| The Croatian national football team has | | | | early 1900s and the Polish national soccer |
| played in international tournaments as a | | | | team played its first international match in |
| national team since Croatia's independence in | | | | 1921. |
| 1990-1992 and is controlled by the Croatian | | | | |
| Football Federation. | | | | There are hundreds of professional and |
| | | | amateur soccer teams in Poland. The soccer |
| The team played in their first major | | | | teams are organized into the national 1st |
| tournament in 1996 and has been a strong | | | | league and 2nd league, 4 regional 3rd |
| force in international soccer ever since. | | | | leagues, 19 regional 4th leagues, 49 regional |
| Finishing third in the 1998 World Cup against | | | | 5th leagues and many more lower level |
| all Sportsbook odds, led by Golden Boot | | | | leagues. There are also Polish Cup and Polish |
| winner Davor Ã… uker. They have qualified | | | | Supercup competitions. |
| for every World Cup that they have entered as | | | | |
| an independent nation. | | | | The Poland national soccer team (Polish: |
| | | | polska reprezentacja narodowa) is the |
| Between October 17, 1990 and March 1, 2006, | | | | national soccer team of Poland and is |
| Croatia has played 141 international games | | | | controlled by the Polish Football |
| and had 71 victories, 42 draws and 28 losses. | | | | Association. |
| The team has been FIFA's "Best Mover of the | | | | |
| Year" in 1994 and 1998 | | | | It played its first international match on 18 |
| | | | December 1921 in Budapest against Hungary and |
| Soccer is probably the most popular sport in | | | | was defeated 0:1. Poland won the Gold medal |
| Poland. | | | | in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the |
| | | | Silver medal in the 1976 Summer Olympics in |
| Over 400,000 Poles play soccer regularly, | | | | Montreal and the 1992 Summer Olympics in |
| millions more play soccer sometimes. The | | | | Barcelona. In the World Cup, Poland finished |
| first professional clubs were founded in the | | | | third twice: in 1974 and 1982. |