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Originally Posted by ISM
that's about all Croatians have to cheer about as they have never actually won anything in football.
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The team played their first competitive matches in the qualifying campaign for the Euro 1996 and qualified for the finals to make their first appearance in a major international tournament. They have been a strong force in international football ever since, finishing third in the 1998 World Cup, led by Golden Boot winner Davor Šuker. They have qualified for every World Cup that they have entered as an independent nation.
The team was FIFA's "Best Mover of the Year" in 1994 and 1998, are the only team to win the title more than once and have been more volatile in the FIFA World Rankings than any other nation, having been rated as high as third, and as low as 125th (though this low rating was only because Croatia were not ranked prior to their independence, and it therefore took some time to build up points when they started playing independently). They are still undefeated in all competitive matches they played on home soil since 1994. They also qualified for both 2002 and 2006 World Cups without losing a qualifying match.
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now, considering croatia has been in existence for like 18 years and that we only have 4.5 million citizens (unlike other great football nations) that is not a bad feat at all.
so we have won something (you actually get medals for third place on WC), have beaten england squad twice, have beaten germans twice
and every time we play germany they raise their noses and think they are fucking invincible and put us down like we are some third world country newbs at this game
their players are disrespectfull most of the time (schweinsteiger showing croatian fans middle finger after he recieved a red card in game with croatia) as is current coach
they were served
now fof
