Four Serie A-based players have been named in Croatia’s preliminary World Squad, including Mateo Kovacic.
Four Serie A-based players have been named in Croatia’s preliminary World Squad, including Mateo Kovacic.
The Inter midfielder, Fiorentina” data-scaytid=”3″>Fiorentina forward Ante Rebic, Genoa full-back Sime Vrsaliko and Udinese” data-scaytid=”7″>Udinese defender Igor Bubnjic have been included in Niko Kovac’s squad, which will lose three players before the tournament kicks off in June.
Croatia have been drawn in Group A of the competition alongside hosts Brazil, who they open the tournament up with on June 12, and Mexico and Cameroon.
Provisional Croatia World Cup squad
Goalkeepers: Stipe Pletikosa (Rostov), Danijel Subasic (Monaco), Dario Kresic (Lokomotiv)
Defenders: Darijo Srna (Shakhtar), Domagoj Vida (Dynamo Kijev), Vedran Corluka (Lokomotiv), Dejan Lovren (Southampton), Josip Pivaric (Dinamo), Ivan Strinic (Dnipro), Gordon Schildenfeld (Panathinaikos), Sime Vrsaljko (Genoa), Igor Bubnjic (Udinese)
Midfielders: Ivan Rakitic (Sevilla), Luka Modric (Real Madrid), Ivan Perisic (Wolfsburg), Mateo Kovacic (Inter), Ognjen Vukojevic (Dynamo Kijev), Niko Kranjcar (QPR), Arijan Ademi (Dinamo), Alen Halilovic (Dinamo)
Forwards: Mario Mandzukic (Bayern), Ivica Olic (Wolfsburg), Eduardo (Shakhtar), Jelavic (Everton), Nikola Kalinic (Dnipro), Rebic (Fiorentina)