FIFA has finally tallied up the rankings after the World Cup, and even though Croatia finished second in Russia, the Vatreni are now ranked fourth in the world.
There’s a new ranking system in place which weighs international tournaments much higher than in the past and lessens the impact of friendly matches, Forbes reports. Also, games in UEFA (Europe) and CONMEBOL (South America) will not be weighed heavier than other continents.
Croatia started the World Cup as #20, and that is the reason they were only able to move up to #4, but it’s a bit silly (to me) that the the rankings do not reflect the exact order how the top-four teams finish at the World Cup; at a tournament called the World Cup.
e: France vs Croatia: mulatos vs whites
to me Croatia looks like a real football team, the French look like a political statement.
unfortunately the French have every advantage going into this battle…
the NWO communists will pull all the stops to get them to win.
we can hope for a miracle.
I’m copy pasting comments from a forum 2 days before we got scammed ,Ireland ,uk posters are aware of this massive fix along with every other country in the world..who are they fuck in kidding.
The French win will be remembered as the 66
Cup is. A fraud!
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/france-reaches-30-diversity-among-newborns-native-youth-get-angry/
France has a ban on releasing demographics as in what percentage of Caucasians or native pop actually lives in france..I read a russian report that their french white population is only 60% ..france have less people per square km than hrvats in cro..I suspect..france hides this info.You can see why they were handed the wc to keep their mess from civil war..imo.
Inter’s coach thinks he’s clever by not starting Perisic and Vrsaljko. The result shows his “talents”.
Kovacic dove like his name was Griezmann to earn the fk that led to the winner.
We could have 10 Ronaldos on the field and we still couldn’t win if FIFA doesn’t want us to win.
@Turkey
I don’t think Croatia having no African players is the reason Croatia didn’t win this final though.
Most of our players were young when they were sold abroad, you could call them diamonds in the rough, there talent only gets realized through the cutting and polishing process that takes place abroad.
Croatia owes a lot to the Bundesliga, Serie A TIM, La liga, EPL etc.
Our success doesn’t happen without their help.
Italy is the best and only real team in international football, Italian players that play in the Serie A TIM.
@Turkey
I agree Croatia needs some African people, just gotta make sure they’re Catholic Christians and not Mohammedans.
Turkey is HAET
https://youtu.be/lg1us-8QdSI
France’s next generation of greasy footballers
Turkey changes his name to Slobodan.
These Serbs always flip flop. They make good vassals.
I’d expect kovaciC to do great given his partial Serbian ancestry
…and Chelsea fans are blowing up Twitter about Kovacic. I think many have not seen too much of him before.
Ignore this Turkey troll, he’s not even the original. The real one said he was Italian, this one is talking about N Africa trying to stir up the racists. Italy didn’t lose one match in Russia… pretty amazing feat.
Yes on Kovacic. This move to Chelsea is a great thing for him and HNS. Hoping Hazard stays for the season because the two of them were playing 1-2s and at a completely different level from everyone else on the pitch. Kovacic has the ability to be our best player in a couple years.
Kovacic played well today for Chelsea. Did anyone else watch? Mandza also had a goal dissalowed.
You lost your last game just like everyone else!. You knew you couldn’t compete with the sons of North Africa. Once the flood gates of immigration open into Croatia and our people fill the cities bringing light and a mosque on every corner, then maybe Croatia will stand a chance in soccer with our talent.
LOL @ Turkey
Taking solace in the fact that Croatia didn’t win the World Cup final, lol.
When the next one rolls around, it will be 20 years since BRAZIL has been in a final…yet Croatia was just there.
Croatia participated in 10 tournaments.
Made it to the knockout phase in half of them, and won a medal (finishing 2nd and 3rd) in two of them.
We’ll be just fine, lol.
Actually maybe we should have changed strategy in the second half against France. We only needed one goal when that half started. We should have shut things down, played defensively and waited. The first half punished us for playing and taking game to them so it’s legit to question our second half tactics.
@ Turkey – I know you’re looking for a reaction but I’m bored so I’ll have some fun anyway (sorry to everyone else on CS.com – I know we say to never feed the trolls). We finished 2nd in the World. How can you logically have a critisicm with that? Is 2nd in the world not good? What’s your response.
Also, one of the many anonymouses must be a Serb trying to troll us because every comment I have read from one of them constantly bashes us/Croatian soccer team underhandedly and pumps Serbia/any other team with their messages for those that haven’t caught on yet.
@Zoki, Maminjo, Ivo, Mile and Soul – good posts.
No chance Turkey. We’ll stop you again just like we did during the Siege of Vienna if you don’t cannabalize yourselves by then. Atemurale Christianitatis ring a bell?
Turkey is a nazi provocator.
Nice to see Croatia lose to France like the losers they are!. Especially with so many of our brothers from North Africa on the French team. Soon they’ll be mosques in every city in Croatia
The Lol HNL is known for having diamonds in the rough, but the quality of these diamonds in the rough is only realized through the cutting and polishing process that takes place in leagues other than the Lol HNL.
Croatia can’t finish second in Russia without the help of the Bundesliga, La liga, Serie A TIM and the English league.
Let’s remember that.
Ok I’ll ask the forbidden question. Do you think
He did it because he is a Serb?
Yes they did but theres always been bogus goals in football not the first or last time. Subasic didnt move for the own goal and for the two long range goals from Africa United very fishy indeed.
Don’t you think that Croatia had to change play and open up in second half due to bogus goals?
So what if the Portuguese/German flopped dont score the own goal and dont give away a penalty its not rocket science.
Subasic might have been hurt. If that is true it is a scandal.
what about that asshole French midget that flopped? So sub and Man set up that own goal? Did they practice it? No one agrees with the handball call.
Question the ear pieces that the officials wear. Are the conversations recorded?
So no one blame Mandzukic’s lazy header and Subasic lack of movement thats bogus. Perisic should have known with VAR they payed penaltys all World Cup.
Nonsense it wasn’t handball. Ref got it right the first time then FIFA called out VAR bullshit to reverse. BTW Pogba was clearly offside on the Mando own goal.
So FIFA made Mandzukic score the own goal and Subasic must have been in on the own goal because he barely moved. So Perisic must have purposely handballed the penalty he should have moved his arms out of the way. Mandzukic, Subasic and Perisic are to blame.
Out played and when FIFA realized Croatia could put it self ahead set up two bogus penalties. Corruption not fatigue did us in.
We only outplayed France in the first half get your head out of the sand. We were fatigued in the second half we barely created any opportunities.
From at Ukraine we have played in more meaningful games in the last 10’monthd than in the last 10 years.
Even Peru, Mexico, Brazil and Senegal have been productive friendlies.
This match shedule along with a good coach in Dalić is a game changer for us.
UNL benefits Croatia the most.
All we need is to partner with China to forward our technical development .. Oh wait !!
Actually I would be all for it if Chinese millions pour right into HNL amd into grassroots efforts all across Croatia.
Hajduk should regain it’s European dominance.
They have the richest athletic field of talent on the planet.
They should be elite
They have Dinamo as their foil and Rijeka are no slouch.
Osijek has produced world class players.
Love to see Zadar have a proper club.
Need to have HNL become legit top to bottom.
I can see big time marketing potential.
In three weeks, we play 7th ranked Portugal and 9th ranked Spain. In October, we play 6th ranked England.
Due to the strength of these opponents, we could easily move up in the rankings.
So Kalinic will celebrate the super cup and wear the medal with his team mates. Sell out.
We are pretty much guaranteed to be seeded.
The Euro2020 seedings for the qualification stage is entirely based on how the League A standings finish in the Nations League. It’s all on Wikipedia.
We are one of the 12 teams in league A, and since there are 10 groups…we will very likely be one of the 10 seeds.
The only way we drop to a Pot 2 team is if we finish in 11th or 12th place overall in the League A final rankings. We essentially would have to finish below England and Spain in our group, and the other last place teams in their groups (i.e. Poland or Iceland) would have to outrank us via points or goal differential.
At this point, It’s harder for us to be unseeded than seeded.
Seeding for the Qualifying draw? That I am not sure of. Usually, some combination of records in previous qualifying campaigns is used to determine who goes in what draw pot.
Regarding the seeding, it is based on what FIFA used in creating the groups in the Nations League, not the current FIFA rankings where we are fourth, correct?
@ Bobby. Top two in each qualifying group make it to EURO. There are no playoffs this time around. If your a top seed, you really have to shit the bed to not qualify.
Even if you crash in the qualifying phase (which runs from March 2019 to November 2019), you can still get in via Nations League.
“In addition to the Nations League Finals of League A, there will be four play-offs with a similar format. Each group winner takes a spot in the semi-finals. If the group winner is already one of 20 qualified teams, rankings will be used to give the play-off spot to another team of the league. If fewer than four teams in the entire League remain unqualified, play-off spots for that league are given to teams of the next-lower league. This determines the four remaining qualifying spots for the European Championship (out of 24 total)”
You can also expect a minnow from League D get in. Someone like Belarus, Macedonia, Kosovo or Kazakhstan will be in EURO 2020.
Can’t understand how you can be against the success of other Croatian clubs especially in European competitions. We need the entire league to be strengthened for the good of its own survival and the good of Croatia’s national team program.
A strong league and program even benefits the economy for such a small country.
Why the hate? It’s like being stuck together in a house fire and laughing at the guy next to you because he’s having a harder time breathing more burned than you are.
Brazil and Belgium are class.
France is stacked without the help of FIFA.
@ Ivo
Great links.
I wonder who was going to tap into the second tier talent from Croatia. Those boys get a college degree and still can ball.
As opposed to not getting paid and zero post soccer prospects for career.
Zvonko Bego!!
Looks Like a BEAST.
Need Hajduk to get back in effect.
Maybe they should stop cutting all the talent from Zadar ..
Ako znaš .. onda znaš !!
OMG…so once again Hajduk shit the bed! I can’t sit for their bs talk once Dinamo are playing in CL and all their crap will come out again….asking how many Hrvati are starting and how shitty they will do!?
Regardless of how Dinamo does, at least they’re qualified!
Qualifying and seeding for Euro 2020 looks very complicated and hard to explain.
20 of the 24 teams will qualify from the usual setup, but 4 countries will qualify based on results from the Nations League.
For the actual qualifiers, there will be 10 groups. Five with 5 teams, 5 with six teams.
The tournament will be played in 12 different countries, so, nobody automatically qualifies.
If you go to the Wikipedia page for Euro2020 qualifying draw and read the information on how the seeding and groups will be determined, it will make your head spin
Boil mi kurac i glava.
I would say Croatia was much more unlucky against France than Belgium was. France was handed two goals in the final. France outshot and outchanced Belgium. Croatia outshot and outplayed France by a large margin. And we can’t really look at either Belgium-England game, as they were basically friendlies. Belgium was outshot in the third place game while England had one shot on goal against Croatia. But based on the actual results, and what the rankings were before the World Cup, these rankings look about right. Then again it’s FIFA. If Croatia was allowed to win the final, they wouldn’t have been #1.
@Toronto Croatia
Yup.
Belgium played both France and England and did better than we did against them.
Belgium was incredibly unlucky against France and if it wasn’t for Hugo Lloris making unreal saves in the first half, it would have been an awesome, offensively-charged Croatia vs Belgium final.
France, Belgium, Brazil and Croatia are definitely the top-4. Any one of these teams could beat each other on any given day.
I also like that Uruguay is 5th. They deserve it. Best two-forward combo in the world and played a good game against France in the quarters despite losing Cavani. England wouldn’t beat Uruguay, so sixth place makes sense for them.
Ah Hajduk.
Now they’ll be pissed and somehow blame Mamić or the HNS for this.
They need to clean house.
I saw the Hajduk game. Steaua deserved the 1-0 lead. Hajduk somehow managed to score against them in the 80 minute. They only needed to stop Bucharest from scoring the last 10 minutes but that appeared too difficult. Their goalkeeper Posavec sucked, their defense sucked, their midfield sucked and their strikers sucked.
I live in Belgium and follow the Belgian competition and I’m pretty sure the current Hajduk team wouldn’t even be in the Belgian first division, probably Belgian second division, maybe even third.
What a complete shit team. I already predict that not one single player who played for Hajduk today will one day play for our national team.
Hajduk lose 2-1 in stoppage time. Almost felt bad for them. jebiga (dinamo fan). Rijeka losing atm too….fuks sake
Haha. Bottom post or cross bar… Statistical equivalents in the stat world of expected goals
https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/about-uefa/history/obituaries/newsid=2567038.html
I’d like to think Croatia should be ranked 2nd since they finished 2nd … but with that being said do we all think Croatia could have beaten Belgium or Brazil in the tournament if they met up? Not entirely sure.
And Truth since you were at the game and watched the highlights then you would have known that Peresic hit the bottom post …not the crossbar.
the old fifa regime was total pos now we have a new regime thats still govno,we need trump to get em all out there for next 2 worldcups.
it appears word is out that modric and rakitic are staying on
one interesting thing of note. I recently ran into highlights of the croatia england game and i was live at the game so it was tough for me to analyze as good as usual
but boy was perisic a terror from the second half on
the guy slid in front of two defends and karate kicked in the tying goal.
then shortly after he beats the english one on one and nearly puts one in again hitting the crossbar
then in OT he puts in a perfect crossing pass to mandzukic that mandzukic acheived a nearly impossible feat by not scoring
and then he obviously heads the ball into mandzukic lane for the winning goal
he obviously further followed that up with the killer strike vs france
the guy is still an extremely dangerous player when motivated and focused…even though those things drift from time to time
i’d love to see the perisic, modric, brozovic, vrsaljko combo at inter…after a year at chelsea, let kovacic return too
check this kid out
http://www.thevalleydispatch.com/sports/ci_32074340/from-croatia-skill
The USA is ranked like #22 and they never made the World Cup very fishy.
Sounds fishy we should be #2 not Belgija FISHY FIFA i think we were 3rd on the Fifa rankings after the 1998 World Cup.
Alen Halilovic is fitting well at AC Milan. This kid’s time is now Tear it up!
@ Ivo
There are all these young guys in the 20’s that see our super stars in their 30’s.
They are hungry for that.
UNL will be our most dynamic set of young talent that we have seen in 10 years.
August 20th the squad is named.
Starting 11? That is going to be most interesting.
Probably will not know till game day.
@ SOUL
I do hope the team takes it seriously. It would be nice to be the first winner of it. I think it has the potential to be good. When do you think the starting 11 will be announced ?
We are definitely #1.
I do feel we are legit top 5 in the world as a footballing nation.
UNL is the opportunity to own our new real estate in the realm of World football.
@ Zoki
They fear us and they always will. Corrupt FIFA scum.
4th place is reasonable.
Brazil and Belgium would probably be able to squeak out wins against us, just as we can could them. Belgium did better against France and England than we did.
It’s very close between the top four, but they got the top four right. Brazil is better than England, and I agree that Uruguay is better than England as well.
We don’t need a bunch of navel-gazing bureacratic old farts, half of whom have never played the game, to tell the world what was abundantly clear for anyone who watched the WC. Namely – Croatia are number #1
FIFA can tally my kurac.