World Cup - Bilic commits to Croatia

Eurosport - Fri, 16 Oct 13:37:00 2009

Slaven Bilic has confirmed he will stay on as Croatia coach despite the team's failure to qualify for the World Cup finals earlier this week.

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Bilic, who was praised after Croatia reached the European Championship quarter-finals last year, said he had the backing of the football association.

"I believe in this group of players. We have the drive, the motive, and the obligation to ourselves and to the public and we have decided to stay at the helm of the national team," Bilic said on Friday.

After a campaign plagued by injuries and poor form of key players, Croatia failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup.

The team finished third in the group, behind England and Ukraine, and will miss the finals for the first time since they started competing as an independent nation.

"This qualifying cycle was marked by handicaps and injuries. Something of this scale is unlikely to happen one more time," said Bilic, who has several times been tipped to move to England's Premier League.

Reuters

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  1. Croatia out of the World Cup.. Its called Divine­ Retribution!
    Come on, England!!

    From Lazarus, on Sun 18 Oct 10:35PM

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    COME ON ENGLAND

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    From Johnny, on Fri 16 Oct 2:23PM

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