UEFA Euro 2016: Turkey vs Croatia

Turkey and Croatia will start its journey at Euro France with the memory of other best times for both teams, when they enjoyed successes that marked historical barriers that will try to knock in a tournament that neither is favorite.

Croatia, more powerful for the quality of their players, constantly looks askance at the World Cup in France 1998, in which the generation of Davor Suker, Robert Prosinecki and Zvonimir Boban ended up in third place. After that tournament, he never again shines except at Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland.

There, Croatia, Luka Modric with the front, reached the quarterfinals and was eliminated on penalties precisely by Turkey, which was fourth in that six years after the European Championship third place in the World Cup in Korea and Japan. The Ottomans, like the Balkan box, dreams of repeating those glorious days.

Cacic will have all his players except sanctioned Duje Cop. The Malaga player will have to wait until the next game to debut, although their absence does not overturns their coach plans as Mandzukic is the absolute master of the front.

Opposite Croatia will face a selection that eight years after finishing fourth at the European of Austria-Switzerland return to a major competition again coached by Fatih Terim.

Because if anything distinguishes Terim's team that never gives up. It was so in 2008, when they soared to Switzerland and the Czech Republic with goals in the final minutes, especially when equalized in the last minute of extra time against Croatia in the quarter, a party that had lost by conceding a goal two minutes before.

In this qualifying campaign, a free-kick against Iceland in the final minutes gave him a position as one of the best third in the playoffs, in which, against all expectations, left in the lurch Netherlands.

The current Turkish national trust much of their options to set pieces, which has two great specialists, the Barcelona midfielder Arda Turam and Hakan Calhanoglu Leverkusen.

The great Turkish hope, however, is the young Emre Mor, a player 19, of Danish origin, which Terim has convinced to join Turkey for this tournament and, this week, he signed for Borussia Dortmund .