Fand unshakable. This is what the Croatian team shows in every game they play. Believing without conditions is the law of life of a team that has on its bench a chaotic devotee named Zlatko Dalic. The Croatian coach never leaves a rosary that he caresses in his pants pocket during matches.
The city where I was born livno (26-10-1966) does not belong to present-day Croatia, but is only a few kilometers from the Croatian border with Bosnia. Terrible fighting between Muslims and Serbs took place there a little over 20 years ago and its visited Partisans’ Cemetery was (1972) was outraged several times.
Another of the hot spots in the city was the Franciscan monastery, the same one that was a few steps from the house of the parents of Dalic and in which little Zlatko found the faith that he maintains today when he helped as an altar boy.
sunday to sunday, Dalic He tries to schedule his day so that there is a time when he can attend mass. She did it even before the final of the World Cup in Russia and this morning she will try to do it in rotterdam.
Dalic on Modric: “He never gives up”
They say about him in the Croatian delegation that he is “simple and humble”, but nobody is going to confuse that with “goodness”. They give the example of how he nipped at the root the rebellion of kalinicexpelled from the World Cup in Russia after he refused to take the field against Nigeria.
His career as a player started in his land, the NK Troglav 1918 Livno. He was a defensive midfielder who ended up delaying his position in defense. Powerful in the aerial game, they compared him to TOni Cascarinothe Irish giant of the 80s. Another thing that those who played with him remember was the amount of gel he put on to jump onto the field.
His career as a footballer was good, but you have gone as a coach as he has become a Croatian national hero. He arrived as a firefighter in October 2017 to take the position of Before Cacic and try to ensure that Croatia is not left out of the World Cup in Russia. Croatian football history has just changed.
Almost six years have passed and the ideologue of an indomitable team faces today in rotterdam a match in which the Croatian team seeks its first title. That is something that they have not achieved in any category of their teams and that when you look at the clubs it only seems like the Fairs Cup won by the Dynamo Zagreb 56 years ago (1967). So, Dalic was a baby of a Catholic family in a communist country.
