...Denizlispor stayed in the top division. Denizlispor has denied the allegations. NEW CROATIAN COACH: Former Croatian player Slaven Bilic was hired as the team's coach Tuesday, replacing Zlatko Kranjcar after a poor performance at the World Cup. The...

...hasn't allowed a goal through a 1-0 second-round win over Romania and its demolition of Germany, with Igor Stimac, Slaven Bilic and Dario Simic providing a rock- solid base. The heart of the team is captain and central midfielder Zvonimir Boban...

...equalizer too early. "We really wanted to play the final, but now we have to concentrate and try to be third." Defender Slaven Bilic, who was slammed in the face by French defender Laurent Blanc to earn the Frenchman a red card and give Croatia a man...

...overtime matches in the previous two rounds. "If we had held the lead for five minutes, they were going down," Slaven Bilic said. "The players, the fans. They had played two matches of 120 minutes each. They looked tired." But Thuram...

...and Germany won their groups, Scotland was the best runner-up and France got an automatic bid as host. At Zagreb, Slaven Bilic scored after 11 minutes and Goran Vlaovic added another early in the second half. At Dublin, Dennis Irwin put Ireland...