WHY ex-Yugoslavs are the best footballers 

Kalajdžić, Grbić, Dragović, Šeferović, Shaqiri, Xhaka in the Austrian and Swiss squads just a few days ago.

@@dwkickoff No wonder the match between Serbia and Switzerland felt like a derby match in the last World Cup. 😄

@Mi hangsh bolet 1510 Albanians carried Swiss in WC

yes lol

@@aidygooner serbia was robbed in that match

Basketball powerhouses!

Don’t forget Peja Stojaković, Vlade Divac, Tony Kukoč, and even Pistol Pete Maravich (his parents were Serbian)

Also Predrag Mijatovic (Real Madrid Player who scored oly goal/winning goal In 1998 UCL final againts Juventus After 32 Years)

@@vanhalen4308 À clearly Off-side goal it was. Shame!

@@federicolf9902If You see the match Mijatovic was run staright without stop. So that was not an offside Because it was Mistake from Juve defender. They forgot to mark Mijatovic 🤭

you forgot Velez :)

​@@DorijanGrey velez sarsfield

In Croatia people did watch other European leagues on tv and Serie A and English Division 1 were popular. But in coastal Croatia they were able to catch Italian TV that other parts of Ex-Yu could not.

@@NikolaJokerMVP15 Dinamo Zagreb: Boban, Prosinecki, Simic, Biscan, Modric, Mandzukic, Corluka, Kranjcar, Lovren, Vida, Vrsaljko.... respect to Partizan youth academy, but even in SFRJ until 90s wasn't the best, after 90s especially. Dinamo Zagreb took the lead in front of everyone.

Same here…Davor Suker was pure gold

They beat Jamaica 3 - 1

Gay

@Sebastian Saam I have never seen a mediocre Germany....

U are 30-31

@Sebastian Saam and Slaven Bilić’s guitar solo from his Band “Rawbau” in the beginning of the documentary👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻😊

Atomsko Sklonište, EKV, Dino Dvornik...

TBF

@Sebastian Saam could you list all the songs you used please?

@Sebastian Saam you played Krug by EKV 👏 👏👏👏. Serbia did win the under 21 world cup a cpl of years ago too..beating Brazil in the final! Waterpolo...volleyball..tennis.. all sports former Yugoslav nations punch above their weight in..

Croatia has had a player or 2 in a Champions league winning club team for the last 10 years

Croatia qualified in 13/15 big competitions! More than all ex Yugoslavia teams together. It says how dominant they are comparing to ex Yugoslavia countries 💪🏼

Convey your love to a bosnian

@@omermowaffaquejaigirder8889 okay

@@Traveltheworld1818. Imagine if there were 100,000,000 Croatians?.....Serbs?.....etc....

@Sebastian Saam they have a chance. This is a tricky group they have, along side with Croatia and Russia. Slovaks may swing a few points on their day too. I think that Russia will probably take first place and two former Yugoslav republics will battle it for the second.

@Sebastian Saam I watched first two Croatia's qualifiers. Don't know what's going on, but they were lackluster.

well in Czech republic its the same, except there is also church in every village - which is strange considering we are atheist country.

Bruv, Macedonian and it's the same here, I have literally found football pitches in the middle of the fucking forest

@@Darwinek Croatian coach Zlatko Dalić was trying to see how much younger players can help us in EC, and most importantly in WC. These matches were last chance for some players to show that they deserve to play on big stage. Because be honest it is not same to play friendly match and qualifications for WC. So when some pleyers from U21 came back to senior team, I think that Croatia will go as leader in this group.

Brazil beat Serbia in the last WC handily.

Stop talking garbage, Croats never gave their heart playing for stupid dirty communist jugoslavia. This is evident as after they got their independance they have excelled in all sports, they dont need the others

@@powderskier5547 ok

@@powderskier5547 Yeah...you can see it in basketball🤭

@@powderskier5547 nakon 20+ godina, jos uvijek toliko mrznje...

@@powderskier5547 sad si se usrao prijatelju i to do skroz ! pogledaj video kako se Zvone Boban raduje posle finala u Chileu ili Radja , Kukoc u dresu Jugoslavije ! sto je bilo bilo je , al nemoj da pljujes i historija se ne moze menjati o tvojoj volji .

great stat Kostas

France gets close, with at least one frenchman in at least one of the teams, bench or starting, in every Champions League except for 1999, 2007 and 2010. Congrats to all the Ex-Yugoslavs! It's a record that shows the great strenght of those nations.

Damn, i didn't noticed that, i only managed to notice that last 7 finals had atleast one Croat or more

@Sebastian Saam Thanks! For a long time I was wondering why nobody has picked this up. There is a small asterisk: In 2007 there were two "half-Yugoslavians", namely Zeljko Kalac is Croatian who grew up in Australia so he played for their national team; and Marek Jankulovski is half-Macedonian/half-Czech but played for Czech Rep. Anyways, I still think it's quite amazing and I was kind of lazy to check for other countries but I think this is unique.

Wow… I mean… wow… :-) We’ve reached the point of hearing “Northern Macedonia”, and the only correction we (Greeks) find appropriate is to point out that “it’s North Macedonia now” :-). This is a football-related video, and a very good one, so I won’t expand. I just found the correction hilarious :-) (in a disgusting way).

Luke Modrić is Croatian.

I absolutely agree.

In your dreams

Brazil ? Paris ?

@@Dah2291 yea you have a Point, but ex Yugo region is all around great:all mayor ball sports they dominante, Cycling(champs), and cuz of Slovenia (mostly) this slavic Balkan region is also very very decent at winter sports. Brazil and France as far as i know are more than not football oh and handball, volleyball but still those 2 are much bigger countries. Idk...

@@Dah2291 NO I DONT WANT TO GO TO BRAZIL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

True!!!

BALKAN POWER💪💪💪

He speaks Serbo-Croatian!

@@samykiani944 what really, well that explains a lot, tnx

ha lol

@Sebastian Saam aaaah zato😊👏🏻👍🏻Bravo

@Sebastian Saam Hahah ništa, zaslužio si svaku pohvalu, znam koliko je težak jezik, a posebno jednom Nijemcu. Još jednom svaka čast i samo tako nastavi

Mexicano! Greetings from another mexican here. I hope we start getting better results in our own National Team soon!!

Tercer Mexa por aquí!! Saludos!!

ORALEE CHICO..much love from Croatia..✌

The only thing I dislike about Mexico is the fact that parts of bodies are everywhere and that the cartels are running your countru

Aztecs and Aryans have some kind of historic connection. Don t ask me to explain...

😃how come

Sumnjam, al ipak 👍

Ali je zanimljivo...

@Sebastian Saam👍 😀😀😀

I hope so.....⚽️

@@carlop.7176 , zasto sumnjas ??? Sve je moguce i vjeruj mi da ce tako i biti. Da dozivim i to zlato kao i sve prethodne medalje pa da mogu riknut sretan 🇭🇷💪 !!!

WILD 🔥🔥🔥

Yet their senior team are useless and don't play as a TEAM. 😬 But hopefully they'll find the right balance soon so they can qualify for the next World Cup.

They're pretty good tho, even cr7 had too throw his armband 😂

@@aidygooner the reason is much deeper than u think why are they useless and don't play as a team.

@Dusan Stojanovic I hope so because as a football fan I want to see good players thrive as a team instead of being wasted by bad management, player egos, weak mentality or bad attitudes.

@Sebastian Saam it's class

Where can I get it? Any ideas?

@Sebastian Saam actually there might be something about it. Nikola Vlašić’s sister was a world class high Jump champion. Ivano Balic and Petar Metličić are from Split and won world Championship and Olympic games gold in handball for Croatia. Then Toni Kukoč and Dino Radja are from Split and won three times in a row the European Championship in Basketball for Jugoplastika Split 1989,1990 and 1991. Later Kukoč joined Chicago Bulls and won three times the NBA with Michael Jordan as team mate. Wimbledon winner and Davis Ćup winner Goran Ivanišević and Niki Pilić are also from Split.The people in Split are proud of the fact that they have such a high number of world class athletes in various sports. I think it’s the climate, sun, sea and the fact that the kids love sports. A lot of them are playing on the streets and you can find football courts and Basketball courts all over the city.

I agree 100 % growing in up in Czechoslovakia in 70es we play football on the street every day ,later some of us joined local clubs ,fast forward 50 years ,when I go there for vacation ,no one is playing football on the street anymore ...and many local clubs are gone ,super markets replaced football pitches ,the result quality of football in Slovakia is average ,huge decline in last 30 years . 1961 Czechoslovakia silver at WC in Chile 1969 Slovan Bratislava / European cup winners Cup Winner 1976 European champion in Beograd 1980 winner Olympic games in Moscow so watching Slovakian football today is a painfull experience for some one who played football more than 30 years ,depressing to watch 🤣🤣

Croatia is the best you pussy!! 🇭🇷❤🇭🇷

Knowing the path and walking the path are very different things if you were alive back then you would know that Yugoslavia prefered serbian footballers over any other Yugoslav republic baller ;)

Di t i je mamic@@DorijanGrey

@@milosl6698 nije meni al je u Medjugorju mucko djubre :D

Sad Facts

Maybe things start to change for Serbia at least. Kokeza is out and Piksi is the coach.

As a brazillian i can say the same happens in brazil for a long long time, but we're so lucky that we cant stop producing excellent players

The funny thing is that after the break up of Yugoslavia , the best results they got under "tyran" Milosevic

Just like in Croatia, where Zoran Mamić finally went to jail. Even without him, Dinamo Zagreb eliminated Tottenham. :)

And we have Mandzukic , Rebic, Krunic,even Ibrahimovic.

@Sebastian Saam atletico is also super league founder

Hahaha yesss

Oblak is by far the best keeper in football history, the others don't have quality to play for Atletico...

@@marpagapal3312 yeah man

Much Love from Mexico🇲🇽,Still can't believe how dominant the 2018 Croatian team was, Modric is a living Legend no doubt...

As well as half of the Swiss team. LOL

@@fmac6441 and some Switzerland players

his mum hails from the zadar region and his dad from bosnia...

Tbh, Ibrahimovic is more relevant to this team than say Pulisic. I guess Pulisic wouldn't count because his grandfather was from Dalmatia but his dad was born in the US. Plus Pulisic's mom probably doesn't have balkan blood at all. So that makes him a third generation American....

@@BosnianBornBeast True. Istina. Vrai.

Similar thing is happening at AC Milan

four Croatians at Spurs not so long ago: Modrić, Kranjčar, Ćorluka and Pletikosa = Crottenham

Džeko and Misimović wining the Bundesliga with Wolfsburg ,don't forget that

You forgot Filip Kostic in Frankfurt. In Benfica 2013 were Matic, Markovic, Fejsa, Sulejmani and one more i cant remember but 5 Serbs in one club at the same time ahahahaha

@@MrFilip333 He only got to Frankfurt after Kovac left

Pancev > Pandev, IMHO.

Toni Savevski was the best foreign player in the Greece.

Pančev is GOD.

Pančev is also still to this day youngest ever footballer to be top scorer of one 1st division league season. He was 18 when he was top scorer of Yugoslav league in 1982/83 for Vardar Skoplje

THIRTY YEARS AGO MAN! JEEZ

@Sebastian Saam massive props for choosing the "Crna dama" solo :)

I was looking for this comment :) @Sebastian Saam svaka čast!

@Sebastian Saam you’re always welcome , mate. And please ignore this obviously paid GNK Dinamo Mamić Mafia Club troll “dumb and dumber”. It is commonly known that Zdravko Mamić is playing trolls like he’s paying journalists, judges, policemen, and politicians (mainly from the HDZ party). This guy is a cancer to Croatian football and society

Paying..not playing. Sorry for the typo

@DecemberJanuary serbian language uses plenty of turcisms. Same goes for the Bosnians. Serbs are writing cyrillic letters, Croats are using Latin letters. The first serbian book was printed 300 years after the first Croatian book. Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic literally copy and pasted Croatian linguists Marko Marulic and Bartol Kasic who lived 250-300 years before Karadzic. And Karadzic copied them while he was living in Vienna and during a time when Serbia was part of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish language was the official language in Serbia. So if all these people are using the same language then it’s the Croatian language.there is not a single poet or writer from Serbia or Bosnia from the 14th century until the 19th century. While Gundulic, Hektorovic, Marulic, Kašić etc were all Croats from Dalmatia

@Sebastian Saam call it Croatian language. Because that’s what it basically is. Serbs never experienced Barock, Renaissance. None of the people who are from the Eastern Orthodox Byzantine cultural heritage and who ended up under Ottoman Turkish occupation for 500 years ars Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia did. On the other handside Croatia never became a Turkish pashaluk and Turks never managed to conquer Split, Zadar, Trogir, Dubrovnik, Šibenik, Karlovac, Sisak, Pula, Rijeka, Opatija, Senj, Zagreb, Varazdin etc this is why Croatia had universities, gymnasiums, printed books and poets and linguists centuries before Serbs and the others. Literally Serbs copied and pasted Croatian language in 19th century and modified it and enhanced it with plenty of turcisms. They also took the Russian Cyrillic alphabet and modified it. Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic did this while he was living in Vienna and while Serbia was still an Ottoman Turkish Pashaluk until 1878.

@DecemberJanuary Petar Hektorovic, Marko Marulic, Bartol Kašić, Ivan Gundulic, Hanibal Lucic, Marin Drzic, Faust Vrancic..all Croat writers mainly from Dalmatia. From the 15th century to the 18th century. Serbia didn’t have a single poet, writer, linguist, scientist during that time. Of course not since Serbia was under Ottoman Turkish occupation during that time and cut off from (western) European cultural achievements, trends and exchange

Yeah,most of us support each other.Much love to Mexico from Montenegro.

Drop Croatia! They ain't part of this.

We do support each other but in the same time our people are one of the most patriotic people in the world so it does get heated sometimes but the best thing to do is put politics aside

What is a Jugslav Shirt ?? Describe it?

@@fritula6200 jel se pravis glup, il ti stvarno pitas?

@Sebastian Saam who do you think will make it?

@Sebastian Saam It's going to be interesting with Bosnia as new very talented players like Demirović, Hadžikadunić, Ahmedhodžić, Menalo and others are included in squad now, and with powerhouses like Pjanić, Džeko, Višća, Krunić, Kolašinac still able to play on high level, with new great coach Petev it's going to be interesting. The game with France, which ended in 1-0 win for France, was very close one and if you ask me it was undeserved win for World Cup winners, but at the end they got 3 points. Bosnia showed great and surprisingly very very solid performance against a team that worths over 1 billion US dollars. Clash between Bosnia and Ukraine is going to be decisive, but if Bosnia wins both games with Ukraine I think the team will go to WC and potentially show very good performance in Qatar. We'll see.

@Sebastian Saam We will Mate, we will

Yes, Slovenia has also talented cyclists. Roglic and Pogacar.

As a Croat I have no problem saying that, per capita, Slovenia is by far the most successful sporting EX-YU nation. By far!

@Sebastian Saam Haha :D. Was not a criticism of course, it's a great video! The people behind FM do a lot of research and therefore have a lot of knowledge in the field. Some people in football even use FM for real-world scouting apparently.

They were 90% from Croatia

You serious? You still craving for jugoslavia? YUCK

What about kricket?

@@dorohoroya1308 we don't play colonial sports

Great remark! You're absolutely right! Peace and love from Croatia to the all good people of the former Yugoslavia!

Much Love to your Great Nations, From Mexico🇲🇽

Rugby?

Bas mi je drago za Makedoniju, navijam za vas na Euro!! Srecno!

@Yair Nahum Almassi Cute way to defend the cradle of the denocracy, by offending and discriminating... Just as they practice the democracy

*North Macedonia

@@starman1144 Yeah? Wow. Amazing

AMEN

That may be, but sport was not very big in Austrian (Hapsburg) Empire, even in pre-WWII Yugoslavia, only after the WWII did Communist government invest into building football (and basketball) fields in EVERY small village. It was mandatory because everyone needed to have same chance and everyone was to keep themselves physically fit with some sport, and to know how to play 1 or 2 team sports.

@@LjubomirLjubojevic It was a trend everywhere, since 1896 where a renewal of the Olympic Games and the interest in Sports. Having a sport field in every village was normal even and specifically for dictatorship so Yugoslavia was no special example.

1998 team was much better than 2018

Hope so man!!

@Sebastian Saam it is not possible as they are already out

@Sebastian Saam Frohe Ostern & Happy Easter😊🙏🏻 And looking forward for your next documentary 👌🏻

Unfortunately, not in hockey though! Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland, and Sweden will still be eating your lunch there though...

Mostly Croats 🇭🇷❤🇭🇷

@@kocostamatis3080 yes Australia didn't get into football even though the country that invented it started our country. Go figure. For some reason we preferred more physical games like rugby and AFL and cricket. Fuk knows why cricket considering its played in summer and the sun here is unbelievably hot. So after ww2 when European began migrating from England and Italy and Greece and then known Yugoslavia the football game was strengthen. If Australia played football instead of the other codes we would very likely have one a cup or two. But fortunately the Croats etc love the game and honour our country with representation

@@kocostamatis3080 All of them

dont forget mitrovic radonjic kostic and vlahovic

How about Rashica, Muriqi, Shaqiri, Xhaka,.... and many more? Yugoslav brotherhood and unity wasnt it? Pathetic

That would be one of the strongest teams in the world

@@joaophilippe No, it wouldn't be. Because players would enter the squad based on their nationality, not their quality. It already happened in the past. Why do you think they rarely qualified for world cups, and never won a single medal in 70 years? Individual quality was always there, but many great players never played for NT, or they only got few caps. It's better this way.

IBRAHIMOVIC...IBRA KADBRA

Tomislav Ivić was by far the bigger coach than Ćiro Blažević .

This may be true, but then what about the 1989 European Basketball Championship?

@@agv-vt8co Croatia got a silver medal at the 1992 Olympics, so?

@@v21829 yeah, great for them and deserved. But I'm talking about something else, when they still were Yugoslavia with all nations inside. What pushed them to lift the trophy in 1989? Was it only their talent and their working together as a team? Or was also some sense of pride for unified Yugoslavia?

@@agv-vt8co Of course the talent and they were the best team in Europe. Yugoslav pride was not really strong after Tito's death. They had a great chemistry as a team and great players. Serbia is still one of the best in the world, Croatia had some great players back then, nowdays not some good results.

Thanks pal! Greetings from Croatia!

Dankje well

and waterpolo

@Lenox Croix Volley ball,water polo

Serbia is bad in hanball. Croatia is the strongest one in handball and football. They won double more OI medals than Serbia and Montenegro together.

We have in Basketball and Handball regional leagues. Although in handball is a bit broader encompassing whole SE Europe.

it could happen with strict enough puishments. But FA leaders who are corrupt dont wanna allow it

Eh, djeco draga, jedan od razloga zašto sam jugonostalgičar! 😏

Glupost. I prije smo bili jedna zemlja i pobjeđivali su na svi bez problema.

*North Macedonia

Btw it's interesting how handball is so popular in the Balkans.

@@starman1144 its not north you dickhead. just Macedonia

Also TBF (uvik kontra) at the begining

And it wouldn't happen if it was Yugoslavia cause lot of Croatian players wouldn't even get a chance to play!

@@moonshadow2170 agree

Yes, that was huge sure, But Serbia Is just Shit because of FFS

Correction. 3.8 mil. ;)

@@pellevanlig245 who cares. Large diaspora is still there. We got player like Kovač, Rakitić or Šimunić from abroad and today Sučić, Vidović and Stanišić.

That kick at Maksimir in 1990 is a stuff of legends.

dragan stojković piksi a legend player and a legend coach :)

Boban je legenda...ali Prosinecki bi ga moga okrenut :)

@@miliomb slažem se

He should of got clubbed out for attacking a police officer .

we could have sworn...

@Sebastian Saam Danke gleichfalls!

Hahaha. So true, its like knife cutting through cheese so precisely, love your comment.

They hate to hear it lmao. France would’ve barely gotten passed the round of 16 for sure!

@@asli9812 lol completely untrue. As normal as it is poorer people play football hence poorer people from France and England tend to be from former colonies. They were trained here and born here. If being from a former colony in itself made you better then explain me why no African country ever made it to the semis. Quite some players in ex-Yougoslav countries are also trained and brought up in western europe like Rakitic or Pjanic ,Kovacic, milinkovic-savic and so on. Then you may also state that they are not "originally French" well in that case I can't do much for you

England has only until quite recently had more diverse squads. Go back to 2010 and beyond and most of the players are White English people. London has loads of football clubs, and London is like 60% non-British now, so you're seeing loads of players coming through from London now which is why England football team is now more diverse

@@keighlancoe5933 it is definitely a phenomenon that is observable everywhere, same in Germany now : (rudiger, sané gnabry, moukoko + all the Turkish), but England in the 2000's still had quiet some "non white" players as Sole Campbell / Wilcott/ Defoe /Cole /Ferdinand/James /Heskey for the most notable

@Sebastian Saam Yeah the most famous one is definetely Ahmedhodzic. According to me one of the best centerback prospects in Europe. He also chose to represent Bosnia

@Sebastian Saam i think so. He also played against France together with also Malmö-born Dennis Hadzikadunic

@Sebastian Saam overall if you like Yugoslav/Balkan football you should check out Allsvenskan. The football quality is shit but there is so many players with yugoslav heritage playing there that i can't even count it. Most of them are from the diaspora. There is an article about it I can link it if you want although if its in swedish?

Tror att de flesta i MFF är bosnier.

Ima u tome dosta istine! Da je bilo pameti i sreće, a manje suludog nacionalizma potpirivanog od strane nekih političkih vođa još od kraja osamdesetih, iako vjerojatno ne bi opstali kao zajednica, na kraju bi se razišli civilizirano kao prijatelji, baš kao Češka i Slovačka, kao braća i dobri susjedi koji bi nastavili imati odlične i brojne veze na mnogim razinama, od ekonomije, sporta, kulture, znanosti, osobnih prijateljstava i rodbinskih veza... A znamo nažalost kako je završilo! Ne ponovilo se više nikada na ovim prostorima da se masovno međusobno ubijaju i rade si nezamisliva zla tako bliski i srodni narodi, koji imaju puno više zajedničkog nego onoga što ih dijeli! Srdačan pozdrav iz Hrvatske!

@@fapmashina1 steta vala naslo se par budala sto je sirilo propagandu plus televizije su dosta uticale. Rts a i Hrvatske radio televizije su stalno jedni o drugima lose na TV propagirali. Rts o svima oko sebe u stvari. Npr oni protesti na kosovu kad je Slobo prvi out sam isao. Provociraju srbi policiju gadjaju ih kamenjem pa posle dobiju po nosu a na Rts prikazuju kao da ih kosovska policija tuce i maltretira a oni demek neduzni. I sve tako za te stvari malo po malo i nakupi se to sve. Pa tako slicno srbi za u hrvatsku i svugde, hrvati tako malo isto zabibere reportaze kao srbi ovo ono i K na kraju

@ Ali Sayyed: Ajde ne seri, majke ti... usrana Juga bila trn u oku? Kome?

@@damirblazevic7364 ja nisam nista reko o trnu u oku vala. Il odgovaras njemu a meni stize?

@@dzemilmehovic5271 Njemu odgovaram, ne znam zasto je tebi stigla notifikacija.

I m croatian, but Savicevic was a genie . All props to his football skills, with Stojkovic and Mijatovic one of the best players from the " other side"

@@buzzerbeaterbuzzerbeater9001 prosinecki?