Sime Vrsaljko is a professional Croatian footballer born on January 10, 1992, who plays as a defender for La Liga club Atletico Madrid and the Croatian national team. He received his first call-up to the Croatian national football team on November 2, 2010, in a Euro 2012 qualifier against Malta. He made his national team debut on 9 February 2011 in a friendly match against the Czech Republic.
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He made more than 3 appearances before May 2012, when he was named in Croatia for 26 UEFA Euro 2012 first-team players. , just a week after being dropped from the final list, he was called up again due to the injury of Hamburger SV player Ivo Iličević. He has been an unused substitute for all three Croatian games in this tournament.
In the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, he appeared only once, in a match against Belgium in Zagreb. In May 2014 he was named in the 23-man Croatian squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. With an injury to the Croatian team just before the opening game against Brazil, Vrsaljko has filled the void left-back in place of the injured Danijel Pranjić.
He also played his role as a left-back in the decision-making game against Mexico, which ended in a 3-1 defeat and saw Croatia exit. On 12 November 2014, at the age of 22, he captained the national team in a 2-1 defeat against Argentina, playing the entire game. For more to know about Qatar World Cup tickets Click here.
He has been one of the youngest captains in the history of the national team, with Darijo SRNA being rested in a match against Italy. In May 2018, he was named in the Croatian team that will play in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. He started in six of the seven games the team finished in second place.
He also played three of four games in the first League match, missing the home game against England, which ended in a draw due to a knee injury. In September 2020, Vrsaljko returned to the national team after nearly two years of absence from knee surgery. He has been named in the Nations League matches for Croatia Football World Cup side coach Zlatko Dalić against Portugal and France.
However, Vrsaljko did not play for a minute until the FIFA World 2022 Cup qualifier against Slovenia on March 24, 2021, when Croatia lost 1-0. The defeat was his first game in the national team in 28 months. However, his impressive performance led to Dalić dropping him out of the first XI favoring Josip Juranović ahead of the Croatia Euro 2020 match against Scotland, and knocked him out of the team ahead of him in the September World Cup qualifiers against Russia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
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