DINAMO ZAGREB

Today’s Dinamo is continuing the tradition of the celebrated teams Hašk, Građanski, Dinamo and Croatia. The oldest was Hašk founded on 6th November, 1903., as a student’s club, while Građanski was founded as the club of all social classes on 26th April, 1911. Both clubs were banned overnight by the communist régime after the war, and the new club was formed according to the model of the similar communist clubs from Eastern Europe. The club was named Dinamo on 9th June, 1945.

CROATIAN FOOTBAL

The Croatian national football team (Croatian: Hrvatska nogometna reprezentacija), abbreviated as CRO under the official FIFA Trigramme, represents the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska) in international football matches and is governed by the Croatian Football Federation, the country's leading body of football controlled by Vlatko Marković. The current team has existed since 1990 and was recognised by both FIFA and UEFA—the highest authorities of regional football—by 1993, two years after Croatia gained independence from the former Yugoslavia.[2] Previously sanctioned national teams represented the short-lived Banovina of Croatia and Independent State of Croatia, two temporary puppet states of monarchy ruling, in nineteen friendly matches between 1940 and 1944.[3] Although the team were authorized as a member of FIFA in this earlier period, Croatia remained a constituent federal republic of Yugoslavia and was therefore unable to participate separately at the competitive level.