Slaven Bilic head coach of Croatian National Football Team has named the main staff which will play against Georgian National Team in Tbilisi, on March 26.

Goalkeepers: Stipe Pletikosa (Tottenham, Eng), Vedran Runje (Lens, Fra), Danijel Subašić (Hajduk).

Defenders: Ivan Strinić (Dnipro, Ukr), Josip Šimunić (Hoffenheim, Nje), Darijo Srna (Šahtar, Ukr), Dejan Lovren (Lyon, Fra), Vedran Ćorluka (Tottenham, Eng), Šime Vrsaljko (Dinamo), Gordon Schildenfeld (Sturm, Aut).

Midfielders: Danijel Pranjić (Bayern, Nje), Luka Modrić (Tottenham, Eng), Ivan Rakitić (Sevilla, Špa), Ognjen Vukojević (Dynamo K., Ukr), Niko Kranjčar (Tottenham, Eng), Tomislav Dujmović (Dinamo M., Rus), Milan Badelj (Dinamo), Ivan Perišić (Club Brugge, Bel), Ivo Iličević (Kaiserslautern, Nje).

Forwards: Mladen Petrić (HSV, Nje), Eduardo da Silva (Šahtar, Ukr), Nikola Kalinić (Blackburn, Eng), Nikica Jelavić (Glasgow Rangers, Ško).

Reserve: Mario Mandžukić (Wolfsburg, Nje), Srđan Lakić (Kaiserslautern, Nje), Domagoj Vida (Bayer, Nje), Manuel Pamić (Sparta, Češ).
Slaven Bilic held the press conference and stated the following: “Two matches are ahead us but the most important is match against Georgian National Football Team. In the past Georgian team had foreign specialists but they did not have any result. Progress started after appointing Ketsbaia, that person did much for the team. As for players, everyone knows such players as Kakha Kaladze, Levan Kobiashvili, Aleksandre Iashvili … Georgians have good players. Jano Ananidze is the best among them, he plays in “Spartak” Moscow and looks like Luka Modric very much”.
Bilic estimated latest matches of Georgian National Team and mentioned that rival has progress:
“They did not lose in Greece, played draw against Isael, won over Malta and was beating Latvia, but in extra time goal was scored in their goal and finally draw. Georgian played friendly match against Armenian very well, beat easily and won over Slovenian team also. I am sure that a lot of spectators are to attend this match on March 16”.

Ivo Susak former head coach of Georgian National Team and current head coach of Croatian National U-21 Team also attended this press-conference, he stated the following about Georgia:” Georgia is country of talents as well as Bosnia”.

Ilia Nanobashvili