2018 World Cup: How Croatia beats its weight to face big boys at their own game

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.