The best football country you've never heard of
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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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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"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*
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.
Grown men here will cry for two things: their team winning a game and remembering the war.
Fuck that, Croatia all the way
@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!
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
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.
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
As good as Yugoslavia was, they were not beating the US Dream Team. Not a chance.
My dad is a bosnian Croat and my mom is Serbian from Sandžak, my grandfather was from Montenegro. And yes we were good in sports, playing volleyball in the 1st and 2nd league and coaching kids ☺️
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
The Croatian sports system is even better.
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
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.
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.
@@matej9368 Lose su i u kosarci,odbojci,tenisu-sve globalni sportovi.
@@filipbezjak3447 Srbija je dosla sa drugom postavom na taj EuroBasket.Slovenija je igrala sa par naturalizovanih kosarkasa sto malo ipak baca senku na uspeh Slovenaca.
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
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
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
@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.
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 😅
"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.
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
Love the editing style! I think the behind-the-scenes into After Effect is really cool.
Our new editor Dylan knows black magic
@@SearchParty he seems like a very handsome editor
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.
I'm Greek and Yugoslavia was always my favorite team, sadly I just catched up with the 80s and of course 91red star
Great video, but failling to mention Tadej Pogacar and Primosz Roglic is a crime!
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
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 !
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
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😅
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.
“Sport has the power to change the world, It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does" - Nelson Mandela
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.
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.
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!
The tone of the video almost talks as if Yugoslavia itself is what kept people away from nationalism. But it's not, it IS also nationalism and forcing all those people to live "together" is actually what fueled their hatred towards each other. It's one thing when people come along naturally, it's a totally different one when they want independence and a dictator keeps them from getting it at all costs. Yugoslavia was a pure example of how bad and dangerous nationalism can be, and sports was only used as a political weapon against people's intentions, NOT for the people.
But still, great job and amazing video! Lots of great information 👏👏
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.
Special shout out to Mirko "cro-cop" Filipović, one of the best heavy weight kick boxxers/mixed martial artists to ever do it, from Vinkovci, Croatia.
Great video, all that missing was showing Anze Kopitar lifting the Stanley Cup when showing all the other great athletes from the former Yugoslavia
I'm just taking time out of my day to say that these are some of the best produced and edited video essays I've seen in a long time on this platform. UA-cam needs more creators like you and i hope you will have get the success you deserve
that's so kind thank you!
@@SearchPartycroatia lost and tied their last 2 games, their unfortunately not favorites anymore😂
@@WavyRadiant ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Stop including Scotland as part of England Challenge 2024 (impossible)
@@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.
@@SearchParty thank u for apologising sam, geo politics in football is a minefield and we forgive you
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
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.
Great video bro the editing is incredible
First off your pronunciation of Hajduk is hilarious. But more importantly, the focus on football was so immense. During big games the whole city stopped to watch. You could hear the every goal across the town as folks were celebrating. I grew up in Sarajevo and football was life.
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
Not only the best football team, best hanball team, best vaterpolo team, basketball, athletics, combat sports...the list goes on. South Slavs are amazing.
There was no (summer) olympics in 1974. You are referring to the 1974 FIFA World Cup
for every search party video notification, i open a pack of lays, play the video and enjoy... one of my favourite channels on youtube... kudos for such quality content..
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In the end, only Slovenia made it out of the group stages.
And the did so with three ties and no wins.
Great video!
You should consider doing a video on the relationship of Rugby and South African politics 🏉🇿🇦
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
I was in London (still am) when Croatia beat the England to reach the WC finals and I was a little bit sad, but my goodness was I happy for players like Modric, who have gone through so much and established themselves as the best of the best in the world. Great video, Sam, thanks so much!
Don't forget Mirko Crocop among the list of impactful athletes from the former Yugoslavia.
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!
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
Djokovic, Jokic, Doncic, Modric, Stojakovic, Divac, Kukoc, Dzeko, Ibrahimovic, Vidic, Bodiroga, Micic, Waterpolo as a whole, etc… do we need to keep going?
Croatia sent 17 athletes to the Rio Olympics, they came back with 15 gold and a silver. Bosnia is plagued by corruption and lack of investment but the talent and legacy is still there. Former Yugoslavian countries are factories that print top athletes for the world to enjoy.
Half football team of croatia is from Bosnia, even their coach is from Livno, Bosnia... but complexes in their head, they love other country...
Really really well produced video
Fantastic video, keep it up Sam 🔥
This reminds me of a story i watch years ago about the Yugoslavia men's national basketball team with Divak, Kukoč, Petrović, etc. and the fallout of the war on the team and the friendship between those players. So sad.
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.
This video is the best one I've watched in a long time. It really touched me. As a Croatian, I feel pride and happiness because of the success of our national team, as I love sports, and at the same time, what nationalism can do to something as beautiful as football. I look forward to every success of the Croatian Football Federation, but also to the successes of other countries in the region. The style of football is incomparable with other national teams. I just hope we have the quality to win or at least take points from Italy and Spain. Excellent conclusion to the video. What a team that would be!! :O
Tito's favorite club was Hajduk Split. He openly supported that club
My aunty worked in Yugoslavia in the early 90’s for yugo tours always sent my mum postcards from the areas she went to and wow I’ve been amazed since a kid and fell I love with their national team some wonderful footballers have come from there over the years gone by.. 😊
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.
Besides the great content this channel also has incredible artwork and stylistic choices, beautiful to see. Keep up the great work Sam, greeting from Brasil.
True one of my fav channels on yt.
Amazing video and storytelling 👍
My type of work-life learning and what an opportunity to watch your channel .
Fantastic video, my only issue is that you guys at the end, omitted 2 of the top 3, arguably, in the world of Cycling, one of them is won 2 grand tours multiple times and the other is 2 time Tour de France winner in Tadej Pogačar and the aforementioned Primož Roglič, both Slovenian.
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.
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.
I'm really grateful that you made this video, very interesting!
TLDW: Yugoslavia dissolved.
I didn’t know a video about sports could be so interesting for someone who does not follow sports.
Croatia just got grouped and it seems all Slavic countries are getting grouped
Good job, been a football fan fan since I was a child and had no idea about this so thanks a lot for the education. 🙏🏾❤️
You should do one on immigration has affected sports. France winning the 2018 world cup and Many European nations have become successful due to players of African origins.
Also how African national football teams are taking advantage of this as well which is evident in the Morocco team that made it to the World Cup Semi final.
I’m originally from the region. I think you covered this well: accurate, fair, and balanced. Good job!
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.
Fun fact: did you know that Croatian city Split, with less than 200.000 inhabitants, has about 3 times more Olympic gold medals than country of India
We were such a powerhouse in all aspects, from science, culture, sports and we were world class! That's what bothered the bipolar world, someone who was as or more capable to compete up front center with the big dogs and they just couldn't handle that. Greetings from Sarajevo
This video just reminded me why I love search party videos
It is really hard to make a historic video content about Yugoslavia and all the region. This one was well done! Congrats!
İbrahimoviç would have been part of a unified Yugislav team.
Beautiful documentary, love how you present your work entirely.
this didn't age well (Croatia and Serbia exiting in the group stage)
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.
Damn shame that they focused so much on their differences rather their similarities. Yugoslavia was and a could have been an incredibly formidable nation.
You cant unify the tribes. Its basically Africa of Europe.
@@saellenx3528 Pretty sure the Africa of Europe is France LMAO
I grew up in a part of Zagreb that produced several Croatian national team players. I went to school with two of them, and our mothers worked together (the Šimić brothers). Our school playground was full of talent, and basically, if the best players gathered, the only way I could play was by bringing the ball (since there weren't many balls, and whoever had the ball got to play regardless of skill).
My brother and I always thought we were bad football players. Probably 100 kids before us had the advantage of playing for the school team. Since no one liked to be the goalkeeper, I managed to secure that position for my class team. My brother didn't even get that. It was only much later that I realized my brother and I weren't actually bad, we just grew up surrounded by incredible talent. Many of those talented players didn't continue their careers, and some might have been even better than the later Croatian national team members.
An episode in Switzerland opened my eyes. When my brother and I went to a local playground there, the locals made a mistake by creating a team of foreigners and their local team. My brother, an Italian guy, and I, along with a few of their not-so-talented foreigners, literally dismantled all the teams that showed up. It wasn't sport, it was a massacre. Winning by 20 goals became boring, so we asked to mix the teams. I was amazed at how poorly the Swiss played football. But actually, it wasn't that-they just hadn't been sharpened by the best players like I had.
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.
Actually this isn't far from the truth, because genetically bosniaks are mostly croats and serbs who converted to Islam. We are all very mixed and there will always be someone offended with how you call them. So just call us Jugo's 😂
Do a video of the different national teams in the UK. England, Scotland, Wales etc
SCOTLAND ALSO HIGHLIGHTED WHEN ENGLAND MENTIONED GRRRRRRRRR
Beginning to love your channel. Geopolitics and sports 🙌🏽🙌🏽 keep them coming once the info is accurate ❤️
Here’s after the group stage: This video did not age well at all😂
search party feels like the early days of kurtzegast ... refreshing ... thought provoking and creative !
At 0:14 you list England but highlight both Scotland and England
Who tf has never heard of Yugoslavia? Insane title
6:27 Nonsense. Tito's favourite club was Hajduk
My grandfather was from Yugoslavia, his family left when it started to dissolve, I’ve always wondered what their football team would be like now, thank you for doing this video!! I’ll always root for Croatia at the world stage :)
It is not Yugoslavians, it's Yugoslavs
Great unbiased video thanks man
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
amazing work once again, good video!
One thing that helps is the players leaving from wars of the 90s getting great education in sport and other things in their new host countries. Rakitic althiugh he has now retired from internationals was born in Switzerland. Mateo Kovacic was born in Austria. You have a similar situation with Albanians in Switzerland making up a lot of the Swiss team and now some of them choosing to play for Albania. I live in Sweden and watch the leagues here and see a lot of Middle East players born in Sweden who are now playing football for their Middle East country. With an expanded World Cup I think we will see a competitive Middle East team with players born in Europe
Yupp, African football as a whole benefits massively from Africans born in Europe who return to represent an African country. Cameroun, Senegal, Nigeria and the DRC are good examples