Sport has a vast array of disciplines. You're good at football. Somewhat good at handball, Iceland is just as good - at least per capita

. Competitive at basketball but Serbia, Slovenia is better. It doesn't make you the Spartans of the modern World. The smaller nation the bigger megalomaniacs they become about themselves.
Belgium, Holland, have better football pedigrees per capita - Czech Republic ain't that bad in that regard either. They don't make a big deal out of it though.
You act like FC Barcelona is Dynamo Zagreb. You know all there is to know...Better than Catalonians themselves.
Sorry Dude, they prefered Lewa over Mandukic at Bayern. Similarly, at Barca, they preferred 33 year old Lewa over Budimir, Kramaric or whoever else too. And I, his fan, wasn't excited about it. I preferred he went to either Juve or Inter. The World ain't fair. The club you love, doesn't love you back they way you'd want it to.