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Aleksandar Holiga

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Aleksandar Holiga is the editor-in-chief of the Croatian website Telesport and an independent football writer for the Guardian and various others. He has published a book titled Nogomet narodu (Football To the People).


June 2024

  • Luka Modric poses for a portrait during a photo session before Euro 2024

    The last dance? Croatia braced for end of the Luka Modric era

  • The Croatia fans cheer on their side in replica shirts and snazzy sunglasses.

    Euro 2024: Guardian Experts' Network
    Euro 2024 team guides part six: Croatia

December 2022

  • Argentina fans pose for a photo at Lusail Stadium before the World Cup semi-final with Croatia.

    World Cup 2022: news and buildup to Argentina v Croatia – as it happened

  • Luka Modric leads his teammates in celebration after Croatia’s penalty shootout win against Brazil in the quarter-finals

    ‘We are built differently’: Croatia relish second shot at World Cup glory

November 2022

  • Marko Livaja leads an attack during a game on the seafront pitch at Zvoncac in Split

    Croatia’s Marko Livaja: from a concrete pitch with a step to the World Cup

  • Croatia fans celebrate as their team defeats France in Paris during the Nations League

    World Cup 2022: Guardian Experts’ Network
    World Cup 2022 team guides part 23: Croatia

June 2021

  • Mario Mandzukic celebrates after scoring Croatia’s winner against England in their 2018 World Cup semi-final in Moscow

    How Croatia used ‘Three Lions’ as a weapon to beat England in 2018

    Perceived arrogance of ‘It’s coming home’ motivated Croatia at the World Cup – but they get English humour better than most
  • Nikola Vlasic celebrating after scoring against Wales in a Euro 2020 qualifier at Cardiff City Stadium

    Euro 2020: Guardian Experts' Network
    Nikola Vlasic: ‘a thousand right decisions’ forged Croatia’s new hero

    The dynamic No 10 comes from a successful sporting family and has his dad to thank for helping him realise his potential
  • A Croatia fan in the stands before their Euro 2020 qualifier against Slovakia in November 2019

    Euro 2020: Guardian Experts' Network
    Euro 2020 team guides part 13: Croatia

    The World Cup finalists have rebuilt well since Russia but rumours of a dressing-room rift are a cause for concern

March 2021

  • Zoran Mamic celebrates with the goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic after the win against FK Krasnodar

    Dinamo Zagreb's Zoran Mamic: master coach or criminal – or both?

    Croatian club take on Spurs on Thursday but their coach may face a jail sentence and his brother is at large in Bosnia and Herzegovina

October 2019

  • Dinamo Zagreb’s Dani Olmo (left) helped dismantle Atalanta and will face Manchester City in the Champions League.

    Why Dinamo Zagreb’s Dani Olmo took a risk and left Barcelona

    Dani Olmo was in Barcelona’s youth team but left aged 16 and has matured into one of the most coveted young playmakers in Europe, currently with Dinamo Zagreb

January 2019

  • Ante Palaversa in action for Hajduk Split

    Manchester City to sign 18-year-old Ante Palaversa from Hajduk Split for £7m

    Manchester City have reached an agreement with Hajduk Split to sign the highly rated 18-year-old central midfielder Ante Palaversa for an initial £7m

October 2018

  • Luka Modric (left) and Dejan Lovren (right) look dejected after the loss to France in the World Cup final.

    Croatia’s World Cup honeymoon is over and there is ground to make up

    The 2018 World Cup finalists face England on Friday after a torrid three months peppered with retirements, a health scare, a pending court case or two and a record 6-0 defeat against Spain

July 2018

  • President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic (right) embraced all of the country’s squad after their defeat to France but politics has let the game down in Croatia.

    double quotation markCroatia’s World Cup run must bring end to game’s neglect back home

    Aleksandar Holiga
    Pride in Croatia at the team’s final efforts could lead to a new national stadium but the lack of grassroots investment is a more pressing concern
  • Finland’’s Pyry Soiri celebrates scoring the equaliser late into the group game in Croatia.

    Croatia’s sliding-door moment – the day Finland scored late against them

    Croatia were sleepwalking towards the World Cup under Ante Cacic when a Finnish player with a Namibian father started a chain of events that have taken them to a World Cup final

    • England were 'unbelievably inferior' – Croatian press on World Cup semi-final

    • Masters of improvisation: how Croatia reached semi-finals without a plan

    • Croatia’s World Cup run divides nation where football is never just sport

June 2018

  • Luka Modric appears in a court in Osijek to testify in the corruption trial against former Dinamo Zagreb executive Zdravko Mamic

    How Luka Modric and Dejan Lovren got caught up in Croatian corruption case

  • Luka Modric in action for Croatia against Finland in World Cup qualifying.

    World Cup 2018: Guardian Experts' Network
    Croatia World Cup 2018 team guide: tactics, key players and expert predictions

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