CROATIA QUALIFIED FOR THE WORLD CUP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF SOCCER WORLD CUP. THIS TIME LIKE FRANCE THEY ALSO AMAZED EVERYONE AND WON MANY MANY MATHCES. IN THE FIRST ROUND THEY PLAYED WITH SOME GOOD TEAMS BUT IT WASN'T HARD FOR CROATIA TO WIN THEM. IN THE SECOND ROUND THEY HAD TO FACE THE ROMANIA. WINNING ROMANIA WAS VERY HARD FOR CROATIA. THEY WON ROMANIA AFTER A LONG PLAY AND THEY WERE QUITE LUCKY BECAUSE THE GOAL THEY SCORED WASN'T THAT HARD BUT THEY WON ANYWAY. AFTER WINNING ROMANIA THEY HEADED TOWARDS THE QUARTER FINALS OF THE WORLD CUP AND THEY HAD TO PLAY AGAINST GERMANY, THE 1986 WORLD CUP WINNERS.

BUT CROATIA HADN'T EVEN QUALIFIED FOR THE WORLD CUP. THEN THIS WAS THE TIME WHEN CROATIA SHOWED THEIR GOOD SKILLS AND WITH PUTTING A GREAT EFFORT THEY UNBELIEVIENGLY WON GERMANY. AFTER WINNING GERMANY THEY QUALIFIED FOR THE SEMI-FINALS AND THEY WERE SO HAPPY THAT THEY THOUGHT THEY MIGHT BE THE WINNERS OF THE WORLD CUP OF 1998. BUT TO FACE THEM CAME FRANCE IN THE SEMI-FINALS.

CROATIA SHOWED HOW GOOD THEY WERE BUT THEY COULDN'T WIN FRANCE. BUT THEY WERE STILL HAPPY. THEN THEY PLAYED AGAINST HOLLAND FOR THE MATCH OF THE THIRD PLACE. HOLLAND HAD ALMOST WON BRAZIL BUT CROATIA WON HOLLAND EASILY. IF HOLLAND HAD REACHED THE FINALS THEY MIGHT HAVE BEAT BRAZIL TOO. ANYWAY THEY ALL WERE HAPPY AND THE CROATIA'S SUKER GOT THE TOP SCORER OF THE WORLD CUP OF 1998.