EURO 2008 INFO

Croatia continues to prepare for the UEFA EURO 2008 ™. Tonight was measured at Hampden Park in Scotland in an encounter that will be very special for striker Ivan Klasnić.

Kidney Transplant
The 28-year-old striker from Werder Bremen, 26 times internationally, played his last encounter with selecting the October 7, 2006, achieving the fifth goal from Croatia in the 7-0 victory, and its eighth since the debut. However, the life of Klasnić suffered a serious blow, because he had to be intervened on several occasions to do an kidney transplant. Interventions have taken more than a year away from the playgrounds, before returning to Bremen in November. Since then, he has made three in the league so many German and gained entry into the list of invited Bilić Slaven. Anyone who is not is Eduardo da Silva, seriously injured, nor may play in the Euro this summer.

"The most important thing is to be here"
Klasnić was happy with his return to the selection: "I have been 18 months without coming with the selection and the truth is that that time has not passed quickly. When I was in the hospital, everything was going very slowly. Now, after a lot of hard work return to the national combined, which was my goal. The most important thing is that the selector is back to trust me. Can I play, but if I do not do that nothing happens, what matters is to be here, "said the striker.

"Great atmosphere"
Klasnić has already played in Glasgow, in the eighth round of the finals of the UEFA Cup before the Rangers FC, March 6. "The atmosphere at Ibrox is spectacular. Seek victory, it will be important for us to win after the last defeat to Holland in Split."

Falling Eduardo
It will be the first encounter of Croatia without Eduardo, 12 months of which will be low. His post is filled Mladen Petrić, Ivica Olić and Klasnić. The mid-Jerko Leko is a doubt, while the captain Niko Kovač is already reeling from its flu.