BOBAN, PROSINECKI, SAVICEVIC, MIHALJOVIC, SUKER... The 'Chileans'. Born in the same county, they grew up with the same dream. In 1989 they were world youth champions in Chile and played together until 1990, when war broke out and Yugoslavia started to fall apart. First the Croatian players left, then the trainer Ivica Osim resigned because the Serbians bombed his home town of Sarajevo and finally the team was banned from the European championships in Sweden under pressure from the international community. This meant the end of the promising Yugoslavian eleven. In March 1999 they were to share the same soccer pitch for the first time in a direct clash during the preliminary rounds of the Euro 2000 Championship: Mijatovic, Savicevic and Mihajlovic playing for Yugoslavia; Suker and Boban for Croatia. But this very tense qualification match between Yugoslavia and Croatia was again postposed because of war (this time in Kosovo). In August 1999 the game was played in Belgrade. Croatian players were in Yugoslavia for the first time since the war. The tension surrounding the match was even greater because next day a massive protest was planned against President Milosevic. Was it a coincidence that the lights went out in the 47th minute? Or was it planned in order to endanger the protests? Milosevic had bought all up the tickets for his supporters, so the general public was not able to attend the game. Croatia, that had been number three in the world only two years before in <b>...</b>
documentary
pieter
van
huystee
