Luka Karabatic: "If France loses, the defeat will be less sad" – CM 2018



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World handball champion with the Blues, Luka Karabatic is delighted that the final of the Football World Cup pits his country against that of his father, Branko, Croatia (Sunday, 5 pm). [19659002] "How do you feel about approaching this final?"
It's totally fun! Basically, I'm not much football, but here is the World Cup, I look at it from the beginning. And see my country, France, and that of my origins end up in the final, watched by the whole world, it's great. I'm a bit proud for Croatia too, it's amazing to see this small country of four million people reach such a level in sports co. We watched it with family in our house near Montpellier, with Niko, our companions and children. Alek (Nikola's two-year-old son) was taught to sing "Allez les Bleus!" And he begins to fend for himself! Deva, my daughter (eight months old), is still a bit young … We were a little more stressed in the Croatian semi-finals than France, who led the whole match. We will be for the Blues Sunday, of course, but in front of our second country, the one that we also carry in our heart, like Serbia from elsewhere (where his mother is from, Lala), if ever the scenario is negative, the defeat will be less bitter. When you feel joy in the people you appreciate, it's less cruel.

You were ten years old in 1998, do you remember the semi-final France-Croatia (2-1)?
Very, very good! These are my first memories of sport, they remain engraved. I was a supporter of France and Croatia who, at …

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