Maybe it's because their uniforms give their opponents vertigo? lol.
Posted on 07/14/2018 6:37:38 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
They have a lot of balls?
None of them ever dribble, pass, pitch, skate, hit, field, punt, block, or slam dunk.
You have been RED CARDED!
Some suggest it was a soccer match that triggered the war...
1990 Dinamo Zagreb - Red Star Belgrade Riot | The Football War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGI7m7_SMM
Pent up aggressions after being under the communist thumb?
My father’s side of the family was Croatian (came over 1890s).
Note: Croatia borders Slovenia home of Melania.
An area of handsome men and beautiful women.
Having known the details of one Croatian Serb’s life story, I’d say this article answers its own question. Their country, geographically, is the crossroad of the world from west to east and east to west. They are the toughest of tough people.
In Troy University’s trophy cases there used to be (probably still is) a photo of the Czech National Basketball Team.
The Coach back the, Coach Archer was still a phys ed instructor, having retired from coaching. I mentioned about Troy playing them. He said they were huge, every one of them were at least 6’8”. Also very athletic.
They are world class misogynists (i.e. sock her).
HOORAY Croatia!
They don’t choose their teams through affirmative action, or balance them for diversity - they take the best players they can find and train them to the max - compete until the very best are at the top - it’s called meritocracy - we should try it sometime......
I think that are a lot of factors, but one thing that also helps is that when a country is small there are a finite number of options for the national team - thus those people play together more consistently than in a national team in which there are many, many options. It's a team sport, and just choosing who you think are the best players doesn't make it a team. Croatia is not only a great team, but may of the individual players on that team play on great club teams (Modric - Real Madrid, Mandzukic - Juventus, Rakatic - Barcelona, Kovacic - Real Madrid, Pjaca - Juventus, Lovren - Liverpool, Subasic - Monaco, Strinic - Milan, etc. etc.)..
For the same reason Lithuania is good at basketball. Or at least it used to be. I have no idea these days.
Staff in my building say Croatia has been underrated, England overrated. They are all Poles.
Maybe it's because their uniforms give their opponents vertigo? lol.
Lithuanians made up the core of the great Soviet basketball teams.
If Arvydas Sabonis played in the NBA in his prime, he would have probably had a chance a few MVPs, he was that good.
My question , with all due respect, is who cares? Kick ball is a foreign game of little interest to Americans. We play football and baseball etc.No one I know cares about kick ball.
When I see Croatia’s uniform, I’m thinking....”Queen to King’s Bishop 4”
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