It is not surprising that the World Cup in football, given its global resonance, particularly attracts the attention of athletes from a colorful range of other industries, including winter sports. This is also the case with Jakov Fakthe best Slovenian biathlete, owner of two world championship titles and two Olympic medals. He won the first in Vancouver 2010, at that time still for the Croatian national team. The story of his moving to the Slovenian line due to better conditions is well known, as well as the fact that he repeatedly shakes his fists for athletes and teams from both Slovenia and Croatia.
In the last preparatory match between the football national teams of the mentioned two countries (Varaždin, 2:1; Modric, Pasalic; Sporar) his feelings were divided between the two camps. He was looking forward to the match, even if he couldn’t watch it in full afterwards. “I’m going through the preparation period for the new season, which is different for me than in the past, because I’m also paying a lot of attention to the complete recovery of my injured knee. That’s why I sometimes get caught up in a busy schedule, so I only watched the second half of the match between Slovenia and Croatia. I really like football and I hope that in the coming days I will be lucky enough to see at least a few attractive matches,” he told us in anticipation of tonight’s spectacle between Croatia and England. The match will start at 10:00 p.m., which suits him, given his colorful daily schedule with training, rehabilitation and family life with his wife and three daughters. The children will be in the middle of their sleep by then, the sports activities for the day are done, with the wife Mateo and they will watch the match under the roof of their home in Lesce in Gorenjska.
