Yugoslavia in the 90s: the greatest team there (n)ever was?

[Bandito]

What if Jarni, Stimac, Prosinecki, Boban, Suker and Mijatovic had been allowed to blend with Mihajlovic, Jugovic and Boksic, as well as the players who were already established - Dragan Stojkovic, Dejan Savicevic and Srecko Katanec. "Then," Katanec said, "we would have crushed the world." Perhaps, but instead they had to watch as Denmark took their place at Euro 92, and won the tournament.Yet another thing the war in Yugoslavia ruined.

Read rest of the article here. (http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2007/jul/24/newsstory.sport9)

[I.Drink.Your.Milkshake]

I think they made the Quarter finals of Italia '90 with a young team that was getting better. Some quality names in that list, too.

Edit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italia_90

There you go. Knocked out on penalties in QF's.

[ComradeOm]

Good argument to be made there at least. That said, it shouldn't be forgotten that the old Yugoslavia teams tended to suffer from the same internal divisions that would ultimately pull the country apart

[timbaly]

You can make the same case for the Yugoslavian basketball team. They might have had a shot at making the tournament Finals game with the USA Dream Team a somewhat competitive match. The Croatian team alone was able to play the tightest game of the tournament with the USA. They also would have likely beat the USSR team in the Euro tournament in 1993 and they would have contended for gold in the 1994 FIBA World Championships.

[Bandito]

You can make the same case for the Yugoslavian basketball team. They might have had a shot at making the tournament Finals game with the USA Dream Team a somewhat competitive match. The Croatian team alone was able to play the tightest game of the tournament with the USA. They also would have likely beat the USSR team in the Euro tournament in 1993 and they would have contended for gold in the 1994 FIBA World Championships.
Yeah, but Yugoslavian basketball team (Serbia & Montenegro version) was quicker to recover than the football one, I'm afraid. The team won the European championship in '94 immediately after the sports sanctions were lifted, and continued the good results until Basketball World Cup in Indianapolis '98. After that, basketball went to shit as well.

[timbaly]

They won in 1995, not 1993. Croatia placed third in 1993 after losing to the Russians in the semis and beating the Greeks in the consolation match. A combined Yugoslavian team would have likely won that 1993 tournament.

[Sam_b]

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TAKE THAT TITO

[Bandito]

Sammy boy, Tito died in 1980. This was from Euro 2000. Learn your history and come back again. Chop-chop.