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Oly_fan2
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This looked more like last year's team even though the opponent helped.
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Victorious2
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Got to say though. Every organizing city is attracting some local fans in every game except Zagreb. The Croats only watch their own team. This is quite disappointing.
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MZT Skopje2
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Basketball aint realy the most popular sport in Croatia. You have handball (who is a popular sport in Germany, France, Scandinavia and Macedonia too), etc. Just watch Cedevita EL games, is a shame.
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christodoulou762
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Sorry we lost you some money today MZT. GRE played very bad in 2nd half.
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MZT Skopje2
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no worry. thats betting.
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fasoulaki2
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I read somewhere that even in Croatias game against Greece the hall was only hall filled.
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MZT Skopje2
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Ye as I told. Cedevita have 2000 fans in EL; RK Zagreb 15.000 fans in CL handball.
I expexted a poor turn out, will be half full today too. against MKD.
lets make a MKD GR bid to co host 2017. Lets show some real crazy fans on stand.
I expexted a poor turn out, will be half full today too. against MKD.
lets make a MKD GR bid to co host 2017. Lets show some real crazy fans on stand.
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fasoulaki2
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I am wondering if it was a coaching decisipn to relax on both ends of the game.
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Joško Poljak Fan2
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Medveščak has the same numbers in hockey and yet there are maybee 500 people playing hockey in Croatia, Zagreb loves to support sports that are succesfull RK Zagreb is, Cibona and Cedevita aren't as simple as that. Football is still no.1, handball and hockey might be popular as far as champions league and KHL goes, while basketball still beats both as far as the people playing it goes. Definately in Dalmatia, haven't been to Zagreb for a while and never for some extended period. 3/4 of members of Croatian NT are born in dalmatian towns as Šibenik, Split, Zadar, Dubrovnik, without those local rivalries alive, noone in Zagreb cares about basketball.
Croatian federation did a bad job regarding promotion of the eurobasket, that's likely contributing to the number of people attending.
Of course Pohani, Picek and other Croats can correct me if I got it wrong, that's just the impression I got while reading Cro media, while trying to keep the language knowledge fresh.
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Raz2
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Idk about that,but everyone (including Katsikaris) said that it was almost reflexive and natural.Anyway,personally I don't think that's necesarrily bad,as long as we are in control.
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Victorious2
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I doubt that Croats would show up in a handball game if Croatia were not playing either.
And they don't watch Cedevita because they almost never win.
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Dr. Martin2
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Money... That's why I am not in Zagreb. And that's why Finland has fans in France
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Victorious2
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Well, I jinxed your team. But hey, I am also rooting for the Dutch in this tournament. They are quite good. I am sure they are better than you thought.
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Picek2
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even though tickets are cheaper then the ones in Berlin or Montpellier they are still fairly expensive for regular folks and play a huge role for this.
we are still a country with one of the worst economies in EU and have been in recession for 6 full years only barely coming out of it this year.
but I agree it's disappointing that the organizers haven''t been able to find a way to attract more people for this games.
apart from croatian team games the rest of the games and teams were not even advertised.
and even for our team it was done extremely poor.
I was in a hall, not true..
but there was maybe some 500-700 empty seats and most of them in an area reserved for sponsors
same was against Slovenia.
I can not understand that someone received a free ticket for the best happening in the town and then decided not to come.
Cedevita is still a club without a soul as they are a company club.
handball is not the second popular sport in Croatia, when it comes to national team success then they are better then basketball but in total basketball still attracts more interest.
hockey does not exist in Croatia outside of Zagreb so it is not really worth mentioning.Joško Poljak Fan;998655 said:
our hockey club Medveščak created a good story and they are living on it but even last year the interest for their games was smaller then couple of years ago mostly because of poorer results.
croats are idiots as majority only likes to follow winners and don't appreciate sport the way we used to.
the entire situation in Croatia played and is playing a huge role in that.
football is number 1 because they get most attention, from the media, sponsors and regular people following it even if our stadiums are empty.
for example, we have a daily sports newspaper coming out on 32 pages every day.
20-22 pages are always about football.
even if football in Croatia is being runned by football mafia.
hopefully we won't qualify for footbal championship in France so football will lose a bit of an interest.
regarding the promotion of the eurobasket, there is good text in english about it, you can read it here and it will answer all of your questions:
http://www.total-croatia-news.com/news/734-did-croatia-really-commit-promotional-suicide
another thing, I used to live in Zagreb where my parents still live and this weekend because of Slovenia & Greece game i was in Zagreb (missed todays game because of work schedule but will be there tomorrow and on thursday before going to Lille) and turned on slovenian national tv channel (slo 2 which we can receive through a regular antena) on sunday and looked on tv programme and the programme was completely filled with sports events including two live coverages of eurobasket games (one of them slovenian game) and additional two replays of Zagreb group games during the night.
on croatian national tv channel we don't get many sports events anymore even if we are paying more then 10 euros of subscription every month.
we haven't been able to see a single game outside of Zagreb group so far on our national tv!
and even Zagreb group games are not covered, I think so far apart from our games only one additional game was covered live (or in replay) by our national tv station
yesterday I returned back home and on my cable tv I can receive serbian rts and bosnian ftv who are broadcasting eurobasket games, both have more games live (or in replay) then we do on our national tv..
by far.
and if this team doesn't win a medal, never mind all of the attention they are currently getting in written media atleast they will still be forgotten the next day. that is what we do now. we only follow winners and don't appreciate enough the rest.
that says pretty much everything.
as well as Tedeschi's Cedevita, will make a change in a while