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“Brazil has 200 million people, we only have four million,” Croatia coach Zlatko Dalić said Tuesday. “So we are pretty much like a suburb of a major city in Brazil.”On the soccer field, however, Croatia has been punching above its weight for years, ever since it finished third in 1998 in its first World Cup as an independent nation, right up to reaching the 2018 final in Russia.“Never underestimate Croatia. Croatia is a small nation. But we are brave, defiant and loyal,” Dalić said.
Mario Pašalić, who converted the decisive penalty for Croatia, had already done the same thing for AC Milan in a shootout win over Juventus in the 2016 Italian Super Cup — which was also played in Qatar.
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