#Croatia opens its World Cup. Here’s a story about the two women who’ve been an integral part of its remarkable footballing feats from the beginning, from the days of Boban and Suker to remembering Modric as a teenage refugee turn into a world star. nytimes.com/2022/11/22/spo…
And there’s Iva Olivari, team manager for #Croatia. She is in her fourth decade with Croatia, one of the first woman to sit on a national team bench. You can read her story here. 15 mins until Croatia-Morocco kicks off. nytimes.com/2022/11/22/spo… 
Morocco fans making decent sound in Al Khor even though stadium is about half full/empty for this game. Perhaps organizers had tension between having enough accommodation and letting ticket-less fans enter country to buy on arrival? Small local pop. means games not full.
Official attendance, they tell us, is 59,407. It isn't. Unless there are some tiny, tiny people sitting in those thousands of empty seats.
Game over. 0-0. Tight game. Not much to report beyond the fact I would love to watch a game in Morocco. Just for the crowd experience. These guys did their country proud.
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