mladen petric has scored the most goals for croatia.
mladen petric has scored the most goals for croatia.
who has scored the most goals for croatia?
mladen petric
at euro 2016, croatia were drawn in group d alongside turkey, the czech republic and defending champions spain, who had won the two previous editions of the tournament, in 2008 and 2012. croatia began their campaign with a 1–0 win over turkey; following a sensational long-volley kick from luka modrić, with the goal receiving praise and being considered one of the best of the tournament. the next match was against the czech republic. with croatia taking the lead through ivan perišić and doubling it through ivan rakitić, before goals from milan škoda and a last-minute penalty from tomáš necid; but the match received controversy for crowd trouble in the last minutes of the match, with flares being thrown on the pitch and a steward being hurt by a firework during stoppage time. croatia's final match was against spain; conceding an early goal from álvaro morata, before goals from nikola kalinić and a late winning goal from perišić, securing croatia a historic win as they topped the group, meanwhile for spain it was their first defeat at a euro finals match for the first time since 2004. after the match, croatia were tipped as one of the tournament favourites, and drew portugal in the round of 16, who surprisingly finished third in the group, advancing only as the third-best third-placed team. the match was extremely poor, described by bbc sport as "abysmal", as there were no serious efforts on goal, with ricardo quaresma's winning goal in the 117th minute after ivan perišić hit the post with a header in the previous attack, knocking croatia out of the tournament. shortly after the euro 2016 campaign, long-standing captain darijo srna announced his retirement from international football, amassing a record 134 appearances for the national side. luka modrić was announced as his successor for team captain.
croatia national football team
prosinečki has 49 caps for croatia and has scored 10 goals for his country. he was also capped 15 times, scoring four goals, for yugoslavia. in 1987, prosinečki was named the tournament's best player as yugoslavia won the world youth championship in chile along with fellow croatians zvonimir boban, robert jarni, davor šuker and igor štimac. he then played for yugoslavia at the 1990 world cup, and for croatia at euro 96 and the 1998 and 2002 world cups. it was at the 1998 world cup that prosinečki and the croatian squad managed a historic third-place finish, with prosinečki scoring two goals throughout the tournament, including one in croatia's 2–1 victory over netherlands in the bronze-medal match; as a result, he is the only player in history to have scored world cup finals goals for two different national teams. in 1990, he scored one goal for yugoslavia in a group match against the united arab emirates and eight years later, he added two goals for croatia by scoring in a group match against jamaica and in the third place match against the netherlands. he played in a total of nine world cup matches, three for yugoslavia in 1990 and six for croatia in 1998 and 2002.
robert prosinečki