Croatians donate blood to see key soccer game
Monday, October 10, 2005
Croatian soccer fans rushed to donate blood this week in exchange for tickets for the national team’s decisive World Cup
qualifying game against Sweden, the Vecernji List daily reported Friday.
The game’s organizers set aside 300 tickets for the occasion but the number of volunteer blood donors in Zagreb was several
times higher. Students cut classes and employees used their lunch breaks to queue in the hospital, the daily said. “I have always
been afraid of syringes, but for Croatia I found the courage,” student Ivica Brnadic told the daily. reuters
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