DALLAS Six of Croatia's best players are back at homerather than here preparing for Tuesday's friendly against Mexico, but the
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The absence ofLuka Modric,Mario Mandzukic, Ivan Perisic,Marcelo Brozovic,Nikola Kalinic and Danijel Subasicwill complicate things for a side coming off a 2-0 defeat to Peru on Friday. But it's also a chance for fringe players to impre s managerZlatko Dalic.
"I think Croatia has
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Former Tottenham defenderVedran Corluka will captain Croatia inthe contest with Barcelona midfielder Ivan Rakitic also part of the group that will take on El Tri.
"I think we have players who can replace them. We still have a lot of quality," said Corluka, who has played for Lokomotiv Moscow since 2012 and has a Ru sian nesting doll tattooed on his leg. "Obviously itd be much better if these guys stayed with us, but the
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That's not to say the Croatian team isn't expecting a strong test. The two teams have a fair amount of recent history, with Mexico topping Croatia in the 2014 World Cup andthe European sidewinning a friendly last year before Mexico's trip to the Confederations Cup.
"We have a history. We always beat them in the friendly
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