Zagreb: Walking through the streets of Zagreb, Croatia's capital city, you can sense that the start of the World Cup is just around the corner. Seeing everybody getting ready you would think that Brazil is Croatia's neighbour and not some country almost 10,000 km away.

For the next three weeks or even more, as the whole nation hopes, Croatian national team and its matches in the World Cup will be the centre of the universe for a lot of Croatians, reports Xinhua.