June 9, 2020 - Former Croatia national team goalkeeper, World Cup finalist and Monaco member Danijel Subasic is saying goodbye to the club and city he has called home since 2012. 

Gol.hr reports that Danijel Subasic is counting down his final days in Monaco, the club where he first arrived in January 2012.

Monaco announced on Monday that Danijel Subasic would leave its ranks on June 30, while his current contract is valid.

It is not yet known where the former Croatia national team player will continue his career, but it seems likely that he will not stop playing football. Subasic will celebrate his 36th birthday in October and can certainly defend at a high level for a few more years.

After Monaco's announcement, Subasic confined the news and said goodbye to his soon-to-be former club with an emotional post on Instagram.

"Thank you so much for making your dreams come true, I will always be one of you. After almost 300 games played, it's time to say goodbye and thank you for all the support of the fans and all the club employees who have been with me since day one. Time passes, love remains. Daghe Munegu (Naprijed Monaco nap.a.). Hvalaaaa," wrote the legendary Suba.

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Merci beaucoup @asmonaco pour tous mes rêves qui se réalisent??❤️? Je serai toujours l'un de vous? Depuis janvier 2012 Ligue 2 Champion Ligue 2 Ligue 1 Champion Ligue 1 Quart de finale Champions Ligue et Demi finale Champions Ligue ?⚽️ Presque de 300 matchs joués, il est temps de dire au revoir et merci pour tout le soutien des supporter et de tous les employés du club qui sont là pour moi depuis le premier jour?❤️? Le temps passe L’amour reste Daghe Munegu???Merceeee?

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Subasic spent eight and a half years of his career in Monaco, five in his hometown of Zadar, and three and a half with Hajduk. Subasic came to Monaco from Poljud and quickly became a legend of the club, becoming the second goalkeeper in the history of the club regarding the number of appearances.

When Subasic signed the contract, Monaco was in the second league and then began their rise to the top. It all culminated in 2017, when they won the French title ahead of the favored PSG and played in the semifinals of the Champions League, where they were barely knocked out by Juventus.

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November 12, 2019 - While Messi and Ronaldo have won almost everything, there is one award their trophy cases are missing... the one that Luka Modric accepted in Monte Carlo on Tuesday night. 

Luka Modric did not travel to Opatija on Tuesday with the rest of the Croatia national team, though he has a good reason. Luka instead went to Monaco to accept the Golden Foot award! 

Prince Albert II awarded the captain of the Croatian national team the Golden Foot Award, a prize given to football players for their individual and team achievements and their personality. The award has been presented since 2003.

"I am honored to receive this award. I am returning to my best level, as I showed in the last game. There are seven crucial matches until the end of the year, and we will continue to play well," Modric said after receiving the award.

? Another big night coming up for #Croatia captain @lukamodric10...#BeProud #Vatreni? pic.twitter.com/S4DdNh2baw

— HNS (@HNS_CFF) November 12, 2019

Modric arrived in Monte Carlo by private jet and immediately returned to Croatia after the ceremony. In Opatija, he will join his national teammates and continue preparations for the decisive European Championship qualification match - the clash between Croatia and Slovakia, which is played on Saturday at Rujevica at 8:45 pm.

For the Golden Foot award, the jury proposes candidates who must be at least 28 years old and active footballers, while the winner is selected by the audience in an online vote. This year, Modric celebrated against fierce competition, including Messi, Ronaldo, Chiellini, Ramos, Lewandowski, Aguero, Pique, Rooney and Silva.

Last year's winner was Edinson Cavani, and interestingly, neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo has ever received this award. Some of the earlier winners include Roberto Baggio, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Alessandro Del Piero, Roberto Carlos, Andriy Shevchenko, Francesco Totti, Iker Casillas, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Andreas Iniesta.

The winner has the honor of leaving a footprint on the Prince's Champion's Promenade. For Modric, this will be one of a series of awards he won after the 2018 World Cup. Not only was he awarded the Golden Ball of that tournament, but he was later named the best player in Europe and the world.

Source: Gol.hr

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The Šibenik company, Capax, currently employs twenty people and, as they themselves have pointed out, are constantly looking for new, quality members of staff.

As Darko Bicak/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 24th of November, 2018, after a successful September when they presented themselves as the only Croatian exhibitor at the prestigious Monaco Yacht Show, as well as managing to win the Golden Kuna (Zlatna Kuna) award for the best small company in Šibenik-Knin County, Capax opened its new headquarters in the historic Dalmatian city of Šibenik at the end of October this year.

Covering an area of 900 square metres and in addition to the brand new office, located at the new facility is a spacious service workshop and the only laboratory designed for engine oil analysis in the wider area. Capax already offers videocopy services, ultrasonic measurements, vibration analysis and thermography, but only now with the engine oil analysis specialist lab services has the Šibenik company managed to raise itself to yet another higher level. All these services will also open up new markets such as those which involve dealing with work boats, construction machinery, locomotives, windmills, and more.

While this is a Šibenik company, renovation works are carried out in nearby Trogir, within the Trogir Service Centre (SCT), with which Adria Docks has recently been established. Adria Docks manages renovations, optimises work processes, and ultimately controls the quality of the outsourced works. Within the framework of a long-term joint venture with the Trogir shipyard, in an area of about 250 square metres in the SCT area, lies the second part of Capax's investment, a test station for ship and industrial engines of up to 3.4 megawatts.

The total value of the investment is more than 15 million kuna, of which 5.5 million kuna are non-refundable funds from the European Structural Funds indended for the building of production capacities and the investment in equipment.

"Access to the client, respect for their demands and a true effort to achieve goals through project and refit management have inspired us as the leaders of the domestic yachting industry. We have well equipped and educated service teams for the most common types of marine engines, clutches and generators we find on larger yachts and on mega yachts. Our service engineers are ready to solve every problem, whether it's mechanical, or electrical, or something else,'' they state from Capax.

They add that for subcontractors, whenever possible, they use the services of other Croatian companies and hope that their success will stimulate other companies from the Croatian nautical sector to invest and develop themselves more. Capax was initially founded by three like-minded people, Mario Baljkas, Teo Petričević and Željko Tesi. As previously mentioned, they currently employ twenty people and are constantly on the look out for new, high quality staff. The company continues to record steady and stable revenue growth, and last year, those figures amounted to about 30 million kuna.

The clients of this Šibenik company are typically the owners of yachts, or the management bodies of yachts, as well as insurance companies and shipyards and marinas. They specialise in technical engineering, consulting and supervision in shipbuilding, diagnostics, servicing, and the repair of marine engines, their maintenance and inspection in terms of value assurance for insurance purposes, as well as for sellers and/or new owners.

They are the authorised servicing body of some of the most prominent marine engines in this segment of the market, including Caterpillar, MTU, John Deere, and ZF, in addition to Šibenik, they also have offices in neighbouring Montenegro and in Albania.

Otherwise, this year, Capax was the first Croatian company to appear at the Monaco Yacht Show after four years in early autumn. they were one of the 580 exhibitors from 38 countries around the world.

"We're very pleased with the effect of participating in the fair and we believe that it will bring us more ships to service and overhaul to Croatia, and we wish to encourage other domestic companies to join us in the coming years,'' Petričević said.

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Click here for the original article by Darko Bicak for Poslovni Dnevnik

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