Ironcally, Croatia itself proves that Yugoslavia in the 90s could have been a great powerhouse, with their 1998 WC 3rd place. Not to mention, we have yet to see a World Cup without a former Yugoslav country present
That was a great achievement back then. I was even in Bari when Red Star beat Olympique Marseilles. A big match with Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins and I think also Bosnians and Macedonians (yes, of course! Darko Pancev scored the decisive penalty, but the best on the field was Prosinecki).
@@danielm6319 That's not true. Goran Juric, a fabulous libero (yes, people still often played with a libero back then) was there and I think the year before that Zoran Vujovic, a Croatian left-back, played for Zvezda. I am (unfortunately already) of the age to remember many Croatian players who played for Red Star. Of course, many other people from the former Yugoslavia (Pancev, Belodedic, Najdoski, Savicevic...). It was just sport and not political nonsense.
Bunch of great players would for sure not play because there was always ethnicity quota, so in the end you end up with worse team than if it was just Croatia or just Serbia
@@stipe3124 Hard to say Form today's Perspektive. Just can say that I loved to see the Yugoslavian team play back in the days. Purely from an sporty viewpoint.
haha, very true about croatia. And plus Serbia was technically only founded in 2005 which is even more recent. Though, they existed for thousands of years under the Kingdom of Serbia, and various other names
This video made me realize how impressive Uruguays achievements are. Winning the world cup with 2.8 million and 2.9 million people. And now their future is bright, winning the u20 world cup and they only have a population of 3.45 million. INSANE
@@felipemonteiro6546 indeed crazy, Salto must have a crazy academy or something. Also insane that Messi and Maradona both came from the same region in Argentina(Santa Fe)
And the really amazing part would be the fact that Yugoslavia would have at the same time a really powerful basketball national team and a great water polo national team too
How to be a successful dictator IMF Loan-IMF Loan-Soviet arms-Soviet arms-repeat Jokes aside, if the ethnic leaders are more corrupt and seek to make an oligarchy of Yugoslavia. What was Yugoslavia now would be more corrupt but more united lmao
Great content, it's unfortunately rare to see a football channel that respects the general history of less viewed regions like the Balkans, you're going to reach the stars sooner than later and I'll be there to celebrate because you'll deserve to be amongst Maqwell and Fiago, Also I would be interested to see the football history of another former communist country that disunited in the early 1990s, Czechoslovakia (Although the USSR would be appreciated as well)
The problem is lockeroom tensions. On paper this seems great but relations between former Yugoslavian clubs are brutal. Even within the countries themselves, hooliganism driven by politics and just ethnic tensions in general. The partisanship could severally impact the dynamics.
The ethnic tensions with Croatia and Serbia are mostly gone. Go to Belgrade, you will see Croatians, go to Zagreb and see tons of Serbians. Some for work, others because of family. Some vacationing in the Adriatic, etc.
Nope , just go and look Yugoslav basketball achievments as national team. So etnic tensions was not so big at those time ( prior 1990) Without war ( influence and finance from outside) , tension even today would be low.
@@NitroFooty Nothing could be easier ... just a combination of two english words put together .... Hi + Duke = Hajduk (which literaly means a bandit or an outlaw). Today, it is much easier to identify it as the CFC Pluskvamperfekt ... (meaning ... once upon a time there was a football club from Split).
Don’t forget that if Yugoslavia still existed players who played for other countries would still probably play for Yugoslavia, like Ibrahimovic, Xhaka, Shaqiri, Arnautovic, Pulisic etc. But the general topic could also be applied to other sports like basketball, handball, volleyball, waterpolo, tennis. Yugoslavia would have been a sports powerhouse in general.
Yugoslavia did continue in a form for some time until 2006 as Serbia and Montenegro, even using the old Yugoslav tricolor in its flag but it was a far cry of the former Yugoslavia. And in 2006 Montenegro declared independence followed by Kosovo 2 years later and Serbia and Montenegro would play at the 2006 World Cup as a country that no longer existed as the last remanent of the nation of Yugoslavia.
@@NitroFooty At Tito's funeral, there were 178 world power leaders ... such as kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers ... princes, princesses, heirs to the throne, ambassadors, etc. Never before and never again until the end of the world will something like that happen again ... not even in theory. Tito's personality is the ultimate oxymoron of the human history, which cannot be repeated ever again ... He was a dictator who was loved by all. Tito invented and patented the ''Stockholm syndrome'' ... way before the term entered into a public discourse.
My mother is older than her country lol Imagine if Yugoslavia hadn't dissolved. How many World Cups and euros would they have won. (The countries people all hated each other a bit too much)
Bro as an bosnian i can confirm he was the greatest for us, my grandparents are still dreaming of him and how good he was to our people They still have a picture from him in their house
I've been saying this for decades now. If Yugoslavia had stayed together, it would have already won a couple of World Cups and Euros. There's no doubt about it.
@@MadMax-xv9xs Yeah, sorry, that's not true. If you look at the ethnic composition of the Yugoslavian national teams during the World Cups and Euros, Croats provided quite a number of players to the teams. It's ethnicities like Bosniaks and Slovenes that made little contribution. And I don't believe for one second that once a player is on the field, he's not going to give a good effort.
do you know whats crazier they would ALSO dominate basketball. AT THE SAME TIME. and a bunch of MMA fighters are from the former yugoslavic balkan nations as well
Luka AND Jokic on the same team, with some other solid role players in the NBA too. They’d be nasty. On top of that, they also have Djokovic for tennis!
The big problem was the fan groups After the crisis started in 1989 Yugoslavia allowed people to make crowd groups with their own symbols. Red Star got Delije Sever and Partizan fans made Grobari Jug witch also made the most deadly derby in entire world (Enternal Derby) well they were not only group Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk made own groups and a derby but the most dangerous group that was demolished last year is United Force , fan group of the team FK Rad that was semi-succsesful but lost all money and last year they got relegated to the 4th division and stoped existing markibg the end of the group that was part of the nationalism
Imagine Austrian Empire had a football national team ( they would have all players born in Austria,Hungary,Croatia,Bosnia,North Serbia,parts of Montenegro, Half of Romania,Czechia,Slovakia,parts of Poland and Ukraine and Venice and Milan) it would be an national insane team. If the Austrian Empire had a football league is would probably be better than Ligue 1 at least. (If u can pls make a vid about it)
honestly its sad how they also got completely robbed by france in the 2018 wc final the ref seriously did everything to make sure france wins its crazy
One thing that is overlooked about the Yugoslav First League is that the players that graduated from their club youth academies were not allowed to play for foreign clubs until they were 27 or 28 years old.
Quick reminder that Yugoslavia had as many European cup winners as france has now. 30 years later Also Crvena Zvezda would've won a treble if not for Hajduk Split taking the tito cup in the final. A final where the tensions were already flaring up very bad, and both teams knew that was gonna be the final year of the cup, whoever won it wouldn't need to give it back Many football hooligan groups became guerrilla groups btw
I still think it’s really crazy that in World War II Yugoslavia actually had a chance against the Germans, and even know their whole country was invaded, and the Germans were on at a close watch for rebels, even getting close encounters they still died for their leader. In several occasions that’s like getting shot at seven times and old bullets missing.
In Yugoslavia the rule was that players can't be sold outside until they hit 28 years.. so u had strong competition inside your own league that why with years players became stronger and better today they just watch pay and not loyalty to club.
The idea of reunified yugoslavia national team is quite interesting and it might be one of the strongest teams in the world. That being said, I also feel like a lot of positions would be overloaded, with talented players on the bench and others who would not even make it in a 23 players squad despite being really good. 6 different countries and teams is probably the best option for players and football fans.
If YUGOSLAVIA still existed, easily they will be a Champions in every sport, football, basketball, handball, volleyball, water polo, tennis. Yugoslavia, Spain, France, and Germany are most powerfull sports countries in the world.
Personally I believe Yugoslavia would've won not one but two FIFA world cups if it would've still existed. Also they were really nice in basketball too. They had a boogie team that always dominated them in both sports. And that team was also extinct: the Soviet Union.
Many Croatian national team players emerged from Dinamo Zagreb youth ranks or are not from Croatia at all due to their parents/granparents immigration to various often germanic countries so size of the country is not really relevant in that sense.
There are two reasons why there would still be no result. The first is that we Croats can play with all our hearts only for our Croatia. The second is that players from other national teams of the former Yugoslavia would do more harm than good, no matter how good they are.
The funny thing is, I don't think this team would play better than Croatia (and this comes from a Serbian guy). What you don't know about former NT is the fact it was constructed by something (roughly translated as) key. And while, on paper, team would have stronger individuals, the motive wouldn't be the same, and that's something where Croats thrive in their football NT (exact opposite is basketball, where Serbia dominates). By the way, to add more to this imaginary national team, likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and many more, wouldn't be representing countries like Sweden, but would most probably play for Jugoslavija, but still, I don't believe any of these imaginary teams would have better results than Croatia had.
My friend, the team you showed there would have never been a national team because the players were getting invitations based on the quota, so you would have 1 Slovenian, 4 Croatians, 9 Serbs, 2 Bosnians, 1 Macedonian and 1 Montenegrin. There would be no cohesion. The other thing is that the Croatian national team owes its success not only to the quality of the players but also to the great patriotism that united the nation during the war for independence and stayed as an aura over all Croatian team sports. Yugoslavia did not have that, at least not to that extent. So, what you are claiming is not correct. Croatia had a great team in 1998, 2018 and 2022. They lost the finals in 2018 because some key decisions were made in the key moments of the game. But don't forget, good players don't make a good team. It's the team spirit that is important. And having all the scandals in the Serbian national team over the last few decades tells a lot about the players' personalities. It's the same but different. And I am not trying to be a nationalist here. I am just saying that idealising something is never good. You need to consider bad sides of the idea.
@@NitroFooty My comment is not about "what exists". My comment is about your "what if" being unrealistic. It's less realistic than what if we put all the best players of Europe or South America in the same team. Your video is great. I'm just commenting on the idea.
I know what happened is unforgivable but I need Balkan people to forget all that and unite because their national team would genuinely be one of the best in the world
Those divisions run deep, and for some are nearly irreconcilable. How can you ask Croatia and Bosnia and Serbia to forgive each other for the war crimes and genocides committed during the Yugoslav wars, or Kosovo to reintegrate into Serbia. Balkan nationalism is almost too strong to create a united yugoslavia again and managing the division in the fanbase of Yugoslavia would be a tall ask for a Yugoslav FA to take.
if we go over so many missed historical facts and come to the main question in the video, what if such a successful Croatian team had the help of talents from other countries, would they win the title? the problem is that then so many wrestlers would not play in the teams, there would have to be a place for every nationality in the starting line-up, regardless of quality. politics would interfere and you would get a neutered team compared to the real possibilities. so the answer would be no!
@@NitroFooty brother I did watch it. You said Yugoslavia collapsed a few years after tito died. And that football and Yugoslavism kept Yugoslavia together…..it was a lot more than that
@@NitroFooty he died in 1980. It collapsed in 1991. That’s more than a few years. Had a lot to do with the dissolution of the USSR as well You failed to mention the role that that their particular brand of socialism played in it And how under Tito, nationalists that wanted their to be separation and war were suppressed Moron
I mean a team like this GK Oblak 🇸🇮 LB Gvardiol 🇭🇷 CB Rrahmani 🇽🇰 CB Milenkovic 🇷🇸 RB Dedic 🇧🇦 CM Milinkovic Savic 🇷🇸 CDM Brozović 🇭🇷 CM Modrić 🇭🇷 Vlahović 🇷🇸 Mitrović 🇷🇸 Dzeko 🇧🇦 And then also the Reseves they have, they most certainly would compete in every WC/Euros as favourites, anyone else with another oppinion should go watch golf
Croatia has a been a mini footballer factory So has Serbia but Serbia hasn’t had the coaches or the tactics Bosnia hasn’t done much since 2014 And Macedonia…. Nothing Slovenia has done a few things
Country was doesn't exist/dead but it is the FIFA members: 1. Soviet Union 2. Yugoslavia 3. Czechoslovakia 4. East Germany 5. Serbia and Montenegro 6. South Vietnam 7. Maradoty of Palestine 8. Saarland 9. Curacao 10. CIS
A lot of foreigners have fantasies of Yugoslavia national team. But only people in Croatia seem to be reasonable enough to understand that actually we would be much stronger if we kept at least Western Roman Empire together. 😢😢😢😢😢 Now imagine that kind of national league and national team! 😂😂😂
If you new anything how former Yugoslavia worked you would know that out of 25 players in that team 15 would be serbes, 5 tops would be Croats (3 of which would be sitting on the bench 90% of the time), the rest would be filled with a Slovenian, Bosnian, Macedonian... Thats just the sad truth, favoritism/nepotism in all aspects of life was part of the reason Yugoslavia fell apart, A small part but still a part. Croatia is a great team not cos it has the best players, but cos of amazing teamwork and teamspirit. Yugoslavia would probably be a good team with mediocre results.
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Ironcally, Croatia itself proves that Yugoslavia in the 90s could have been a great powerhouse, with their 1998 WC 3rd place.
Not to mention, we have yet to see a World Cup without a former Yugoslav country present
That was a great achievement back then. I was even in Bari when Red Star beat Olympique Marseilles. A big match with Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins and I think also Bosnians and Macedonians (yes, of course! Darko Pancev scored the decisive penalty, but the best on the field was Prosinecki).
@@bladablitz Only Croat iz Zvezda was Prosinečki.
@@danielm6319 That's not true. Goran Juric, a fabulous libero (yes, people still often played with a libero back then) was there and I think the year before that Zoran Vujovic, a Croatian left-back, played for Zvezda. I am (unfortunately already) of the age to remember many Croatian players who played for Red Star. Of course, many other people from the former Yugoslavia (Pancev, Belodedic, Najdoski, Savicevic...). It was just sport and not political nonsense.
Bunch of great players would for sure not play because there was always ethnicity quota, so in the end you end up with worse team than if it was just Croatia or just Serbia
@@stipe3124 Hard to say Form today's Perspektive. Just can say that I loved to see the Yugoslavian team play back in the days. Purely from an sporty viewpoint.
Funny how modric is older than his country
haha, very true about croatia. And plus Serbia was technically only founded in 2005 which is even more recent. Though, they existed for thousands of years under the Kingdom of Serbia, and various other names
@@NitroFooty yeah true but isn’t he Croatian
@@COVENTRYXEDITShe was born in yugoslavia when it still existed
The independent state of croatia: um
@@dmvandrew7039he was born in what is now Croatia lmao.
This video made me realize how impressive Uruguays achievements are. Winning the world cup with 2.8 million and 2.9 million people. And now their future is bright, winning the u20 world cup and they only have a population of 3.45 million. INSANE
Yep! They are incredible for their size
Crazy that around 2015, two of the best strikers in the world (Suarez and Cavani), were from Salto, a city of 100 thousand inhabitants.
@@felipemonteiro6546 indeed crazy, Salto must have a crazy academy or something. Also insane that Messi and Maradona both came from the same region in Argentina(Santa Fe)
Their wins were prehistoric when world cups were by invites or right after the world wars.
@rlkhan10 actually Maradona was not from Santa Fe but from a poor district situated near Buenos Aires city called "Villa Fiorito".
Imagine a team with Modric, Vlahovic, Gvardiol, Mitrovic, Livacovic, Sesko, and pretty much everybody else. 🤯🤯
Livakovic over oblak?
@@jocabogdanovic3412 true
@@Chris_soccer_editz SMS, Brozović, Kovacic, Gvardiol, two former Serbian ManU players...
What about zlatan? Through his parents he could have been on the team
@@xaviersaavedra7442 he is from sweden xddd
And the really amazing part would be the fact that Yugoslavia would have at the same time a really powerful basketball national team and a great water polo national team too
Bro has me interested in history more than my teacher
Professor Nitro 👨🏫
Very good video! Great way to learn about the history of that region and how it’s tied to fútbol.
Thank you so much brother
Genuinely the most interesting video I’ve watched for a long time, incredibly well made and presented - well done
That means a ton to me mark!
Yeah I remember doing a squad builder for Yugoslavia xi and yeah lol they’d compete head to head with France , Argentina and Spain
In post soviet countries everyone knows how rich and developed was Yugoslavia.
How to be a successful dictator
IMF Loan-IMF Loan-Soviet arms-Soviet arms-repeat
Jokes aside, if the ethnic leaders are more corrupt and seek to make an oligarchy of Yugoslavia. What was Yugoslavia now would be more corrupt but more united lmao
It was a terrible system glued together by one good leader in Tito. It wasn’t about “if” it was going to end in war, but “when.”
@@NitroFooty Indonesia is still one
@@NitroFooty He wasn't too good tbh.
So interwar yugoslavia
Great content, it's unfortunately rare to see a football channel that respects the general history of less viewed regions like the Balkans, you're going to reach the stars sooner than later and I'll be there to celebrate because you'll deserve to be amongst Maqwell and Fiago,
Also I would be interested to see the football history of another former communist country that disunited in the early 1990s, Czechoslovakia
(Although the USSR would be appreciated as well)
I’m Croatian, anyone from an ex Yugoslavian country watching?
watching from Serbia 🇷🇸
Yes
watching this from Slovenija❤
watching from Slovenia🇸🇮
The problem is lockeroom tensions. On paper this seems great but relations between former Yugoslavian clubs are brutal. Even within the countries themselves, hooliganism driven by politics and just ethnic tensions in general. The partisanship could severally impact the dynamics.
The ethnic tensions with Croatia and Serbia are mostly gone. Go to Belgrade, you will see Croatians, go to Zagreb and see tons of Serbians. Some for work, others because of family. Some vacationing in the Adriatic, etc.
@@anthonybranco ... When you eliminate a TV from your life, the real picture is very much in line with your comment.
Nope , just go and look Yugoslav basketball achievments as national team. So etnic tensions was not so big at those time ( prior 1990)
Without war ( influence and finance from outside) , tension even today would be low.
This is the first time I've seen non Croatian/Serbian pronounce Hajduk correctly
I try my best 🤙
@@NitroFooty Nothing could be easier ... just a combination of two english words put together .... Hi + Duke = Hajduk (which literaly means a bandit or an outlaw).
Today, it is much easier to identify it as the CFC Pluskvamperfekt ... (meaning ... once upon a time there was a football club from Split).
Another Banger!
Thanks Patrick!
Don’t forget that if Yugoslavia still existed players who played for other countries would still probably play for Yugoslavia, like Ibrahimovic, Xhaka, Shaqiri, Arnautovic, Pulisic etc.
But the general topic could also be applied to other sports like basketball, handball, volleyball, waterpolo, tennis. Yugoslavia would have been a sports powerhouse in general.
Absolutely 100% true
Though, xhaka is Albanian right?
Both brothers Dzaka and Shaquiri are from Kosovo (south Serbia)@@NitroFooty
Yugoslavia did continue in a form for some time until 2006 as Serbia and Montenegro, even using the old Yugoslav tricolor in its flag but it was a far cry of the former Yugoslavia. And in 2006 Montenegro declared independence followed by Kosovo 2 years later and Serbia and Montenegro would play at the 2006 World Cup as a country that no longer existed as the last remanent of the nation of Yugoslavia.
imo tito might've had some controversial decisions but my man held his country together for longer than it should
Facts
@@NitroFooty At Tito's funeral, there were 178 world power leaders ... such as kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers ... princes, princesses, heirs to the throne, ambassadors, etc. Never before and never again until the end of the world will something like that happen again ... not even in theory.
Tito's personality is the ultimate oxymoron of the human history, which cannot be repeated ever again ... He was a dictator who was loved by all.
Tito invented and patented the ''Stockholm syndrome'' ... way before the term entered into a public discourse.
He was a dictator who was loved by all. That sum it perfectly.
I hope Yugoslavia comes back in the future someday.
My mother is older than her country lol
Imagine if Yugoslavia hadn't dissolved.
How many World Cups and euros would they have won.
(The countries people all hated each other a bit too much)
Not just Soccer, basketball also. Imagine Jokić, Dončić, both Bogdanović, Nurkić, Vučević and others on the same team...
This has more history than my teachers are teaching about. 😅
Josip Broz tito... what a guy
Tito really held that thing together for as long as he could 😂
Bro as an bosnian i can confirm he was the greatest for us, my grandparents are still dreaming of him and how good he was to our people
They still have a picture from him in their house
@@marlemadre7627 my serbian friend's family says the same
@@NitroFooty 90% of the old generation says that bro
He was a true leader
@@marlemadre7627 He was a dictator. He did some good things, but also many bad. So you should not idealise him without checking the facts.
I've been saying this for decades now. If Yugoslavia had stayed together, it would have already won a couple of World Cups and Euros. There's no doubt about it.
Agreed
Never would happen. Croats hate Yugoslavia and never played with Hart for that false nation and Croats are crucial for succes
@@MadMax-xv9xs Yeah, sorry, that's not true. If you look at the ethnic composition of the Yugoslavian national teams during the World Cups and Euros, Croats provided quite a number of players to the teams. It's ethnicities like Bosniaks and Slovenes that made little contribution. And I don't believe for one second that once a player is on the field, he's not going to give a good effort.
do you know whats crazier
they would ALSO dominate basketball.
AT THE SAME TIME.
and a bunch of MMA fighters are from the former yugoslavic balkan nations as well
Luka AND Jokic on the same team, with some other solid role players in the NBA too. They’d be nasty. On top of that, they also have Djokovic for tennis!
The big problem was the fan groups
After the crisis started in 1989 Yugoslavia allowed people to make crowd groups with their own symbols.
Red Star got Delije Sever and Partizan fans made Grobari Jug witch also made the most deadly derby in entire world (Enternal Derby) well they were not only group
Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk made own groups and a derby but the most dangerous group that was demolished last year is United Force , fan group of the team FK Rad that was semi-succsesful but lost all money and last year they got relegated to the 4th division and stoped existing markibg the end of the group that was part of the nationalism
your info is so valid 😎
Imagine Austrian Empire had a football national team ( they would have all players born in Austria,Hungary,Croatia,Bosnia,North Serbia,parts of Montenegro, Half of Romania,Czechia,Slovakia,parts of Poland and Ukraine and Venice and Milan) it would be an national insane team. If the Austrian Empire had a football league is would probably be better than Ligue 1 at least. (If u can pls make a vid about it)
Tifo really held yugoslavia together like a gause covering a big wound 😂
honestly its sad how they also got completely robbed by france in the 2018 wc final the ref seriously did everything to make sure france wins its crazy
You think they were robbed? I didn’t really think the officiating was too bad
Bro thought Croatia would win😂😂😂
@@NitroFooty Non existing penalty? Non existing free kick? (From which France scored),....
@@MikeC-fx1xh If refs were fair, Croatia would have been able to win.
@@goodside1807 keep crying it was 4-2. How could they have ever won???
Dinamo Zagreb won [FIFA] Inter-City Fairs Cup in 1967 what is now known as UEFA Europa League.
One thing that is overlooked about the Yugoslav First League is that the players that graduated from their club youth academies were not allowed to play for foreign clubs until they were 27 or 28 years old.
true, i overlooked that in the video. Then again, that probably would have not been the case in the modern game
I was thinking about this the other day when I realized Belgium and Holland used to be one country and thinking about what that team could be
That’s a great point, I’ll make a video on that someday!
Edin dzeko!
Fun fact modric is older the rodrygo dad so rodrygo calls modric dad 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Croatia just had the spark of footballers in 2018
what a run they had
7:00 although its in fifa it still looks like an insane team
I think it would look even better out of fifa. Some of those guys are too low rated!
In soccer, Yugoslavia was the Brazil of Europe.
yes
Why would I, as a Slovenian, want to support a national team consisting mainly of Serbian players?
No thanks! I am glad that Yugoslavia is no more.
okay
Quick reminder that Yugoslavia had as many European cup winners as france has now. 30 years later
Also Crvena Zvezda would've won a treble if not for Hajduk Split taking the tito cup in the final. A final where the tensions were already flaring up very bad, and both teams knew that was gonna be the final year of the cup, whoever won it wouldn't need to give it back
Many football hooligan groups became guerrilla groups btw
That is an Insane stat
Arkan was one SOB
I still think it’s really crazy that in World War II Yugoslavia actually had a chance against the Germans, and even know their whole country was invaded, and the Germans were on at a close watch for rebels, even getting close encounters they still died for their leader. In several occasions that’s like getting shot at seven times and old bullets missing.
Dude ur such an underrated channel. Hella low subs for quality content
Thanks so much bro!
In Yugoslavia the rule was that players can't be sold outside until they hit 28 years.. so u had strong competition inside your own league that why with years players became stronger and better today they just watch pay and not loyalty to club.
2:20 😂
@@Zoom-Editz1 hahaha that was pure GOLD
3:00 Sweden against Korea bro😂
Insane 😂
@@NitroFooty12-0😭
That’s crazy tbh
The idea of reunified yugoslavia national team is quite interesting and it might be one of the strongest teams in the world.
That being said, I also feel like a lot of positions would be overloaded, with talented players on the bench and others who would not even make it in a 23 players squad despite being really good.
6 different countries and teams is probably the best option for players and football fans.
True
Yugoslavia still played as a unified country in the 90s, even 98 WC. Croatia had its own team.
Yeah but it wasn’t exactly the same without Croatia, the best of the footballing nations in the former Yugoslavia
How to succced a dictator is crazy....
Great vid btw
What a way to kickoff university fr
1:39 I was like wtf is connection to Croatia national team in the 2018 World Cup 😂
The problem with Yugoslavia is they incorrectly identified people by religion determining nationality which is a huge flaw. Religion ≠ nationality
I love 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷 and video
If YUGOSLAVIA still existed, easily they will be a Champions in every sport, football, basketball, handball, volleyball, water polo, tennis. Yugoslavia, Spain, France, and Germany are most powerfull sports countries in the world.
The fact that Bulgaria almost joined Yugoslavia
Imagine if Yugoslavia still existed in 1994 with Bulgaria 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
insane
So what you're saying is we should bring back...
No
@@NitroFooty cool, cool. Just checking
Personally I believe Yugoslavia would've won not one but two FIFA world cups if it would've still existed. Also they were really nice in basketball too. They had a boogie team that always dominated them in both sports. And that team was also extinct: the Soviet Union.
And yet teams like Serbia, and Bosnia greatly underpreform on the internation stage
Lack of depth, and generally tougher groups. Bosnia has been especially bad in recent years though. Early 2010s they had something good going tbh
They'ed dominate basketball too
Fr
why is bosnia flag wrong? and where is kosvo
Apologies about the flag mistake, and Kosovo is actually in the video
@@NitroFooty oh
Central America had great players.
Many Croatian national team players emerged from Dinamo Zagreb youth ranks or are not from Croatia at all due to their parents/granparents immigration to various often germanic countries so size of the country is not really relevant in that sense.
A good team? Probably. Would they dominate football? Hardly.
Ackshually ☝️🤓
Wrong flag bro
sorry
There are two reasons why there would still be no result. The first is that we Croats can play with all our hearts only for our Croatia. The second is that players from other national teams of the former Yugoslavia would do more harm than good, no matter how good they are.
Maybe
@@NitroFooty Well, you have a sample from 1945 to 1990, where Yugoslavia never won anything.
The funny thing is, I don't think this team would play better than Croatia (and this comes from a Serbian guy). What you don't know about former NT is the fact it was constructed by something (roughly translated as) key. And while, on paper, team would have stronger individuals, the motive wouldn't be the same, and that's something where Croats thrive in their football NT (exact opposite is basketball, where Serbia dominates). By the way, to add more to this imaginary national team, likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and many more, wouldn't be representing countries like Sweden, but would most probably play for Jugoslavija, but still, I don't believe any of these imaginary teams would have better results than Croatia had.
My friend, the team you showed there would have never been a national team because the players were getting invitations based on the quota, so you would have 1 Slovenian, 4 Croatians, 9 Serbs, 2 Bosnians, 1 Macedonian and 1 Montenegrin. There would be no cohesion. The other thing is that the Croatian national team owes its success not only to the quality of the players but also to the great patriotism that united the nation during the war for independence and stayed as an aura over all Croatian team sports. Yugoslavia did not have that, at least not to that extent. So, what you are claiming is not correct. Croatia had a great team in 1998, 2018 and 2022. They lost the finals in 2018 because some key decisions were made in the key moments of the game. But don't forget, good players don't make a good team. It's the team spirit that is important. And having all the scandals in the Serbian national team over the last few decades tells a lot about the players' personalities. It's the same but different. And I am not trying to be a nationalist here. I am just saying that idealising something is never good. You need to consider bad sides of the idea.
That’s why it was a “what if” and not what exists dude
@@NitroFooty My comment is not about "what exists". My comment is about your "what if" being unrealistic. It's less realistic than what if we put all the best players of Europe or South America in the same team. Your video is great. I'm just commenting on the idea.
Uruguay has a population of 3.5 million and they've won two world cups lol. They won them when their pop was 2 mill also lol
Yeah man they are insane for their population
Uruguay won their world cup when football was a new sport and the world cup had only 4 teams.
I actually think the break up made individuals better
Roman Empire 💀
I know what happened is unforgivable but I need Balkan people to forget all that and unite because their national team would genuinely be one of the best in the world
Those divisions run deep, and for some are nearly irreconcilable. How can you ask Croatia and Bosnia and Serbia to forgive each other for the war crimes and genocides committed during the Yugoslav wars, or Kosovo to reintegrate into Serbia. Balkan nationalism is almost too strong to create a united yugoslavia again and managing the division in the fanbase of Yugoslavia would be a tall ask for a Yugoslav FA to take.
This wouldnt work because politically some players would play before others even though they dont deserve it
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They would reach the World Cup knockout stage before 2018 with Handanovic and Mandzukic
They reached the final that year
You should make a vid about fc reims
if we go over so many missed historical facts and come to the main question in the video, what if such a successful Croatian team had the help of talents from other countries, would they win the title?
the problem is that then so many wrestlers would not play in the teams, there would have to be a place for every nationality in the starting line-up, regardless of quality. politics would interfere and you would get a neutered team compared to the real possibilities.
so the answer would be no!
How can you not mention socialism during this? And how Tito actually died in 1980
I did mention that Tito died and it’s a football video so maybe watch the video instead
@@NitroFooty brother I did watch it. You said Yugoslavia collapsed a few years after tito died. And that football and Yugoslavism kept Yugoslavia together…..it was a lot more than that
@@corrosion2002 yugoslavia did collapse a few years after he died and yugoslavism did help keep it together for as long as it did
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@@NitroFooty he died in 1980. It collapsed in 1991. That’s more than a few years. Had a lot to do with the dissolution of the USSR as well
You failed to mention the role that that their particular brand of socialism played in it
And how under Tito, nationalists that wanted their to be separation and war were suppressed
Moron
I mean a team like this
GK Oblak 🇸🇮
LB Gvardiol 🇭🇷 CB Rrahmani 🇽🇰 CB Milenkovic 🇷🇸 RB Dedic 🇧🇦
CM Milinkovic Savic 🇷🇸 CDM Brozović 🇭🇷 CM Modrić 🇭🇷 Vlahović 🇷🇸 Mitrović 🇷🇸 Dzeko 🇧🇦
And then also the Reseves they have, they most certainly would compete in every WC/Euros as favourites, anyone else with another oppinion should go watch golf
You forgot to mention Ibrahimović, Xhaka, Shaqiri to name a few who represent other countries which their parents immigrated due to wars in the '90
Absolutely true
That would be cool
Croatia has a been a mini footballer factory
So has Serbia but Serbia hasn’t had the coaches or the tactics
Bosnia hasn’t done much since 2014
And Macedonia…. Nothing
Slovenia has done a few things
Slovenia got one of best GKs of the world.
I think Yugoslavia today, would be at a similar power as the Netherlands in football.
Why is Yugoslav so catchy
Yugoslavia always had the talent, but no real results but internal dislike for each other was always a problem. It's better this way.
Definitely better socially this way…but the football 😂
@@NitroFooty Croatia has proven on the that for them is better, the rest not so much.
Do Soviet Union! They would have been a great team right now
Its rather funny saying Tito stick together the Republics with football..it was just a side effect not a cause..the WW2 was the main reason
Country was doesn't exist/dead but it is the FIFA members:
1. Soviet Union
2. Yugoslavia
3. Czechoslovakia
4. East Germany
5. Serbia and Montenegro
6. South Vietnam
7. Maradoty of Palestine
8. Saarland
9. Curacao
10. CIS
I'm from Montenegro but Yugoslavia is my love forever! Unfortunately,stupid nationalism was stronger than vision.
Maybe not. They always ended up infighting
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Hello again! do u remeber me?
Hi Mika
@@NitroFooty Heyy
1:27 background made from AI
Back when Greece Bulgaria didn't steal Macedonia history 😅 they were shocked from Tito
Wdym
A lot of foreigners have fantasies of Yugoslavia national team.
But only people in Croatia seem to be reasonable enough to understand that actually we would be much stronger if we kept at least Western Roman Empire together.
😢😢😢😢😢
Now imagine that kind of national league and national team!
😂😂😂
Loool
What about 1967, when Dinamo Zagreb won kup velesajamskih gradova, what was before UEFA cup, or Europa league?
I should’ve mentioned that!
ironic how a guy who likes football gets a dictator who kept his country alive with FOOTBALL
Haha
Let's be honest the Yugoslavia 2024 team if it existed would be 90% Croatian
Closer to 50% probably
If you new anything how former Yugoslavia worked you would know that out of 25 players in that team 15 would be serbes, 5 tops would be Croats (3 of which would be sitting on the bench 90% of the time), the rest would be filled with a Slovenian, Bosnian, Macedonian...
Thats just the sad truth, favoritism/nepotism in all aspects of life was part of the reason Yugoslavia fell apart, A small part but still a part. Croatia is a great team not cos it has the best players, but cos of amazing teamwork and teamspirit. Yugoslavia would probably be a good team with mediocre results.
Dont travel too far. Maybe they could have win 1998 World Cup
i agree about 1998
Yugoslavia
As a Bosnian I must say WTF did you do to the flag
Apologies! Mistake in the edit.
Oh my god 2018 if it was Yugoslavia France would have been blown out of the water you kidding me. The team would be destroying countries
Fr
Wheres HNK Šibenik
best history teacher itw 🗿
Professor Nitro 👨🏫