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Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« on: June 4, 2021, 06:13:04 pm »
Inspired by the side topic in the City thread

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Favorite player in the newer era would be Boban for me personally, although there are plenty of them.




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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #1 on: June 4, 2021, 06:20:16 pm »
Dejan Savićević is mine.  He's the GOAT ain't he mate?  ;D



Although my mate Prosinecki wasn't far behind.  ;D

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #2 on: June 4, 2021, 06:37:39 pm »
Dejan Savićević is mine.  He's the GOAT ain't he mate?  ;D



Although my mate Prosinecki wasn't far behind.  ;D

Your love for Prosinecki is legendary  ;D, imagine what he could have done if he wasn't smoking at half-time during his entire career  ;D

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #3 on: June 4, 2021, 06:41:16 pm »
There was only one GOAT of Yugoslavian football, and his name is Piksi ...

https://youtu.be/Lx2p43NE9DA

Even though some people would argue it was Šekularac ...

https://youtu.be/JNU6am53oAA

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #4 on: June 4, 2021, 06:46:29 pm »
I think if there was a combined Yugoslav team circa 2014, it would have been really good too.


-----------------Subašić

Srna----Ivanovic----Lovren----Kolarov

-------------------Brozovic

------------Modric---------Pjanic

---------------------Rakitic

-------------Dzeko-------Mandzukic

That team can definitely compete with the best 

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #5 on: June 4, 2021, 06:49:06 pm »
Robert Jarni in LB mate.
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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #6 on: June 4, 2021, 06:50:03 pm »
Croatia Euro 96 side were excellent.
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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #7 on: June 4, 2021, 06:59:31 pm »
Robert Jarni in LB mate.

Well he did say circa 2014  ;D

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #8 on: June 4, 2021, 07:00:53 pm »
I think if there was a combined Yugoslav team circa 2014, it would have been really good too.


-----------------Subašić

Srna----Ivanovic----Lovren----Kolarov

-------------------Brozovic

------------Modric---------Pjanic

---------------------Rakitic

-------------Dzeko-------Mandzukic

That team can definitely compete with the best

No Oblak or Handanovic?

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #9 on: June 4, 2021, 07:01:13 pm »
Well he did say circa 2014  ;D

I know he may had still been playing.
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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #10 on: June 4, 2021, 07:01:34 pm »
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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #11 on: June 4, 2021, 07:02:42 pm »
There was only one GOAT of Yugoslavian football, and his name is Piksi ...

https://youtu.be/Lx2p43NE9DA

Even though some people would argue it was Šekularac ...

https://youtu.be/JNU6am53oAA

Dzajic if you want to go back to the 60's ?

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #12 on: June 4, 2021, 07:03:35 pm »
There was only one GOAT of Yugoslavian football, and his name is Piksi ...

https://youtu.be/Lx2p43NE9DA

Even though some people would argue it was Šekularac ...

https://youtu.be/JNU6am53oAA

I read that as ex Everton (and MLS?) legend Preki at first!

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« Reply #13 on: June 4, 2021, 07:03:53 pm »
Your love for Prosinecki is legendary  ;D, imagine what he could have done if he wasn't smoking at half-time during his entire career  ;D

Mate he was the best player on the pitch on most occasions half stone and half drunk.  He'd be pretty much unbeatable had he been playing now.

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« Reply #14 on: June 4, 2021, 07:04:59 pm »
Another couple of favourites of mine were the strikers. David Sukur was obviously brilliant and everyone remembers Euro 96 and France 98 but always though Alan Boksic was class too. Fuck knows why he decided to waste a few years of his career at Middlesbrough!

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #15 on: June 4, 2021, 07:06:32 pm »
Mijatovic was a top Striker in the mid to late 90's too.

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #16 on: June 4, 2021, 07:07:40 pm »
From a footballing perspective, it's an absolute shame about what happened in the early 90's. I reckon Yugoslavia would have won Euro '92 and given a good account of themselves at the 1994 World Cup if they weren't banned from both.

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« Reply #17 on: June 4, 2021, 07:08:51 pm »
Simic, Asanovic, Stimac, Bilic and Juric, good side that.
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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #18 on: June 4, 2021, 07:09:03 pm »
Mijatovic was a top Striker in the mid to late 90's too.

Scored the winner in the Champions League final didn’t he?

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #19 on: June 4, 2021, 07:09:44 pm »
I said this in the man city thread but I think if the countries hadn't broken ups any tournament from Euro 92 to Euro 2000 they'd have a chance of winning it.

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« Reply #20 on: June 4, 2021, 07:10:09 pm »
Scored the winner in the Champions League final didn’t he?
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« Reply #21 on: June 4, 2021, 07:11:21 pm »
Scored the winner in the Champions League final didn’t he?

He certainly did.
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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #22 on: June 4, 2021, 07:11:43 pm »
Inspired by the side topic in the City thread

 :D

Favorite player in the newer era would be Boban for me personally, although there are plenty of them.


I was a massive Boban fan, 1999 when Milan won the title, they went on a winning streak back end of the season, Zaccheroni had dropped him most of that season, changed to a back 3 and put him in and i think they won the last 8-9 games that season, Boban was immense.

Dejan Savicevic who destroyed the Barca dream team in 1994, one of the best CL final performances from a player.

Croatian team in Euro 96, Sukur scoring that crazy goal, i think at Villa Park.
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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #23 on: June 4, 2021, 07:17:40 pm »
Another couple of favourites of mine were the strikers. David Sukur was obviously brilliant and everyone remembers Euro 96 and France 98 but always though Alan Boksic was class too. Fuck knows why he decided to waste a few years of his career at Middlesbrough!

I literally can't remember Sukur at Arsenal.

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #24 on: June 4, 2021, 07:19:00 pm »
Dzajic if you want to go back to the 60's ?

Džajić was a great player, but I think his best years were in the early 70's. I love Piksi because I watched him in person on several ocassions. My late dad was a huge fan of Šekularac, and that is why I was looking for as many videos of him as I could find. Ivica Osim, the manager of that 1990 World Cup team was also an awesome player according to the older fans, but he never played for the Yugoslavian Big 4 before moving to France, so he never really had the playing career with the national team that he deserved ...

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #25 on: June 4, 2021, 07:21:00 pm »
I literally can't remember Sukur at Arsenal.
Do you remember Prosinecki at Portsmouth.

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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #26 on: June 4, 2021, 07:21:25 pm »
Mate he was the best player on the pitch on most occasions half stone and half drunk.  He'd be pretty much unbeatable had he been playing now.

Yes, was superb. Reading this thread has just reminded me he played for Pompey. God knows how that happened.

Stojković is the name that first popped into my head. Thanks for the video Peter.

I used to watch football Italia most weeks baffled by why Darko Pancev hadnt scored again.

Maybe a player who doesnt immediately spring to mind is Ivan Golac. We had some great, tough games against Southampton back in the day.



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« Reply #27 on: June 4, 2021, 07:23:27 pm »
I literally can't remember Sukur at Arsenal.

He was still good but legs had gone a bit. They were in a bit of transition, signed him at the same time as Henry I think. In fact I think I saw him have a penalty saved at Anfield by Westerveld! The game we here Robbie scored a screamer in off the bar.

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« Reply #28 on: June 4, 2021, 07:24:29 pm »
I literally can't remember Sukur at Arsenal.

Played only a handful of games if memory serves me.
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« Reply #29 on: June 4, 2021, 07:25:20 pm »
Džajić was a great player, but I think his best years were in the early 70's. I love Piksi because I watched him in person on several ocassions. My late dad was a huge fan of Šekularac, and that is why I was looking for as many videos of him as I could find. Ivica Osim, the manager of that 1990 World Cup team was also an awesome player according to the older fans, but he never played for the Yugoslavian Big 4 before moving to France, so he never really had the playing career with the national team that he deserved ...

What age are you?
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« Reply #30 on: June 4, 2021, 07:29:49 pm »
I literally can't remember Sukur at Arsenal.

Suker, not to be confused by Sukur [Turkish striker], but Suker probably can't remember that spell at Arsenal either  ;D . His best years were already behind him at that point.

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« Reply #31 on: June 4, 2021, 07:30:50 pm »
What thing that bothered me is that Yugoslavian players couldn't move to foreign clubs until the age of 27, it was a rule, so most of them didn't get a chance to play at the biggest clubs Europe at their peak [60's-80's]

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« Reply #32 on: June 4, 2021, 07:33:45 pm »
What age are you?

I am over 50 now, but I have been collecting videos from the 60's and 70's for years, because my dad used to love watching the players of his younger days. When he was younger, it was pretty normal going by train to watch some derbies in Belgrade, Zagreb, Split or Sarajevo. Of course, Vardar Skopje was in Yugoslavia's first division most of the time, so in the 80's I was a regular at their games ...

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« Reply #33 on: June 4, 2021, 07:34:32 pm »
Only asked your age ;)
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« Reply #34 on: June 4, 2021, 07:35:03 pm »
Obafemi Martins was really good.

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« Reply #35 on: June 4, 2021, 07:35:30 pm »
What thing that bothered me is that Yugoslavian players couldn't move to foreign clubs until the age of 27, it was a rule, so most of them didn't get a chance to play at the biggest clubs Europe at their peak [60's-80's]

It was actually the age of 28. Only later it became 27, and then 26 before the rule was abolished ...

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« Reply #36 on: June 4, 2021, 07:36:16 pm »
It was actually the age of 28. Only later it became 27, and then 26 before the rule was abolished ...

It deep keep the domestic league strong but robbed players of playing at top clubs earlier on.

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« Reply #37 on: June 4, 2021, 07:38:31 pm »
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Re: Yugoslavian Football Appreciation Thread
« Reply #38 on: June 4, 2021, 07:40:07 pm »
All time side

Oblak

Simic
Vasovic
Mihajlovic
Jarni

Modric
Boban
Jugovic

Prosinecki
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« Reply #39 on: June 4, 2021, 07:40:44 pm »
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