As Croatia prepares to face Turkey on Friday in the European Championship quarterfinals _ its best sporting achievement in 10 years _ Croats have taking their usual football madness even further.
Little Croatian flags are fluttering from all cars on city streets. School children and officer workers are wearing replicas of the team's checkerboard pattern shirts. Women are having their nails done in the flag colors and a boutique in Zagreb is even offering a checkered tuxedo.
Reporter Olgica Ivic Grizelj wrote in the Slobodna Dalmacija daily that she's almost ashamed to go out of her house without the team shirt on, noting that "everyone is in …
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