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Croatia has surprised the world of sport by reaching the grand finale of the World Cup because it is a country with only 27 years of life; but in this short period, they have lived great moments not only in the sports field, that is why we share here some curious facts about this small big country.
His independence.
In the middle of the patriotic war, on October 8, 1991, the Croatian Parliament decided to approve the decision to sever all legal ties with the former Yugoslavia and a new episode of the war. history of the Republic of Croatia is given, with this decision it has become a sovereign and independent state.
Croatia is the smallest city in the world
The city of Hum has only 20 inhabitants and for this reason it is registered as the smallest city in the world according to the book of Guinness Records, is located in the peninsula of Istria.
Registration with FIFA
Croatia was officially affiliated with FIFA in 1992, only a year after gaining independence as a country
No case of doping in the World Cup up here
Second smallest country to reach a world finals.
The small Balkan state becomes after Uruguay in 1934 and 1950, in the second country with the least population that will compete in a World Cup final.
A Croatian goal of a Yugoslavian
The only player to score with two different selections in a World Cup was Robert Prosinecki, who scored a goal in Jamaica with the Croatian jersey when he had done it before. with Yugoslavia against the UAE at the 1990 World Cup.
Real Madrid Croatian
From the hands of two meringue players, Croatia had its best moments at the world championships. In 1998, Davor Suker took them to a third place. in a world championship, now in Russia, the engine of Madrid Luka Modric is the figure that makes the Croats dream of the World Championship.
Protagonist in major tournaments
Despite his young age, the Croatian national team has been the subject of various international tournaments. Already at the 1998 World Cup in France got the third place, but in the Championship of Europe also transcended, since in the 1996 and 2008 editions, the Croatians were in the quarterfinals.
Mexico was the last team to beat Croatia in the World Cup
Dalmatian dogs are of Croatian origin?
The dog breed that was immortalized in the movie '101 Dalmatians & # 39; has its roots in the province of Dalmatia, a region that is located in the Adriatic Coast and belongs to Croatia. The name of this place comes from an illicit tribe called "Dalmatians (Dalmatians)" who lived in the region of the eastern coast of the Adriatic in the first millennium BC.
Vampires come from Croatia?
Although it sounds like something from a movie or the imagination of a child in the region of Istria, a peninsula and a county located in the north of the Croatia, there was the case of vampirism, documented and observed, the oldest in Europe. In fact, this story is currently an attraction for tourists visiting Kringa, where the vampire is supposed to be dead.
The tie is Croatian?
We do not know whether to hate them or not for that but the link has arisen because Croatian soldiers tied a red handkerchief around their neck during the 30-year-old war. In Paris, they adopted the fashion of knitting the handkerchief "to the Croatian", a term that evolved later in "the tie", tie in Spanish.
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