Croatian Sport !

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Goran Ivanisevic, the Wimbldon winner!Croatian sport enjoys international prestige and respect thanks largely to a series of sporting achievements dating back to earlier years, but also to the smooth blending of Croatia into the World Olympic movement as an independent community.

Croatia is country, like most of the Eastern European countries, that gives a great importance to sport and sports activities. Dating back from the beginning of last century, Croatian man and women are involved in various sport activities. There are various sport clubs all over Croatia, in small as well as larger places, towns and cities.

Best known sportsman and sportwomen from Croatia are Goran Ivanisevic (photo) the Wimbledon winner, Janica and Ivica Kostelic - skiing champions, Croatian Handball Team, as well as Croatian Basketball and football ( soccer) teams ( just to mention few...)

 

 

Janica Kostelic - skiing champion!Like most of the world, Croatians are football crazy. They also follow basketball pretty fervently (ever since the late, great Drazen Petrovic made a big splash in the NBA) and, believe it or not, they like kickboxing too, since they have one of the world’s best in Mirko Filipovic.

But soccer is still the king of Croatian sport. Split’s team, Hajduk, has been around since 1911 and is one of the country’s most successful clubs. They won Yugoslav championships many times over the years and became Croatian champions in ’92, ’94 and ’95 and ’01 Zagreb’s soccer team is called Dinamo and their supporters are known as the Bad Blue Boys. They play at Maksimir Stadium, just outside the main city

Croatia is the only country in the world with no mountain above 2,000 meters (though with probably the most beautiful mountain in Europe - VELEBIT) and with world’s top skier - Janica Kostelic.

Drazen Petrovic (you can see his beautiful monument in the Olympic park in Lausanne, Switzerland), elected the world’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. He was very popular throughout Europe.

Croatia is an important European team and won third place in the 1998 World Championship in France. Many Croatian football stars, such as Zvonimir Boban, Alen Boksic and Davor Suker, who used to play for other European teams.

Hajduk split - dinamo zagreb 4:1 (goals)

 

History of Croatian sport:

Probably the earliest known description of a sporting event in Croatia is from the 18th century (1764). It referred to the regatta of two fishing boats representing the cities of Split and Makarska, from an islet near Milna on the island of Brac to the Split harbour. It was the Makaran boat that triumphed!

The first international football (soccer) match where Croatia participated with its national name had been held in 1907 (with Czechia). The Croatian Sporting Union was founded in Zagreb in 1909.

The oldest Croatian soccer club is Backa, founded in Subotica in Backa in 1901, playing in the then Croatian league. It is also the oldest soccer club in this part of Europe.

 

Croatian Sport Links:

We also collected some sport links for various croatian sport websites for you to further explore. Some of the clubs are larger, some are just small clubs. There are some official sport info for various Croatian sport association.

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