Comments on: WCQ Review: Serbia 2 – 0 Faroe Islands

By: Nikola

Nikola — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:05:22 +0000

@Michel-Olivier: I admit that the Croatian FA is much more competent and successful when it comes to tracing and persuading players to play for their ancestor’s country, but the thing is that you can’t force a player to play for a country that he doesn’t want to play for and therefore all the efforts could be futile. Bojan Krkić is the son of a Serbian footballer by the same name, but he’s also Catalan by his mother and clearly feels like one. Therefore, nothing could be done to make him play for Serbia, and all the hope media has given us was false. What we need to do is keep a close look at the potential talents of Serbian ancestry and reach them while they’re still young and unknown, probably not even considered by their native country’s NT. If we wait long enough, they’ll grab their chance and play for the country they were born in – just look at Ibrahimović, he wanted to play for Bosnia but wasn’t considered good enough at the time and now look what a wasted opportunity for Bosnia that turned out to be. In other words, all the Balkan NT’s actually need club-like scouting system.

By: Michel-Olivier

Michel-Olivier — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:03:54 +0000

@ Nikola
the serbian fa should copy croatian fa. look at their team, mostly foreign born.
croatia:
cvitanich(argentine), klasnic(german), rakitic(swiss), simunic(aussie)…..

if craotia fa can persuade footballers of croatian ancestry to play for them why not serbia.

By: Nikola

Nikola — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:31:15 +0000

@Alex: Yes, it’s absolutely true that the game against France will be a real test for this team and Antić as the new coach. However, that was also said for the games against Portugal during the Euro 2008 qualifiers, and in the end it turn out to be that while we haven’t lost against neither Portugal or Poland, we missed qualification because of our defeat to Kazahstan and a draw against Armenia. Our team is capable of fighting big battles, but we simply can’t find a way to defeat all those ‘football minnows’ such as the Faroese. That’s why this ineffective performance on saturday hurts so much – we simply can’t score goals and it could cost us qualifications yet again.

@Michel-Olivier: It’really a pitty to have so many players of Serbian ancestry playing for other NT’s, but instead of weeping and cursing our fate (like many people in Serbia do), we should really look to the future and call these players (because there’s definetely going to be more of them) to the NT before it’s too late. Serbian FA really couldn’t do much about Bojan Krkić, the kid is half-Catalan and half-Serbian, and has said publicly he wanted to play for Spain. However, I’m not really sure we’ve done enough regarding Marin and some other talented players who are just about to be called by other NT’s despite showing interest in Serbia themselves. Bringing Kuzmanović was our only success for now, and I hope it won’t stay the only one.

By: Michel-Olivier

Michel-Olivier — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:16:11 +0000

Dišljenković
Rukavina – Vidić – Dragutinović – Tošić
Bojan – Stanković – Milijaš – Marin
Pantelić – Žigić

only if serbia could of make it happen, now it’s impossible.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:13:47 +0000

Teams that just defend and fill the box with 11 men are hard to break down, just like England who beat Andorra 2-0. The France-Srbija game will be a true test to see where the Serbs are at.