4. Croatians are complete football lunatics 

In Croatia you can get away with a murder during the successful World Cup, especially this one.

A week ago, there was a public poll, asking Croatians what is the most important political event in July? Well over 30 percent of them answered – The World Cup.

And 10 days ago, the government announced they will seriously cut the pension fund and use the money to cover international debts, but most of the people said that they don’t care about it, as long as the national team is alive and kicking at the World Cup.

5. Croatia can win the World Cup

Croatia certainly can win the World Cup.

At this point the team is loaded with self-confidence and due to their age, most of the players know this is their last chance to win something in the Croatian jersey, and it doesn’t get any bigger than the World Cup.

Besides that, the coach Zlatko Dalic is a great psychologist and he knows how to handle the team. He has said that he’s not here to teach them how to play football because they know all about that and added that his main job is to make them believe they can do it. So far, he’s been very successful.

Also look at these statistics of the World Cup since World War II. - 1958. Brazil won its first World Cup - 1978. Argentina won its first World Cup - 1998. France won its first World Cup

As you can see, there’s been someone new to lift the trophy every twenty years

What would it mean to win the World Cup?

At this point Croatia is totally euphoric and if the team wins the World Cup final everyone will go berserk – again.

There will be significant feel good factor in the country, and that’s a good thing, because since we reached third place at the 1998 World Cup Croatians are convinced that their national team is a football superpower.

On the downside, a plane full of Croatian politicians are on their way to Moscow who no doubt will be trying to score a few cheap poliical points on the behalf of the national team’s football success.