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Croatia vs. Poland..The Pregame.

June 2nd, 2006 | By: Soze | 10 Comments »

Hello all. I am at a loss of passing on accurate information of who are going to be the starting players in tomorrow’s friendly against Poland. This morning, reports come out of the Croatian camp that Ivica Olić , Boško Balaban, Dario Šimić and Anthony Šerić have gotten food poisoning eating Kremšnite. Although only Šimić was in the starting lineup against Iran, Cico Kranjčar has some problems.

Igor Tudor is with his wife in Split because they had a baby boy on Monday, congratulations! Niko Kovač has back pain and is unlikely to play and now Ivan Leko and Dado Pršo have come down with the same symptoms as the first four, and have been transfered to a clinic for further analysis. If any more players become ill, it is doubtfull a worthwhile friendly can be played. Croatia will have enough players to show up on the pitch and play, but the players missing are all important to the existing strategy and will miss out on important team and play building excercise.

Modrić and Vranješ will be taking the places of Tudor and Niko Kovač, and Tomislav Butina will be starting in net instead of Pletikosa. Thank God!

So here is my best guess at the starting 11: Butina - Tomas, Robert Kovač, Šimunić - Srna, Vranješ , Modrić, Babić - Kranjčar - Bošnjak, Klasnić.

Tags: Croatia, Friendly, Poland

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Comments

By Frankopan | June 2nd, 2006 at 10:10 pm

That’s not that bad. This ways he’ll be forced to try out more players than he has so far.

Posted from Croatia

By LRski | June 2nd, 2006 at 11:51 pm

The “kremsnite” were a gift from the Polish squad…whatever it takes to win

Posted from Canada

By Marko | June 3rd, 2006 at 12:00 am

Eating Kremsite? That’s not exactly the kind of food I would be giving the players to eat in a WC training camp. They should be on a clean and healthy diet.

I happy to hear that Vranjes and Modric will be given a chance to shine in the center of the pitch. Even though Tudor and N. Kovac are experienced players, I feel Tudor is too big and slow to play in mid-field. While N. Kovac is old and may not have the stamina to play that many games in a short time frame.

So Cico has a dilemma: Does he go with speed, inexperience, and youth. Or does he go with experience at the cost of stamina and pace?

Posted from United States

By DawacPiwko | June 3rd, 2006 at 3:08 am

Go Polska!! anywho…i have faith in my team but so do you croats…umm anyone kno any live streams with this game? would be kool, thanks in advance!!

By Sonia | June 3rd, 2006 at 8:16 am

OOOO HELP HELP!!

Does anyone know if this game is going to be played on normal UK TV and not just SKY?? or where it is on the net?

Not long now! What am i going to do? Im Crolish, half this half that, (but shhh go Hrvatska)!! hehe

Posted from United Kingdom

By Joe Mexes | June 3rd, 2006 at 8:47 am

ITS GOIN TO BE A WIN FOR CROATIA

2-1

Posted from Canada

By soze | June 3rd, 2006 at 8:52 am

Is that right LRski?…Resorting to the infemous poisenous Kremsnite huh?..

By Sonia | June 3rd, 2006 at 9:01 am

Enuff about food, i am still searching for a live stream for this game, but nooo england vs jamaica is on right now and there is no chance i will see this game! even if i went to the local pub! :`/

Posted from United Kingdom

By Luka | June 3rd, 2006 at 10:51 am

Try here? Right now its only showing Chip and Dale rescue rangers!!

http://www.livefooty.doctor-serv.com/sat3.6/Croatia_Poland.html

http://www.livefooty.doctor-serv.com/index.html

Or minute by minute play at

http://live.index.hr/

Or you can get audio on radio HRT2 at http://www.hrt.hr/streams/hr2.ram but this doesn’t appear to be working for me atm

Posted from Australia