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Croatia's Insane, Late Winner Turned The Euro 2016 Bracket Inside-Out
Until the 87th minute of this afternoon’s match against Spain, the biggest news Croatia had made at Euro 2016 was when fans threw a bunch of explosives and flares onto the pitch during a game against the Czech Republic. Croatian fans were reportedly planning another attack during the 30th minute tod...

Euro 2016 Match Delayed By Croatian Supporters Throwing Flares, Explosives
Today’s Czech Republic-Croatia match in Saint-Etienne suffered a five minute delay as Croatian fans flooded their corner of the pitch with flares and at least one explosive that blew up in the face of a steward who was attempting to clear the field for play—forcing Croatia players to plead with thei...


Someone Maybe Probably Etched A Swastika Onto The Pitch In Croatia
Look at the above image, taken from today’s Croatia-Italy Euro 2016 qualifying match. You’ll definitely notice the completely empty stadium, courtesy of a UEFA-imposed stadium ban after Croatian fans chanted racist things at not one but two prior international matches. What might slip your gaze is a...

Italy-Croatia Euro Qualifier Suspended After Burning Flares And Rioting
Riot police fought with soccer fans as a flood of flares landed upon the field and forced a temporary suspension of play in Milan at today's Euro 2016 qualifier between Italy and Croatia....

Croatian Boxer Viciously Attacks Referee After Match
Croatian boxer Vido Loncar took on Algirdas Baniulis at the European Youth Boxing Championships in Zagreb, and the match was stopped after Loncar started getting lit up by Baniulis. Loncar was not happy with that decision, and vented by beating the shit out of the referee....

Cutest Little Girl Is Already Our Favorite Superfan
Just look at those cute little hands clapping in time, and those cute little arms splaying out along with the rest of the crowd. It's so damn adorable!...

Croatia Vs. Mexico Fan Brawl Features Shirtless, Smoking Hero
Right after Mexico took a 1-0 lead in yesterday's World Cup match against Croatia, a fight between the nations' supporters broke out in the stands. The fight featured quite a few reckless haymakers, a lot of shirtless Croatians, and one amazing badass....

World Cup Goals, As They Sounded At Home: June 23
Every day, Deadspin compiles each World Cup goal as called on a broadcast in the country that scored it. See previous days here....

Here's The Moment Mexico-Croatia Went From Soccer Match To <em>Fiesta</em>
So Mexico stomped Croatia and Brazil stomped Cameroon, which saved us from breaking out our graphing calculators to accurately compute the more esoteric World Cup tiebreakers. Nonetheless, both matches had a lot riding on them even into the final moments....

Mexico's Coach Is The MVP Of Being Emotional On The Sideline
So the Mexico-Croatia game turned into a damn barn burner very suddenly in the second half, and this elicited a great deal of emotion from Miguel Herrera, Mexico's coach and a man who is known for expressing himself....

Your Croatia-Mexico and Cameroon-Brazil Open Thread
A lot's at stake here, and if I were that Brazil fan, I'd think twice before rubbing Cameroon's nose in it before they end up ruining the party....

Chart: What Do Brazil And Mexico Need To Do To Advance?
Last night, we showed you what needed to happen for the USMNT to advance to the next round of the World Cup. Now we have a similar chart showing how things shake out depending on the results of this afternoon's Group A matches....

What Tim Cahill's Wondergoal Sounded Like In Australia
Australia's national broadcaster SBS gave us a treat yesterday: an inset of announcer Craig Foster going nuts on Tim Cahill's outstanding equalizer against Netherlands yesterday. Australia had a lot to cheer for at the moment, but so did Chile and the other countries who scored goals on Wednesday. H...

Your Cameroon-Croatia Open Thread
Cameroon are probably done already but Croatia still have dreams of the knockout rounds. Plus, has there been a bad match yet?...

It's Rough Being The Only Croatian Fan At A Brazilian Party
Cameras captured a lone Croatian supporter at the official viewing party in Manaus during Brazil's controversial penalty kick yesterday. Godspeed, solo Croat; you should have numbers for Cameroon next week....

World Cup Goals, As Called By Local Announcers: June 12
Every morning, we're going to try to round up every goal scored in the World Cup as aired by local broadcasts in those countries. Here's how yesterday's goals sounded on HRT 2 in Croatia and on Rede Globo in Brazil. GOL!!!...

Here's Fred's Dive In The Box To Give Brazil The Lead
Yea, that's not a penalty. ...

Brazil Score First Goal Of World Cup—In Their Own Goal
This certainly isn't how Brazil planned to start things off. Croatia took a 1-0 lead 11 minutes into the match when Marcelo knocked the ball into his own goal....