"We've won Olympic gold in other sports, I don't underestimate other sports, but football is by far the most important and the biggest sport. Croatian sports do great things, but what we have been doing for six years, to keep Croatia together and together, to astonish and admire what we are doing, is not clear to anyone. This team is the biggest and the best. Maybe Croatia was better in 2008 and 2016, if you look at who was in the attack in 2008, Klasnić, Modrić, Petrić, Mandžukić, Eduardo... However, this Croatia is the largest national team of all time."