“Albania, dangerous”, coach Dalic: Take them seriously, they were excellent during the preliminary phase.

Their self - esteem must surely be great. Croatia's national football players are the ones who have caused powerful shocks in the World Cups, beating Germany, the Argentina of the Messiah, England and the Brazil superpower.

This national coach, Zlatko Dalic, has a warning when it comes to one of the rivals in Euro24, Albania.

The former Tirana Dinamo coach, who has started preparations in Zagreb with his players, thus recognises the group in Germany, in an interview for regional television “N1”, where more words are on redsite.

It's the hardest group in the European Championship. European champions, Italians. Champions of the League of Nations, Spaniards. Albanians, who have been excellent in the preliminary phase and are very dangerous. We have to take them very seriously. The difficult group, the first match against Spain, last against Italy. We need 4-5 points to get past the group, but we need to get as high as we can in the group as we can get our opponents as easy as we can.

Dalic led Croatia to the World Cup final in 2018 in Russia and third place in the Qatar World Cup, but says the main goal is to cross the group.

Balkans are not among the favourites for Europeans, something they're used to, and they've always rejected predictions.