Croatia

🚨🇭🇷 OFFICIAL: Luka Modrić legend continues as he will keep playing for Croatia national team at 41. Modrić has decided to confirm his availability for the upcoming Nations League games. Legend. 🧬

Playing for Croatia is everything to Peter Musa🇭🇷

Arguably the best striker in MLS 🫎 Petar Musa tells us about his emotional celebration after scoring in the World Cup for Croatia. 🇭🇷 @FCDallas visits @stlCITYsc for Sunday Night Soccer pres. by @continentaltire -- Watch on Apple TV (7pm ET) 📺

📺 From 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' to the Champions League 🇱🇹✨ ◀️ In 2002, 25-year-old engineering graduate Valdas Dambrauskas appeared on 'Šeši Nuliai – Milijonas', Lithuania's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? 💰 Aiming for the jackpot, he walked away with just 4,000 litas (around £725) — but used every single penny to fund a move to London with his girlfriend to study sports science 💼 "After we'd paid for our flights and accommodation, we had money left for just one month," he told @fourfourtwo. He worked retail and shopping centre jobs while grinding for his coaching badges 🤝 Despite speaking limited English, his personality blew interviewers away, earning him youth coaching roles at Manchester United's soccer schools, Fulham, and Brentford 🏆 He cut his teeth in ninth-tier non-league football with Kingsbury London Tigers before embarking on a trophy-laden career across Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Croatia ⏩ Fast forward to today: Dambrauskas has just made European history, guiding Azerbaijani side Sabah FK to the UEFA Champions League league phase for the first time ever after a dramatic 6-4 aggregate play-off victory 👑 Sabah will earn approximately €20m just for competing in this season's Champions League. What an achievement!

🚨⚫️🔵 Atalanta confirm deal agreed for Bartol Levacic for the Academy. 🇭🇷 16 year old Croatia U16 defender joins from Varazdin.

⚫️🔵🇭🇷 Excl: Atalanta agree deal to sign Croatian centre back Bartol Levacic for the Academy. Deal done for 16 year old and Croatia U16 defender joining from Varazdin.

Croatia part ways with Nike to sign with adidas.

A familiar face back on the touchline for Croatia 🇭🇷 Slaven Bilic has been named his country's new head coach - 14 years after he was previously there 🔙

3-2 vs. Croatia ✅ 1-0 vs. Panama ✅ 1-0 vs. Mexico ✅ 2-0 vs. Mexico 1-1 vs. Norway ✅ 2-1 vs. Norway ✅ 5/6 of Jude Bellingham’s World Cup goals have changed the state of the game. 🐐

Official FIFA Player of the Match winners for England at the World Cup so far: vs. Croatia — Harry Kane vs. Ghana — Jude Bellingham vs. Panama — Jude Bellingham vs. DR Congo — Harry Kane vs. Mexico — Jude Bellingham vs. Norway — Jude Bellingham Generational carry. 👏👏👏

On the day Thomas Tuchel named his England World Cup squad, he made a passing comment that has come to fruition. As England dug in to beat Mexico at the Estadio Azteca on Sunday night, having been a player down for most of the second half, Tuchel turned to his substitutes’ bench — and got every single change right. More pertinently, their performances added meaning to the words Tuchel uttered on May 22. The England head coach referenced a “speciality team”, which he then qualified as a “special operations team”. At the time, Tuchel was responding to a question about Ivan Toney’s call up, but in the same answer he spoke about several other players and positions and why they will all have an important part to play during the tournament. Against Croatia, DR Congo and Mexico, Tuchel saw the “special operations team” come to life, with his second-half changes proving decisive. 📝 @Dan_Sheldon_ 🔗

Zlatko Dalić ends a remarkable nine-year spell in charge of Croatia 🇭🇷 🥈 2018 World Cup runner-up 🥉 2022 World Cup third place 🥈 2023 Nations League runner-up