21st Century Yugoslav International Team

Wolf Club

A somewhat flippant, hypothetical thought I had the other day, but imagine the team Yugoslavia would have now if it had not been disbanded? Given the imbalance of the former states in terms of strong defence (Serbia) and attack (Croatia, Bosnia), a combined Yugoslav international football team in 2015 would surely be in the top 5 in the world

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Handonovic
Ivanovic Subotic Vidic Kolorov

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Matic

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Rakatic Pjanic

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Modric

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Dzeko Mandzukic

Subs; Begovic, Lovren, Matic, Ljajic, Jovetic.

Not bad!

Lovely Bloke

must be a better CH available than Vidic, shirley.

Lovely Bloke

good thread by the way.

What about an East/West Germany & USSR Combined (probably UKR+RUS?)

smileyj1987

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

must be a better CH available than Vidic, shirley.

I wouldn't have him starting he is at the end of his career . A few years ago and he was the first name on the team sheet.

Lovely Bloke

I agree with you, yeah, on current form he wouldn't get a game for Accrington Stanley.

Wolf Club

smileyj1987 wrote: »

I wouldn't have him starting he is at the end of his career . A few years ago and he was the first name on the team sheet.

Admittedly I haven't seen him play at all for Inter. Last year Lovren would have been a shoe in, but now...

Pinturicchio

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

must be a better CH available than Vidic, shirley.

Bring in Sime Vrsaljko at right back and move Ivanovic to the centre.

LuckyLloyd

I'd reckon the Austrian - Hungarian Empire team would be half decent.

Or the continent of Africa team - i.e. before they drew lines on it in 1848. :rolleyes:

Augmerson

You'd probably get a decent team from the combined Celtic countries - Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Isle of Man and Brittany.

I'd call the team Celtica or IWSCIB. You pronounce Iwscib with a bit of a lisp.

Lovely Bloke

Czechoslovakia!

Augmerson

Kalmar Union - Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Lovely Bloke

British Empire!

Skylinehead

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

British Empire!

Pretty much Britain so, the rest bar us just played cricket!

Liam O

Australasia, or as they would still be known, Australia

Skylinehead

Liam O wrote: »

Australasia, or as they would still be known, Australia

I thought of them, then decided they had no footballers who'd get in the team anyway!

Wolf Club

In twenty years time there'll probably be a "imagine a combined Spain and Catalan team" thread.

Morzadec

If there was a British Isles team made would we get any players in?

Coleman would have a good shout at starting probably, and would almost definitely get in a 23-man squad. Not sure if many others would have a shout..

EuropeanSon

Think a Roman empire team would be pretty solid myself.

AllGunsBlazing

The Yugoslav team that was expelled from Euro'92 had great potential.They gave a good account of themselves at Italia'90, with the exception of a very naive performance against West Germany, and absolutely flew through the qualifying campaign for Sweden.

klose

EuropeanSon wrote: »

Think a Roman empire team would be pretty solid myself.

Think a team from pangea before it split up would be the best.

Corholio

21st century didn't start in around 2012 either. No one any good play for these countries before then?

OwaynOTT

Spanish Empire team would be by far the best.
Can draw from Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium and some more bits of the Low Countries), some parts of Italy, South America bar Portugal and even Portugal itself.
Philip II was king of England and Ireland at one stage as well (philipstown daingean named after him), so they could also get McShane as well.
Actually I forgot that Charles II was Emporer of the Holy Roman Empire as well, so we may include that as well, so that's a big chunk of Central Europe and Germany.

jmayo

Skylinehead wrote: »

Pretty much Britain so, the rest bar us just played cricket!

Actually afaik some of the counties that ended up excelling at hurling were damm good at cricket before the setup of the GAA.

Liam O wrote: »

Australasia, or as they would still be known, Australia

Ahh come on imagine if the Kiwis didn't play rugby.
You could have the sneaky richie mccaw as a centre half.
Can't figure out where Jonah Lomu would play?

But for the fact that the Serbs, Croats and Bosniacs were at each others throats that early 1990s Yugoslav team had a great chance of landing the Euro championship.
The Germans were a bit dour even if they had won the WC two years earlier and the pre tournament favourites, England, well they had Graham Taylor.
The only othr team with the ability might have been the Dutch.
There was no Spain, no Italy.
You had CIS, France, Holland, Scotland, Sweden, England and Germany.

If we had beaten the Poles at home we could have gone instead of England. :mad:

Knex*

Would be nothing against a combined Liverpool and Manchester United XI.

OwaynOTT

Knex. wrote: »

Would be nothing against a combined Liverpool and Manchester United XI.

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to do up a combined 11.

Jones
Johnson Jones Lovern Moreno
Carrick Lucas
Valencia Gerrard Sterling
Borini

Richard Hillman

Nazi Germany v The Roman Empire.

France gets divided up by a draft system

Its Only Ray Parlour

Wolf Club wrote: »

In twenty years time there'll probably be a "imagine a combined Spain, Basque and Catalan team" thread.

Fixed your post.

chopperbyrne

Corholio wrote: »

21st century didn't start in around 2012 either. No one any good play for these countries before then?

Opening post: "A somewhat flippant, hypothetical thought I had the other day, but imagine the team Yugoslavia would have now if it had not been disbanded?"

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I'd reckon the Austrian - Hungarian Empire team would be half decent.

Or the continent of Africa team - i.e. before they drew lines on it in 1848. :rolleyes:

Austro-Hungarian Empire never had a unified team, they had seperate Austrian and Hungarian sides. Both still covered much bigger areas than at present of course.

inforfun

Surinam might have a team that will make them progress a lot in the future
Players of Surinam decent who also have a Dutch passport are banned from playing in the Surinam team. Not by Fifa but by the Surinam government.

Is he succeeds they can field a much stronger team than they can now.
Players who cant make it in the Dutch team, will possibly be playing for Surinam

EuropeanSon

klose wrote: »

Think a team from pangea before it split up would be the best.

You'd have a hard time teaching them the rules.

theoneeyedman

Morzadec wrote: »

If there was a British Isles team made would we get any players in?

Coleman would have a good shout at starting probably, and would almost definitely get in a 23-man squad. Not sure if many others would have a shout..

Stop pussy footing about, it's not British Isles using the Op logic, it's just Britain (now includes The UK + ROI

El Weirdo

EuropeanSon wrote: »

You'd have a hard time teaching them the rules.

Ah, Wayne Rooney's done alright for himself.

UnitedIrishman

This at one stage was a potential Yugoslav team at the 1987 youth World Cup.

Unfortunately, the two center halfs ended up declaring war on each others houses and families.

Ulysses Gaze

UnitedIrishman wrote: »

This at one stage was a potential Yugoslav team at the 1987 youth World Cup.

Unfortunately, the two center halfs ended up declaring war on each others houses and families.

Some team in fairness.

Add in Pancev, Savicevic, Dragan Stoijkovic, Slaven Bilic, Srecko Katanec and one or two others and they could have Won Euro 1992 and had a tilt at the World Cup in 1994.

AllGunsBlazing

Red Star had some team back in the early 90's. Too bad they played for penalties in the '91 European Cup final. Made for a terrible game of football but it worked.

Iused2likebusts

UnitedIrishman wrote: »

This at one stage was a potential Yugoslav team at the 1987 youth World Cup.

Unfortunately, the two center halfs ended up declaring war on each others houses and families.

That is some team . Prosinecki was a joy to watch. Couldn't believe he ended up playing for Portsmouth in the championship.

inforfun

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Red Star had some team back in the early 90's. Too bad they played for penalties in the '91 European Cup final. Made for a terrible game of football but it worked.

Remember some channel surfing and run into Red Star - Dynamo Dresden on German tv that year on a miserable thursday afternoon.

Finished 3-0 and i can honestly say that was the only time i was disapointed a match between 2 teams i had no idea about, was finished.
Brilliant football from Red Star in that match.



Some team they had.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cck5tQXXGiE