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Recall that Srna, a thirty-four-year-old captain of the Croats and Shakhtar Donetsk’s defender, flew from the Euro to his homeland immediately after the match, where he attended his father’s funeral on Monday in Metkovic.

Ante Čačič, the parent of Luka Modrić, who was watching the matches in France, and others were also on the same flight from France through Zagreb to Mostar with him.

Darijo, 34 Srna, who, along with others, returned to the Euro on Wednesday morning, had long known that his father, Uzeir, was struggling with cancer.Uzeir Srna, former longtime goalkeeper of the football team Neretva Metkovic, according to Darius’s older brother Renata saw Sunday’s match with Turkey to the end and went to the football sky after him.

“When Darijo was the last time before the Euro in Metkovic, his father told him to finish the European Championship to the end and as well as possible.So he said goodbye to him then, ”said Renato Srna for the Slobodna Dalmacija daily in Split. “The national team will play against the Czech Republic with thoughts of our dad on Friday and will want to win it,” he added, emphasizing that Darijo Srna asked the whole family after the funeral to fly back to the Euro. “We all agreed, because we know it was Dad’s wish.”

The Croatian captain has also received maximum support at the championship venue. “We’re all family here, and when someone loses as close a person as everyone would lose him.”It is hard for us, but at the same time Darius’s grief has strengthened us – we have an extra motive to play even better because of him, ”said Dynamo defender Kiev Domagoj Vida, who was one of the best players in the game against Turkey.

Vida: Czechs are better than Turks

Friday’s match with the Czech team. “Czechs are better than Turks, it will be a tough and challenging match. And maybe fatal, because we have a chance to make it to the 16th round after the second match, ”said Vida, who apparently does not believe the Czech team would change tactics.

“I don’t think they’d dare to play openly. Again, they will be maximally disciplined and try to catch us from some counterattack.But we are better, everything is in our hands, ”he added.

On Wednesday evening, Srna, a Croatian record holder in the number of nationals (131), completed a joint training session. Only one question mark remains to be solved: will it be able to join the Czech Republic? “Someone would have been killed by Daddy’s death, but Darijo is a hard-faced guy,” said coach Ante Čačič. A deer is a strong athlete and a man, I’m sure he’ll be ready, ”his assistant Ante Misha said.