The best pound-for-pound attacking unit ever?

[The Golden Eel]

For a country as small and unfashionable as Croatia, the team they had circa 1996-98 was absolutely phenomenal, especially their attackers... Lost narrowly to the eventual winners in both Euro 96 and France 98...

 

 

-------- Asanovic Boban -------

Stanic ---------------------- Jarni

 

------- Prosinecki ----------

 

------- Boksic ----- Suker -----------

 

 

It's like Romania playing with 7 Hagi's, Northern Ireland with 7 Best's, etc

 

Outstanding....

[Red Mist]

Dunno, but how strong would a united Yugoslavia team be today? They'd stuff Ireland, that's for sure.

[Lario]

Dunno, but how strong would a united Yugoslavia team be today? They'd stuff Ireland, that's for sure.

 

Not a bloody hope!

 

Cyprus 1 - 2 Ireland. :whistle:

[WaltonRed]

You've got to be kidding me.

[Trumo]

It was a hell of a line-up back then. Maybe not the best, but certainly up there. As back-ups though, they had the likes of Zvonimir Soldo, Goran Vlaovic and Silvio Maric, who if memory serves, went to Geordieland and promptly disappeared.

[The Golden Eel]

It was a hell of a line-up back then. Maybe not the best, but certainly up there. As back-ups though, they had the likes of Zvonimir Soldo, Goran Vlaovic and Silvio Maric, who if memory serves, went to Geordieland and promptly disappeared.

 

Yeh, im not saying it's the best of all time, i mean in context. The fact that a country such as Croatia could produce players with the natural technique and flair of those in the same era is pretty amazing.

 

Maric - yes, i seem to remember him missing a real sitter in an FA Cup final...

[G Richards]

Definitely punched above their weight in terms of the population base they came from. A few of those wouldn't have looked out of place at Liverpool.

[Trumo]

Definitely punched above their weight in terms of the population base they came from. A few of those wouldn't have looked out of place at Liverpool.

 

Weren't we supposedly in for Jarni at one point? Until he thought Coventry would be the safer bet. Maybe he had too many sleepless nights wandering how he would be able to displace Stig Bjornebye, Phil Babb and Dominic Matteo.

 

All those listed played in England at some point, except Boban. He just karate kicked a cop on the pitch.

 

[YOUTUBE]Waz11ihnY8w[/YOUTUBE]

[The Golden Eel]

Weren't we supposedly in for Jarni at one point? Until he thought Coventry would be the safer bet. Maybe he had too many sleepless nights wandering how he would be able to displace Stig Bjornebye, Phil Babb and Dominic Matteo.

 

 

Weren't there suspicions that he had signed for Coventry simply so he could subsequently sign for Madrid at a profit for Coventry because his club at the time wouldn't sell directly to Madrid?

 

Edit: re above, i'm not sure Jarni ever actually played for Coventry?

[manwiththestick]

Weren't we supposedly in for Jarni at one point? Until he thought Coventry would be the safer bet. Maybe he had too many sleepless nights wandering how he would be able to displace Stig Bjornebye, Phil Babb and Dominic Matteo.

 

All those listed played in England at some point, except Boban. He just karate kicked a cop on the pitch.

 

[YOUTUBE]Waz11ihnY8w[/YOUTUBE]

 

Didn't Boban have a brief stint at Bolton?

[Maldini]

Dunno, but how strong would a united Yugoslavia team be today? They'd stuff Ireland, that's for sure.

 

They'd have about 4 times the population so it'd be no great surprise.

[George Costanza]

The Red Star team of the late 80's early 90's was exceptional.

[chorlton]

"The best pound-for-pound attacking unit ever? "

 

Mine.

[bobhorse]

The best pound for pound attacking unit ever is Ian Rush £300,000 to be exact

 

346 Goals in 660 games in his career Legend and if he had been Croatian instead of Welsh they would have a European Champions Winners medal and World Cup Champions Winners medal

[coop]

Best attacking force ever Rush and Dalglish.

 

The nearest anyone has ever come to that was Aldridge, Barnes and Beardsley.

 

All others are just wannabe's.

[Hazel Motes]

For a country as small and unfashionable as Croatia, the team they had circa 1996-98 was absolutely phenomenal, especially their attackers... Lost narrowly to the eventual winners in both Euro 96 and France 98...

 

Agree. But before that... World Cup 1994. Sweden's bronze medal team who lost narrowly to Brazil in the Semis - How many of them had you heard of before the tournament?

 

------------- Schwarz ------------------

--------------------- Thern -------------

--Ingesson -------------------- Brolin --

------ K. Andersson --- M. Dahlin -------

 

SUBS: H. Larsson, J. Blomqvist, A. Limpar

[Hermes]

Uruguay has just over half of Croatia's population and they've won two World Cup's and been runner-up.

 

 

Pound for pound? Keegan/Heighway/Toshack for a total of <£150,000.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

That Croatia team is my favourite non-LFC team of all time. They should have beaten France in the semi as well, as TLW would have beaten Brazil in that final. They should have won it.

[jackofdk]

Weren't we supposedly in for Jarni at one point? Until he thought Coventry would be the safer bet. Maybe he had too many sleepless nights wandering how he would be able to displace Stig Bjornebye, Phil Babb and Dominic Matteo.

 

All those listed played in England at some point, except Boban. He just karate kicked a cop on the pitch.

 

[YOUTUBE]Waz11ihnY8w[/YOUTUBE]

 

Thanks for posting this clip. I love Boban and this incident played no small part in that. Legend is probably too big a word, but he was pretty fucking cool. Great footballer, amazing hair.

[Hermes]

For a country as small and unfashionable as Croatia, the team they had circa 1996-98 was absolutely phenomenal, especially their attackers... Lost narrowly to the eventual winners in both Euro 96 and France 98...

 

 

If this Croatian had chosen to play for them they probably would have:

 

[Troubadour]

It was the Euros in 1992 that they got kicked out of because of the war that Yugoslavia would have been in with an incredible shout of winning. Mihajlovic, Prosinecki, Savicevic, Stojkovic, Pancev, Boban, Mijatovic, Stimac, Jarni, Suker would all have been in and around the team, and quite a few others I can't remember. Then USA 94, which was a fairly weak tournament, as proved by Romania, Sweden and Bulgaria all getting pretty close. A team as good as the one Yugoslavia could have put out could have won that, or at least gone close.

 

War: a bad thing.

[TaksimRakiClub]

Presented for your consideration - the dutch front five from the 74 World Cup

 

Wim Van Hanegem

Johan Neeskens

Johnny Rep

Johan Cruyff

Rob Rensenbrink

 

You could also add Arie Haan onto that list but he was used in defence for the tournament rather than his usual midfield role due to injuries to Barry Hulshoff and Aad Mansfeld.

 

Throw Ruud Krol and Wim Suurbier into the equation and I give you - in my opinion - the greatest football team never to win a trophy - and that includes the Brazil 82 team.

 

of the front 5 going into the tounament only Van Hanegem (29) and Cruyff (28) had been capped more than 20 times - next best was Neeskens with 17 - but fucking hell could they play.

 

The semi against Brazil remains a particular favourite. Holland sporting an all-white orange trim classic (come on Nike - a nice bit of retro please) had seven shades of shite kicked out of them by a Brazil team intent on GBH from the off. the defending world champions outclassed all over the park and they knew it.

 

Damn that Paul Breitner and Gerd Muller - not to mention the outrageous dive from Bernd Holzenbein to win the Kraut penalty.

 

A 9 year old TRC weapt unashamedly at the final whistle.

[jackofdk]

That Johnny Rep fella would've been ace on here.

[The Golden Eel]

It was the Euros in 1992 that they got kicked out of because of the war that Yugoslavia would have been in with an incredible shout of winning. Mihajlovic, Prosinecki, Savicevic, Stojkovic, Pancev, Boban, Mijatovic, Stimac, Jarni, Suker would all have been in and around the team, and quite a few others I can't remember. Then USA 94, which was a fairly weak tournament, as proved by Romania, Sweden and Bulgaria all getting pretty close. A team as good as the one Yugoslavia could have put out could have won that, or at least gone close.

 

War: a bad thing.

 

 

Jugovic is another one - class

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