what the actual FUCK is their problem?
>>154089304Serbia and North Macedonia are quite shit now, North Macedonia was never particularly good either. You also cannot take Croatia's high for granted, and Bosnia isn't that great at the end of the dayBut they definitely have produced many class players and punch above their weight collectively. I think they just have a good sports culture? They're probably also in the sports goldilocks zone of economics where they are rich enough to have somewhat decent facilities and a good understanding of sports as a pastime, but they are not rich enough to think of pursuing a sports career as a threat to your wealth because the academic path is more secureI think Balkan players tend to be very strong mentally. That's something I regularly notice. They play with a lot of passion for their nations because they are nationalist as fuck and not fully subjected to globohomo, and they also often show leadership qualities at their clubs. Maybe it's because their countries went through a bit of hardship? I think the mentality definitely plays a role
>>154089304It's because communists invested way too much into sports thinking it will bring the country international prestige and they promoted sports in order to distract from real domestic issues, which resulted in people from these countries now living vicariously through sports and taking them way too seriously. Sad state of things
>>154089304The difference in football between Croatia and all the other ex yu cunts is literally like between England and everyone else in the British Isles.
>>154089661This is bullshit. The communists invested in sports but all Croatian clubs, the football FA and even the league, were formed during the Danubian monarchy. The party ruled the state by force and the clubs became symbols of a suppressed national identity, although this is not the case with Croatian clubs either because from the first day (from the beginning of the 20th century) they actually carried the prefix 'Croatian' in their names and had the Croatian chessboard in their coats of arms. I think this is a unique case in the world because there is no 'Italian football club Juventus' or 'German football club Bayern' with the German eagle in their coat of arms.
>>154089811what does that have to do with anything nigga
>>154089888You made it sound like sport came with the communists, and then people took it too seriously and 'lived through sport'. I'm telling you that all of that existed before the communists. And ex-Yu is no exception. Football has the status of a religion in England, Italy, Germany, which are rich countries.
>>154089718kek
>>154089304yup imagine how many euro and world cup they would get if Yugoslavia still exist
>>154089304Croatia is the only strong team of those. Even Sweden, despite being the most shit we've been in modern history, are ranked higher than the rest.
>>154090020Club football. Btw, it was a club that was financed by the secret police and in which a Croat was the best player, and all this during the time of the joint state when everything was under the control of Belgrade. The topic here is national teams. Croatia has more Euro and World Cup appearances than all other ex yu cunt combined.Croatia has more medals (3: '98, '18, '22) at the World Cup than Serbia managed to pass the group stage (2: '98, 2000). KWAB.>>154090046The same number of titles won from 1950-90: zero. Yugoslavia's best result in the World Cup was a 4th place, in '62 in Chile. The Yugo NT is the biggest myth ever.
>>154090463nigga stfu
>>154090463Anti-yugo croat>>154090674Pro-yugo croat
>>154090020All I can see in the picture are macedons, kosovars, croat (the best one), a fucking romanian and montenegros
>>154090985Yugoslavia is another name for Greater Serbia. It's a meme.
>>154090674Nemanja, karlovacko. Now.
>>154091595Wasn't Tito a Croat? Or he had little control over there?
>>154091983He was married to a Serb and she was the one who wore the pants in their marriage and dictated his policies.
What about Slovenia?
>>154089304Serbia sucks. They still haven't gotten out of group stages in any tournaments.
>>154092017The nickname Slovenians have is 'skiers'.
>>154092007It was really that bad huh?? Shit... was he too blinded or something?
>>154089304croatia is the only team that did something and beat large teams on international stage, the rest are pure trashbosnia or macedonia beating italy, wont happen again
