I thought I should take a quick look at the Serbia National Football Team, the White Eagles, who are due to meet Bafana Bafana in a friendly in Pretoria on Wednesday 12 August.
Well Serbia’s Home stadium is Stadion Crvena Zvezda, Belgrade and their Head coach, Radomir Antic. According to Oleole, their top goal scorer is Savo Milošević with 35 goals.
Serbia National Football Team
The Serbia national football team was previously known as the Yugoslavia national football team until February 2003 and the Serbia and Montenegro national football team until June 2006 when Serbia declared independence as the successor state to the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. It was renamed the Serbia national football team on 28 June 2006.
On August 16, 2006 the new team, representing Serbia played its first international match, with a 3-1 away win against the Czech Republic.
Serbia Participated in 10 FIFA World Cup Competitions
Serbia came fourth in 1930 and 1962 in the FIFA World Cup and has made 10 appearances. At present Serbia are at the top of their Group 7, 2010 FIFA World Cup group with 18 points from seven matches - eight ahead of 2006. According to Fifia. com France is tipped as the winner of the group with Romania next. Serbia is the outsider :
Serbia, who are competing in an international tournament for the first time on their own, having separated from Montenegro last year, enjoyed an impressive qualifying campaign for the European Championships and only lost two of their 14 games, finishing on 24 points, four behind group winners Poland and three behind Portugal. Serbia’s competitiveness was shown by the fact that they remained unbeaten in all four games against the two group principals; their only defeats coming away to Belgium and Kazakhstan.
The Serbia Squad has been reshuffled ahead of their World Cup qualifier with France next month. According to Yahoo News Canada, Coach Antic
… left out wingers Bosko Jankovic and Miralem Suljemani, captain Dejan Stankovic and Nenad Milijas.
And included uncapped goalkeeper Zeljko Brkic as well as midfielders Radosav Petrovic and Marko Milinkovic for the match against the 2010 World Cup hosts.
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Picture: Serbia National Football Team from oleole
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