World Cup Stories: Slaven Bilic on France 98 (featuring Boban, Suker, Boksic and Prosinecki)

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Hola!

Ahead of Croatia's meeting with Brazil tomorrow, here's one of my favourite Big Interview guests of all time, Croat legend Slaven Bilic.

He talks through the big personalties of Croatia's great France 98 squad - who finished third in the tournament - including Zvonimir Boban, Davor Suker, Alen Boksic and Robert Prosinecki.

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0:00.0	Here's a look back at a selection of our wonderful guests talking what their experiences at World Cups.
0:14.3	So Zwane everyone, tell me something that you remember about why he's so special. A guy, a footballer, a leader, I don't care.
0:25.0	Well I know Bobbana he came from a small town in Dalmatia to my hometown.
0:32.0	Which is split. Dalmatia to my hometown.
0:33.0	Which is split?
0:34.0	Yeah, because he wanted to join.
0:36.0	Well, he joined Haidu Splittoc when he was only 10.
0:39.0	And because he, I think,
0:42.0	he was born in September 68 he was born in October 60 so he came basically to our
0:50.6	group to my group that that we trained and we were 10 or 11 I don't know and he wanted to stay there but
0:57.8	Accure some some some problems with accommodation for his family that's why he went to
1:03.6	Dila Mosegre. So I know him really really well. First of all he's
1:12.4	everything. He is everything.
1:14.0	He is like top talent.
1:17.0	He is of course his top player,
1:19.0	is a very hard worker.
1:22.0	He learned Italian. He speaks Italian like he was he doesn't speak Italian like I speak English. He speaks Italian like he was born in Italy. Okay, that's a proper call for me it takes effort you know what I mean he's workaholic
1:39.2	He also just to describe you Boban he also he finished the university of history, after his football career, he didn't need to, you know, when he was a great career, everything.
1:57.2	He didn't finish it to find the job.
1:59.7	He finished it because he wanted to do something different.
2:03.0	At the end of the day, now I adore Boban.
2:06.3	Now it's one of Boban is number one advisor of Johnny in Fau, in FIFA for football, number one.
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