An Ex-YU Football League: Will It Ever Happen?
An Ex-YU Football League: Will It Ever Happen?

Summary/Abstract: People from the former Yugoslav nations have not been living in the same country for the past 20 years. But since they remain neighbours, they are part of each other's destiny. And in this part of the world, one of the most important things – if not the most important – is to be better than your neighbor. There's an old Balkan saying: I don't mind that my cow dies, if two of my neighbour's cows die. And let's not forget that grass is alway greener on the other side. Since the war has been over for 15 years, residents of the former Yugoslav now only have sport to prove that 'we' are better than 'them.' And football is the sport number one in the ex-Yugoslav countries. Indeed, when 12 years ago the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia (consisting of Serbia & Montenegro) drew 2-2 with Croatia in Zagreb (and qualified for the European Championship, leaving the World Cup bronze medalist from 1998, France, to go home, it was a national catastrophy for Croatia.

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