Where has the humility gone? Zlatko Dalić seems to wish for a law to protect his image and work

Where has that famous humility gone?

Where has disappeared the modesty with which Dalić praised from the first days of the success of his national team, when he promoted the games, greeted the fans, invoked God and Our Lady?

Suddenly, after the expiration of the contract and in view of the talks about a new contract for the electoral seat, when the public grew began to entertain his successors and new candidates, Dalić began to build a monument to himself.

No criticism

Not exactly at the happiest time: after the relegation from Portugal and all those failures that were seen in his tactical preparation for the championship, in the organization of the team, personnel selections and especially, the defense after the break.

However, the more he admitted his mistakes, the more he cemented the attitude that there should be no criticism.

And that’s where the bizarre part of the interview began, which somewhat confused even the hosts of the HTV show.

It started with the routine question of whether he will continue to be a selector, to which Dalić began with platitudes and demagoguery, to which, unprovoked, he related the story of his privacy, beliefs and faith.

Faith and values

“It’s not that I don’t want to stay, I have to sort out some things and decide with my family,” he said and launched into a tirade: “I’m exposed to criticism that I’m ready to bear. For some, I’m ignorant and lucky and people have the right to criticize me. I have to accept criticism and praise. I can’t just accept that some other criteria apply. I have my values ​​that I communicate loudly and I respect everyone else.”

He emphasized that “his value cannot be a criterion for whether he is a good selector or not” and said that it “very much bothers him”.

He obviously referred to newspaper articles about his faith, devotion to the Church, devotion to God and Our Lady, going on pilgrimages, preaching in the church, carrying the cross and everything else about Zlatko Dali. speaks volumes.

Although no one asked him about it.

And then he moved on to an even more important remark.

Family and grass

“The question is, do I need it all together, that I and my family are attacked and insulted with lies, after everything I have done for Croatia. I am a person who should not go through this, for someone to spread rumors to the media and the public. If it were true, I would agree with my ears. But it bothers me. I don’t know if I have offended anyone.”

Didć once again, on his own initiative, he mentions grasses that would remain grasses if he had already for weeks he doesn’t stop talking about it in press interviews, the name again only provokes a new public interest in grasses that are still only grasses.

Insulted and hurt

Therefore, the selector is insulted and hurt by rumors about his private life (which we are not interested in) and texts about his devotion to religion, which he talks about more than football tactics.

And when he claims that he “doesn’t know if he offended anyone” and that he “respects everyone else”, he forgets that he was carried away by his own lack of humility, as well as by the euphoria after Thompson’s concert, last summer he publicly called out “a loud minority that does not like and does not want Croatia”.

It doesn’t look like faith filled him with love. More vengeful.

And it seems that the pot is half-broken: being faithful is a private and personal thing for each individual, not a slogan that you wave at every corner and on every occasion.

What’s the point?

Which all brings us to the point of Dalić’s performance, to the message that the media-calculated coach came up with in preparation for appearing in front of the national television cameras: he would like to remain coach on the condition that he is no longer criticized, mentioned, admonished, nor that rumors are spread about him or that his religious manifestations, such as wearing a cross before the championship, are commented on.

He almost said that a law should be passed to protect his image and work.

Zlatko Dalić he built his own monument and declared himself a national asset.

And again, where did all that humility go?

And what would his coach and mentor, the late Miroslav Ćiro Blažević, coach of all coaches, smeared with all the grease, beaten with all the media beatings, slapped with all the fans’ criticisms, say to all that?

Greater than function

Didć he thinks he is bigger than the function he held. Untouchable and unquestionable. He is honest about the topics that he deals with more than the public. Protected from criticism due to the fact that he turned the football team into a training ground for the promotion of clerical nationalism, while promoting himself as some kind of religious mystic.

Zlatko Dalić he acted yesterdayć a contrite ž victim, although in the background of his performance was the message that he is above everything and above everyone.

Humility, like many things in his speeches, was just a hollow platitude.

How to stop grass?

Zlatko Dalić He wanted to remain a selector, because he wanted to be respected and important, as well as well paid, but at the same time, in the position of a selector, he wanted to be protected from name-calling and criticism. Even from grass.

Only, how does he intend to stop the grass?

And how does he expect to be fair to criticism while hiding behind religion and the Church when he is dealing with “a loud minority that does not like and does not want Croatia”?

Čit seems that Dalić confused the function of a football coach – not for the first time – with the role of a prophet.

And what is a prophet without his followers, without his representation?