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March 20, 2022 - Croatia national team coach Zlatko Dalić has called up Osijek defender Mile Škorić and Dinamo Moscow midfielder Nikola Moro to the upcoming friendly matches against Slovenia and Bulgaria in Qatar. The Croatia national football team will play two friendly matches later this month in Qatar, the host of the 2022 World Cup. The first match is scheduled for Saturday, March 26 at 3 pm against Slovenia. The second match will be played against Bulgaria on Tuesday, March 29 at 4 pm, both at the Education City Stadium in Doha. These will be the first Croatia national team matches…

March 20, 2022 - World junior slalom champion 18-year-old Zrinka Ljutić took the opportunity to compete in the World Cup finals in Meribel, France, where she won fifth place in the strongest competition! Slovenian Andreja Slokar won the first slalom victory in her career, reports Gol.hr. The Zagreb skier achieved an excellent result in the first run when she reached ninth place with the starting number of 25, and with her uncompromising performance in the final run, she achieved the sixth-best time for the fifth place in the end, which brought her 45 points. The 24-year-old Slovenian Andreja Slokar skied exceptionally…

March 20, 2022 - The amazing 16-year-old Petra Marčinko has topped Elisabetta Cocciaretto to clinch a new title in Antalya - and her second ITF Turkey title in a week!  For the second week in a row, the world's best junior won the professional ITF tournament in Turkey with a prize fund of $25,000. In the final match, after a great fight in three sets, Marčinko defeated 21-year-old Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto (242nd on the WTA list) - 1:6, 6:4. 6:4. Unlike their clash last week, the Italian was much closer to success this time. Marčinko opened the match poorly and lost…

March 20, 2022 - Croatian athlete Filip Mihaljević took fourth place in the shot put final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, throwing a distance of 21.83 meters. The 27-year-old from Livno threw 21.51 in the first series, 21.05 in the second, made an error in the third but went on to throw 21.83 meters in the fourth attempt. In the last series, Mihaljević reached 21.81 meters. Filip threw a centimeter shorter than his record which was not enough for a medal, because the three medal winners threw over 22 meters. A big surprise was made by the Brazilian Darlan Romani…

March 19, 2022 - The unstoppable winning streak of Petra Marčinko continues. The world's best junior will play in her second consecutive final, this time at the ITF Turkey 10A tournament in Antalya! Petra Marčinko continued her winning streak and was ruthless against 27-year-old Chinese tennis player Yafan Wang (WTA - 316th), winning 6-0, 6-0 in 62 minutes in the ITF semifinal in Antalya, Turkey on Saturday.  The best junior in the world reached her ninth consecutive victory in the senior competition in difficult, windy conditions, and her 23rd win in total, if we add the last three junior tournaments in…

March 19, 2022 -  Nikolina Ćaćić, an Olympian and Croatia's best female boxer, secured Croatia's first medal at the Under-22 European Boxing Championships in Poreč by qualifying for the semifinals. Nikolina Ćaćić, who has already achieved historic achievements at the age of 21, brought the first medal to Croatia women's boxing and placed as the first Croatian female boxer in history at the Olympic Games.  Ćaćić was the world and European runner-up in the juniors, and she added another big medal to the already impressive collection. After winning the quarterfinal fight in the category up to 52 kg against the three-time…

March 18,  2022 - Luka Modrić and Mateo Kovačić will meet in the Champions League quarterfinals as Real Madrid and Chelsea face off next month.  The draw for the Champions League quarterfinals was held today at the headquarters of the European Football Federation (UEFA) in Nyon. The draw was open and there were no seeded teams or “protected” pairs. Any team could be drawn against any other team. Certainly one of the most interesting pairs is the clash between the current European champions Chelsea and the most trophy-winning European club Real Madrid. It will be a clash between two of…

March 18, 2022 - The draw for the Women's Volleyball World Championship was held in Lausanne on Thursday, hosted by Poland and the Netherlands, from September 23 to October 15 this year. Interestingly, the Croatia women's volleyball team was included in the draw at the last minute. Namely, Croatia's loss against France in the second round of last year's European Championship resulted in losing important points for the final ranking list. In the end, Croatia took 25th place, and 24 national teams entered the draw for the World Championships, reports HRT. However, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) knocked the Russian national…

March 18, 2022 - British speedway rider and 2020 European champion Robert Lambert was in Međimurje trying out the track ahead of the Grand Prix season in Croatia. British speedway riders bravely step into the new Grand Prix season after winning the world title in Speedway of Nations. Robert Lambert is one of the three riders who have a guaranteed place at the season's opening in Croatia at the Millennium Stadium in Donji Kraljevec. After many years of British speedway, three riders represent the Union Jack: 2020 European champion Robert Lambert, three-time world champion Tai Woffinden and Daniel Bewley, who will…

March 17, 2022 - A regular session of the Croatian Football Federation Assembly was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Zagreb, chaired by HNS President Marijan Kustić. President Kustić addressed the Assembly with a speech, as reported by HNS. “Dear members of the Assembly, dear friends, thank you for coming to today's Assembly, where the main topic is the report on the work in 2021, which was great for the Croatian Football Federation. But I believe that the current year will be even more successful, even better, and even richer with top sports and business results. I believe that we all agree that…