"The Croatian team came to this World Cup with only two natural strikers. Mario Mandzukic, the guy who scored the winner in d match against England and that was his only goal for the tournament.
The other was Nikola Kalinic He was on the bench for Croatia's first game against Nigeria. With five minutes to end that game, coach instructed him to dress up and replace another player.
Kalinic angrily refused to play, in protest of being left on the bench.
He saw himself a top player, and wouldn't come on for just five minutes. The coach turned to other player Pjaca for the substitution.
After the match, Kalinic refused to apologize, despite appeals from other coaching staff probably he felt he was the one who deserve an appology.
The coach then sacked him from the team, and sent him home from Russia. Kalinic flew for holidays, and even posted pictures of himself enjoying elsewhere having fun.
After all, he seem to imagine, Croatia won't go anywhere in the tournament. But without him, the team managed to win their matches.
Croatia has achieved their greatest football achievement in history, reaching the World Cup final against all odds that were against them right from the start of the competition to the end.
The remaining 22 players are national heroes. Their names forever inscribed in the hearts of generations and in history book.
Kalinic should have been part but minus him. All because of minutes of anger. Minutes of pride and bloated ego. This is proof that pride goes before a fall.
He may have regretted now. He may have realized his tomfoolery. But it is too late. These stories about life are quite familiar to us, but do we really learn lessons from them? As they profoundly apply to all spheres of life.
If feel you are bigger than you are given and don't even show gratitude for the little you are give, God will take the little away and give to another. Kalinic must have thought and believed he is one of the oldest team member of the Croatian team, so he felt he was indispensable, he must have learned what a fool he was to have thought that, no one is indispensable, not even Ronaldo and Messi.
Learn to CUT PRIDE. Learn to control anger and DEFLATE EGO and ultimately, learn to say SORRY.
Years of SWEAT & DEDICATION can all be shattered by moments of ANGER and PRIDE.
DON'T BE A KALINIC"