Comments on: a Dudú by any other name…

By: Legendkiller

Legendkiller — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:28:45 +0000

wow your jelous crno gorac…all the players you mentioned are croatian ..i.e niko kovac,robert kovac..so shut up

By: Neno

Neno — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 08:23:00 +0000

Well now that its over for croatia and serbia, what was that about the serbians having the more talented defenders. Historically Croatia have been one of the more difficult teams to score against, and this world cup showed it again. Unfortunately we always have one idiot who stuffs it up for us, Jerkan in 98 and Tomas in 2006. Why the hell was he put on anyway? Shouldn’t Tudor have played back, and Cico brought on a midfielder, Leko or Modric?? Anyway, I think you’ll see a different CRO team at Euro 2008. Niko, Prso and co might have to hang up their boots, and make way for the younger bread who will be hitting there peak. The oly reason Australia went through was because of our heartless effort against Japan. Japan were terrible, and we failed to punish them. Jebiga.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 23 May 2006 05:54:28 +0000

Crno Gorac, I wonder if you were overjoyed with the news that 55.4% of Montenegrins voted for independence – but your “Yugoslavia {RIP}” comment suggests you might form part of the 44.6% against vote.

It took everyone 88 years to realise that “bratstvo i jedinstvo” actually means “Greater Serbia”.

Anyway, back onto the football:

How do you guys think the vote for Independence by Montenegro will affect the “Serbia and Montenegro” team in the World Cup?

By: Croatia’s Squad (officially) Announced - FIFA World Cup 2006 - Croatia World Cup Team Blog

Fri, 12 May 2006 13:13:59 +0000

[...] The absence of Rapaic and Vugrinec has been known about for some time. The only player I thought would have been on the starting 24 would have been Dudú, but instead, his place is on the provisional squad (substitution players in case someone is injured up to 24 hours before the first match) alongside Mladen Petrić (Grasshoppers) and Dario Knežević (Rijeka). [...]

By: Player to Watch: Niko Kranjčar - FIFA World Cup 2006 - Croatia World Cup Team Blog

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:55:28 +0000

[...] With 48 days left ’till kickoff, I’m gonna start putting up some player profiles. I wrote one already about our very own Brazilian Dudú, so here is one on homegrown talent. Niko Kranjčar is the son of the Selection Trainer, Zlatko. Born in Zagreb and the youngest ever captain of Dinamo, Zagreb at the age if 17, he currently plays for Hajduk, Split where he is the leading scorer. [...]

By: kapcro

kapcro — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:41:06 +0000

I was just reminded in a comment on another blog that Maradona’s grandmother was Croatian. If she’s around do you think she can play intead of Bilos for Croatia.

By: Soze

Soze — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:39:51 +0000

Very well said. No matter how the majority of people feel, it is up to the National Team bigwigs to decide who plays and who does not…and that includes ‘forigners’.
I’m glad Bilos is out, he is the worst kind of ‘National’…opportunistic.

By: kapcro

kapcro — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:32:59 +0000

Soze thanks for bringing it back on track. I posed the question with the Bilos issue in mind. Thankfully he bowed out because of the Johnny-come-lately aura. Since there are no official criteria for choosing players, its pretty much up to the National teams to decide how to choose its players. That allows for the hired gun approach. Fans basically have to voice their opinion for what its worth to their National Team leadership about how they feel about outsiders playing. Seinfeld the comedian said of pro teams “we’re just cheering for the jerseys now”. That seems to be where the National teams are heading. It definitely is gauling to purists but what’s pure anymore. The world is a global village now.

By: Soze

Soze — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:14:43 +0000

It’s incredible how a simple player profile can spark such intense conversation.

No matter what background we carry…Croat or Serb…we are all here to show our support for our team, and if that team sometimes includes some hired guns, so be it.

I suggest this post contines with a look at a good question kapcro asked before…

“Does place of birth determine a player’s right to represent a country or does parentage determine if a player should represent a country if he is not born in that country?”

If those are the only two criteria…then Dudú is s**t out of luck.

All I know is that at the end of the day, no matter what my feelings are on the subject of foreign players, naturalized or through parantage, I want to see Croatia bring home the cup.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:42:09 +0000

Crno your only aim is to bad mouth Croatia and suggest that any of its successes were due to the fact that Croatia was once apart of yugoslavia. If you have socialist views we can then clearly assume that you have no care for anything else other then serbia and crno gora itself even though serbs hate you guys more then they do Croatians. If you wish to post here again try to make an effort of having some intelligence in the content.