Yugoslavia national football team
The Yugoslav national football team was one of 1920 -existent until 1992 football selection that - has participated in numerous international tournaments - sometimes very successfully.
- 3.1 player with the highest number of goals in international matches
- 3.2 Best Goalkeeper
- 3.3 coach
History
Ten years after the recording of the Yugoslav Football Association to FIFA was celebrated in 1930 by reaching the semi-finals of the first World Cup one of the biggest international successes of the association 's history. On the international stage have often alternated light and shadow in the following decades. In a number of European and World Championships, the national team was there and was even twice Vice-European Champion. In other years, however, it could not qualify for the finals in question. Your bitterest times experienced Association and National team in the first half of the 1990s. In the years of decay of the former Yugoslav state formation and the wars in this region, the football team had been repeatedly admitted to not qualifying for Europe or World Championships.
At the gloomiest the situation before the European Football Championship 1992: Yugoslavia had already sporty qualified for this tournament, but was then excluded from the UEFA, as neither team was able to represent the crumbling Yugoslavia. For this, which did not actually qualified Denmark moved by and eventually became European champion.
Something curious happened June 7, 1983 before the match between Yugoslavia and the German national soccer team in Luxembourg on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Luxembourg Association. As a Yugoslav national anthem the anthem of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929-1941 was accidentally played. In response, the Yugoslavs refused to compete as long as, until their right (then current ) anthem was played. This happened only after about one and a half hours.
International Competitions
The national team at the Olympic Games
The national team at World Championships
The national team at European Championships
Yugoslavia could sporty qualify for each second European Championship finals, twice with four participants, where one was hosted once, and twice with eight participants. After the final qualifying but came shortly before the tournament starts the exclusion. Yugoslavia was replaced by Denmark, which could win the title.
Important players and coaches
Player with the highest number of goals in international matches
- Stjepan Bobek: 38
- Milan Galic: 37
- Blagoje Marjanović: 36
- Rajko Mitic: 32
- Dušan Bajević: 29
- Todor Veselinović: 28
- Borivoje Kostic: 26
- Zlatko Vujović: 25
- Dragan Džajić: 23
- Bernard Vukas: 22
- Safet Sušić: 21
- Slaven Zambata: 21
- Đorđe Vujadinović: 18
- Muhamed Mujic: 17
- Darko Pančev: 17
- Branko Zebec: 17
- Milos Milutinovic 16
- Aleksandar Zivkovic: 15
- Dejan Savićević: 14
- Željko Čajkovski: 12
- Aleksandar Tirnanić: 12
Best Goalkeeper
- Enver Marić: 32
- Vladimir Beara: 59
- Tomislav Ivković: 38
- Milutin Soskic: 49