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Croatia World Cup team get hero's welcome in Zagreb

Croatia World Cup team get hero's welcome in Zagreb
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The team lost 4-2 to France but it was Croatia's best-ever world cup result.

Croatia's national football team arrived back in Zagreb on Monday after their run all the way to the final of the World Cup in Moscow.

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From the moment the team landed, the celebration was broadcast live on national television.

The team rode an open-topped bus through streets swamped with thousands of cheering fans.

But after a four-hour ride the bus was stranded a kilometre from Zagreb's central square as it couldn't get through the crowds.

The team lost 4-2 to France but it was Croatia's best-ever world cup result.

"They lost the final, but won the world," read the headline in a local newspaper.

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