The best football country you've never heard of
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- It lost a race against time.
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As the European football championship football tournament starts in June, the usual countries are favorites; France, England, Germany and Spain. But Europe used to have another favorite; Yugoslavia. For more than 40 years, the communist country used football to keep its population united and elevate itself onto the national stage. By the late 80s, it was considered one of the strongest football sides in Europe when it suddenly and violently disappeared.
Special thanks to Dennis Gudasic, Executive Director of Lokomotiva Zagreb Football Club.
Correction:
01:30 Voice over misguidedly says Yugoslavia is between Europe and Asia, when it should say it is in south and central Europe. I apologize for the mistake.
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My entire families generation is from Yugoslavia. Growing up I can tell you firsthand that this team was national gold not just in football but in basketball too. Thank you for bringing this to light!
Historically Yugoslavia had better basketball teams than football ones. Very good at both sports but your basketball players are top!
My family is also from Yugoslavia, some of whom very yugo nostalgic, which has rubbed off on me. While I never lived in it, it always saddens me to think how we collapsed, and ruined what could've been such a beautiful country.
@@vojislavl6665 i lived a year in slovenia and even i could feel that too. I hope one day you will reunite
A good random fact is that Dejan Stankovic, a legenday defender for Inter Milan, is the only football player to have played 3 different world cups with 3 different countries. Yugoslavia, Serbia Montenegro and then Serbia. Which is something incredible!
Dejan Stankovic was a midfielder mate.
Robert Prosinecki actually scored for 2 different countries at the World Cup. How amazing is that?
For me incredible is something self achievement, natural talent, but his situation is just stupid politic. And he was a midfielder :)
Midfielder* but still, a very unique fact.
@@nikolaskoric804there are probably more than 10k people named Dejan Stankovic in the world, if you include “Deyan Stankovich” and count in all people with Yugoslav ancestry
The team that replaced Yugoslavia at the Euros in 1992, Denmark, ended up winning it.
Was gonna write the same thing. And since I'm Danish, and this is our only ever international gold medal in football, it just goes to show how crazy the world can sometimes be.
Denmark infamously won by backpassing the ball creating a new rule.
@@maxwellewxam8868 Danish ingenuity
yes, that was so ironic, Denmark being in second place in qualifying group below Yugo, ended up winning it. Lol, can you imagine how bad Yugoslav players must have felt
@@excentrik5725So what? Mentality is often more important. We from “Yugoslavia” were aleays losers untill Croatila after breakup showed different mentality.
"Lying between Europe and Asia..." That's some "Grade A: American Geography" lesson for you there!
Just issued a correction, really sorry about the language there. Thanks for mentioning, though.
- sam
It's a very good description of a region that was dominated & profoundly shaped, to this day by the long Ottomans. The influence runs as deep as central Asia.
You think you’re really funny with this one don’t you? Well I’ll have you know that actually American geography lessons don’t teach anything about where Europe ends and Asia begins so suck on that.
Wait I think I just proved you right
@@idk-dz3fo because this is a channel run by a guy by the name of Johnny Harris who is obsessed with maps and geopolitics.
Mistakes like that may look trivial to us but for people who literally report content that focuses on topics concerning geopolitics, that error takes away their credibility.
@@shakiMikiyou're like saying that it's okay to call the United States a part of Europe just because the country has a long storied history with that continent.
That's a lame excuse.
Peak Vidic and young Modric in the same team would've been special
Modrić. Vidić, Bane Ivanović, Handanović, Kolarov, Dzeko, Pjanić, Rakitić, Mandžukić, Lovren, Stanković, Misimović, Salihović, Savić, Jovetić, Pandev, Jovanović, Krasić, Ibišević...and add Slovenian players at the time.
@@miloso.1042 Ibrakadabra ne bi igrao za Švede.
@@miloso.1042Ne izmisljaj cedo, Hrvatska bi napunila jedaestoricu zajedno sa Bošnjacima, tek onda dolazite vi
Hajduk Split was Titos favorite. Partisan was team form by Army and took name also stadium is Yugoslavian National Army (YNA) is name of stadium. Rest really nice tbh
Is this a joke?
Partizan su ustanovili Hrvatski studenti u beogradu
That's right, Tito was a fan of Hajduk, that's common knowledge.
Exactly, cuz Hajduk Split players and management joined the partisans movement and all exiled on a small and further most island in Adriatic sea named Vis.
@@hjiikojulokjj1593 Bilo je svih na sve strane. Ne samo u partizanima
For anyone interested in learning more: The podcast Remembering Yugoslavia has a great episode on Yugoslavia and football called The Name of the Game: Yugoslav Football.
Možeš li da okačiš link pomenute epizode?
Mene također zanima, ne mogu to nigdje naći pod tim imenom. I čini mi se da ne bih bio jedini koji bi bio zahvalan kad bi nam podijelio link :)
@@vidiia možeš li?
@@miloso.1042nasam sam podcast na Spotify
I've been watching since your first video, and wow, each one just keeps getting better and better! Keep up the amazing work! 🎉
bless you
Recently visited Croatia with my family. Beautiful country with a rich history
rich history😂
Yeah, rich History same as Serbia serving Ottomans dor 600 years.😂😂@@AleksandarStamenkovic-gz7qw
🤣
@@AleksandarStamenkovic-gz7qw Only thing you can do is hide your tears by crying my little Balkan Turk.😆
Stop fighting each other because of those stupid politician@@AleksandarStamenkovic-gz7qw
“Sport has the power to change the world, It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does" - Nelson Mandela
Not only the best football team, best hanball team, best vaterpolo team, basketball, athletics, combat sports...the list goes on. South Slavs are amazing.
15:58 gave me chills.
The music, Djokovic roaring, and the script all culminating in a very chilly "Damn, what could've been 🥶" moment for me. We will never know what sort of sports powerhouse Yugoslavia would have become if it remained a nation but there's little doubt they'd be at or near the top.
Thank you Sam 👍
6:28 Josip Broz Tito also had a special connection with Hajduk Split, a club from Croatia. During World War II, Hajduk Split refused to play in leagues organized by the Italian and German occupying forces. Instead, many players joined the partisans, the communist resistance movement led by Tito.
In 1944, Tito granted the club the title "the club of Freedom" and officially made Hajduk Split the club of the partisans. As a result, the club gained significant respect within communist Yugoslavia, and Tito continued to support them. Although FK Partizan Belgrade is often cited as his favorite due to its close ties with the military, Tito clearly also had a deep affection for Hajduk Split because of their contribution to the resistance during the war.
Really really well produced video
Great! this might be my favourite of your videos so far. Yeah i did cringe at the "between europe and asia" line :), but i get what you meant. Bravo!
just issued a correction for the language there, so sorry for that. Thanks for watching!
- sam
Interesting fact about that 1992 european championship is that Denmark took their place and went on to win the tournament. Excellent video, I'm off to buy that book thats about geo politics, history AND football. Lordy me
Amazing video and storytelling 👍
I'm really grateful that you made this video, very interesting!
Djokovic, Jokic, Doncic, Modric, Stojakovic, Divac, Kukoc, Dzeko, Ibrahimovic, Vidic, Bodiroga, Micic, Waterpolo as a whole, etc… do we need to keep going?
I’m originally from the region. I think you covered this well: accurate, fair, and balanced. Good job!
Excellent video. However, one interesting piece of information was omitted. Yugoslavia qualified for Euro 1992 as first in their qualifying group. Denmark was the runner-up, and at that time, only the winner would go on to play in the final tournament. Yugoslavia was suspended on May 31st, and Denmark was called in as a replacement. Denmark played their first game in the final tournament 11 days later, on June 11th. Basically, they were called in as a replacement at the last moment, and they had no time for extensive preparations, especially knowing that the Danish league had ended a couple of weeks prior and few players went on their vacations. When they were announced as replacements, there was somewhat of a scramble to gather all the players and assemble a team. Nevertheless, they went on to play in the final tournament and, in the end, became champions, beating Germany in the finals.
Sports is not math, and it doesn't mean that Yugoslavia would have won the championship should they have been allowed to play. Yet, we can't but notice that in the period 1990-92, Yugoslavian football was at the very top in the world. In the 1990 World Cup, Yugoslavia was in the quarterfinals, a man down and still a better team against defending champions Argentina, and only lost on penalties. In 1991, Red Star won the European Cup (later renamed the Champions League) and also won the Intercontinental Cup. In 1992, Yugoslavia was suspended from the Euro, and a runner-up, Denmark, took their spot and won the championship without preparations.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that Yugoslavia was dominating other sports at that time. Yugoslavia won the 1990 FIBA World Championship and the 1991 EuroBasket. Yugoslavia also won the 1991 Water Polo World Champions (and the previous one in 1986). In the 1990 Handball World Championship, Yugoslavia placed 4th. Monika Seles, as a teenager before her 20th birthday, won 8 tennis majors in the 1990-93 period (3 Australian Opens, 3 French Opens, 2 US Opens). The sport was booming at that time (and the country, too, in some aspects), and then self-imploded, and everything fell apart.
This video just reminded me why I love search party videos
15:00 - That scoreline still gives me PTSD. Damn it, England blew its best chance to make its first WC Final since 1966.
And to me a moment of joy. I'll never forget when Mandzukic scored.
Not just football. Pick a sport and Yugoslavia was sick at it.
Basketball.
Handball.
Tennis.
Volleyball.
Athletics.
Water Polo
Skiing
Bosnians followed by Montenegrins , Croatians and Serbians are the tallest people in the world.
POV: “favorites”😢
Greatest chanel on UA-cam, thankyou sam ellis for This content
Dang now I wanna know what a Yugoslavia national basketball team would look like
LUKA AND JOKIC 😈😈😈
You guys are doing a fantastic job!!!
From a citizen of a country called Brazilians of asia earlier its amazing to hear the story of Brazilians of Europe. Makes me support their national teams even more.
It was really sad to see the Olympic facilities being used as a mortar and artillery base.
Watching this, I thought to myself this video seems oddly familiar and then I see John Harris and it all made sense. New subscriber here!
16:00 Goosebumps 🔥
Central Europe was always a traditional power in football during the first half of the 20th century
super informative, thank you!
A great channel with some interesting insights 💭
Leaving out the netherlands in your favourites to win while including belgium is crazy
This video was so good!
Very interesting video (and great editing)! Its a shame what happened to Yugoslavia and how nationalism (well and lets be real communism too) destroyed the country. I can somewhat relate as a Ukrainian. The USSR team was also pretty good until it broke apart. Aside from 2006 WC with Shevchenko, only now is our Ukrainian team starting to show some hope with many players in Europe. Unfortunately we are at war too now....
Here before Croatia crashes out of Euros, they just got dismantled by Spain
There are 2 more games to play, so stfu!
Wouldn't call it a dismantling. They were very much in it all game, the spanish were just more clinical. Still a good chance they make it out
Let me tell you I remember the Yugoslavia national team. Back in 1990 they beaten my parents nation Colombia 1-0 (also in 1962 when they rocked them 5-0, but that was before my time). I believe this team would've won not one but two (maybe three) FIFA world cup titles by now if they never broken up. And I believe they would've done it in the years when France won it (1998, and 2018. And maybe 2022).
Showing Belgium as a 'big one' and 'one of the favorites' is pretty crazy tbh.
This again? Ok look, kdb is still the best midfielder in the world. Lukaku scored 14 in qualifiers, more then R7. Trossard is one of the best players in the prem. Doku finished the most dribbles this year. Openda was tied 2nd place for bundesliga golden boot with 26 goals. Tielemans scored twice against England a few weeks back. Witsel is in the team of the year in La Liga. Bakayoko and Onana are both rising talents too. Our only weakness is our defense but that's why Witsel is now a defender just like in Atletico and De Ketelaere is having a fantastic season in Atalanta. We got a ton of talent and the team spirit is at an all time high right now.
Odds wise they are. even if I disagree with zed odds I’m assuming that’s what they went off of. tbf they did make it to the quarters last euro too, and got knocked out by Italy.
This is not the map of Ukraine. This is not the map of Serbia.
0:01 I don't know that it's the second most prestigious? Maybe in international football
Also you've highlighted Scotland as part of England 0:12, big no no
Well its either second or third, not a huge difference between it and UCL
@@peltimies2469 I think the Libertadores is up there, so are the FA cup and UEFA cup / Europa league. I don't know the average fan could tell you how many times Italy / Germany / France have won the Euro
It is, World Cup is first and Euro is the close second. National team >>> Club + UCL is played every year, Euros or World Cups every 4 years.
@@krystofhavir7593 I don't know that makes it more prestigious, by that logic Olympics is up there no?
@14:15 - Interestingly after the boycott they continued to play under the name "Yugoslavia" for nearly a decade but it was a different country; a union of Serbia and Montenegro as opposed to the former Socialist Republic
This was excellent, I've never been prompted to think how incredible a team it would be if it were around today as Yugoslavia
Wonderful. Thank you.
A football from former Yugoslavia is one what-if that would have been intriguing. Yes, Croatia is the most successful but Serbia has produced some amazing players like Vidic, Stankovic, Tadic, etc. Slovenia has been to two WCs and even Bosnia have played in a WC, producing Edin Dzeko and Mirelam Pjanic. I wondered how East Europe football would have fared had it not been for the instability of the 90s
2nd prestigious tournament?
Copa America wants a word with you..
Euro is far better and more watched
@@EternalMuscovite So? And I question "better". Copa America can be more exciting. European football is more staid, defensive, offensive.
In any case, AFCON beats both of them for age.
@@DavidLimofLimReport look at the definition of the word prestigious.
And just imagine all the Players that would have played for Jugoslavia if their parents wouldn’t have moved to the Diaspora. Imagine a Jugoslav Team with Ibrahimovic Arnautovic etc 😮
In the 1990 Maksimir's riot there was current Serbian president fighting on the stadium
Hi Sam,
Can you make a video on rise and fall of Indian football. Once in 60's-70's Indian was called as "Brazil of Asia", now all glories are gone and the Indian men's football team is at Fifa ranking 121 and women's team at 66.
Hello Sam, a correction on the term Macedonian. It was written wrong at 1:32 and wasn't a term used back when Yugoslavia was still a unified country. It's a new way of describing the Bulgarians who live in the historic area of Ancient Macedonia, the current country of North Macedonia. Other than that I am enjoying the narrative and the unique topics that aren't that well known. Keep up the good work!
Not mentioning Zdravko Mamić while comenting on Croatian football infrastructure is a huge fail.
Mamić is the creator of Croatian football as we know it.
Showing the creation of the graphics in adobe is such an odd and distracting stylistic choice...
Milosevic was not a "Serb ultra nationalist"
He was, but he wasn't the only one ultra nationalist. All the yugoslav states were played by opportunistic politicians who only wanted more power.
watching this as croatia are on the verge of being knocked out
Poor Netherlands not mentioned as a "big" country.
"sobbing"
Never mind. It will be another team like Belgium which is constantly held back from internal conflict and won almost nothing despite the longest run of the 1st place in the FIFA ranking.
Genuinely one of the best UA-cam channels ever created, you've perfected the art of storytelling whilst discussing two of my favourite subjects, football and politics.
HERE WE GO 🚨
Love the Fluminense flag on the guest's background!!
"Between Europe and Asia"? Its not Khazakstan. Its firmly in Europe. Its west of greece, right next to Itali.
Just issued a correction, my sincerest apologies. Will do better next time. Thanks for mentioning.
- sam
He probably wanted to state the cultural and geographical merge of west and east, lapsus in fabula.
@@pionirskizec1004I assure you Croatia is a western nation.
Possibly was thinking of USSR
Italy*
Grown men here will cry for two things: their team winning a game and remembering the war.
Fuck that, Croatia all the way
@@melem7808They are the best from the Balkans, but they lack in player quality depth and population decrease. You can’t play with the same squad 20 years. Not the same quality is coming behind. A Croatian core team filled with the rest Yugoslav states for the Squad and bench would solve that problem. I think after this tournament Croatia will disappear for 5-6 years until they get a new generation. Serbia lost his generation and of the 90s they were never so good again. Bosnia had good years between 2008-2015. They are also gone. 2-3 players of high quality isn’t enough to compete with Germany, Spain, England etc. they have unlimited supply of players and population.
@@brate2725 we have a population deacrease all over the former Yu, we are weaker in all aspects as years go by, not just sports.
@@brate2725 the problem is players from other Countries would not sit on the bench. We all know what would happen. Kovacic on the bench so that SMS can play. Sit Gvardiol, we feel Milenkovic is more suitable for the time being. The only way it would work is Croatian coach, and Croatian federation deciding on everything. That way Croatia could call up Oblak, Sesko, Elmas, Dedic, Rrahmani, Zhegrova, Vlahovic, Pavlovic, Ilic, Kostic etc. when needed and play them if needed. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
I did!
Correction 1:30 - Apologies for the language here. I should have said "this region lies in south and central Europe". We will do better next time, thanks everyone for watching.
- Sam
This really should be taken down and fixed properly the re-uploaded.
Don't apologies. You were inadvertently right. Centuries of Ottoman domination means it is between Europe & Asia.
8:03 Did Baltics already declare independence from USSR? Where did they go?
I would recommend pinning this comment so people stop writing the exact same comments.
Everyone was very happy to remind you guys, but most of us understand a small mistake. Thanks for the content SP, another great upload.
I really liked the sport Yogoslavian system: lots of infrastructure, free sport for everyone from 3 to 18 years old, and not just football: they were strong even in other sports.
To this day balkan people excel in many other sports as well. Basketball, judo, watersports etc etc
@@euphoriaggaminghd yea but its expensive af
we were arguably better at basketball than football, not trying to say that we were bad at it but we have accomplished far more in basketball
I'm a tennis player and wasn't expecting all this to be so related to tennis so many players from Serbia and Croatia absolutely excel in elite levels of tennis I mean it can be argued that the greatest player ever is from tiny Serbia
in Australia it cost so much to play at your local team up to 3k a year.
Luka and Jokic, arguably the two best basketball players in the world right now, both are from former Yugoslav countries
dont forget Pogacar and roglic who are the best cyclist in the world
Yeah and Melania is the world best Gold Digger too 🫡
And above all Djokovic who is the best tennis player of all time
@@fireandblood8142 Serena Williams?
@@edgeribble She said herself that she could never beat a man
I'm from Serbia but I can tell you that Croatia doesn't need the rest of us from ex-Yugoslavia to win in football. Just like we in Serbia don't need anyone when it comes to basketball.
But a Yugoslav team today, with good chemistry and national pride, would be one of the best teams for sure in sports.
Believe me. Croatia can win a title once in 50 years, but if you want to compete with large nations you need more population. Even 23 million is nearly not enough. Being small countries, with small leagues is a huge disadvantage. Together would be much more depth in quality. That’s lacking in Croatia. They have 4-5 very good player and the rest is Bundesliga average. You need 11-13 players with a good bench. Modric played 2 x times 120 in Qatar with 38 years. That’s not sustainable
Well it would have helped you to have Slovenija in 2017 for basketball.
@brate2725 Nah not true size of the country doesn't matter.. India and China are bad in football and they are huge
there will be no new "yugoslavia" and there is no "but or if". stupid make same mistake two times, only idiot would make same mistake third time.
i have no issue to say "congratulations on your success neighbour" and that ends there.
The best football country you’ve never heard of……if you’re American
To be fair, I have never heard of how Yugoslav used soccer as a way to unify the country.
@@jacksfacts20 I would say it was team sports in general ,Yugosalvia was much more successful in Basketball ,won 5 world championships and was dominanting euro championship with easy ,and second part off 80s euroleague was almost always by Yugoslav clubs ,Cibona won euroleague in 1985 and 1986 ,Jugoplastika in 1989,1990 ,1991,Partizan in 1992 .THen it was harder to won Yugoslavian league then Euroleague
@@jacksfacts20 we didnt use sport as a way of unitiny, thats premise author has... Thing is Yugoslavia as other social countries had those worker unions and mentality of trying to achieve working class harmony. That included a need to having a quality spent freetime such as doing sports as a way of hanging with your "comrades". So sports was used to cheer up working class spirit, so almost every citizen was actively involved in sports on amateur level such as in other socialist countries. However truth is Yugoslavia was a bit more successful at it, in my opinion reason is genetics and that "little hostile tribes" mentality. We dont like many things here, but above all we dont like to lose, forgive and forget.
What do you mean between Europe and Asia 😂😂 it's almost in the center of Europe.
Just issued a correct. Sorry about the language there!
- sam
To be fair Europe isn't a real continent, it's boundaries are cultural not geographical; it doesn't have it's own continental plate
@@Alejandro_Arellano whatever you say american
@@victortanasescu7867 he's right, the continent is Eurasia. Europe is a racial and political boundary
@@davidz2690well it just depends how your country defines continents, otherwise Europe Asia and Africa would all class as one continent
I'm Greek and Yugoslavia was always my favorite team, sadly I just catched up with the 80s and of course 91red star
As a Croatian its always been bafflingto me to go to different countries and find they don't have a court for football/basketball/handball/whatever around every other corner and even if they do I don't see kids playing there. We used to meet up at 7/8pm every night in summer as kids in front of the church and play sports! Realizing there's people that don't get decent at a sport and do it even up to their fourties' and late fifties is insane to me 😂😂 I don't know what I would do without playing basketball every week at least once. It's such a cultural phenomenon. There's not one Croatian boy I know that doesn't want to and enjoys playing football with his friends EVERY DAY in summer. Plus the ocean. We swim constantly. We move and run and jump constantly. We compete (probably daddy issues but fuck that 😂)!
YEs its weird seeing that , o spend my childhood in 80s playing football and basketball 5-6 hours every day ,but also that courts are more emtpy and empty ,i rarely see not kids play it
That's very interesting to hear and a great piece of culture! Definitely something to preserve!
You are blessed. Protect this as you enjoy
Even without proper field ... You just need a ball and 4 backpacks to mark the posts/goal ;)
@@techcodenet exactly. and I played basketball on a court where the board was made of old planks and the rim from a bicycle rim. but it is also stuff like that what makes people from our part of the world great engineers, because you have to repair or build things when they break, you can't afford new stuff😅
Love the editing style! I think the behind-the-scenes into After Effect is really cool.
Our new editor Dylan knows black magic
@@Search-Party he seems like a very handsome editor
Lots of Yugoslavs moved to western Europe since the 70s and especially during the 90s and once there, their children has in many cases become very successful in football, and other sports as well.
Sometimes even Switzerland national team feels like its half Yugoslav players
@@yuriydee Switzerland is the second Albanian National football team
@@yuriydee Shaqiri goal celebration x Serbia, 2018 world cup
@@ucube33But every Albania from Switzerland is from ex Yugoslavia. Albania was closed until 1990.
@brate2725 Right. Ethnic Albanians span Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Republic of Albania.
Albanians inhabit the western half of North Macedonia and the southeast region of Montenegro.
Great video, but failling to mention Tadej Pogacar and Primosz Roglic is a crime!
There was no (summer) olympics in 1974. You are referring to the 1974 FIFA World Cup
Stop including Scotland as part of England Challenge 2024 (impossible)
Mission impossible for a usa citizen...
@@levskisofiahateall literally 1 second before, Scotland is highlighted on the map... Wales isn't included and they're a principality 😅
@@Neutral_Ground *long Scottish sigh*
it's still included in England during the "these big ones" bit
Wales is a separate member of Fifa.
I usually get this right! But made an animation mistake this time. My sincerest apologies to you and Scotland. Thanks for mentioning.
- Sam
Wales isn't included because they didn't qualify. Scotland is highlighted and labelled separately, they just forgot to change the colour when the other countries faded out.
There's something to add. Not only in football but un cycling, the Yugoslavian countries are incredibly, especially Slovenia with only 2 million people, have had amazing riders like Pogacar, Roglic or Mojoric
Yugoslavian sport doesn't start with Tito, please look up Sokol society, a youth movement promoted by the king of Yugoslavia. The movement started in Czechia and promoted pan-slavicism.
As a half Croatian with a huge interest in the sport politics of Yugoslavia, I have to say this video was awesome. Great execution, very in depth and awesome profiling of the key people involved in the war and national team. Great work.
Do you guys actually hate each other? Young people particularly.
@FizzyGajing The hate is between Serbs and everyone else. Everyone else either gets along fine or has far less tensions. There's Serb minorities in Bosnia, Montenegro and Kosovo.
Slovenia is the only ex-Yugo country that doesn't have tensions with anyone. North Macedonia also has tensions with Greece. Serbia also has tensions with Albania.
Only serbs are yelling but mouse can't do nothing
@@FizzyGajing Not in my experience, no. I'm half-Croatian, I've been to Serbia plenty of times with my fully Croatian cousins (both cities and in random rural areas) and none of us have ever had a problem. There are nationalists in Croatia who hate Serbs and vice versa, but most people don't give a shit.
@@FizzyGajingI'm Croatian and I see the previous comment by Kristian explained it best. Most people go about their lives regularly and don't care where you're from as long as you're decent and respectful. For example, lots of people from Serbia (and other former Yugoslav republics) find work in Croatia during the summer tourist season. And it goes both ways depending on the opportunity of course.
A few bad apples on all sides are always going to be there of course, but generally we're in a pretty chill state of things right now. The only exeption being the Serbia-Kosovo relationship as the only tension on the territory (of former Yugoslavia) on national levels.
Also, N.Macedonia has its own thing with Greece but I don't count that since it's not an issue with any of the former republics but rather a "third party".
And to fully answer your question, things between Croatians and Serbs (again, from the perspective of a regular Joe) seem to be better with each new generation of young people.
Excuse the length of my answer, just wanted to expand a bit on what Kristian described in the previous comment 😅
You could have made this same video about Yugoslavian music scene. Free access to anyone, allowed teens to get free musical instrument lessons and start garage bands which eventually became popular throughout 6 states.
1:32 "home to dozens of ethnic and religious groups" - proceeds to display the majority group of bosnia, bosniaks, as a minority and calls them "serb-croat muslims". where the hell did you source that map from? i find the different "ethnic groups" in bosnia to be inventions anyway but rather just different religious groups of bosnians, but you didn't even bother to correctly show the invented narrative
"montenegrin serbs" is also wild 😆😆 did a serb draw this up for you?
That map is from Kingdom of SHS, but to use it for post WW2 stuff is just braindead.
It was just to show how this area is diverse and everyone believes and “makesup” different things. I’m not an expert thought so idk
It's sadly because they (Serbs and Croats in power) didn't let us identify not even as "Muslims" until the 1960s. We either had to put Serb, Croat or Others. So yeah somewhere near the 1960s, we finally got that opportunity.
Yugoslavia: Land of Giants, despite their tiny territory.
They are so tall, the Dutch and to a certain degree the Belgians has to fake their average height data annual in order to stay ahead in the average height chart.
Nikola Jokic
if you want to speak about yugoslavias territory, it was no so "tiny" as you presented. it was larger than italy if i am not mistaken. population was about 20mil people again not tiny.
now individually they are all tiny, all 6 of them.
It is not Yugoslavians, it's Yugoslavs
Sweden’s best player is also Ibrahimovic. USA’s Pulisic. Australia’s Viduka and Bosnitch. Maradona’s grandmother is Croat Kariolic. Roger Maris, 100% Croat, beat Babe Ruth’s home run record, perhaps the biggest achievement in sport. USA’s NBA hall of famers Mikan, Maravich and Havlicek all revolutionized basketball. Monica Seles could have been female goat along with compatriot Djokovic, both from Serbia. Janica Kostelic, alpine skiing goat. Handball goats karabatic and balic. Joe Sakic and Mahovlich, both have 500 and 600+ nhl goals, exclusive club. UFC goat Miocic. Mother Theresa was from Yugoslavia. Nikola Tesla. NFL coaching goats belichick, saban and Pete Carroll. Yelich, MLB mvp. Lolich MLB mvp.
Spartan blood runs through those veins.
Add Melania to the list too. She wins the Gold in any digging competition 🫡
Monica Seles is Hungarian from the Serbian State Vojvodina
@@banditonehundred😂😂😂😅
What's about in the Era of Michael Jordan Yugoslavia had Mirza Delibašić the 2cnd best player of the world !
You can add Vardar, as we won Handball Champions League twice in three years. And Macedonia has the best handball goal scorer in Kire Lazarov, holding the World Cup best goal scorer record with 92. In addition to the successes the national teams of Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia have on the International Finals Tournaments.
Kudos to all athletes from the area of the former Yugoslavia, but the best of all time are Novak Djokovic and Nikola Jokic from Serbia.
@@markoborovic768 Modrić is up there with Đoković, Janica Kostelić also
@@ivannikic6505 Janica Kostelić and Luka Modrić are undoubtedly great athletes, but simply Đoković and Jokić are a simple category for themselves, especially in the sports they play. According to statistics, Djokovic is the best tennis player of all time, a candidate for the best athlete of all time, and Jokic is a candidate to be the best foreigner in the NBA, the best European and the best white player of all time.
Tito's favorite club was Hajduk Split. He openly supported that club
Was left wanting for Pogačar or Roglič when the video went into the "not just football" montage. Still pretty good tho, especially with the correction!
Wow, I remembered watching Yugoslavia's teams in the 80"s and specially the 90's. Didn't realize the history behind that success. Great job for this info. Sports and Politics are almost always alined one to each other.
Man you jinxed Croatia and Serbia let Luka Modric win an international Trophy he has done so much World cup final World cup semi-finals Nations league final.
In the end, only Slovenia made it out of the group stages.
And the did so with three ties and no wins.
Here’s after the group stage: This video did not age well at all😂
Really fantastic I couldn't believe that you make a video about Yugoslavia sport and football. Following you from the first video, great job. I must say even before this video your channel was my favourite.
Don't forget Mirko Crocop among the list of impactful athletes from the former Yugoslavia.
Trivia : Denmark who replaced Yugoslavia in the 1992 Euros surprisingly win it lead by superstar goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel who would win the Champions League title with Manchester United 7 years later.
So the way Yugoslavia play is basically Real Madrid doing FC Barcelona's Tiki-taka
this didn't age well (Croatia and Serbia exiting in the group stage)
Lol guess you haven't been watching the Euros
İbrahimoviç would have been part of a unified Yugislav team.
One thing you forgot to mention about Yugoslavia in WW2, is that Croatia joined the Nazis and declared independence from Yugoslavia in WW2 and fought against Yugoslavia.
All the other Yugoslavs fought each other too, therefore the country sadly never functioned… the 90’s wasn’t the only time they slaughtered each other…
Cry harder zerb
Good teams but best is a huge stretch. They were never that. Tiny Denmark won the tournament that Yugoslavia were excluded from. Football is an unpredictable game.
sorry to tell you mate but they need people to watch the video and a random person would be 10x more likely to watch the downfall of 'the best team in europe' than 'a good team in europe'. it's only to pull in viewers, its not that deep
@@Football_Advanced Click baiting is not a good long term strategy. The story is actually interesting.
@@shakiMikibut it really is good long term. Mr Beast is a huge proponent of click bait and he's the largest channel in history
@@shakiMiki I know, however they have to bait the clicks in order for people to realise that the story is interesting. It actually is a good method long term, as long as the content is actually good
Denmark came second in Yugoslavia's qualifying group, finishing only a point behind Yugoslavia with 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
They beat Yugoslavia in Yugoslavia, they did lose to the Yugoslavs in Denmark and drew with Northern Ireland in Belfast.
They weren't just chosen because they came second to Yugoslavia but also because they had the best record of any team that came second in Qualifying - Portugal had 11 points, Italy, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia all had 10 points.
There is a very good chance that Yugoslavia would have won that tournament had it not collapsed and it's been proven that everyone was severely underrating that Danish team including their star player who refused to go.
Yes, the Ex-Yugoslav nations have plenty of influence from the east and of Asia, but Europe actually ends in the Caucasus, which is Georgia (the country), and when driving over the bridge in Istanbul. These ex-Yugo countries are considered to be south east/central European. Americans need to open a map. TLDW: Yugoslavia broke up, hence it vanished.
None of the ex yugoslav countries but maybe Slovenia on occasion are considered central europe. Central europe is V4 and Dach
Pretty sure Europe ends at Dardanelles Strait.
Thanks for putting salt on my cut!