The Appeal of the Croatian Football League for Foreign Footballers after the 2018 Football World Cup

Iako je nogomet puno više od sporta, rijetko je u prošlosti bio predmet stručnih i drugih ozbiljnih radova. Tako je i 1.HNL, za razliku od hrvatske nogometne reprezentacije, bio nečesta tema akademskih rasprava. Diplomski rad bavi se, stoga, upravo Prvom hrvatskom nogometnom ligom. Konkretnije, proučava trend povećanja broja inozemnih nogometaša u Prvoj hrvatskoj nogometnoj ligi nakon Svjetskog prvenstva 2018. Njime se, na temelju komentara i razmišljanja hrvatskih nogometnih stručnjaka te inozemnih nogometaša koji nastupaju za klubove iz 1.HNL, ispituju razlozi dolaska velikog broja stranih igrača u 1.HNL nakon uspjeha Hrvatske na istom Svjetskom prvenstvu, kojih je u posljednje tri sezone više no ikad u ligi, kao i prednosti i nedostaci takvih migracija. Konačno, rad istražuje prednosti i nedostatke, odnosno smjer u kojem se Prva hrvatska nogometna liga razvija u posljednjih nekoliko sezona.Even though football is more than just a sport, rarely had it been a topic of relevant research or papers in the past. The same applies to 1.HNL who, unlike the Croatian national football team, wasn't often a topic of academic work. This thesis, therefore, looks exactly into the Croatian First Football League. More specifically, it studies the trend of the increasing in the number of foreign footballers in the Croatian First Football League after the 2018 World Cup. It, based on the commentary and the thoughts of Croatian football experts and foreign footballers who play for clubs in 1.HNL, questions the reasons of the arrival of a big number of foreign players in 1.HNL after the success of Croatia at the same World Cup, as there never had been so much of them as there was in the last three season, as well as the advantages and the disadvantages of these kind of migrations. Finally, the thesis explores pros and cons, apropos the direction in which the Croatian First Football League is developing in the last couple of seasons