Croatia's 'Glamorous' President Wows UK Ahead of Match

Ahead of Wednesday's World Cup semi-final showdown in Moscow, British tabloids have cranked up their coverage of England's Western Balkan rival in the match, Croatia.

Britain's mass market Daily Mail on Wednesday wrote that Croatians have a " VERY glamorous" president", are "huge" compared to the English and are "often seen shouting, swearing and waving their hands about - even when they're discussing the usually perfect weather".

Croats also "hate air conditioning" and like eating "a lamb's head - whole".

Among a host of other "things you never knew" the Mail supplied about Croatia are that "many of their words have no vowels", that President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic "is sometimes mistaken for a porn star" and that the national currency is "named after a ferret-like creature".

The Mail has been taken with Grabar Kitarovic for several days, penning a gushing portrait of the "striking blonde leader, dressed head to toe in patriotic red" - and contrasting her favourably with Britain's embattled and decidedly unglamorous Prime Minister, Theresa May.

"Her jovial mood and dancing in the stands has set Twitter alight and offers a stark contrast to the cloud of gloom currently hovering over UK politics," it wrote.

Britain's mass market "Sun" has taken a similar line, also enthusing about the "glamorous" President, although noting with less enthusiasm that she is a "staunch Roman Catholic"

Tabloid media interest in Britain about Croatia has not been entirely confined to the President, however.

Desperate to fill online space ahead of the match, the tabloids have also been busy scouring Britain for couples supposedly "at war" over Wednesday's semi-final.

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