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It's now time for our Off The Field segment.

The focus is on a coach who steps down after his team's exit from the World Cup, Shaka Hislop giving his views on the quarter-final between Norway and England, plus a complaint filed by the Egyptian FA.

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00:09Zlatko Dalic has stepped down as Croatia's coach after taking over the team nine years ago.
00:14In previous World Cups, he took the team to the final, followed by a third place finish.
00:20Dalic says, quote, I have always said that there is no greater honor than leading my national team
00:25and that I cannot have a more important, more responsible and more beautiful job than this, unquote.
00:32His resignation comes less than a week after Croatia went under 2-1 to Portugal in the round of 32.
00:37Now that the quarterfinal matchups are known, many will have their predictions for the upcoming four games.
00:43Regarding the Norway versus England clash on Saturday,
00:47former TNT goalkeeper Xhaka Hislop gives the three lions the edge.
00:50We could talk about Norway beating Brazil and how poor a Brazil team was in this World Cup.
00:57For me, Nyland was Norway's mighty match in that game.
01:01The Norwegian goalkeeper.
01:02So, yeah, I see England winning this.
01:05And finally, Egypt have filed a formal complaint to FIFA about the refereeing decisions
01:10after losing 3-2 in their round of 16 tie against Argentina.
01:14The Egyptian FA is understood to have called for football's governing body
01:18to remove referee France for Latexier, who officiated the game.
01:22The calls follow head coach Hossam Hassan saying Latexier was unfair
01:26and that the World Cup was directed towards Argentina following their loss.
01:30Vinod Nowani, T6 Sport.
01:32That's right.
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