World Football: How Would National Football Team Of Yugoslavia Look Today?

I bet you big sport fans heard about Yugoslavia. This country played big role in every sport.

 

Yugoslavia consisted of six countries (Slovenia,Croatia,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia).

 

Try to imagine how powerful would Yugoslavia would look today in many sports such as handball, water-polo,basketball, tennis and of course football.

 

Yugoslavia has produced, and continues to produce, some of the finest talents in the European game. Zvonimir Boban, Davor Šuker, Predrag Mijatović, Dejan Savičević and Dragan Džajić are just some of the big players that came from this region.

 

For this team I will use good old 4-4-2 and I will name substitutes as well.

 

Feel free leave your opinions and share your tactics with me. All comments and thoughts are welcome.

 

There players are my first eleven. I hope you will enjoy it!

 

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GK: Samir Handanović (Slovenia)

Age: 26

Club: Udinese (Italy)

 

Handanović is a very good goalkeeper that currently plays in Udinese.

He has been in top form for long time and he is definitely the right guy for the goal.

Don't be surprise when he soon end's up in bigger club.

DR: Darijo Srna (Croatia)

Age: 28

Club: Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)

 

Srna is currently enjoying his great football years playing for both Croatian national team and his club, Shakhtar Donetsk where he is a big hero.

He is also a captain in Croatia and Shakhtar.

Darijo is a specialist for free kicks. He is a true inspiration for many young talents who look at him as a role model.

A lot of football experts considered him to be the greatest defender right back along Maicon and Daniel Alves.

DC: Nemanja Vidić (Serbia)

Age: 28

Club: Manchester United (England)

 

One of the greatest defenders today in football world.

Alex Ferguson have really big trust in Vidić's abilities.

He established great defensive partnership with Rio Ferdinand and results are great.

DC: Vedran Ćorluka (Croatia)

Age: 24

Club: Tottenham Hotspur (England)

 

He is doing great job in Premier League side Tottenham.

Popular "Charlie" often plays as defender right back.

Ćorluka is also known as the guy that loves to go forward and help the forwards.

DL: Aleksandar Kolarov (Serbia)

Age: 24

Club: Manchester City (England)

 

Very popular left back. It all says when Man.City payed big money for his services.

He is a left back capable of playing in left midfield.

He is known for his runs down the left wing and his powerful shot.

MR: Dejan Stanković (Serbia)

Age:32

Club: Inter (Italy)

 

He is an attacking midfielder who can also play out wide on the wings.

Stanković is best known for his effective, accurate passing and creativity.

As well he posses great ability to score long distance goals.

MC: Luka Modrić (Croatia)

Age: 25

Club: Tottenham Hotspur (England)

 

Luka is a little genius that keeps being praised by many great football coaches.

Modrić loves to demonstrate his acceleration, range of passing, vision and fantastic technique.

A lot of football experts consider him to be one of the best midfielders today.

Lately Ferguson showed interest for this "little" guy.

MC: Zvjezdan Misimović (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Age: 28

Club: Galatasaray (Turkey)

 

Misimović showed great skills in Wolfsburg where he helped the team to win Bundesliga in 2009.

He is a  very good player that often plays as attacking midfielder.

ML: Goran Pandev (Macedonia)

Age: 27

Club: Inter (Italy)

 

He usually plays as a striker, but in my eyes he could easily be attacking midfielder left.

He is probably the greatest Macedonian player in history.

FW: Mirko Vučinić (Montenegro)

Age: 27

Club: Roma (Italy)

 

Best known for his speed, dribbling and abilities to score impressive goals.

He is definitely the best Montenegro player today.

Montenegro national team thanks to him keep making impressive results in qualifiers for EURO 2012.

FW: Edin Džeko (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Age: 24

Club: Manchester City (England)

 

After amazing years in Wolfsburg he is ready to show his skills in England, Manchester City..

He scored a lot of goals in Wolfsburg shirt and was their key man when they won the German championship in 2009.

He is a great forward and deserves to play for great clubs.

Coach: Miroslav Blažević (Croatia)

Age:  75

Club: Shanghai Shenhua (China)

 

 

He is well remembered in Croatia as "the coach of all coaches".

He surprised to entire football world when he manage to take in those time "unknown" Croatia to third place on World Cup 1998.

 

Croatia vs Jamaica 3-1, Croatia vs Japan 1-0, Croatia vs Argentina 0-1, Croatia - Romania 1-0,       Croatia vs Germany  3-0,  Croatia vs France 1-2   & for 3th place: Croatia vs Netherlands 2-1.

Blazevic had amazing Croatian team ( Davor Šuker, Zvonimir Boban, Aljoša Asanović, Dražen Ladić, Slaven Bilić, Igor Štimac, Zvonimir Soldo and many more.)

He almost took Bosnia and Herzegovina on World Cup 2010 in South Africa, but Portugal was too strong for them.

Substitutes

This team also have great players that can came in as subsittues.

I will take 2 goalkeepers, 5 defenders, 5 midfielders and 5 strikers.

 

Goalkeepers

GK: Stipe Pletikosa (Croatia) - Tottenham Hotspur

GK: Vladimir Stojković (Serbia) - Partizan Belgrade

 

Defenders

DF: Josip Šimunić (Croatia) - Hoffenheim

DF: Branislav Ivanović (Serbia) - Chelsea

DF: Marko Baša (Montenegro) - Lokomotiv Moscow

DF: Nikolče Noveski (Macedonia) - Mainz

DF: Emir Spahić (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Montpellier

 

Midfielders

MF: Miloš Krasić (Serbia) - Juventus

MF: Niko Kranjčar (Croatia) - Tottenham Hotspur

MF: Miralem Pjanić (Bosnia) - Lyon

MF: Valter Birsa (Slovenia) - Auxerre

MF: Ivan Rakitić (Croatia) - Schalke

Forwards

FW: Eduardo (Croatia) - Shakhtar Donetsk

FW: Ivica Olić (Croatia) - Bayern Munich

FW: Vedad Ibišević (Bosnia and Herzegovina) - Hoffenheim

FW: Milivoj Novaković (Slovenia) - Koln

FW: Nikola Žigić (Serbia) - Birmingham City

The End

I hope you all big football fans enjoyed in this I hope interesting article for you.

Please leave a comment and say your opinion!

 

I also have few questions:  1. Who is your favorite player from this team?

                                                 2. Do you think this team could go far on World Cup on EURO?

                                                 3. Would you change anything in the lineup?

 

 

Thank you very much for your time!