Good friend to CroatianSports.com – Ante Jukić – who is also a Europan football writer hailing from Australia, wrote a wonderful piece in the Optus this week following the announcement of Croatia’s Luka Modrić winning the Ballon d’Or. Jukić is a passionate Croatian football supporter who beautifully depicts Modric’s rise to soccer immortality on the field and through the […]

    Croatia may have just received their easiest qualifying group ever.     The Vatreni will face Wales, Slovakia, Hungary and Azerbaijan in Euro 2020 qualifying. The top two finishers in the group go straight to the 24-team tournament in the summer of 2020.     Qualifying begins in March and will conclude in November. Croatia’s first match will […]

    With Germany’s 2-2 draw against the Dutch Monday night, it was confirmed that the Vatreni will be a ‘seeded’ Pot 1 team for the Euro 2020 draw on December 2nd.     That means Croatia cannot be in the same qualifying group as England, Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Italy or Spain. The final day of UEFA Nations […]

    It would have been a perfect ending to an already perfect 2018 for the Vatreni. Up 1-0 at Wembley, Croatia were on the brink of relegating the Three Lions to UEFA Nations League B while clinching a semifinals berth for themselves.     And if it wasn’t for some poor defensive lapses in the final 15 minutes, striker […]