They Graced Paradise – Robert Prosinečki
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Pod
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🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Robert Prosinečki was a mercurial talent that played at the highest level.When Celtic were drawn against Croatia Zagreb in the second round of the Champions League in August 1998, Prosinečki would put in a performance at Celtic Park that would be remember by the support for decades to come.
This podcast relives that night with contributions from Chris Sermanni and Barry Gallagher, who were both in attendance.
We also hear from Croatian journalist Aleksandar Holiga as he helps to profile this truly gifted footballer.
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| 0:00.0 | The lights of Celtic Park have shone upon some of the greatest footballing talents throughout the stadium's wonderful history. |
| 0:19.0 | From dazzling defenders to scintillating strikers, world-class players have entertained |
| 0:24.3 | the Celtic support time and time again. |
| 0:31.6 | Brazilian mavericks, Italian playmakers and Spanish tacticians have all sparkled in the |
| 0:36.5 | footballing cauldron in the east end of Glasgow. |
| 0:40.3 | There are some players, however, that burn their very footballing legacy into the souls of the Celtic Park crowd. |
| 0:49.3 | To be discussed decades later in the pubs online and amongst friends. |
| 0:57.8 | These players truly graced paradise. |
| 1:08.5 | 12th of August 1998. Celtic entered the second round of the Champions League qualifiers |
| 1:15.6 | Having dispatched St Patrick's Athletic in the first round, it was time to mix it with the big boys |
| 1:22.6 | The previous season Celtic had stopped the 10 and were crowned champions of Scotland. |
| 1:29.5 | However, a new manager and a power struggle inside the walls of Celtic Park |
| 1:33.2 | threatened to capsize our season before it had even started. |
| 1:36.0 | We win the league for the first time in nine seasons and pandemonium ensued |
| 1:40.8 | and we were in the Champions League for the first time, or at least the qualifiers, |
| 1:45.0 | but what I remember around that time was nothing came easy with us, you know. |
| 1:49.0 | Yansen left with a fight with the board, and then just before the qualifier there was a row |
| 1:55.0 | over bonus payments. |
| 1:56.0 | The Scottish champions were drawn with Croatia Zagreb, formerly Dynamo Zagreb, a name they would |
| 2:01.9 | eventually return to. |
| 2:03.6 | This Zagreb side were chock full of Croatian internationals. |
| 2:06.6 | It included six members of the Croatia side that had got to the semi-finals of the World |
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