Sports Events in Croatia

If you get the chance you should go and see the croatian national football team play.
They have a pretty strong side and the followers are an interesting bunch.
Especially the female fans.
Most national games are played in Zagreb, but sometimes they are in Split aswell.

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Recently I went to sailing school on Murter in a small village Jezera. For those who don't know, it is a small island connected with bridge in the middle of Croatian coast. I really had a great time, people who were with me learning how to sail were great, mostly Croatian people but I met people from all over the Europe. Sailing school A.N.A has great courses from beginner to advanced sport and other special courses. Instructors are great too and I am looking forward to go there again.

Equipment: Depends on time of the year and weather, but take suncream and wind-blocker jacket always

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You'll find beautiful deserted beaches with the clearest of clear water along the Adriatic coast
(photos 1) and others that are just concrete shelving like this one (photo 2) by the old harbour in Dubrovnik. With over 1700 kilometres of coastline stretching out around the mainland's deep bays and inlets and over 1000 islands of all shapes and sizes with a further 4000+ kilometres, there really is room for everyone, and some like it more crowded than others!

Most natural beaches are stony - hard on the feet but it's one of the reasons the water is so clear. Some are absolutely spectacular - Bol, on the island of Brac, having the most famously beautiful of all, Zlatni Rat, a huge draw for tourists that sees thousands of people come there each year, though we've stayed in Bol in June and had the beach virtually to ourselves for our morning swims (photo 3). Others are naturally rocky shelves. (photo 4). Some are right on your doorstep - others are incredibly tucked away with no obvious access to them all - though if it's beautiful enough, you can bet someone will have found a way to get to it! (photo 5)

If you see a beach marked FKK - be prepared for naked bodies - naturism's a big part of the Croatian beach scene and there are beaches up and down the country designated for nude swimming.

Here's a great website that will tell you all you need to know, and then some, about this beachlover's paradise.

Croatia wins water polo gold medal in world championship MELBOURNE 2007., with a perfect score of six consecutive wins.
The world’s best Water Polo Players are: Josip PAVIC , Damir BURIC , Andro BUSLJE , Zdeslav VRDOLJAK, Aljosa KUNAC, Pavo MARKOVIC , Mile SMODLAKA, Teo DOGAS , Maro JOKOVIC, Samir BARAC , Igor HINIC, Miho BOSKOVIC and Frano VICAN. Their leader is Ratko Rudic - the waterpolo legend.

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Blanka Vlasic, high-jumper, with her record jump of 2.07 (the second best in history, 2007), was Junior World Champion twice (Santiago, Chile, in 2000; Kingston, Jamaica, in 2002), and champion of XIVth Mediterranean Games in Tunisia, 2001. In 2007 she won the gold medal in Japan at the World Championship in Athletics, Osaka 2007. This is the first gold medal for Croatia in World Championships in Athletics, and one of the greatest successes in the history of Croatian sport.

Croatian team won the 2005 Davis Cup in the final match with Slovakia in Bratislava. This is one of the greatest achievements in the history of Croatian sport. Members of the team were

Ivan Ljubicic, Mario Ancic, Ivan Karlovic, and Goran Ivanisevic.

Nikola Pilic, leader of the team, thus became the first captain in the history of Davis cup to win the trophy for different nations (he led Germany to Davis Cup titles in 1988, 1989 and 1993).

When I saw the small boat for the Kornati Islands daytrip I though the man of the tickets was cheating when he promised me "swimming pool on board". BUT he was true, there was a swimming pool inside the little boat, the smallest I had ever seen, filled daily with sea water, but used only for the small kids (a great relief for their parents!).

Croatia has some of the PUREST WATERS of the Mediterranean, and those around Kornati islands maybe the purest of all, being the area a preserved Natural park. If you take a boat daytrip to the islands from Zadar, you will have the opportunity to jump from the boat to the transparent waters in a swimming stop the boat makes after lunch.