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Why is Croatia, with a population of only 4 million, so good at Soccer?
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| Jul 2018
Posted on 07/14/2018 6:37:38 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: raiderboy
Obviously you don’t know many persons!
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posted on
07/14/2018 6:57:57 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
(ed)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
That was a fun read...my church has a sister church in Split...so this really has been a fun ride.
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posted on
07/14/2018 6:58:37 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(Break in my country, you are illegal. Break into my house, makes not you a homeowner.)
To: simpson96
Now, those uniforms are disturbing!
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posted on
07/14/2018 6:58:52 PM PDT
by
Ambrosia
(Born in NC, then PA, NY,WV, NM, SC, and FL & back God/Freedom=Priority!)
To: simpson96
If the University of Tennessee had a soccer team, they would be orange squares instead of red.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:00:00 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: raiderboy
“Kick ball is a foreign game of little interest to Americans”
Baloney-—check out the sports bars in the USA when the World Cup is on.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:01:04 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: dfwgator
And Sabonis was exactly the player I was thinking about! He was amazing in his prime.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:01:54 PM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: Mears
I assure you that it is of no interest here. See ball, kick ball is for girls.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:03:13 PM PDT
by
raiderboy
(Trump has assured us that he will shut down the government to get the WALL in Sept.ith the solar)
To: vladimir998
Remember the uniforms from 1992, that the Grateful Dead made for them?
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:03:26 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: simpson96
Purina should be one of their sponsors.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:03:32 PM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
I hope Croatia wins although I care nothing for soccer.
I did work with a vascular surgeon who referred to himself as the “Croatian Sensation”! LOL!
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:04:21 PM PDT
by
americas.best.days...
( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:04:55 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: CondoleezzaProtege
It is just my impression from watching Tennis, Soccer, Basketball etc. that Slavic people tend to be very athletic.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:04:56 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: simpson96
Fine examples of lean, fit Slavic men.
As a Polish-American, I wish my Slavic brothers all good fortune.
To: raiderboy
“I assure you that it is of no interest here.”
—
Are you in a girls’ reformatory?
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:06:13 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Nothingburger
Me too. Although I wish it could have been Poland in the final instead.
I have a few good friends from Croatia originally, so I’ve been on the Croatia bandwagon since Poland bowed out.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:06:24 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Nothingburger
And *ahem* all of the players are Croatians.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:07:08 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
"Why is Croatia, with a population of only 4 million, so good at Soccer?
Well, just as Puerto Rico provides such stellar ball players...they got nothin' better to do.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:07:29 PM PDT
by
scottiemom
(As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
First of all, Soccer is a LOW SCORING GAME.
Most matches average 2 goals for the winning team.
In other words it is basically a defensive game, and it takes luck to score goals.
Observe the 2nd goal scored by Croatia against England. It was a head deflection which went 30+ feet right at the kicking foot of a team mate who kicked in a close distance goal.
And then again if you have no NFL Football, No golf courses, No Pizza joints on every corner, No movie industry, few TV sitcoms, No Baseball stadiums, few bowling alleys, not many singers who are popular world wide (Beatles, ABBA, Karen Carpenter class), No cruise industry, what can young men do except play a cheap sport like soccer?
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:08:25 PM PDT
by
entropy12
(1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
To: scottiemom
I was thinking more of the Dominican Republic for baseball players.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:09:01 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: entropy12
No cruise industry
???? Croatia is so crowded from tourists coming from Cruise Ships during the day, it's one of Europe's top tourist destinations.
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posted on
07/14/2018 7:10:39 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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