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THIS COULD HAVE BEEN THE TEAM OF THE COUNTRY

CHRIS DUNLAVY says that Yugoslavia deserve their place alongside Brazil, Hungary, Holland and Spain

ASKED to name a great international side, most folk will trot out the usual answers – Brazil 1970, Hungary’s Magnificent Magyars, Cruyff’s Holland, Zidane’s France or the Spain of current vintage.
Yet there is one team that nobody remembers; a team blessed with grit, guile and an extravagant brilliance that was snatched from the world stage just as they threatened to make it their own.
That team is Yugoslavia circa 1992, who approached their sporting zenith at th...

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