The magnitude of Croatia’s win against Brazil wasn't lost on its coach Zlatko Dalić.
afterwards, they certainly didn’t seem prepared to be heading home at this early stage.
Croatia may have been the underdog against Brazil, but the team did reach the final in Russia four years ago and was a semifinalist in its very first World Cup as an independent nation in 1998 — losing to France on both occasions. So how does Croatia — a country with a population ranked at 128th in the world according to size — continue to overperform on the biggest stage of all?
“We always go all the way to the end, we leave everything we got on the pitch and we keep fighting," he said."That is the reason for our success.”, had set the scene even before kickoff against Brazil.
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