Croatia's road to WC 2010 - Schedule Announced

[Centarfor9]

Bilic On England: Not Again!

Croatia coach Slaven Bilic was wary as his team were grouped with England once again in the World Cup qualifiers.

Slaven Bilic has admitted that the recent success over England in the Euro 2008 qualifying stage will mean nothing when the sides meet again in 2010 World Cup Qualifying Group 6.

Bilic, who oversaw Croatia’s comfortable qualification to the 2008 competition co-hosted by Austria and Switzerland, feels that England will overcome the problems that saw them finish third.

"Everyone in Croatia was saying 'give us England again' but I wanted to avoid England," he said.

"It is a very, very hard draw because they are by far the best team from the second pot.”

Bilic, who spent time as a player in England for West Ham and Everton, managed his side to the double over group favourites England, beating them 2-0 at home and 3-2 at Wembley in the final qualifying match, yet he remains in no doubt as to the ability of the english and feels that if they can appoint the right man as coach, they will have little problems qualifying for the World Cup.

"The only team I wanted to avoid was England," he said. "They were the most difficult team in Pot B.

"We are not afraid of them but they have got a terrific team and brilliant players. They should gel and they are going to gel."

The Croat has been linked with a move back to England as a manager following his exploits for the Croatian side, has begun the mind-games already, it seems.

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Group 6 Croatia, England, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Andorra

[boris4c]

I don't think Croatia can cause a surprise again because this English team will be more than ready next time, although I would like to see them not making the World Cup. England has one of the better young players in Europe, the total opposite of Croatia, and when those youngsters step into the senior squad, they'll be a tough team to beat.

The point is Croatia got the worst possible draw considering they're coming out of pot one.

[Centarfor9]

what do you mean surprise?

anything less than a 1st place would be a bad result for croats

[nb-legenda]

croatia will beat them again... it would be funny if England won't make it to another competition AGAIN! just like when England lost to Portugal on penalties twice in a row in Euro 2004 and World Cup 2006. England's not good at revenges, so keep that in mind. Countries like Germany will give you a 10-0 drought for revenge if you beat them one day... they're very deadly.

[Cro_Sensation]

Well the good news is, most of our starters are still pretty young. Our defensive will lack I feel, Simunic and Kovac will retire eventually, but we'll be seeing Knezevic probably take a spot there.

Anyways, lets just deal with the Euros for now, and worry about the WC later.

[Pape]

LoL I really hope Croatia trashes England again for 6 points it would be double hilarious!

[Bosnian Unit]

I don't see it happening again !

Croats are good, but this time UEFA/FIFA and ref's will be behaind England.

I mean you can't have some Croatia making fun of England all the time.

After all they are England !

[nb-legenda]

The refs will let England win because England contributes more to the UEFA and FIFA if you want to talk moneywise (something similar to Bosnia 1-1 Spain; 9 minute extra time; last minute goal by Spain), and they can't afford England to have so much humiliation, not qualifying for both tournaments. And... they just plain don't like countries other than Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and England.

[Wabbit]

huh???? o.O


Go Croatia..........!!!!!!!!!:whoo:


England....:Pound:

[Centarfor9]

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NAKON osam sati pregovaranja u Sheratonu, dogovor među izbornicima konačno je postignut. Hrvatska će započeti kvalifikacije 6. rujna ove godine protiv Kazahstana. Tri dana kasnije na rasporedu je utakmica u Maksimiru protiv Engleske..

>>> Bilić: Uspjeli smo u naumu, Englezi prvo dolaze kod nas (http://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/capello-hrvatska-ima-vrlo-dobru-momcad/370932.aspx)
Podsjetimo, u devet sati ujutro u zagrebačkom Sheratonu okupilo se visoko društvo u sastavu: David Rodrigo, izbornik Andore, Fabio Capello, izbornik Engleske, Arno Pijpers, izbornik Kazahstana, Bernd Tange, izbornik Bjelorusije i Aleksej Mihailčenko, novoustoličeni izbornik Ukrajine, zbog dogovora oko rasporeda odigravanja kvalifikacijskih utakmica za Svjetsko prvenstvo 2010. godine.

Slaven Bilić, Vlatko Marković i ostatak hrvatske delegacije našli su se u ulozi domaćina. Iako je bilo najavljeno da će dogovor biti postignut do 13 sati, to se nije dogodilo, a sudeći po izrazima lica sudionika očekivalo se da dogovor neće doći skoro.

Kako doznajemo vodila se teška bitka. Najviše negoduju Ukrajinci koji uopće ne žele igrati u lipnju 2009. godine te također nisu željeli igrati s nama i Englezima u razmaku od četiri dana.

Fifini termini su: 20. kolovoza 2008., 6. rujan 2008., 10. listopad 2008., 11. studeni 2008., 19. prosinac 2008., 28. ožujak 2009., 1. travanj 2009., 6. lipanj 2009., 10. lipanj 2009., 19. kolovoz 2009., 5. rujan 2009., 9. rujan 2009., 10. listopad 2009. i 14 studeni 2009.

Dogovoreni termini odigravanja utakmica hrvatske reprezentacije:

2008. godina
6. rujna / Hrvatska - Kazahstan
10. rujna / Hrvatska - Engleska
11.listopada / Ukrajina - Hrvatska
15. listopada / Hrvatska - Andora

2009. godina
1. travnja / Andora - Hrvatska
6. lipnja / Hrvatska - Ukrajina
19. kolovoza / Bjelorusija - Hrvatska
5. rujna / Hrvatska - Bjelorusija
9.rujna / Engleska - Hrvatska
14. listopada / Kazahstan - Hrvatska

[Banlegendfjh]

The refs will let England win because England contributes more to the UEFA and FIFA if you want to talk moneywise (something similar to Bosnia 1-1 Spain; 9 minute extra time; last minute goal by Spain), and they can't afford England to have so much humiliation, not qualifying for both tournaments. And... they just plain don't like countries other than Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and England.

Interesting...Do you have anything to substantiate your claim about the refs? I believe England went out of Euro 2008...That was humiliating enough. :sad:

[nb-legenda]

^ from evidence, its quite easy to prove. one example...:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UgfRCa71Kmw

even the linesman back there didnt catch that :lol:

Turkish dude got red, Rivaldo became man of the match, Brazil won...

[BBBTG]

I don't think Croatia can cause a surprise again because this English team will be more than ready next time, although I would like to see them not making the World Cup. England has one of the better young players in Europe, the total opposite of Croatia, and when those youngsters step into the senior squad, they'll be a tough team to beat.

The point is Croatia got the worst possible draw considering they're coming out of pot one.

1. You think wrong
2. Kranjcar, Corluka, Petric, Rakitic, Da Silva, Pranjic, Srna, Kalinic are old???
I realy cant understand your post

[nb-legenda]

wow Boris... :lol: Croatia has one of the best youngsters in Balkans and you talk trash about them too

[nb-legenda]

you forgot Luka Modric (one of the best players in the world already at 22 years of age), Mandzukic, Pokrivac, Anas and Ahmad Sharbini, Rukavina, Vrucina, Bartulovic, Cale, Subasic, etc.

[Cro_Sensation]

Bilic is said to stick around for the World Cup also. Good news!

With the shitty pay he's getting at the moment, who knew if we'd see him for the World cup.

Nice to see that his intentions are pure and not fuled by $$$

[nb-legenda]

Bilic is said to stick around for the World Cup also. Good news!

With the shitty pay he's getting at the moment, who knew if we'd see him for the World cup.

Nice to see that his intentions are pure and not fuled by $$$

If we want to get real here, Bilic is a better coach than McLaren but McLaren earned more than 10 times as much as Bilic. :lol:

[Cro_Sensation]

How much was McLaren making? Like 1-2 MIL a year?

I think Bilic is making 70 000 a year now. lol...

[Centarfor9]

I have heard that Bilic is making around 5,000 euro per month.

[Cro_Sensation]

Yeah Sinter. It's somewhere between 50 000 to 70 000 a year. Which is surprising when you think about it. Wasn't Serbia's Javier Clemente making around 240 000 Euros a year?