On the way to the 2022 Qatar World Cup we are analyzing curiosities of all the teams that have qualified for it.
These are 10 curiosities that you surely did not know about the Croatian national team:
Davor Suker, a well-known former soccer player from our league who played for Seville and Real Madrid, is the top scorer in the history of the national team with 45 goals.
It is one of the few teams in the world that wears plaid. Barça tried to imitate their kit in the 2019/20 season.
Its captain and player with the most appearances in the history of the national team are the same person. The blatant winner of a Ballon d’Or Luka Modrić.
The first World Cup they played as an independent team was in 1998 in France. On that occasion they obtained a third place that went down in history.
In the European Championships they have never enjoyed much luck, and it is that in 2008 and 1996 they obtained their best position: quarterfinals. For a finalist of the last world cup it is quite scarce.
Virtually all matches between the Croatian national team and another former member of Yugoslavia are considered high-risk matches.
His best position in a World Cup was in the last one played in Russia in 2018. The Croats lost the final against the French team.
The worst defeat in its history occurred in 2018 in a UEFA Nations League match that was played in Elche. They fell against the Spanish team 6-0.
The official stadium of this team captained by Luka Modrić is known as the Maksimir Stadium, located in Zagreb.
His first match defending the colors of today’s Croatia came in 1990. It was a friendly against the United States shortly after the country’s independence was declared.
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