Infantino doing ‘great job’ World Cup star Suker says, tells Hong Kong ‘be more like Croatia’

Soon after he joined the Hong Kong football association 2½ years ago, the now outgoing technical director John Morling pointed to the success of Croatia and asked, “why can’t that be us?” With a population just shy of 4 million, Croatia have reached one World Cup final and two semi-finals in the past 28 years.

Now, Davor Suker, one of the stars of their 1998 run to the last four, is poised to share some of his country’s secrets with Hong Kong: population 7 million, world No 156 and as far away...