Well, last home game (vs. Belgium) was important for us as we still had a chance for 1st place (by winning that and than vs. Scotland 4 days later). Yet, there wasn't much interest from fans.
The thing is: our NT is playing quite bad for last 4-5 years (exception being EURO12 finals) and the only reason for that is because of few guys in high places who are only looking for their personal gain. For instance, Davor Šuker was never elected for president of HNS (or CFF - Croatian Football Federation in English). Vlatko Marković was elected once again and after about 2 years into his 4-year mandate he was forced to retire by Šuker and Mamić and than Šuker just took over from him. Almost every key place in HNS is being held by someone from Dinamo Zagreb posted there by Zdravko Mamić. There is a real mess in our federation and yet State can't do anything because FIFA will than suspend us because of "politics interfering with football federation".
Fans are angry because of that, players are demoralized by calling up of players who are not even playing for their clubs (Alen Halilović btw.) and who are called just because it helps their club (guess which) to build up their price on transfer market. To the extent I understand that Modrić, Mandžukić, Srna, Rakitić, Olić, Kovačić and other who are brilliant in their clubs (Srna also being captain in Shakhtar for quite some time now and Rakitić now captain at Sevilla) don't really give all they have in national team when they are paired by players who are still not on that level and who don't even deserve to be in senior national team. Some of them are not even doing well in U21 or U17 teams, yet they are being called up for senior team.
The thing that is bothering me is that this is probably 2nd strongest squad we ever had (1st being, in my opinion, the squad that was at EURO08 finals) and now headed up by probably most talented young coach in Croatia (Niko Kovač) and their careers are being ruined by, well, politics.
