#croatia nt
best forwards (i believe golden boot winner will be one of them):
- neymar (brazil),
- Messi (argentina),
- thomas mueller (germany),
- benzema (france).
best midfielders:
- arjen robben (netherlands),
- alexis sanchez and aranguiz (chile),
- bryan ruiz (costa rica),
- blaise matuidi and mathieu valbuena (france),
- james rodriguez (colombia),
- oscar (brazil),
- xherdan shaqiri (switzerland),
- hector herrera (mexico)
best defenders:
- thiago silva and david luiz (brazil),
- godin (uruguay),
- Giancarlo Gonzalez and michael umana (costa rica, an underdog team that defeated italy, uruguay, and survived round 16 against greece with only 10 men, is obviously having best defense)
- daley blind and stefan de vrij (netherlands),
- gary medel and isla (chile),
- rafik halliche (algeria, -his fifa rating is only +/- 7, but i must say that algeria had the most successful high defensive tactic in the group stage, Fifa prefers Iran and Bosnia’s defense instead, which i think they are totally wrong)
best goalkeepers (i’d give golden glove award to one of them):
- ochoa (mexico),
- julio cesar (brazil),
- howard (usa),
- claudio bravo (chile),
- hugo lloris (france)
best young players:
- james rodriguez (colombia),
- raheem sterling (england),
- marco verratti (italy),
- admir mehmedi (switzerland),
- paul pogba (france)
best goal (i hope he’ll win puskas award) :
robin van persie (netherlands vs spain). no question.
candidates for best player in the tournament imo:
- neymar (brazil),
- arjen robben (netherlands, -but he dived, so…),
- lionel messi (argentina)
great performance but the team lost at the group stage:
- andrea pirlo (italy),
- gervinho (ivory coast),
- ivan perisic (croatia)
*thesenames are my personal favorite (subjective assessment) during the competition
croatia lost in the world cup, but the coach -niko kovac- is named 2nd hottest team manager (after joachim loew in the first place) by Esquire magazine
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Can you please stop fixing your hair and focus on the interview
Luka Modric representing me
Croatia x Denmark mood
Luka Modrić is the only player in his national team´s history to score a winning goal against France
LUKAAAAAAAAAAA
Another day, another rendition of France vs. Croatia
My timeline is (mostly) a mixture of excited England fans, confused Not-England fans, euphoric Croatia fans, and a lot of Bayern fans who are v. upset on James’s behalf atm.
