World Cup Final Has Special Meaning for Skokna

Junior guard Bruno Skokna is a native of Zagreb, Croatia.It’s been a year of Cinderella moments for junior Loyola guard Bruno Skokna. The Loyola men’s basketball team had its moment when it made the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament. Four months later, Skokna is living another Cinderella moment: His home country of Croatia is in the FIFA World Cup Final for the first time in history.

Skokna said going into the World Cup, he wouldn’t have thought they’d make it to the final. Croatia is the fifth-smallest country to ever qualify for the World Cup, so Skokna said he was excited by how far the team has gone.

“You never expect that,” Skokna said. “I was rooting for them and I knew what they were…