European Championship 2008 - Croatia

CroatiaCroatia are a very strong team, technically excellent very well organised and will go to the finals next summer thinking that they have a great chance and they have done very well in the last few big tournaments. Croatia has one of the leading scorers in their set up in Arsenal's Eduardo da Silva, a man with a superb 10 goals to his name, whilst Portsmouth's Niko Kranjcar is also a big threat from midfield as he has shown with a string of excellent Premiership performances.

Croatia are readily available with the online bookies at 20/1 and these are one of the teams that could well give anyone backing them at this price a very good run for their money.


Player To Watch - Luca Modric
Luca Modric (Croatia)One of the players that could well make a real name for himself this summer is Luca Modric who is reported to be on his way to either Chelsea or Arsenal and if Wenger is interested he must be good.

The 22-year-old currently plays for Dinamo Zagreb and is said to want to play in the English Premier League and this is very understandable considering the amount of money he would make should he get the dream move.

No. Player Date of Birth Caps Goals Position
Euro 2008 Squad
1 Stipe Pletikosa 08/01/1979 (29) 69 0 Goalkeeper
23 Vedran Runje 10/02/1976 (32) 4 0 Goalkeeper
12 Mario Galinovic 01/01/1970 (38) 2 0 Goalkeeper
2 Dario Simic 12/11/1975 (32) 98 3 Defender
4 Robert Kovac 06/04/1974 (34) 74 0 Defender
3 Josip Simunic 18/02/1978 (30) 62 3 Defender
5 Vedran Corluka 05/02/1986 (22) 20 0 Defender
15 Dario Knezevic 20/04/1982 (26) 7 1 Defender
6 Hrvoje Vejic 08/06/1977 (31) 2 0 Defender
10 Niko Kovac 15/10/1971 (36) 77 14 Midfielder
16 Jerko Leko 09/04/1980 (28) 52 2 Midfielder
11 Darijo Srna 01/03/1982 (26) 55 15 Midfielder
19 Niko Kranjcar 13/08/1984 (23) 41 6 Midfielder
14 Luka Modric 09/09/1985 (22) 26 3 Midfielder
22 Danijel Pranjic 02/12/1981 (26) 11 0 Midfielder
7 Ivan Rakitic 10/12/1988 (19) 8 1 Midfielder
8 Ognjen Vukojevic 20/12/1983 (24) 5 1 Midfielder
13 Nikola Pokrivac 26/11/1985 (22) 1 0 Midfielder
21 Mladen Petric 01/01/1981 (27) 24 9 Forward
18 Ivica Olic 14/09/1979 (28) 54 9 Forward
17 Ivan Klasnic 29/01/1980 (28) 29 8 Forward
20 Igor Budan 22/04/1980 (28) 5 0 Forward
9 Nikola Kalinic 05/01/1988 (20) 1 0 Forward

DATE
HOME TEAM
SCORE
AWAY TEAM
EURO 2008 QUALIFICATION GROUP E RESULTS
21 November 2007
England
Croatia
17 November 2007
Macedonia
Croatia
13 October 2007
Croatia
Israel
12 September 2007
Andorra
Croatia
08 September 2007
Croatia
Estonia
06 June 2007
Croatia
Russia
02 June 2007
Estonia
Croatia
24 March 2007
Croatia
Macedonia
15 November 2006
Israel
Croatia
11 October 2006
Croatia
England
07 October 2006
Croatia
Andorra
06 September 2006
Russia
Croatia

TEAM PLD W D L GF GA GD PTS
EURO 2008 QUALIFICATION GROUP E TABLE
1 Croatia 12 9 2 1 28 8 20 29
2 Russia 12 7 3 2 18 7 11 24
3 England 12 7 2 3 24 7 17 23
4 Israel 12 7 2 3 20 12 8 23
5 Macedonia 12 4 2 6 12 12 0 14
6 Estonia 12 2 1 9 5 21 -16 7
7 Andorra 12 0 0 12 2 42 -40 0

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Spain 4
Portugal 9/2
Germany 5
Holland 11/2
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Croatia 9
France 12
Italy 11
Czech Republ 25
Sweden 33
Russia 50
Romania 40
Turkey 66
Greece 150
Austria 350
Poland 100
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