Football World Cup: Mladen Petric in the interview with SZ on Croatia – Sport

Croatia has only four million inhabitants, but it always produces exceptional footballers. Former HSV striker Mladen Petric explains how Luka Modric behaves in the dressing room and why the team are nicknamed ‘the fiery ones’.

In football, sometimes a decade is enough to turn the old order upside down. When Mladen Petric was still a very talented and acclaimed centre-forward, Hamburger SV were a team of European stature and the Croatia national team was more on the way.