YUGOSLAVIA
The Team
 
NAME
POSITION
AGE
 CLUB
       
Ivica Kralj
GK
24
 Partizan Belgrade
Aleksandar Kocic
GK
28
 Empoli
Dragoje Lekovic
GK
30
 Crvena Zvezda Belgrade
 
 
 
  
Zoran Mirkovic
D
26
 Atlanta
Risto Vidakovic
D
28
 Real Betis
Albert Nadj
D
23
 Real Betis
Sinisa Mihajlovic
D
28
 Sampdoria
Miroslay Djukic
D
31
 Deportivo Coruna
Goran Djorovic
D
26
 Celta Vigo
Branko Brnovic
D
30
 Espanyol
Nisa Saveljic
D
27
 Bordeaux
Bratislav Zivkovic
D
27
 Crvena Zvezda Belgrade
 
 
 
  
Slavisa Jokanovic
M
29
 Tenerife
Vladimir Jugovic
M
28
 Lazin
Dragan Stojkovic 
M
 32 
 Nagoya Grampus-8
Zeliko Petrovic
M
32
 Urava Japan
Ljubinko Drulovic
M
29
 Porto
Dejan Govendarica
M
28
 Lecce
Milinko Pantic
M
31
 Aletico Madrid
Sasa Curcic
M
27
 Aston Villa
Dragon Ciric
M
23
 Barcelona
 
 
 
  
Dejan Savicevic
F
31
 AC Milan
Predrag Mijatovic
F
28
 Real Madrid
Savo Milosevic
F
24
 Aston Villa
Darco Kovacevic
F
24
 Real Sociedad
 
 
The Coach
 
Coach SLOBODAN SANTRAC came in for plenty for criticism after Yugoslavia lost 2-0 to Spain during their World Cup qualifying campaign for playing too many older, oveseas based players.  But he weathered the storm, saw his side score an aggregate 12-1 victory over Hungary in the play-offs and has steered them back into the World Cup finals for the first time since 1990.  Born on July 1,1946, Santrac, a free-scoring striker, began his first division career with OFK Belgrade in 1965 and stayed with them until a move to Grasshoppers in Zurich in 1974.  He reurned to OFK in 1976 and played until 1983, ending his career with Galenika Belgrade.  He finish third in the European goal scoring list and won the "Bronze Boot" in the 1971-72 season and is the all-time top scorer in the Yugoslav first division with a career record of 218 goals.  He succeeded lvica as Yugoslav coach on December 20, 1994 and three days later Yugoslavia played their first post-sanctions match against Brazil in Porto Allegre which Brazil won 2-0.

 

How They Qualified
 
Concacaf Final Round
 
Yugoslavia - Faroe Islands
3 - 1
Yugoslavia - Malta
6 - 0
Faroe Islands - Yugoslavia
1 - 8
Yugoslavia - Czech Republic
1 - 0
Spain - Yugoslavia
2 - 0
Czech Republic - Yugoslavia
1 - 2
Yugoslavia - Spain
1 - 1
Yugoslavia - Slovakia
2 - 0
Slovakia - Yugoslavia
1 - 1
Malta - Yugoslavia
0 - 5
 
Playoffs
 
Hungary - Yugoslavia
1 - 7
Yugoslavia - Hungary
5 - 0
 
Final Table
 
 
P
W
D
L
F
A
Pts
Spain
10
8
2
0
26
6
26
Yugoslavia
10
7
2
1
29
7
23
Czech Republic
10
5
1
4
16
6
16
Slovakia
10
5
1
4
18
14
16
Faroe Islands
10
2
0
8
10
31
6
Malta
10
0
0
10
2
37
0
 
 
 World Cup Record
 
1930
Fourth Place
1950
1st Round
1954
Quarter-finals
1958
Quarter-finals
1962
Fourth Place
1974
1st Round
1982
1st Round
1990
Quarter-finals