Yugoslavia World Youth Championship Chile 1987

Yugoslavian youth team at World Youth Championship at Chile 1987
Yugoslavia wins world youth title 1987

The 1987 championship was the 6th contested and won for the first time by Yugoslavia. Remarkably, in the course of the tournament the Yugoslavs defeated each of the three other semi-finalists, and eliminated the defending champions Brazil.

The Chileans

"Nobody had any expectations from the team," he said. "We thought they'd play the three group games and go home.

The only journalist who travelled to the finals was Toma Mihajlovic, and even he was there mainly to report on the large Yugoslav ex-pat community in Santiago.

After heavy rain had forced the postponement of the opening ceremony, Yugoslavia beat Chile in the opening game 4-2, a victory of such fluency that a belief was ignited. It was here, Slaven Bilic always maintained, that the spirit that carried Croatia to third place in the 1998 World Cup was born.

In that Yugoslavia team were Robert Jarni, Igor Stimac, Robert Prosinecki, Zvonimir Boban and Davor Suker, all mainstays of Miroslav Blazevic's squad 11 years later.

Australia were dispatched 4-0 and Togo 4-1. Then Red Star decided they could do with Prosinecki for a Uefa Cup tie against Club Bruges, and attempted to recall him. The players protested to Fifa, and João Havalange, then the organisation's chairman, intervened to keep Prosinecki in Chile. He responded by bending in a last-minute free-kick winner against Brazil in the quarter-final. It was later voted the goal of the tournament.

Yugoslavia then beat East Germany 2-1 in the semi-final, but at some cost. Predrag Mijatovic was sent off and Prosinecki was booked in the last minute, meaning both would miss the final through suspension.

Boban gave Yugoslavia an 85th-minute lead against West Germany in the final, and, although Marcel Witeczek equalised with a penalty two minutes later, he went on to miss his kick in the shoot-out, giving Yugoslavia victory.

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[miroware]

Go Yugoslavia!

[SuppaDuppaFly1]

kakva ekipa jbt...

[Ozviewer2000]

What a team! classic tactical style of play that developed a road to current modern Football used by all leagues. If Yugos only knew what they had not just sport but overall the whole country system. But as they say "you dont know what you have untill you loose it".

[kulsavaj]

Znam dečki, to je ovo godište bilo, 68/69 godišta, prije toga generacija 1960. (GUdelj, T.Ivković) bilo je itekako "rupa" godišta koja nisu ništa dalje dogurivali od ovih današnjih!

Samo tada su u bogatim državama mogli igrati do tri stranca, a naši nisu smijjeli prije 27-28 godine vanka, tako da su tada relativno lako Rijeka, Radnički, Hajduk, Željo tukli Reala i dolazili do polufinala kupa UEFA!!!

[MrCodeinefiend]

jbt koja smo mi bila sila =( ode sve u picku materinu

[95jelenamarko]

Slavoljub Jankovic: najbolji igrac i trener :))

[adis586]

mamu im jebem sta nam uradiseeeeeeee