The Last Yugoslavian Football Team

The Last Yugoslavian Football Team

2000 nl 85 minutes

Rating: 10

Plot

They were called ‘the golden generation’, the young Yugoslavian soccer players who won the Junior World Soccer Championships in 1987 in Chile. They became world-famous and today play in Rome, Milan and Madrid. But the country they represented in Chile no longer exists. Director Vuk Janic talks with soccer heroes like Zvonimir Boban and Sinisa Mihajlovic and visits the neighbourhoods they grew up in. Via the soccer, he tells the story of the disintegration of his country. The supporter riots in 1990 during the match between Red Star Belgrade and Dinamo Zagreb heralded the imminent war. Shortly after, the team fell apart. Seven years later, as national players of Croatia and little Yugoslavia, they compete in two charged qualification matches for the 2000 European Championships. Soccer is not war, but the war is never far away. The first match in Belgrade has to be cancelled due to NATO bombings, and the two national hymns are drowned in deafening whistles from the audience.

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Cast

Siniša Mihajlović

Siniša Mihajlović

Himself

Zvonimir Boban

Zvonimir Boban

Himself

Predrag Mijatović

Predrag Mijatović

Himself

Dejan Savićević

Dejan Savićević

Himself

Robert Prosinečki

Robert Prosinečki

Himself

Ivica Osim

Ivica Osim

Himself

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