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The Croatian team, finalist of the 2018 World Cup, was welcomed Monday by more than 100,000 people in Zagreb
A city in red and white, the Croatian capital, eagerly awaiting them "Vatreni ", world champion, defeated by France in the final of the competition (2-4).
Players led by Captain Luka Modric got off the plane after presenter Zlatko Dalic and Davor Suker, president of the Croatian Football Federation, who wore a big national flag. On the runway of the airport, on which a red carpet was laid, the players were greeted by dozens of journalists. They would arrive by bus in the center of Zagreb, where more than 100,000 people are expected, according to the press. Many people wait for several hours, despite the heat, after Sunday has been raining most of the day.
The people of Zagreb say that so many people in the streets of the capital have been missing since 1996, following a demonstration against the then president, Franjo Tudjman, and the return of General Ante Gotovina to the country , acquitted by The International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague in 2012 and considered by Croats as a hero of the war of independence against Serbian forces (1991-1995).
???????? #Vatreni welcome to natrag / Welcome again! ???? #BudiPonosan #FlamingPride #Obitelj #Family pic.twitter.com/CA4COWn4Hq
– HNS | SBB (@HNS_CFF) July 16, 2018
This is simply amazing in #Zagreb main square. More than 100,000 people are waiting for #croatie ???????? #WorldCup pic.twitter.com/Sv9LxqJ8hg
– Ivan Dikic (@ iDikic2) July 16, 2018
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