Once Brothers - The Flag Incident - 1990 World Basketball Chammpionships - Croatia vs Yugolslavia

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During the 1990 World Basketball Championships, Vlade Divac tossed Croatia's flag to the ground before celebrating with his Yugoslavian teammates not knowing the tension that would cause.

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  • It`s like you`re playing for USA and after you win a gold medal on WC someone waves with a Texas flag in front of your nose and not with the American...

    Vlade was protecting a national flag at that time, and he would remove the Serbian flag too

  • @srki80 first of all..all the players were told that there would be nationalistic flags there and they should just ignore everything. Why did Vlade not follow those instructions from the team management? He wanted to be the hero and he paid the price by losing one of his best friends. Although I think a lot more happened here between the two. players..but we will never know. Vlade should have stuck to basketball and not do such politically incoorect things.

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  • Vlade Divac did right !

  • vlade un hombre muy valiente ,que reconoce haberse equivocado.

  • @HRVATSKAzaHRVATE As such there is nothing "nationalistic" about the flag shown and as such what Vlade Divac did is quite unacceptable as the flag he threw away was the flag of a legitimate state.

  • @HRVATSKAzaHRVATE The first line of this constitution states that any one of the 6 republic may secede at any time from Yugoslavia. Therefore the flag shown is a legitimate flag, and was so at the time of these events, however as the political institutions in Yugoslavia were quite weak and corrupt the laws of that state were distorted and used as tools to consolidate Serbian control of Yugoslavia.

  • The flag of Croatia shown is not "nationalistic" but rather it is the flag representing a state that was exercising its right of secession guaranteed by the Yugoslavian Constitution.

  • @kraljtomislav1 ne seri majke ti vise,povracacu od smrada koji siris!

  • @ilemakedonests

    The fact is that the "brotherhood and unity" as Tito said, never existed - it was a fiction, a "forced thing". The difference between Croatians, Serbs, Bosnians etc. will always be there and nobody can change it. Vlade Divac did a mistake, beacause Croatia as one of the republic of Yugoslavia had THE RIGHT to SHOW his OWN FLAG!

  • 1st Basketball Dream Team

  • @ilemakedonests something that is forced upon the people against their will, like Yugoslavia was, and ruled by an iron fist cannot be kept together forever. Eventually the split was bound to happen

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