History Yugoslavia national football team

1 history

1.1 1930 world cup
1.2 silver medal @ 1948 summer olympics
1.3 silver medal @ 1952 summer olympics
1.4 later decades
1.5 dissolution , un embargo
1.6 breakup

history

yugoslavia @ 1924 summer olympics

the first national team in kingdom existed between 2 world wars. football federation of kingdom of serbs, croats , slovenes founded in zagreb in 1919 under name jugoslovenski nogometni savez (and admitted fifa), , national team played first international game @ summer olympics in antwerp in 1920. opponent czechoslovakia, , historic starting eleven represented kingdom of scs on debut were: dragutin vrđuka, vjekoslav Župančić, jaroslav Šifer, stanko tavčar, slavin cindrić, rudolf rupec, dragutin vragović, artur dubravčić, emil perška, ivan granec, , jovan ružić. lost huge margin 0–7, nonetheless got names in history books.

1930 world cup

a yugoslavia line-up in 1930 fifa world cup

in 1929, country renamed yugoslavia , football association became fudbalski savez jugoslavije , moved headquarters belgrade. national team participated @ 1930 fifa world cup, finishing in fourth place. in first ever world cup match in montevideo s parque central, yugoslavia managed famous 2–1 win versus mighty brazil, following starting eleven representing country: milovan jakšić, branislav sekulić, aleksandar tirnanić, milutin ivković, ivica bek, momčilo Đokić, blagoje marjanović, milorad arsenijević, Đorđe vujadinović, dragoslav mihajlović, , ljubiša stefanović. national team consisted of players based in serbian football clubs, while zagreb subassociation forbid players croatian clubs, of whom regulars in national team until then, play in world cup due relocation of football association s headquarters zagreb belgrade.

silver medal @ 1948 summer olympics

yugoslavia began football campaign defeating luxembourg 6–1, 5 different players scoring goals. in quarter-finals , semi-finals, take out turkey , great britain same score of 3–1. in final though, lose sweden.

silver medal @ 1952 summer olympics

having team many players 1948 generation, yugoslavia formidable side @ 1952 summer olympics , finished runners-up behind famous golden team representing hungary. against ussr, yugoslavia 5–1 15 minutes of first round match go. yugoslavs, understandably, put feet up. arthur ellis, match referee, recorded happened next in book, final whistle (london, 1963): ussr forced honourable draw ever recorded! [vsevolod] bobrov, captain, scored magnificent hat-trick. after ussr had reduced lead 5–2, he, single-handed, took score 5–5, scoring third in last minute. once, use of word sensational justified. although bobrov s goal in replay presaged miraculous recovery, yugoslavia recovered sufficiently put out opponents in second half.

later decades

the federation , football overall disrupted world war ii. after war, socialist federation formed , football federation reconstituted. 1 of founding members of uefa , organized 1976 european championship played in belgrade , zagreb. national team participated in 8 world cups , 4 euros, , won olympic football tournament in 1960 @ summer games (they finished second 3 times , third once).

dragan džajić holds record national team caps @ 85, between 1964 , 1979. best scorer stjepan bobek 38 goals, between 1946 , 1956.

dissolution , un embargo

with end of cold war, democratic principles introduced country brought end of titoist rule. in subsequent atmosphere, national tensions heightened. @ yugoslavia-netherlands friendly in preparation 1990 world cup, croatian crowd in zagreb jeered yugoslav team , anthem , waved dutch flags (owing resemblance croatian tricolour). dissolution of yugoslavia, team split , remaining team of federal republic of yugoslavia (fry) banned competing @ euro 92. decision made on may 31, 1992, 10 days before competition commenced.

they had finished top of qualifying group, unable play in competition due united nations security council resolution 757. place taken denmark, went on win competition. yugoslavia had been drawn top seed in group 5 of european zone in qualifying tournament 1994 world cup. fry barred competing, rendering group unusually weak.

breakup

after breakup of yugoslavia, fry consisted of montenegro , serbia. national team of serbia , montenegro continued under name yugoslavia until 2003, when country , team renamed serbia , montenegro. later official football teams, see:

bosnia , herzegovina national football team (member of uefa , fifa since 1990s)
croatia national football team (member of uefa , fifa since 1990s)
slovenia national football team (member of uefa , fifa since 1990s)
republic of macedonia national football team (member of uefa , fifa since 1990s)
serbia , montenegro national football team, (considered successor of yugoslavia) later

montenegro national football team (member of uefa , fifa since 2006)
serbia national football team (considered successor of serbia , montenegro)






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