2010 FIFA World Cup - Serbia


2010 FIFA World Cup - Serbia National Team

2010 FIFA World Cup - Serbia National Team 2010 FIFA World Cup Serbia National Team:
Goalkeepers:
1 Vladimir STOJKOVIC, 12 Bojan ISAILOVIC and 23 Andjelko DJURICIC

Defenders:
2 Antonio RUKAVINA, 3 Aleksandar KOLAROV, 5 Nemanja VIDIC, 6 Branislav IVANOVIC, 13 Aleksandar LUKOVIC, 16 Ivan OBRADOVIC and 20 Neven SUBOTIC

Midfielders:
4 Gojko KACAR, 7 Zoran TOSIC, 10 Dejan STANKOVIC, 11 Nenad MILIJAS, 14 Milan JOVANOVIC, 17 Milos KRASIC, 18 Milos NINKOVIC, 19 Radosav PETROVIC and 22 Zdravko KUZMANOVIC

Forwards:
8 Danko LAZOVIC, 9 Marko PANTELIC, 15 Nikola ZIGIC and 21 Dragan MRDJA

Coach:
Radomir ANTIC

Top Players Milan Jovanovic (SRB) and Marko Pantelic (SRB).

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2010 FIFA World Cup - Serbia National Team


The star players

Widely regarded as one of the best centre-backs in the world, Manchester United's Nemanja Vidic is a rock at the heart of the Serbian backline. Fierce in the tackle and strong in the air, the 28-year-old was named the 2008/09 English Premier League's player of the season. Multifunctional midfielder Dejan Stankovic has played international football since 1998 and now captains his country, while Marko Pantelic and Milan Jovanovic carry a threat in attack.

Nemanja Vidic


The coach

Radomir Antic's playing career included an impressive eight-year spell with Partizan, and stints in Turkey, Spain and England, but it was at the coaching reins that he truly began to excel. He led Zaragoza, Real Madrid and Oviedo prior to landing at Atletico Madrid, who he improbably guided to a La Liga/Copa del Rey double in his first season in 1995/96. Antic had three spells at the Atletico controls, but had been out of the game for four years when he was appointed Serbia coach in 2008. However, thanks to his tactical expertise and ability to elicit the best from his charges, the Serbians charged through to South Africa 2010.


Previous FIFA World Cups

Serbia will be appearing at the FIFA World Cup independently for the first time in South Africa.
They formed part of the Yugoslavia side that appeared at nine editions of the competition, and the Serbia and Montenegro team that competed at Germany 2006.

Records

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Serbia - 2010 FIFA World Cup

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Serbia Team The outsiders Radomir Antic's men were last out of the hat in the Group D draw but should not be taken lightly. The White Eagles beat France to pole position in their qualifying section, earning Serbia's maiden FIFA World Cup appearance as an independent entity with a 5-0 thrashing of Romania. Any side boasting the talents of Nemanja Vidic, Dejan Stankovic and Milan Jovanovic deserves respect; add the historical pedigree of a nation with ten previous FIFA World Cup appearances (as Yugoslavia, and Serbia and Montenegro) and you have definite dark-horse material.