The aim of this thesis is to examine the influence of media in a creation of a public image that connects Croatian football and politics by focusing on a sample consisting of reports published by three daily newspapers in June 2016. During the European Football Championship, held in France in 2016, a small fraction of Croatian supporters illegaly stopped the game between Croatian and Czech national teams. The actions of those supporters caused a lot of controversy in Croatian media, which questioned the background of the problem and inevitably started a debate on politicization of Croatian football. In order to simplify the analysis of publications, this thesis starts with a short history of the aforementioned popular sport, followed by the definitons of key terms (supporters, football subculture, hooliganism). Furthermore, this thesis contains a case study that proves that, in their publications, Croatian media didn't percieve supporters as the sole initiators of various scandals in Croatian football, but rather tried to find a more complex cause behind existing problems. In addition to that, a lot of Croatian politicans expressed their views on the so-called football hooliganism and tried to come up with a solution, including the President of the state who, for a short period of time, insisted on urgent government sessions and changes in laws concerning sports. However, the story about changes quickly faded away, while the entanglement of politics and football was characterized as a diversion of public attention from more important political questions. However, the incident that occured during the Championship in in France was neither first nor last in the long praxis of using football as a bait to shift the public attention from other issues in order to allow certain interest groups to accomplish their goals.