in the Champions League groups stages or Europa League knockouts. The main problem with the league in the last 15 years or so is the abysmal state of Hajduk Split which was once the dominant club in Croatia. With only one team competing in UEFA it's difficult to gain the points needed to move up the rankings. For example, ff Dinamo was in the Conference League every year and did as expected, the league would be ranked Top 10 again which shows how flawed the ranking system is. Hajduk has improved immensely the last few seasons, mostly at the impulse Marko Livaja (he's the guy who scored the second goal against you guys). They won the cup this season and the last after abstaining for about a decade. They last won the league title when Modric was 19 and just returning to Dinamo from his loan to Zrinjski in Bosnia. Dinamo had a great generation of ballers then with Eduardo Da Silva, Vedran Ćorluka, Luka Modrić and Mario Mandžukić. After that Dinamo has been dominant with the occassional challenge coming from Rijeka led by the current Slovenia's NT manager Matjaž Kek. tl;dr: It's okay.

Bravo to Canada for scoring your first World Cup goal and playing as every underdog should. It sucks that the deciding game ended up being against us and I hope you guys get a victory in your match for honor. Good luck from a Croat. P.S. The off the field rivalry was unexpected but memorable.

All I asked for is a point. Now we gotta duel to the death. Anyway, we're ass so don't even worry. You'll get your goals and points.

Good luck to Canada from Croatia! Go get a point, please!

Yeah, they lost 3:0 to some young players from our league who never played together before. But it's not surprising considering all Qatari players come from their domestic league as well which is very low quality.

Doesn't look like it was.

Denmark is playing with 3 centre backs and 4 central midfielders to shut us down. Gonna be a pretty boring game I think. Joachim Andersen is on right back just to shut down Perisic while Wass and Delaney are gonna hunt down Modric. Fun.

Croatia's improvised* U23's beat Qatar 3:0 today. I haven't seen the game but a news article says they dominated and rotated most of the squad in the second half. *by improvised I mean it's not the official U23's considering the best young players are either with the U21's or the A side in this international break.

Some of you guys are comically ignorant.

Those are controversial statements by nature, but I doubt many people have heard of the guy before. I'm a pretty big football fan and I only heard of him last year when he had those arguments with the Red Star coach. Also, I'm not sure what you mean to accomplish by cherrypicking that introductory segment. It's written in a dramatic manner to spark interest from the readers. Index.hr is not exactly New York Times. More like The Sun.

The public here doesn't care or know about him at all. He did an interview a couple of weeks ago with the biggest sports website and was really open and respectful. The football fans here want him to play in Croatia for one of our top clubs if he wants. Not sure what your media fed you though. https://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/borjan-za-index-o-rodnom-kninu-i-hrvatima-provokacijama-modricu-i-ponudi-iz-hnla/2354599.aspx

Yep, our starting 11 is slightly younger than Canada's.

Well, he's not valued by CIES at 100m Euros for nothing. Just don't look up how Ćaleta-Car played against Feyenoord. I hope Gerrard fixes him next season at Villa.