International friendly, 12 October: Portugal - Croatia

On Saturday Croatia plays a friendly in Coimbra in Portugal, 10 pm Croatian time. Both teams will be missing a couple of first team players.

Croatian squad:
Goalkeepers:Butina, Pletikosa
Defenders: R. Kovač, Šimunić, Tomas, Tokić, Šimić
Midfielders: Srna, Šerić, Babić, N. Kovač, J. Leko, I. Leko, Kranjčar, Vranješ
Strikers: Pršo, Klasnić, Balaban, Bošnjak

im surprised that eduardo dasilva was not named to the squad as well as thomas sokota

Eduardo plays for our youth team in EC play-offs and Sokota will watch the match from a bed, he was seriously injured in a CL match, Rangers - Porto.

question hrvat,i lived for a few years in utrine in novi zagreb during the 70's and 80's,is there a team in the croatian first division that represents utrine?

Best.....avatar....ever.

I wonder if Pletikosa will regain the no1 jersey after going back to Split. Hmmmm. But with the current form of Hadjuk, maybe Butina will hold onto it for the time being...

Here is the Portugese squad.


Jorge Paulo Santos G
- Alexandre Ricardo G
- Luis Miguel D
- Alberto Ricardo Carvalho D
- Miguel Jorge Ribeiro D
- Renato Paulo Ferreira D
- Fernando Meira D
- Jorge Andrade D
- Marco Caneira D
- Francisco Costinha M
- Armando Petit M
- Cristiano Ronaldo M
- Cardoso Tiago M
- Joao Alves M
- Nuno Frechaut M
- Luis Boa Morte S
- Helder Postiga S
- Pedro Pauleta S
- Miguel Nuno Gomes S

Re: International friendly, 12 October: Portugal - Croatia (R) SPOILER ALERT!

at 35 minutes, the score is

Portugal 1 (Petit '32) Croatia 0

I hope Croatia wins, honestly.

Never liked Portugal.

I do like Figo, though.

We're all in the World Cup, so it's all good.

The real games come next summer

I'm hoping for Didulica to take over. Pletikosa is a bit slow.

The problem is that kranjcar seems to be set on on Butina as his WC keeper, and I have zero confidence in him.

Yeah, me too.

Didulica has been on good form recently. I think the NT has struggled for consistency in between the sticks since Ladic hung up his gloves.

You lived in Zagreb right?

Let me guess, a diplomat child?

Nah, but the Plavi of Zagreb are the best team in Croatia!

wow no one else posted about the game.


Portugal won 2-0, and in fairness the game should have ended 2-1 portugal instread of 2-0 since croatia hit the post.

but this was basically portugals b team playing, missing many of our starters.

and croatia was without klasnic so yah.



Well im brining this thread up since i heard croatia will play against iran in a friendly and im eager to see how they do since we beat croatia 2-0 and i wanna gauage how good iran is.


I know there jsut friendlies but you know, jsut to get a sense of the level of iran


BTW good luck to croatia in the world cup, i hope you do well, i remember cheering for you guys in 1998

ha ha so you wanted to brag a little well,are players havent been motivated for that game since we ended first in the group and players needed some rest wile portugal second squad had motivation becouse they played with their 2nd squad.
If you really want to see our strenght watch game vs argentina where we were motivated but missing two starting lineup defenders and still won

i know dont worry, i know croatia has a great team, im jsut eager to see if they can get their full squad to play iran and see how the fair so i can kinda gauage how good iran r.

Dont worry, Im just trying to say portugal is only marginally better

BTW any news on where Srna is going next season?? hes gonna be fcuking immense!

Well i never said we are better , we will see everything in June
Where he's going?well i heard something about liverpool but who knows,its early to say jet.