Sports » Sport | 99 Serbia will play against Norway in Oslo on 8th October at 8.45pm, and victory will secure a home tie against Scotland or Israel. ose two victories would bring a long-awaited appearance at the European Championships. At this point we don‘t know if our Eagles will succeed in taking us further and whether we will play at the magnificentWembley (oh what luck that would be), but we have the right to hope, right? e last time our national team participated was as Yugoslavia in the year 2000, and back then it was the most spectacular team of the tournament, not because of its success, but because of its matches that includedmany goals and twists. In that championship the team celebrated only a 1-0 victory against Norway, but then managed to come back “from the dead” against Slovenia (from0-3 to 3-3), after which it lost out to Spain despite having a convincing lead (3-4). Next came the match against tournament hosts the Netherlands. At that moment we were still hurting from Mijatović hitting the crossbar during theWorld Cup of two years earlier, when we again lost to the Dutch. And then came the catastrophe of a 6-1 drubbing at this European Championship. Never again! Despite all of that, we are still the best national team never to have won the European Championships, after having finished in second place twice (in 1960 and 1968), at the first and third instalments of the championships! Yugoslavia hosted the European Championships, marking the onlymajor football tournament ever to be held in the Balkans and one of only a fewheld in a Slavic country. Yugoslavia‘s “Blues” finished fourth, with Czechoslovakia becoming champiSome dreams and desires of the fans of Serbia's “Eagles” manage to come true, but one dream remains unrealised. We have been unable to make it to the famous European Football Championships for the last 20 years! But perhaps we'll nonetheless succeed this October? S I X DECADES OF T HE EUROP EAN FOOT BA L L CHAMP I ONSH I PS We all dreamof the green grass ofWembley Tekst/Words: Miodrag Dimitrijević Fotografije/Photography: Profimedia.rs, Aleksandar Dimitrijević The last time our national team participated was as Yugoslavia in the year 2000 Poslednji put je naša selekcija učestvovala kao Jugoslavija 2000. godine Srbija 8. oktobra od 20.45 u Oslu igra protiv Norveške, a trijumf bi joj doneo meč na domaćem terenu protiv Škotske ili Izraela Serbia will play against Norway in Oslo on 8th October at 8.45pm, and victory will secure a home tie against Scotland or Israel
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