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Italian-based striker Alen Boksic is struggling to be fit to play for Croatia’s squad for next month’s World Cup finals in France.

Boksic, who has a knee injury, is facing minor surgery that could rule him out of Croatia’s first two Group H matches, team doctor Boris Nemec said Monday.

The injury is a longstanding one that Boksic first suffered playing for Italian club Lazio, Nemec said at the Croatian team’s training camp at Porec in north-east Croatia.

The Croatians face Argentina, Japan and Jamaica in the first round of the World Cup, which starts on June 10.