2018 World Cup: How Croatia hits over weight to face big boys at their own game



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Once the celebrations calmed down and people started trying to set the scene for Croatia, Dejan Lovren put humor in the discussion to accompany all the other smiles. The semifinal stopped for a while in the Luzhniki stadium mixed zone after the World Cup semi-final to discuss all this and was inevitably asked how his country continued to do so. and fathers, "laughs Lovren." They make good love. "

And yet, by football standards, they do not do enough love – or should not be. this was mentioned as a result of the victory over England, Croatia has only 4.3 million inhabitants.This makes them the smallest country to reach a Cup final. World since Uruguay, and it was a decisive match in the round rather than a final, while the world of football was a much smaller and very different place. To better situate it, this It's not since 1962 that a country of only 8 million people bigger than Croatia – Czechoslovakia – has achieved this biggest football match.So they are not only the smallest to do a final since Uruguay, but by far the smallest because it is really amazing to follow a semi-final 20 years ago, when we put it in the right context.

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The reasons for this, at least, should be obvious. This is simple math. The larger the population, the more likely the culture of football is to produce quality professionals. Contesting this becomes even more difficult at a time when all major Western nations are using their size and wealth to effectively industrialize the production of talent, and will become even more pronounced if France becomes the third successor country – after Spain and l'Allemagne – pour lever la Coupe du Monde. A titre de comparaison, la région parisienne d'Ile-de-France, si réputée pour sa ligne de production sans fin de jeunes talents comme Kylian Mbappe, compte plus de 12 millions d'habitants, soit près de trois fois celle de la Croatie

Les raisons pour lesquelles la Croatie a géré cela et continuer à créer ces côtés sont donc loin d'être évidentes. Il n'y a rien de simple, surtout quand on considère le chaos dans lequel leur fédération a été engloutie, Lovren et Luka Modric ayant tous deux été accusés de parjure dans le procès pour corruption de l'ancien président du Dinamo Zagreb, Zdravko Mamic. Et c'est avant même que vous arriviez au fait que c'est un pays qui se remet encore d'une guerre qui a conditionné – et dans beaucoup de cas grandement perturbé – les premières vies de toute la génération actuelle.

Il n'y a pas de modèle islandais ici. même été un modèle grec à leur course de Coupe du Monde.

Luka Modric a été au cœur de la course de la Croatie à la finale de la Coupe du Monde (AP)
    

Cela rend leur exploit encore plus impressionnant. La Croatie n'a pas joué au «petit football d'équipe» ou a envisagé de jouer au football à élimination directe grâce à une solide défense et à des répétitions comme la Grèce l'a fait en 2004. Ils n'ont pas ressenti le besoin de faire des compromis. compris. Ils ont fait le contraire. Ils ont joué au football dans de grands pays, dans de grands clubs, dans un football badertif où tout est à leur portée. »

Beaucoup pourraient indiquer la chance d'avoir deux des meilleurs milieux de terrain au monde avec Modric et Ivan Rakitic, mais il n'y a pas de chance s'ils font partie d'une équipe de joueurs excellents sur le plan technique. , et ils suivent des stars comme Zvonimar Boban et Robert Prosinecki.

Il ne devrait pas vraiment suivre logiquement. Tant de figures clés du football croate disent "il n'y a pas d'explication" à cela, que l'infrastructure est "défectueuse et franchement amateur, même au plus haut niveau", avec peu ou pas de stratégie continue de plan. Ils ne peuvent pointer vers un design unique qui est la source de toute cette qualité.

"En Croatie, nous n'avons toujours pas de stade de l'équipe nationale ni même de véritable camp d'entraînement pour l'équipe nationale", ancien joueur et manager international Igor Stimac raconte The Independent avant d'ajouter un important mais. "Le modèle d'entraînement croate est basé sur le développement de compétences individuelles, le contrôle parfait du ballon et le sens du jeu."

Ceci est un point qui illustre comment la taille de la Croatie pourrait réellement fonctionner pour eux d'une manière presque unique.

Le fait que le pays prenne depuis longtemps la main sur les meneurs de jeu numéro 10 et joue de la bonne façon pourrait bien avoir perpétué une culture qui perpétue la création d'entraîneurs qui adhèrent à cette approche, et donc de joueurs entraînés par elle. La taille signifie également que les idées d'un seul club peuvent suffire à reproduire l'effet d'une académie ou d'une stratégie nationale, comme cela a été le cas avec l'ancien club de Mamic, Dinamo Zagreb.

Treize des 22 hommes disponibles Le manager Zlatko Dalic pour la finale de dimanche est pbadé par le club de la capitale, et la façon dont ils ont pu gagner des millions en vendant de tels joueurs a créé ce cycle où ils peuvent continuer à attirer les meilleurs jeunes joueurs et entraîneurs

Hajduk Split a commencé à répondre à cette question, tout comme les chiffres les plus avant-gardistes du football croate. L'ancien administrateur Romeo Jozak faisait partie d'un groupe qui a mis en place un programme d'enseignement afin que tous les jeunes joueurs âgés de 12 ans soient entraînés dans une «vision unifiée» sophistiquée pour le jeu.

Mais c'est pour l'avenir. Il ne s'explique pas maintenant.

Zlatko Dalic a investi dans une marque de football accrocheur avec la Croatie (EPA)
    

Certains d'entre eux peuvent aussi remonter au pbadé, et l'influence d'un système communiste qui valorise tellement la valeur du sport, car la santé profite autant que la propagande. Ils dépbadent constamment dans d'autres domaines, en particulier la table des médailles des Jeux olympiques, comme Lovren tenait aussi à le souligner.

"Je pense que c'est notre mentalité", a déclaré le centre-demoiselle. "Nous avons traversé beaucoup de s ***, de guerres, toutes ces choses et même maintenant, la situation n'est pas la meilleure. Mais c'est incroyable combien de talents nous avons dans les sports: basketball, handball, water-polo, tennis. "

Stimac exprime une croyance similaire.

" Ne pas avoir une infrastructure adéquate est un énorme problème, mais en utilisant seulement deux les choses que nous avons – talent pur et philosophie de coaching – semblent être suffisantes pour maintenir notre équipe nationale parmi les meilleures équipes du monde pendant près de 30 ans, ce qui est une réussite incroyable. "

Une telle situation et une foi démodée dans l'instinct ainsi que les traits nationaux intrinsèques devraient vraiment être complètement obsolètes et inefficaces dans le monde du football moderne, une relique d'il y a 30 ans. C'est la source de quelque chose que le jeu n'a pas vu depuis des décennies.

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