“Tacticos” won’t talk about Jude Bellinghams performance and how “the best midfielder in the world” had a stinker on the biggest stage… but dw a few tapins and casuals say he’s the greatest the sport has ever seen
Exactly 8 years ago:
NE TREBA NAM TOOOO, NE TREBA NAM TO!
HRVATSKA JE U FINALU SVJETSKOG PRVENSTVA! KAKO JE TO LIJEPO REĆI, KAKO JE LIJEPO TO IZGOVORITI!
ČUDO NAD ČUDIMA U RUSIJI. DIVNA. PREDIVNA NOĆ KOJU NIKADA ZABORAVITI NEĆEMO!
🇭🇷💔 𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐍 𝐄𝐑𝐀: Zlatko Dalić. The greatest manager of Croatia.
🥈 2018 FIFA World Cup
🥉 2022 FIFA World Cup
🥈 2023 UEFA Nations League
🗓️ 111 matches
✅ 62 wins
🤝 20 draws
✖️ 29 losses
A humble arrival. An unforgettable journey. A proud farewell.
Following nearly nine years, head coach Zlatko Dalić has decided to close his incredibly successful chapter with #Croatia. 🥈🥉🥈
Head coach, thank you for everything – the victories, the achievements, the qualifying berths, the medals, the unity, the respect, and your unwavering commitment to fight for Croatia, both on and off the pitch. 🙏
The results speak of your coaching virtues. The respect you've earned from your players, staff, and opponents speaks volumes about the person you are. ❤️🤍💙
#HvalaDala | #SkromanDolazak #NezaboravanPut #PonosanOproštaj | #Obitelj
🎙️ Zlatko Dalić on the penalty awarded to Portugal:
"Look at the four or five fouls on Budimir in that match. Their centre-back was holding him in exactly the same way, but the referee didn't even give a foul.
Then VAR intervenes for this penalty. Vlašić didn't pull him; he only shielded him with his arms. There wasn't enough contact for a penalty.
I'm convinced that if the situation had been the other way around, they wouldn't even have reviewed it." [Americana]
🇭🇷 Croatia got eliminated from the World Cup by a closed-source sensor.
FIFA says the Kinexon chip in the Trionda "proved" Matanović touched the ball. Absolute disgrace. What actually happened: they ran signal processing over 500Hz IMU data from a 14-gram sensor and isolated a supposed contact spike from thousands of noisy samples dominated by bladder harmonics, panel flex, spin wobble and stadium micro-tremors, then nullified one of the most dramatic World Cup equalizers in history via spectral analysis of what is essentially glorified noise.
Oh, and it gets better. They moved the chip this year. Back in 2022, it used to hang suspended in the center of the ball. Now it's glued into the sidewall of ONE panel, with counterweights stuffed into the other three so the ball doesn't fly like a shopping cart. So sensitivity now depends on which side of the ball the "contact" happens relative to the sensor. Totally fine basis for ending a nation's tournament.
An IMU measures acceleration. Somewhere in a proprietary pipeline, a threshold decides which acceleration counts as "touch." That threshold is unpublished. The false positive rate is unpublished. The calibration data is unpublished. The patents are literally still in their secrecy window. And FIFA owns the raw data, so nobody can independently audit the trace that ended Modrić's last World Cup.
And we're all supposed to accept a "heartbeat graphic" on the broadcast as if that settles anything.
Since we sadly all know you won't ever admit your crimes or remove this technology for good, at least open source the detection pipeline, @FIFAcom!
Publish the thresholds, the error rates, the raw IMU trace from last night. If the tech is right, transparency costs nothing, right?
🐐 If this is the end.
Thank you, Captain, for inspiring every single Croat. Thank you for bringing us SO close to glory multiple times. Thank you for proving everybody who doubted you wrong.
You are the best Croatian player to ever touch a football.
Hey guys don’t listen to Thierry Henry who is one of the most iconic players of our lifetime and has been in and around the game his whole life, instead listen to Uyi the AI content creator who’s never touched a football in his life
🎙️ Zlatko Dalić:
"I hope Gvardiol will return to his best form. I’m sorry Kramarić didn’t get on the pitch, but that’s how it went. We have a great mix of young and old players.
This national team deserves respect even if it loses everything. Instead of competing over who will criticise it more, we should appreciate what it has done for this country and its people."
🚨Zlatan Ibrahimović on Nikola Vlašić bringing Croatia back in front with a stunning header to make it 2-1 against Ghana in the 84th minute of their 2026 FIFA World Cup clash:
🗣️ “That’s football for you.”
“One minute ago Ghana were celebrating what they thought was the perfect comeback.”
“Now they’re standing there with their hands on their heads after going behind again.”
“Football never lies.”
“The first goal they celebrated came with controversy. There were questions about the build-up.”
“But this one? No controversy. No debate.”
“Just a brilliant cross, a clean header from Vlašić and the ball is in the back of the net.”
“That’s the difference. Croatia didn’t complain, they responded.”
“At the World Cup, if you switch off for one moment against experienced teams like Croatia, they’ll punish you.”
“This game has turned on its head in a matter of minutes. That’s why we love football.”
A newlywed couple unexpectedly joined the Croatian faithful who were marching around Philadelphia on Friday. They jumped in unison with the hundreds of fans outside the city hall and snapped a few selfies.
"It's incredible what I have experienced - and still am experiencing - in #Croatia shirt"
🎥 Check out team captain @lukamodric10 reaction at the surprise video prepared by Croatian Football Federation following his 200. cap! #Luka200
❤️ Yes, there was also a tear in the eye...
#Family #InfiniteLegacy #BeskonačnoNasljeđe