I would argue Bosnia are a closer parallel than Norway are. Yes, both have consistently come close to qualifying for international tournaments for over a decade now, but as a Former Yugoslav territory Bosnia has the prior success that Hamburg has but Norway simply does not
i mean personally i dont think any of them should really get those achievements, but technically doesnt all of yugoslavia’s footballing history legally belong to serbia?
somewhat unrelated, but did bosnians ever make up a majority of the yugoslav team, like how the ussr team was often majority ukranian? would def make sense to give them credit if they were like 50-60% of the squad, not so much if they were like 10-20%
Seems pretty obvious that none of the former Yugoslav states should be seen as ‘inheritors’ or successors to the old Yugoslavia national team. If you look through their old squds, it seems like a fairly even mix of nationalities in there.
Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore, and its success was a joint effort of the states within it, so your parallel is a stretch at best. If we’re using defunct multinational states, Norway was a part of the Kalmar Union with Denmark and Sweden too. And Denmark won the Euros in 92.
I would argue Bosnia are a closer parallel than Norway are. Yes, both have consistently come close to qualifying for international tournaments for over a decade now, but as a Former Yugoslav territory Bosnia has the prior success that Hamburg has but Norway simply does not
Beating a topped Brazil 2-1 to get to RO16 in '98 was more difficult and impressive than anything Bosnia ever pulled off
Yugoslavia were 2 time WC Semi Finalists, and 2 time Euros Runner Up. That’s far better than anything Norway has done
I didn’t see you were thinking of Yugoslavia. Well, if you feel like you inherit those achievements, good for you I guess
and bosnia was just 1/6th of yugoslavia, so i dont know if they should really get full credit for all those achievements
It’s no different than Serbia or Croatia getting credit for it, both of which have happened
i mean personally i dont think any of them should really get those achievements, but technically doesnt all of yugoslavia’s footballing history legally belong to serbia?
somewhat unrelated, but did bosnians ever make up a majority of the yugoslav team, like how the ussr team was often majority ukranian? would def make sense to give them credit if they were like 50-60% of the squad, not so much if they were like 10-20%
Seems pretty obvious that none of the former Yugoslav states should be seen as ‘inheritors’ or successors to the old Yugoslavia national team. If you look through their old squds, it seems like a fairly even mix of nationalities in there.
Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore, and its success was a joint effort of the states within it, so your parallel is a stretch at best. If we’re using defunct multinational states, Norway was a part of the Kalmar Union with Denmark and Sweden too. And Denmark won the Euros in 92.