WORLD CUP FINAL FINALLY HERE

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Hello guys, long time, welcome back here we want to talk about football a little bit and more so about the most decorated cup in the world- WORLD CUP-. France and Croatia will battle out in this final match of world cup today at 6pm EATM.
we want to share with an amazing story of Croatia that will inspire many of you.

Croatia came to this World Cup with only two natural strikers. Mario Mandzukic, the guy who scored the winner in the semi final match against England .

The other was Nikola Kalinic.

Kalinic was on the bench for Croatia's first game against Nigeria. With five munites to end that game, his coach instructed him to dress up and replace another player.

Kalinic angrily refused to play, in protest at being left on the bench. 

He saw himself a top player, and wouldn't come on for just five munites. The coach turned to another player,  Pjaca, for the substitution.

After the match, Kalinic refused to apologize, despite appeals from other coaching staff. 

The coach then sacked him from the team, and sent him home from Russia. Kalinic flew for holidays, and even posted pictures of himself enjoying elsewhere.

After all, he seemed to imagine that Croatia wouldn't go anywhere in the tournament. But without him, the team managed to win their matches.

Croatia achieved their greatest football achievement in history, reaching the World Cup final.

The remaining 22 players are national heroes. Their names forever inscribed in the hearts of generations. 

Kalinic is not part of the winning team all because of minutes of anger, pride and bloated ego. 

He may have regretted now but it is too late. These stories about life are quite familiar to us, but do we really learn lessons from them as they profoundly apply to all spheres of life?

Learn to cut pride, learn to control anger and deflate ego, and ultimately, learn to say SORRY.

Years of sweat and dedication can all be shattered by moments of anger and pride. 

the predicted line up can be.

Probable starting line-ups

France (4-3-3): Lloris; Pavard, Varane, Umtiti, Hernandez; Pogba, Kante; Mbappe, Griezmann, Matuidi; Giroud

Croatia (4-3-3): Subasic; Vrsajlko, Lovren, Vida, Strinic; Modric, Brozovic, Rakitic; Perisic, Mandzukic, Rebic

the good news is that Arsenal defender Koscielny and Marseille captain were invited by their president since they missed the world cup because of injury.

Payet was injured in their final Europa league against Atletico madrid which went emotional when he was being substituted.

For France, they were in final in Euro 2017 to which Pogba admitted that they lost that final due to their overconfidence and thinking that they have already won the cup since they were playing with the underrated Portugal, but , this time, Pogba said, they will play like its their final match.

Croatia on the other side become the 13th country to play in the final match in World cup

ENGLAND
BRAZIL
GERMANY
ITALY
FRANCE
URUGUAY
SPAIN
HOLLAND
ARGENTINA
MEXICO
SWEDEN
WEST GERMANY
CROATIA

List of finals matches, their venues and locations, the finalists, and final scores

Year	Champions	Final score[3]	Runners-up	Venue	Location	Attendance	References
1930	Uruguay	4–2	Argentina	Estadio Centenario	Montevideo, Uruguay	80,000	[9][10]
1934	Italy	2–1 [n 3]	Czechoslovakia	Stadio Nazionale PNF	Rome, Italy	50,000	[11][12]
1938	Italy	4–2	Hungary	Stade Olympique de Colombes	Paris, France	45,000	[13][14]
1950[n 4]	Uruguay	2–1 [n 5]	Brazil	Estádio do Maracanã	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	199,854[15]	[16][17]
1954	West Germany	3–2	Hungary	Wankdorf Stadium	Bern, Switzerland	60,000	[18][19]
1958	Brazil	5–2	Sweden	Råsunda Stadium	Solna, Sweden	51,800	[20][21]
1962	Brazil	3–1	Czechoslovakia	Estadio Nacional	Santiago, Chile	69,000	[22][23]
1966	England	4–2 [n 6]	West Germany	Wembley Stadium	London, England	93,000	[24][25]
1970	Brazil	4–1	Italy	Estadio Azteca	Mexico City, Mexico	107,412	[26][27]
1974	West Germany	2–1	Netherlands	Olympiastadion	Munich, West Germany	75,200	[28][29]
1978	Argentina	3–1 [n 7]	Netherlands	Estadio Monumental	Buenos Aires, Argentina	71,483	[30][31]
1982	Italy	3–1	West Germany	Santiago Bernabéu	Madrid, Spain	90,000	[32][33]
1986	Argentina	3–2	West Germany	Estadio Azteca	Mexico City, Mexico	114,600	[34][35]
1990	West Germany	1–0	Argentina	Stadio Olimpico	Rome, Italy	73,603	[36][37]
1994	Brazil	0–0 [n 8]	Italy	Rose Bowl	Pasadena, United States	94,194	[38][39]
1998	France	3–0	Brazil	Stade de France	Saint-Denis, France	80,000	[40][41]
2002	Brazil	2–0	Germany	International Stadium	Yokohama, Japan	69,029	[42][43]
2006	Italy	1–1 [n 9]	France	Olympiastadion	Berlin, Germany	69,000	[44][45]
2010	Spain	1–0 [n 10]	Netherlands	Soccer City	Johannesburg, South Africa	84,490	[46][47]
2014	Germany	1–0 [n 11]	Argentina	Estádio do Maracanã	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	74,738	[48][49]
Upcoming finals
Year	Team 1	v	Team 2	Venue	Location	Attendance	References
2018	France	v	Croatia	Luzhniki Stadium	Moscow, Russia
2022				Lusail Iconic Stadium	Lusail, Qatar
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