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For the next few weeks, Alexandria will serve as home base for Team Croatia as the squad prepares for World Cup games in Texas later this month. The city welcomed the team Wednesday night with a celebration featuring music from the Alexandria City High School marching band and crowds of enthusiastic fans.
Bukayo Saka has attempted to play down concerns over his fitness ahead of England’s World Cup opener with Croatia, reassuring fans he is ‘ready to go’ and ‘feeling better than he has in months’. The 24-year-old winger has been managing an Achilles problem which he sustained with Arsenal back in March,
England open their World Cup campaign against Croatia on Wednesday, and Nico O'Reilly wants to be on the front foot from the off.
SUMMERS in Ivor Pandur’s native Croatia tend to be long and hot. It was a particularly resplendent one in 2018. Eight years ago, the Hull City goalkeeper, then in his teens, was coming through the ranks at his home city club of Rijeka.
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