The real heavy stuff,” Peter Crouch, a team-mate at Pompey, revealed in 2017, FourFourTwo wrote. To look for a magical formula of perfect choice, which will not provoke controversy and opposing views, it cannot be found. ZAGREB, 21 July 2020 – Current captain Luka Modric is the best footballer in Croatian history, according to experts and fans in a large online poll conducted by leading newspaper Sportske Novosti. This is a list of Croatia national football team players. Over the past few months, Sportske Novosti has been on the search for the greatest footballer in Croatian history and after input from a number of experienced experts and votes from readers, have released the results.

Modric was the top choice of 7 of the 9 expert analysts polled as well as the readers’ number one choice. Statistics correct as of 14 October 2020 and the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League match against France. The top five coolest players according to FourFourTwo were Jay-Jay Okocha, George Best, Johan Cruyff, David Beckham, and Andrea Pirlo. Copyright 2017 - Croatia Week - All Right Reserved, Two Croatians on 50 coolest footballers of all-time list, 120th-anniversary of first Croatian to win an Olympic Games medal, PHOTOS: 305th Sinjska Alka tournament held in Sinj, Ante Rebic nets again to become 3rd top goalscorer in Europe in 2020, Champions League qualifying: Dinamo Zagreb draws Hungarian side Ferencvaros, UFC: Stipe Miocic confirms fight against Daniel Cormier will happen, Dinamo Zagreb coach Igor Jovicevic departs after just 7 matches in charge, Hajduk Split building a football camp in Trogir, PHOTOS: Check out the nicest mountain shelter in Croatia, PHOTOS: Roman mosaic hidden in the Croatian city of Pula, Croatia’s oldest mountaineer turns 100 years old, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent starring Nicolas Cage starts filming in Croatia, Fans allowed back at Croatia’s Nations League matches, tickets to go on sale, Croatian recipes: Zagorje style soup – Zagorska juha, Emirates cancels service to Croatia for all of 2021, Varaždin Klipič pastry given EU protected designation of origin, Croatian tourist industry’s future lies in year-round tourism, MMA: Croatia’s Stjepan Bekavac returns at KSW 55 this Saturday in Poland, Zadar liberation anniversary: ‘Brave defenders prevented Dalmatia from becoming Serbian’. Boban played for Milan for more than 10 years, won Serie A four times and was a member of the legendary side that demolished Barcelona 4-0 in the 1994 Champions League Final.

"Footballers today are “Of course, all elections are, as a rule, a matter of subjectivity and as such subject to debate. Players are listed by number of appearances as captain, then by chronological order of first captaincy. 10 JUNE 2020 – Leading football magazine FourFourTwo has compiled a list of whom they consider the 50 coolest footballers of all time. Only matches player started as a captain are counted. Top 10 greatest Croatian footballers readers vote, Copyright 2017 - Croatia Week - All Right Reserved, Luka Modric named greatest Croatian footballer of all-time, PHOTO: Modric, Kovacic and Cilic chilling on the Croatian coast, Croatia to search all over the world for potential national team players, Luka Modric named among 100 best sportsmen of the 21st century, Luka Modrić and Ivan Rakitić to miss Croatia’s opening UEFA Nations League matches, PHOTOS: Ripped Luka Modrić enjoying holiday in his hometown of Zadar, PHOTOS: Check out the nicest mountain shelter in Croatia, PHOTOS: Roman mosaic hidden in the Croatian city of Pula, Croatia’s oldest mountaineer turns 100 years old, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent starring Nicolas Cage starts filming in Croatia, Fans allowed back at Croatia’s Nations League matches, tickets to go on sale, Croatian recipes: Zagorje style soup – Zagorska juha, Emirates cancels service to Croatia for all of 2021, Restaurant Week Croatia: Selected menus at promotional prices from 9-18 Oct, Traditional 23rd Zelina Chestnut Festival to be held on 11 Oct, Austrian Airlines suspends Zagreb-Vienna winter service. In terms of international football, Croatia have experienced their fair share of ups and downs. For a list of all national team players with a Wikipedia article, see the Croatia international footballers category. 21 talking about this. Captaincies are composed of FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Football Championship and each competition's required qualification matches, as well as international friendlies. Modric, who first debuted for Croatia in 2006, has 127 international caps and won silver at the World Cup with Croatia in 2018 in Russia. Boban (Photo credit: Christophe95/CC license). This is a list of Croatia national football team players.Most of the appearances were made since the country became independent from Yugoslavia in 1990, but international games were also played in the early 1940s and a one-off match was played in 1956. “Footballers today are often criticised for being bland, uninformed, media-trained robots, but it would be unfair to tar a whole profession with one brush. Davor Šuker, who was the top goalscorer at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is by far the top goalscorer in the history of the Croatian team, with 45 goals. Police stormed the field when fans spilled onto the pitch after an eruption of violence in the stands; when Boban saw an officer hitting a Dinamo fan, he jumped up and kicked him in the chest, writes FourFourTwo. Croatian Football Federation Ulica grada Vukovara 269 A 10000 Zagreb Hrvatska / Croatia; T: +385 1 2361555, F: +385 1 2441500 E: info@hns-cff.hr, W: www.hns-cff.hr IBAN: HR2523400091100187844 OIB: 08516152078 Follow Us: If they are still tied the players are listed alphabetically. Statistics correct as of 14 October 2020 and the 2020–21 UEFA Nations League match against France. Prosinecki played for the big three during his career: Real Madrid, Barcelona and Portsmouth. “He’d smoke before the game, at half-time in the showers and after the game as well. Players are listed by number of caps, then by goals scored. List of Croatia national football team appearances, Croatia international footballers category, Croatia national football team#Current squad, List of men's footballers with 100 or more international caps, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Croatia_international_footballers&oldid=983544761, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 14 October 2020, at 20:54. ZAGREB, 21 July 2020 – Current captain Luka Modric is the best footballer in Croatian history, according to experts and fans in a large online poll conducted by leading newspaper Sportske Novosti. He has also won four European titles with Real, Ballon d’Or, World Cup Golden Ball and the AIPS Best Male Athlete of 2018 award. Robert Prosinecki named Bosnia and Herzegovina manager (Photo: Media Centar). In 48th place was ex Barcelona and Real Madrid player Robert Prosinecki. / Novosti i zanimljivosti o hrvatskim nogometašima. News and facts about Croatian Footballers. In 30th place on the list was former Croatia captain and AC Milan ace Zvonimir Boban. When Boban’s Dinamo Zagreb faced bitter rivals Red Star Belgrade in 1990, Yugoslavia was already a dying state, cracking under ethnic tensions. Indeed, there have been plenty of personalities in the game down the years,” FourFourTwo writes.

A technically gifted attacking midfielder, the Croatian wasn’t shy in admitting that he had a weakness for tobacco and tracking back. Croatia Zagreb 1 3 0 0 0 0 Šarić, Daniel: 1972-08-04 Right Back Croatia Zagreb 1 1 0 0 0 0 Šerić, Anthony: 1979-01-15 Left Back Hajduk Split 0 3 0 0 0 0 Tokić, Mario: 1975-07-23 Centre Back Croatia Zagreb 0 2 0 0 0 0 Cvitanović, Mario: 1975-05-06 But this does not mean that different polls should not be conducted within different voter structures,” the newspaper explained. Appearances and goals are composed of FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship and each competition's required qualification matches, as well as the UEFA Nations League and international friendlies. 10 JUNE 2020 - Leading football magazine FourFourTwo has compiled a list of whom they consider the 50 coolest footballers of all time. There is none. Four years later he was the captain of the Croatian side that came third at the World Cup in France.

Darijo Srna made the most appearances for the national team with 134, making him one of the eight Croatian players with 100 or more caps. Luka Modric (Photo credit: Светлана Бекетова/Soccer.ru/Creative Commons license). For the current national team squad, see Croatia national football team#Current squad. This list is about Croatia national football team players with at least 20 appearances. And yet the first thing everyone remembers about Boban is that he kicked a cop. Red Marlboros, too. Most of the appearances were made since the country became independent from Yugoslavia in 1990, but international games were also played in the early 1940s and a one-off match was played in 1956. Darijo Srna made the most appearances for the national team with 134, making him one of the eight Croatian players with 100 or more caps.