Croatia National Football Team Logo — The selection of football in Croatia is the country’s representative team in official competitions. His organization is in charge of the Croatian Football Federation , which belongs to UEFA . The selection of Croatia was born in 1990 after the breakup of Yugoslavia . Before that event, the Croatian players played in the Yugoslavia national football team . For a short period during the Second World War and the invasion of the Axis powers to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, there was an independent Croatian state played a total of three games between 1940 and 1942 , and is considered as the first pick of Croatia .
Since its debut independent selection, Croatia has played in four preliminary phases of the World Cup and has qualified for the Final three times.Croatia played their first international match on April 14 against Switzerland beating this by 4:0, but on October 17 of 1990 debuted as the present Republic of Croatia beating people by 4-0 to the United States . More