Istina.

evo nažalost, harry je po uzoru na SAF-a zabranio svim igračima korištenje "igrački" tijekom utakmica, dakle mobitela i svega sličnog, pa Niko nije bio u mogućnosti pratiti prijenos polufinala rukometnog eura, otud i ova igra naših.

Hvala Niki što nam ostavlja Strahomlata na istoj razini. Danas se sve teže kvalitetno nasmijati. Hvala ti Niko!

Niko je tijekom poluvremena utakmice mobitelom odaslao otrovne strelice prema svlačionici hrvatske rukometne repke te naložio svom čovjeku unutar rukometne repke da im se svima odreda objasni za KOGA igraju.
Tako je Niko poslušao Harryjevu naredbu o nekorištenju mobitela tijekom utakmice (jer je to obavio u poluvremenu), a istovremeno otud i rješenje problematike igre prvog poluvremena koja nas prati cijeli turnir.
Niko je Velik,
Niku Akbar!

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The Matt Lawton interview: How Tottenham's Niko Kranjcar became daddy of the midfield

By Matt Lawton Last updated at 1:10 AM on 30th January 2010

Not many players would admit to wanting their manager to drop them during a World Cup. But not many players have been through the experience Niko Kranjcar had to endure in Germany four years ago.

Playing in a Croatia side that followed defeat by Brazil with draws against Japan and Australia, thereby suffering the ignominy of first round elimination, must have been hard enough. But Kranjcar had an extra complication.

His father, Zlatko, was the coach. To say the Kranjcar family came in for a bit of stick back home would be something of an understatement.

The nation was gripped by disappointment, not least because such failure had been so unexpected. They had qualified without a single defeat, and after the success of the campaign the Croatians convinced themselves they had a team to match the class of '98.

When it went wrong they turned on a father and his son amid accusations of incompetence and nepotism.

'It was horrible because you feel for your father,' says Kranjcar. 'Sometimes I would think, "Come on dad, don't put me in if it's going to ease the pressure on you". I never said it to him. I knew he wouldn't have it. But I did think about it because it's a hard situation to live with.

'It was disappointing. We played well against Brazil but lost, and the two draws we then secured weren't enough to get us through. It was tough because when we got home much of the focus was on my father and myself, and in the end my father had to go.

'Looking back, I still think we played some great football during his time in charge. We were undefeated in the qualifiers, which is a great achievement. And in the World Cup we only lost to Brazil. My father's only competitive defeat as national team manager was to Brazil. Not a bad record.'

Sitting in an office at Tottenham's training ground this week, Kranjcar says he was perfectly comfortable working with his father.

'It was unusual but it didn't have the intensity of a club situation,' he says. 'I wasn't seeing him every day. I treated him like I would treat any coach and he treated me like every other player.

'It helped that we were playing good for much of the time, and it also helped that my team-mates always recognised me for the player I am. Not who I was. My team-mates have always helped me.'

With Zlatko Kranjcar's departure came the appointment of Slaven Bilic as national coach and the opportunity for Niko to prove that he did not need his dad to get in the team.

'It turned a new page of the book for me,' says Kranjcar.'Because now I had to prove myself in the national team without my father. When the new coach also picked me it gave me a lot of satisfaction. We had another good qualifying campaign, beating England to get playto the European Championships.'

Until then the whole nepotism thing had been a serious issue. Serious enough to all but end his time at Dinamo Zagreb, the club where his father remains a legend and the club he maintains is closest to his heart.

It was a comment one of the coaches made to a Croatian newspaper - during a difficult two year spell between 2004 and 2006 and when the club had seven different managers - that pushed Kranjcar over the edge.

'Everyone was under pressure and the coach made a crack one day that his daughter wanted to play for Dinamo,' says Kranjcar.

'And I took that as a reference to the fact that my father had picked me for the national team.

'When I first broke into the senior team at Dinamo, it had gone well. I was the youngest goalscorer at 16. And then I became the club's youngest ever captain at 17. We won the championship. The next season we won the Cup and the Supercup, only then losing the championship by two points.

'The next season we had some success with the Under 21 national team, and the club tried to buy everyone from that team. But it didn't work at club level, and we finished fourth in the championship. And problems started to arise with the chairman and with the coaches. Some ugly comments were made to the newspapers, in particular when my father started to pick me for the national team.

'Then, towards the end of the half season break, they announced to the players that they would have to reduce their contracts.

'I was already angry about some of the things that had been said and I came out and said that it was fine as long as everyone had their contracts cut - from the chairman downwards. It wasn't just the fault of the players that we were doing badly. It was the whole club. From top to bottom. I said it should be the same in victory or defeat. And when I came back they wouldn't let me train with the first team and put me on the transfer list.'

Kranjcar is a bright boy. A prodigiously gifted footballer, and for many observers Tottenham's finest player this season, but someone who also considered a career in business prior to securing a place in the team at Dinamo.

He spent the first nine years of his life in Vienna, where his father was a player for Rapid, and received what appears to be an excellent education at an American school.

He speaks English in a soft American accent, and with far more fluency, it has to be said, than the majority of his English team-mates.

He is so comfortable with the language he even considered going to college in the States. Kranjcar says his parents also educated him well. '

They taught me to make my own decisions,' he says, which brings us neatly back to what he did when Dinamo Zagreb informed him of their desire to sell.

'I went to Hadjuk Split,' he says. It was the Croatian equivalent of Celtic to Rangers, Tottenham to Arsenal or Manchester United to Manchester City. A move from Dinamo to their greatest rivals. But all the more shocking because, again, he was the son of Zlatko, not just among their greatest ever players but a former coach too.

'It was tough but in Split they made me feel wanted,' he says. 'I will always be a Dinamo supporter, because of my father and because of the time I enjoyed there. From nine until 16 I was in the youth team. I played with Eduardo and Luka Modric. The club will always be in my heart.

'But I'm 19 and I have two options. A move to Russia or Hadjuk. I chose Hadjuk, and when I signed for them 15,000 people turned up. It filled my heart and I don't regret it. We won the championship, the national team qualified for the World Cup. It was great and it made me stronger as a person.'

It would seem he has always possessed such strength. For a start he was strong enough to pursue a career in football when his father was such a hard act to follow. 'I did train at tennis as well and people said I was pretty good,' he says.

'But I loved football, and my parents never put any pressure on me to play. I chose to do it and once you are on the pitch you are on your own. There is nobody there to hold your hand.'

When he moved from Split to Portsmouth in the summer of 2006, he was most definitely on his own.

'I'd just turned down the chance to join Rennes and decided to stay at Split for another six months when the offer from Portsmouth came in,' he says.

'I'd heard about the players they were recruiting – guys like Sol Campbell and Andy Cole – and I'd heard about Harry Redknapp. This great man manager and someone who knew the game inside out.

'I'd also seen how the Premier League had become the best league in the world. When I was a kid we used to have this TV programme that showed us the best matches from the big five leagues. Spain, Italy, England, Germany and France. Back then it was always Spain and Italy that were seen as the best. But the Premier League has overtaken them.

'For me it was again a chance to prove myself, and it turned out to be a great choice. I was in and out of the side for the first season but I think the manager always had a plan for me and the second season was perfect. The highest position the club had ever achieved.The FA Cup.'

Redknapp liked Kranjcar so much he bought him for a second time.

'I always wanted to come to a club with this kind of history and these kind of players,' he says.

'Tottenham is an exciting place to be. A club that has big goals. 'The competition is intense here in England, but we genuinely believe we have the quality to achieve our objectives. We have a strong squad, and a lot of quality.' Kranjcar included.

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