Ability Quote by Alan Mullery

The fact that the games were so close was a tribute to the level of skill in the World Cup.

— Lorrie Fair

The Croatians don't play well without the ball.

— Barry Venison

Superior technical achievements - used correctly both strategically and tactically - can beat any quantity numerically many times stronger yet technically inferior.

— Adolf Galland

Expectations run immensely high in Croatia. We may only be a small country, but people expect us to be our best at every major…

— Niko Kovac

We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents.

— Hugh McCutcheon

Of course it is very important for me to play for Croatia, however different it is to play at club level.

— Luka Modric

The differences between the top teams in Euro 2000 are so minimal that I think you have to be very clever in defence and…

— Frank Rijkaard

I have had so many team-mates who have been technically better than me.

— Javier Mascherano

I would say the best Croatian player in 2014 was Ivan Rakitic, leading Sevilla to Europa League glory and earning a big transfer to Barcelona.

— Luka Modric

It's very difficult and unfair probably to compare players from different eras, because they were able to reach excellence in their time and they…

— Gianfranco Zola

It was very difficult to succeed Bert van Marwijk because, two years before, he was second in the World Cup, and then he left…

— Louis van Gaal

Playing against Croatia would be a dream come true.

— Jadon Sancho