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Croatia: Football and Politics

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 @ 22:30 UTC

by Veronica Khokhlova

Countries:: Croatia
Topics:: Arts & Culture, Ethnicity, History, Law, Racism, Sport, War & Conflict, International Relations, Politics

Balkan Baby writes: “The football scene in Croatia, and for that matter all across the Balkans, has for a long time been a remaining bastion of tasteless nationalist sentiment, the border post where one can cross over from patriotism and passion to offensiveness and blind stupidity.”

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# 2007-11-5 at 21:44 pm
Ernest Emah

Please I need information football tournament in Croatia. Thanks

# 2007-11-23 at 11:15 am

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Tokunbo Aromolaran

Please I need information about international football tournament in Croatia for 2008. Thanks

# 2008-03-5 at 12:00 pm

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