Zagreb: Croatia coach Slaven Bilic on Monday named the following 24-man squad for the World Cup Group Six qualifiers at home to Belarus on Sept. 5 and away to England four days later.
Squad:
Goalkeepers: Stipe Pletikosa (Spartak Moscow), Vedran Runje (RC Lens), Danijel Subasic (Hajduk Split).
Defenders: Vedran Corluka (Tottenham Hotspur), Josip Simunic (Hoffenheim), Ivica Krizanac (Zenit St. Petersburg), Dino Drpic (Karlsruher), Hrvoje Vejic (Hajduk Split), Danijel Pranjic (Bayern Munich), Hrvoje Cale (Trabzonspor).
Midfield: Niko Kranjcar (Portsmouth), Ivan Juric (Genoa), Ognjen Vukojevic (Dynamo Kiev), Nikola Pokrivac (Salzburg), Jerko Leko (Monaco), Luka Modric (Tottenham Hotspur), Darijo Srna (Shakhtar Donetsk), Ivan Rakitic (Schalke), Anas Sharbini (Hajduk Split).
Forwards: Ivica Olic (Bayern Munich), Eduardo da Silva (Arsenal), Mladen Petric (Hamburg SV), Mario Mandzukic (Dinamo Zagreb), Ivan Klasnic (Nantes).
Bureau Report
First Published: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 09:19