Robert Prosinečki
2021Het laatste Joegoslavische elftal
Vuk Janic
Siniša Mihajlović, Zvonimir Boban
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.
The Last Yugoslavian Football Team
Vatreni
Edson Ramírez
Aljoša Asanović, Slaven Bilić
Croatian War of Independence narrated trough the experiences of the players of the National Soccer Team who won the third place during the 1998 FIFA World Cup, in France. Their victory delivered joy to a wartorn population and it is the highest achievement of a postYugoslavian nation in soccer competitions.
Vatreni: A Flame Has Been Fired
Hajdukov ratni trofej
Alen Orlić
Slaven Bilić, Siniša Mihajlović
Story about the last Yugoslavian national soccer cup final, held on May 8, 1991. The match proudly remembered by fans of Croatian side NK Hajduk who defeated Serbian FC Red Star on the eve of subsequent civil war.
Hajduk's War Trophy