Comments on: Euro 2008 Quarterfinal Preview: Croatia vs. Turkey

By: Omer

Omer — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:43:08 +0000

WOW WHAT A GREAT GAME! And looks like Turkiye will be continuing into the Semi’s Just when we thought it was over 120th Semih strikers They dont call us the “Comeback Kings” for no reason. My dad couldnt even watch the penalties incase he had a heart attack lol He even missed our goal too…he thought we had lost and so did I Well done to Turkiye and credit to Croatia too for a great game.

By: netherland

netherland — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:14:27 +0000

Croatia gonna make kebab from them!

By: Laurie

Laurie — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:48:28 +0000

Thanks, Milan and everyone for the corrections/clarifications. That will teach me to take my news on Croatia from a Turkish news source. I mean, everybody knows that Wikipedia is the ONLY way to go!

By: j

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:08:59 +0000

Mantas & Nikola – you both raise great points as I don’t think many people understand how the republics formerly under Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia) make up an Football hotbed. Respectfully few people realize the power of the sport within the broad Balkan area. This will be a great match – can’t wait

By: Mantas

Mantas — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:47:38 +0000

I don’t want to delve into the whole Balkan politics, so I’ll just say you’re right I checked online and FIFA/UEFA count HNS as a seperate organization from FSJ and not its successor.

Regards to you from Croatia hopefully your new coach can whip the Serbian team into shape for 2010.

By: Omer

Omer — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:28:54 +0000

I think its going to be a great game tonight, I will be supporting Turkey since Im Turkish but to be realistic the injuries & suspensions we have just made it very hard for us. Croatia is expected to win and I would prefer it that way. But our main blow is our main defender Servet who is injured.

Our defence will be very sloppy tonight especially the central two with Emre Asik & Gokhan Zan. The others blows are Emre (our captain) and to add to that Aurelio and our keeper Volkan is suspended. Im favouring the Croats to advance tonight but against Turkey anything can happen.

By: Nikola

Nikola — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:13:03 +0000

mantas, croatia is not successor to yugoslavia, as croatia departed from yugoslavia. successor to yugoslavia is serbia & montenegro, now only serbia. “FIFA and UEFA considers the Serbia national team the direct descendant of the Serbia and Montenegro and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia national teams” (Wikipedia)

however, croatia and serbia gave equally prolific and some of the best and talented players in Yugoslav football history (along of course with montenegro, macedonia, bosnia and slovenia), such as the so called “chile generation” when yugoslavia won the world youth championship or golden Red Star Belgrade generation when red star won the champions league in 1991. Players from that generation, we all know are Suker, Boksic, Boban, Prosinecki, Mijatovic, Pancev, Stojkovic, Mihajlovic, Jugovic.. Yugoslavia played in Italy world cup last time as SFRY reaching quarterfinals. Croatian players from that generation will later win a third place for Croatia in France World Cup in 1998.

thats it, nothing political or war themed.. just a little to straight things

regards from serbia, good luck to both turkey and croatia tonight

By: Mantas

Mantas — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:21:11 +0000

Not to mention the fact that Yugoslavia (Croatia is one of its successors) was second 2 times in the Euro tournament.

By: Milan

Milan — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:30:43 +0000

Croatia progressed to the Quarter finals in Euro 96 so it is not the first time Croatia made it out of the group stages. Just correcting the error.