Croatia has only four million inhabitants, but it always produces outstanding footballers. Ex-HSV striker Mladen Petric explains how Modric appears in the dressing room – and why the team is nicknamed “the fiery ones”.
Interviewed by
Thomas Hürner
In football, a decade is sometimes enough to turn the old order upside down. When Mladen Petric was still a highly talented and highly acclaimed center forward, Hamburger SV was a team of European stature and the Croatian national team was more on the way there.
