Serbia fails to qualify for World Cup in Brazil

We won, fair and square. Hello Brasil.

"No violence has been reported from Zagreb this evening, but the tense game did not go without provocations. The crowd at the Maksimir Stadium booed at the Serbian national anthem and took to chanting "Kill the Serb" before the start of the match."

Thanks again Croatia for once again keeping it as classy as many predicted it would be. Nice to know your kids were brought up by such great parenting. I guess we should be thankful the victory kept you from going beyond Nazi salutes and ethnic slurs. Can't imagine what would have happened had you lost.

greetings to those Croats who had brought the Kosova flag with them. oh and a special mention to those who burst into a chanting of Kosova Republic :-)

bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too.

Looks like its between Belgium and Croatia. If nothing else I hope Serbia beats these nazies at home and that way send Belgium to the world cup. Croatia can pretend to be all fair and democratic but the whole world knows there is an Ante Pavelic in every croat.

Unlucky!

Serbia have some great players and Serbia is a huge footballing nation for a county of its size. However Belgium and Croatia have just been too good this time.

It could be worse, you could be Scotland or Wales. They've been appalling in the World Cup qualifiers. I can't help but think Wales would have done better had Gary Speed still been Wales manager.

RIP Speedo!

Cymru am Byth!

The Nazi allies talk for war criminals? Hilarious. Go Greece and Serbia Orthodox Brothers

croatia-eu,

Yes, Serbia was unbelievably passive, anemic on the first half, like they really didn't want to win match. Second half they started to play a bit but without a true push. So they lost the football match.

But you are lucky that I'm not a FIFA man. Considering the audience behaviour I would right on ban Croatia from qualifications. Very primitive behaviour by Croatian audience.

"well done Croatia on your very very well deserved victory. not the first time you have beaten the Serbs :-)"

Nikolle

I have no problem acceping loosing to Croatia or any other country for that matter. What gets on my nervs is that talantless albanians are taking credit for a win they had nothing to do with. Serbia has many prominent athletes and they can't win every time. However, albanians have to take credit for an aheivement they had nothing to do with. You are an embarrassment! Will you be known for anything else other then crime and terrorism? Never!

bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too.
(from Croatia, 22 March 2013 22:25)

Oh my God how freaking adorable. Your mommy must be so proud of you. Did she help you write that or were you a big boy and use the 'pooter all by yourself?

Actually to any normal thinking Croat the way the crowd behaved was an embarrassment and indicative of the problems regarding minorities in Croatia that has been in the news recently.

On the other hand the Serbian team performed badly, the work rate still seems to be below what one expects at international level.

bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too.
(from Croatia, 22 March 2013 22:25)
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Number one is what? Slitting throats?
One win and it goes to your head. See you at tennis.

Two goals because of poor defending. I cannot add more to what Balkan Anthropologist and MikeC shared with us. This ultra-nationalism in Croatia is only because of a pathetic insecurity and jealousy and Croatia still has a lot of growing up to do. Just be prepared for the return game in Serbia and then we will see who laughs last.

Hey, little people! Keep cheering on your millionaire football teams. Keep waving your national flags (made in China). Keep booing the other side, whoever they are. The ruling classes used to give you bread and circuses. But now you are "free" you must pay for both. And if you can't pay, here come the bankers with their contracts and pens at the ready...

bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too.
(from Croatia, 22 March 2013 22:25)

ooh really? do i need to remind you about defeating you in handball (in the MEN'S EUROPEAN HANDBALL) and in basketball (EHF EURO 2012) not to mention tennis ! we have two men in the TOP 10 ATP WORLD RANKINGS ! (your top is 11th) and 1 woman in the top 20 WTA, (you have none),so think before you comment !

I as a Serb have to laugh at these compelx ridden Croats and Albanians:

Imagine:

In the last two weeks Croats are obsessed about this soccer match,their politicians(Mesic,Tomasic) are talking about us Serbs,their football managers are (Zdravko Mamic) are badmouthing Serbs and getting arrested for it which got the Croatian people on the brink of civil war if you look into their portals!
The Albanians behaved also very similar!

In Serbia,99% of the people didn`t even notice that there was a match,in the last years Serbia has beaten Croatia in each and every sport(Handball,Basketball,Vaterpolo,Tennis),you name it and Croatia to us is as interesting as for example Malawi or Burkina Faso,we simply don`t give a rats a** about them!

@ Nikolle

....you forgot to congratulate Croatia on their win and opportunity to represent in the world cup!, you see I can do that because I can appreciate sporting achievements , can you? or is it that you are not interested in sport or anything else other than hating all things Serbian?
Serbia will compete again, in all sports, win or lose, Serbia is recognised world wide as a sporting nation :)
...as for you and your athletes, well, you just keep watching from the sidelines , and maybe one day you "Kosovars" will also be world recognised in the sport of flag spotting and thanking crowds for their irrelevant chanting.

WE COULD HAVE WON ONLY IF WE PLAYED LIKE THE SECOND HALF THE WHOLE MATCH + NO STUPID DIFFENCE MISTAKES !! :( I FEEL REALLY BAD NOW, WILL WE EVER QUALIFY TO WORLD CUP OR NOT ?!!

Congratulations Croatia!!!

"What difference does my name make"

hit a nerve have I?

well done Croatia on your very very well deserved victory. not the first time you have beaten the Serbs :-)

Congratulations Croatia!!!
(Joe, 23 March 2013 02:21)

Poor old hungarian nazis have to support croatia since their national team has not qualified for any major event since 1986.How pathetic.Seems hungarians have forgotten how to play soccer but their fans are still very good at singing traditinal nazi songs.http://tensport.com.au/news/newsarticles/Football-Fans-police-clash-after-Hungary-closed-doors-game.htm
And Joe what was the last week's meeting of old hungarian nazis held in Clevland like? Did you attend that event?

I want to say lucky montenegro! they broke away from serbia and now they have their own national football team which tops its group in the fifa 2014 qualification ! montenegro will join the EU before serbia, montenegro is much luckier than serbia now

bbc report focuses more on croat nazi past and the intolerance demonstrated by this community.. the game was an afterthought. what would the world say if germans sang kill the jews.? once a nazi always a nazi.

@Mike C...Looks like its between Belgium and Croatia. If nothing else I hope Serbia beats these nazies at home and that way send Belgium to the world cup. Croatia can pretend to be all fair and democratic but the whole world knows there is an Ante Pavelic in every croat.

It just goes to show that we will always be superior to our neighbours. The only reason the meaningless YU lasted as long as it did was because Beograd was syphoning money from the Croatian coast to feed it's corporate commo fat cats. Look what Croatia has achieved in the last 20+ years without Communism. Independence , World / icty recognised war victory, American / German allie, E.U member, NATO etc etc. Croatia will become a powerhouse with German support. Seriously calling us pavelic-ovci or nazi's is really getting pathetic.

@Balkan Anthropologist

The Croat fans were only as classy as the Serbian fans in the Handball Championship in Belgrade last year... And that was much louder, indoors.

Thanks again Croatia for once again keeping it as classy as many predicted it would be. Nice to know your kids were brought up by such great parenting. I guess we should be thankful the victory kept you from going beyond Nazi salutes and ethnic slurs. Can't imagine what would have happened had you lost.
(Balkan Anthropologist, 22 March 2013 22:07)

B.A,

Do I detect bitterness in your comment. You must learn to be a gracious loser, earning more respect, instead of uttering petty criticisms toward your superior opponent.

(MikeC, 22 March 2013 23:10)

You mad because you lost? wipe your nose and be a man !

@ the count of kosovo at least we competed !!!!!!

Well if Serbia doesn't qualify then maybe Serbs, including the diaspora, can save money by not going to the World Cup. And that money they would have spent on that could go to charities helping Serbs in Serbia.

Do I detect bitterness in your comment. You must learn to be a gracious loser, earning more respect, instead of uttering petty criticisms toward your superior opponent.
(The Count of Kosova, 23 March 2013 05:49)

Do you even know what the words bitter and petty mean? It's one thing to lose to a better team, which was the Croatian team. It's another to have to endure Nazi salutes, ethnic slurs, and chants "kill the Serb" -- after Thompson (apparently Croatia's only successful musician) opens with a song, especially from a country that loves to pride itself as being above petty Balkan chauvinism yet never seems to miss any opportunity to come off worse than the most debased Albanian racist. If the Serbian team had any pride, they would have walked off the field the minute the Ustasa slogans were shouted. Petty criticisms? How petty is it for a country to channel national pride by associating with the deranged Nazi puppet state in the 1940s? What's even worse is that for an alleged Albanian like you (also allegedly claiming to come from Kosovo), you automatically side with it because of mutual hate for Serbs.

You might want to look up the words "bitter" and "petty" in the dictionary before you reply again with something "stupid".

Uneducated, ignorant and primitive.

BBC reports
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21906463
"And despite repeated appeals by the Croatian football authorities to respect the visiting side, the home crowd soon started singing fascist songs from the 1940s - when tens of thousands of Serbs died in Croatia at the hands of the Ustasa militias."

Ante Pavelic lives on through his people.

Mike C; your comment 'whole world knows there is an Ante Pavelic in every croat.' is this meant to be offensive?

THERE IS NO HOPE FOR QUALIFICATION??

Wow these comments are off topic. First Croatia won this one, we didn't play our best but they were the better team on paper and were predicted to win and they did. If people want to say this game meant nothing to Serbia today they are liars. It meant everything but we knew the chance of victory was slim so it was downplayed in the media. The police were guarding the Croat embassy for God's sake! if we won it would have been massive party so don't diminish the game. Second, lets not argue about whose fans are worse when we all know there is enough guilt to go around here. Does anyone remember our qualifier in Italy? Does anyone really believe our fans would have behaved if the match was here? To be honest I suspect it would have been very bad behaviour if the match was here. Imagine, 2-0 Croatia wins in BG? It would have been deadly! Sadly our rivalry extends to who hates the other guys more and that takes 2 sides, we have never backed down in such a case. So yes, looking forward to September but I just hopes it is as peaceful as this one was.

Fans in Belgrade are lions compared to you little lambs in Croatia and you will see how electrifying it is when they play again.

On another point.

Croatia scored 2 goals on 3/4 chances.
1 goal off a mistake
1 goal off a simulated foul

Serbia scored 0 goals on 3/4 chances. 2 of which were on the doorstep.

That is soccer... Serbia should focus less on changing the coach as much as they should focus on finding some finishing! You could have the best team/coach/fss in the world but if you don't finish your chances... ZA NISTA!

@ Nikolle

hit a nerve have I?

well done Croatia on your very very well deserved victory. not the first time you have beaten the Serbs :-)

,,,it certainly wont be the last time either im sure, but win or lose they will always play again, both representing their countries, as legitimate countries do, in all sports at international level :)

"You mad because you lost? wipe your nose and be a man !"

bridge

In sports you win some and you loose some. But who are you, an albanian, to take credit for a win you had nothing to do with? And where were you all those times serbs beat Croatia in handball, volleyboll, basketball, waterpolo and tennis? Listen to yourself. Braging about someone elses success. Until you albs start winning I suggest you crawl back to your dump for a country. You are a talantless people. Take it as a man and do something about it.

Mike.C

Your racism against Albanians is extreme in nature, and ignorant in substance. By the way, the talentless people football national team won last night in Oslo , and is tied for second in its qualifying group. Not that it matters, it's just football.

Do I detect bitterness in your comment. You must learn to be a gracious loser, earning more respect, instead of uttering petty criticisms toward your superior opponent.
(The Count of Kosova, 23 March 2013 05:49)

So the opposition fans give right arm salutes, boo their opponents anthem and chant 'Kill the Serb' in order to provoke the Serbian players, meanwhile these acts of overt racism somehow miss you and you go on to lecture the Serbs here about learning to be "gracious losers".

Now if the shoe had been on the other foot and the Serb fans were chanting "Death to Albanians", you would be jumping up and down demanding action but when its racism directed towards Serbs you somehow contrive to ignore it as if nothing happened. Well I condemn racism and intolerance no matter where it comes from and directed towards whom.

Some people really do need a sense of perspective.

P.S. Serbia were rubbish on the night and those defensive errors have really cost them. Time is running out for Mihajlovic.

bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too.
(from Croatia, 22 March 2013 22:25)

ooh really? do i need to remind you about defeating you in handball (in the MEN'S EUROPEAN HANDBALL) and in basketball (EHF EURO 2012) not to mention tennis ! we have two men in the TOP 10 ATP WORLD RANKINGS ! (your top is 11th) and 1 woman in the top 20 WTA, (you have none),so think before you comment !
(Milan, 23 March 2013 13:15)

Milan,

Must you stoop so low, next you will be saying "my Chetnik grandpappy can beat your grandpappy". Yeah right, as long as you tie my grandpappy's hands behind his back!

Croatia and Serbia will have this rivalry going on for decades http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/gallery/2013/mar/22/croatia-serbia-sporting-rivalry their is no love loss between the two. But Croatia comes out the indisputable winner more then Serbia ever could. So don't be jealously constipated Serbs just face the facts. Its not good to live in fantasy's and delusions. Don't forget to take your pills where is that guru/shrink http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/22/world/22serbia4-600.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/world/europe/23karadzic.html?pagewanted%3Dall&h=330&w=600&sz=57&tbnid=qExErkCk3Klx7M:&tbnh=95&tbnw=173&zoom=1&usg=__S0BQAhNQ_xh7G7dYH7sOe9d9xHg=&docid=Q7goGyrxIwljWM&sa=X&ei=Kv9NUae5IYGliQKVlYDYBw&ved=0CIwBEP4dMAw when you need him the most maybe getting some help to that's a boy.

Lenard

Since you are a man of values I wonder why you made no comment on the way croatian fans behaved? If it was the other way around you would be all over the place with your condemnation. I know there are good and decent croats but you are not one of them. Go back to Mostar and plan another bombattack against the muslims.

MikeC

who is taking credit for Croatia? I know I had nothing to do with their victory.

Milan,

Must you stoop so low, next you will be saying "my Chetnik grandpappy can beat your grandpappy". Yeah right, as long as you tie my grandpappy's hands behind his back!
(Theodor, 23 March 2013 16:06)
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Theodor, why don't you take a second to read what Milan was responding to?
He was responding to some fool making a ridiculous comment about Croatian always will be No.1

Let's see the quote again:

"bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too."
(from Croatia, 22 March 2013 22:25)


When you do mention our "Chetnik" grandpa why don't you also mention your "ustasha" grandpa?
There was never and still no shame in having a Chetnik ancestry as Chetniks fought AGAINST Nazis while there is a great deal of shame in having Ustasha ancestry because you guys WERE the Nazis. So next time think about what you write.

Seriuosly who cares about PATHETIC Handball where nobody knows the rules and Basketball where you can't even touch your opponent. Winning a game of national football is like winning a war. Remember folks a win is a win. Nobody ever remembers the silver medalist.

Lets not pretend that volleyball and tennis have anywhere near the popularity or emotional power that football has. Any man in Europe will tell you football is king. Ask anybody in the most remote village of Siberia who the world cup champs in football are and they can tell you it's Spain. As for basketball, if it's not the NBA who cares? USA is so much better than anyone else that the rest of the world is relevant. As for tennis, it's a game, it's not a sport. I guess that's how we are though, if we had the best ping pong player in the world we would make it out to be bigger than football. It's like Croats bragging about skiing, who cares? Football is everything. We grow up playing it, watching it, and living it. Sure some kids play tennis, but every kid, every one, plays football. How much did we care about tennis 15 years ago? How much will we care in 15 years if nobody takes Novak's place (and given the small population, probably this is reality) Now compare that to football. People talk about footballers that played 30 years ago, who can name a tennis player older than Bjorn Borg? We cared about this game against Croatia and we would trade all the volleyball and handball in the world for football victories! Instead of pretending we don't care about football shouldn't we care more? Shouldn't we make our game better? I can't believe people post volley ball stuff in a discussion about football. But hey, maybe there is a Serb really good at lawn darts.

MikeC not good but as you can see in my link Serbs it first.

I have a hard time blaming the players and the coach. Could it have been better, yes. But given the situation in Serbian football today, I have a hard time blaming the players and coach when there are so many non-football related issues going against them.

I get sick to my stomach when I see Tole (Jaba the Hut) beside Suker. A businessman of questionable character beside a legitimate soccer legend, both running their respective FA. To me that says more about the soccer situation than what happened on the field.

As for the fans, I couldn't agree more with Jovan. Both sides (and all the balkans for that matter) have more than their fair share to be ashamed about. Its a real shame it's so bad we can't even have a regional league (in my mind the only thing that can save Balkan football) because of security.

For those of you who want a change of coach. Who else do we have? Do you really think changing coaches every year is going to solve anything? Mihajlovic imas moj podrsku!

Lenard said, "So don't be jealously constipated Serbs..."

A dignified human being, who respects himself, would not write such crude and useless trash.

@ jovan

I for one am so impressed with how much of an expert in sporting statistics you are and how much you know about the popularity of different sports around the world. I didnt even know that tennis wasn't a sport until I read your post, thanks for the heads up on that, would of made a real fool of my self going around talking about the sport of tennis.
what exactly is the difference between a game and a sport? just off the top of your head can you name some world famous footballing legends pre pele and bjon borg era?? no googling, that would be cheating!
...and what exactly is lawn darts, is it a sport or a game, does it even exist!?? maybe you saw it first hand whilst conducting your world cup survey in the remote villages of Siberia.
people mentioned other sports because maybe they enjoy other sports and are proud that their country has made achievements in those sports! its very arrogant of you to determine whats more popular or relevant or irelivant. I didn't know this site was a footballing forum, I thought you could just make comments and respond to other peoples comments. why are you wasting your time here with the footballing ignorants like myself when you could go to fifa.com or some other similar site and impress the hell out of hardcore football geniuses with your superior expert knowledge of the game.

greetings to those Croats who had brought the Kosova flag with them. oh and a special mention to those who burst into a chanting of Kosova Republic :-)

Looks like its between Belgium and Croatia. If nothing else I hope Serbia beats these nazies at home and that way send Belgium to the world cup. Croatia can pretend to be all fair and democratic but the whole world knows there is an Ante Pavelic in every croat.

bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too.

"No violence has been reported from Zagreb this evening, but the tense game did not go without provocations. The crowd at the Maksimir Stadium booed at the Serbian national anthem and took to chanting "Kill the Serb" before the start of the match."

Thanks again Croatia for once again keeping it as classy as many predicted it would be. Nice to know your kids were brought up by such great parenting. I guess we should be thankful the victory kept you from going beyond Nazi salutes and ethnic slurs. Can't imagine what would have happened had you lost.

We won, fair and square. Hello Brasil.

@Mike C...Looks like its between Belgium and Croatia. If nothing else I hope Serbia beats these nazies at home and that way send Belgium to the world cup. Croatia can pretend to be all fair and democratic but the whole world knows there is an Ante Pavelic in every croat.

It just goes to show that we will always be superior to our neighbours. The only reason the meaningless YU lasted as long as it did was because Beograd was syphoning money from the Croatian coast to feed it's corporate commo fat cats. Look what Croatia has achieved in the last 20+ years without Communism. Independence , World / icty recognised war victory, American / German allie, E.U member, NATO etc etc. Croatia will become a powerhouse with German support. Seriously calling us pavelic-ovci or nazi's is really getting pathetic.

Thanks again Croatia for once again keeping it as classy as many predicted it would be. Nice to know your kids were brought up by such great parenting. I guess we should be thankful the victory kept you from going beyond Nazi salutes and ethnic slurs. Can't imagine what would have happened had you lost.
(Balkan Anthropologist, 22 March 2013 22:07)

B.A,

Do I detect bitterness in your comment. You must learn to be a gracious loser, earning more respect, instead of uttering petty criticisms toward your superior opponent.

"What difference does my name make"

hit a nerve have I?

well done Croatia on your very very well deserved victory. not the first time you have beaten the Serbs :-)

The Nazi allies talk for war criminals? Hilarious. Go Greece and Serbia Orthodox Brothers

Congratulations Croatia!!!

@Balkan Anthropologist

The Croat fans were only as classy as the Serbian fans in the Handball Championship in Belgrade last year... And that was much louder, indoors.

bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too.
(from Croatia, 22 March 2013 22:25)
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Number one is what? Slitting throats?
One win and it goes to your head. See you at tennis.

croatia-eu,

Yes, Serbia was unbelievably passive, anemic on the first half, like they really didn't want to win match. Second half they started to play a bit but without a true push. So they lost the football match.

But you are lucky that I'm not a FIFA man. Considering the audience behaviour I would right on ban Croatia from qualifications. Very primitive behaviour by Croatian audience.

bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too.
(from Croatia, 22 March 2013 22:25)

ooh really? do i need to remind you about defeating you in handball (in the MEN'S EUROPEAN HANDBALL) and in basketball (EHF EURO 2012) not to mention tennis ! we have two men in the TOP 10 ATP WORLD RANKINGS ! (your top is 11th) and 1 woman in the top 20 WTA, (you have none),so think before you comment !
(Milan, 23 March 2013 13:15)

Milan,

Must you stoop so low, next you will be saying "my Chetnik grandpappy can beat your grandpappy". Yeah right, as long as you tie my grandpappy's hands behind his back!

I want to say lucky montenegro! they broke away from serbia and now they have their own national football team which tops its group in the fifa 2014 qualification ! montenegro will join the EU before serbia, montenegro is much luckier than serbia now

Croatia and Serbia will have this rivalry going on for decades http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/gallery/2013/mar/22/croatia-serbia-sporting-rivalry their is no love loss between the two. But Croatia comes out the indisputable winner more then Serbia ever could. So don't be jealously constipated Serbs just face the facts. Its not good to live in fantasy's and delusions. Don't forget to take your pills where is that guru/shrink http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/22/world/22serbia4-600.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/world/europe/23karadzic.html?pagewanted%3Dall&h=330&w=600&sz=57&tbnid=qExErkCk3Klx7M:&tbnh=95&tbnw=173&zoom=1&usg=__S0BQAhNQ_xh7G7dYH7sOe9d9xHg=&docid=Q7goGyrxIwljWM&sa=X&ei=Kv9NUae5IYGliQKVlYDYBw&ved=0CIwBEP4dMAw when you need him the most maybe getting some help to that's a boy.

Unlucky!

Serbia have some great players and Serbia is a huge footballing nation for a county of its size. However Belgium and Croatia have just been too good this time.

It could be worse, you could be Scotland or Wales. They've been appalling in the World Cup qualifiers. I can't help but think Wales would have done better had Gary Speed still been Wales manager.

RIP Speedo!

Cymru am Byth!

@ Nikolle

....you forgot to congratulate Croatia on their win and opportunity to represent in the world cup!, you see I can do that because I can appreciate sporting achievements , can you? or is it that you are not interested in sport or anything else other than hating all things Serbian?
Serbia will compete again, in all sports, win or lose, Serbia is recognised world wide as a sporting nation :)
...as for you and your athletes, well, you just keep watching from the sidelines , and maybe one day you "Kosovars" will also be world recognised in the sport of flag spotting and thanking crowds for their irrelevant chanting.

Do I detect bitterness in your comment. You must learn to be a gracious loser, earning more respect, instead of uttering petty criticisms toward your superior opponent.
(The Count of Kosova, 23 March 2013 05:49)

Do you even know what the words bitter and petty mean? It's one thing to lose to a better team, which was the Croatian team. It's another to have to endure Nazi salutes, ethnic slurs, and chants "kill the Serb" -- after Thompson (apparently Croatia's only successful musician) opens with a song, especially from a country that loves to pride itself as being above petty Balkan chauvinism yet never seems to miss any opportunity to come off worse than the most debased Albanian racist. If the Serbian team had any pride, they would have walked off the field the minute the Ustasa slogans were shouted. Petty criticisms? How petty is it for a country to channel national pride by associating with the deranged Nazi puppet state in the 1940s? What's even worse is that for an alleged Albanian like you (also allegedly claiming to come from Kosovo), you automatically side with it because of mutual hate for Serbs.

You might want to look up the words "bitter" and "petty" in the dictionary before you reply again with something "stupid".

MikeC

who is taking credit for Croatia? I know I had nothing to do with their victory.

(MikeC, 22 March 2013 23:10)

You mad because you lost? wipe your nose and be a man !

Congratulations Croatia!!!
(Joe, 23 March 2013 02:21)

Poor old hungarian nazis have to support croatia since their national team has not qualified for any major event since 1986.How pathetic.Seems hungarians have forgotten how to play soccer but their fans are still very good at singing traditinal nazi songs.http://tensport.com.au/news/newsarticles/Football-Fans-police-clash-after-Hungary-closed-doors-game.htm
And Joe what was the last week's meeting of old hungarian nazis held in Clevland like? Did you attend that event?

@ Nikolle

hit a nerve have I?

well done Croatia on your very very well deserved victory. not the first time you have beaten the Serbs :-)

,,,it certainly wont be the last time either im sure, but win or lose they will always play again, both representing their countries, as legitimate countries do, in all sports at international level :)

I as a Serb have to laugh at these compelx ridden Croats and Albanians:

Imagine:

In the last two weeks Croats are obsessed about this soccer match,their politicians(Mesic,Tomasic) are talking about us Serbs,their football managers are (Zdravko Mamic) are badmouthing Serbs and getting arrested for it which got the Croatian people on the brink of civil war if you look into their portals!
The Albanians behaved also very similar!

In Serbia,99% of the people didn`t even notice that there was a match,in the last years Serbia has beaten Croatia in each and every sport(Handball,Basketball,Vaterpolo,Tennis),you name it and Croatia to us is as interesting as for example Malawi or Burkina Faso,we simply don`t give a rats a** about them!

bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too.
(from Croatia, 22 March 2013 22:25)

Oh my God how freaking adorable. Your mommy must be so proud of you. Did she help you write that or were you a big boy and use the 'pooter all by yourself?

Two goals because of poor defending. I cannot add more to what Balkan Anthropologist and MikeC shared with us. This ultra-nationalism in Croatia is only because of a pathetic insecurity and jealousy and Croatia still has a lot of growing up to do. Just be prepared for the return game in Serbia and then we will see who laughs last.

Fans in Belgrade are lions compared to you little lambs in Croatia and you will see how electrifying it is when they play again.

Mike C; your comment 'whole world knows there is an Ante Pavelic in every croat.' is this meant to be offensive?

Well if Serbia doesn't qualify then maybe Serbs, including the diaspora, can save money by not going to the World Cup. And that money they would have spent on that could go to charities helping Serbs in Serbia.

bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too.
(from Croatia, 22 March 2013 22:25)

ooh really? do i need to remind you about defeating you in handball (in the MEN'S EUROPEAN HANDBALL) and in basketball (EHF EURO 2012) not to mention tennis ! we have two men in the TOP 10 ATP WORLD RANKINGS ! (your top is 11th) and 1 woman in the top 20 WTA, (you have none),so think before you comment !

"well done Croatia on your very very well deserved victory. not the first time you have beaten the Serbs :-)"

Nikolle

I have no problem acceping loosing to Croatia or any other country for that matter. What gets on my nervs is that talantless albanians are taking credit for a win they had nothing to do with. Serbia has many prominent athletes and they can't win every time. However, albanians have to take credit for an aheivement they had nothing to do with. You are an embarrassment! Will you be known for anything else other then crime and terrorism? Never!

"You mad because you lost? wipe your nose and be a man !"

bridge

In sports you win some and you loose some. But who are you, an albanian, to take credit for a win you had nothing to do with? And where were you all those times serbs beat Croatia in handball, volleyboll, basketball, waterpolo and tennis? Listen to yourself. Braging about someone elses success. Until you albs start winning I suggest you crawl back to your dump for a country. You are a talantless people. Take it as a man and do something about it.

Uneducated, ignorant and primitive.

BBC reports
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21906463
"And despite repeated appeals by the Croatian football authorities to respect the visiting side, the home crowd soon started singing fascist songs from the 1940s - when tens of thousands of Serbs died in Croatia at the hands of the Ustasa militias."

Ante Pavelic lives on through his people.

Mike.C

Your racism against Albanians is extreme in nature, and ignorant in substance. By the way, the talentless people football national team won last night in Oslo , and is tied for second in its qualifying group. Not that it matters, it's just football.

Milan,

Must you stoop so low, next you will be saying "my Chetnik grandpappy can beat your grandpappy". Yeah right, as long as you tie my grandpappy's hands behind his back!
(Theodor, 23 March 2013 16:06)
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Theodor, why don't you take a second to read what Milan was responding to?
He was responding to some fool making a ridiculous comment about Croatian always will be No.1

Let's see the quote again:

"bye bye serbia... Croatia #1 always was always will be! Take that war criminals...o and say hello to slobo for us too."
(from Croatia, 22 March 2013 22:25)


When you do mention our "Chetnik" grandpa why don't you also mention your "ustasha" grandpa?
There was never and still no shame in having a Chetnik ancestry as Chetniks fought AGAINST Nazis while there is a great deal of shame in having Ustasha ancestry because you guys WERE the Nazis. So next time think about what you write.

Seriuosly who cares about PATHETIC Handball where nobody knows the rules and Basketball where you can't even touch your opponent. Winning a game of national football is like winning a war. Remember folks a win is a win. Nobody ever remembers the silver medalist.

bbc report focuses more on croat nazi past and the intolerance demonstrated by this community.. the game was an afterthought. what would the world say if germans sang kill the jews.? once a nazi always a nazi.

Wow these comments are off topic. First Croatia won this one, we didn't play our best but they were the better team on paper and were predicted to win and they did. If people want to say this game meant nothing to Serbia today they are liars. It meant everything but we knew the chance of victory was slim so it was downplayed in the media. The police were guarding the Croat embassy for God's sake! if we won it would have been massive party so don't diminish the game. Second, lets not argue about whose fans are worse when we all know there is enough guilt to go around here. Does anyone remember our qualifier in Italy? Does anyone really believe our fans would have behaved if the match was here? To be honest I suspect it would have been very bad behaviour if the match was here. Imagine, 2-0 Croatia wins in BG? It would have been deadly! Sadly our rivalry extends to who hates the other guys more and that takes 2 sides, we have never backed down in such a case. So yes, looking forward to September but I just hopes it is as peaceful as this one was.

Hey, little people! Keep cheering on your millionaire football teams. Keep waving your national flags (made in China). Keep booing the other side, whoever they are. The ruling classes used to give you bread and circuses. But now you are "free" you must pay for both. And if you can't pay, here come the bankers with their contracts and pens at the ready...

@ the count of kosovo at least we competed !!!!!!

Lets not pretend that volleyball and tennis have anywhere near the popularity or emotional power that football has. Any man in Europe will tell you football is king. Ask anybody in the most remote village of Siberia who the world cup champs in football are and they can tell you it's Spain. As for basketball, if it's not the NBA who cares? USA is so much better than anyone else that the rest of the world is relevant. As for tennis, it's a game, it's not a sport. I guess that's how we are though, if we had the best ping pong player in the world we would make it out to be bigger than football. It's like Croats bragging about skiing, who cares? Football is everything. We grow up playing it, watching it, and living it. Sure some kids play tennis, but every kid, every one, plays football. How much did we care about tennis 15 years ago? How much will we care in 15 years if nobody takes Novak's place (and given the small population, probably this is reality) Now compare that to football. People talk about footballers that played 30 years ago, who can name a tennis player older than Bjorn Borg? We cared about this game against Croatia and we would trade all the volleyball and handball in the world for football victories! Instead of pretending we don't care about football shouldn't we care more? Shouldn't we make our game better? I can't believe people post volley ball stuff in a discussion about football. But hey, maybe there is a Serb really good at lawn darts.

Actually to any normal thinking Croat the way the crowd behaved was an embarrassment and indicative of the problems regarding minorities in Croatia that has been in the news recently.

On the other hand the Serbian team performed badly, the work rate still seems to be below what one expects at international level.

WE COULD HAVE WON ONLY IF WE PLAYED LIKE THE SECOND HALF THE WHOLE MATCH + NO STUPID DIFFENCE MISTAKES !! :( I FEEL REALLY BAD NOW, WILL WE EVER QUALIFY TO WORLD CUP OR NOT ?!!

I have a hard time blaming the players and the coach. Could it have been better, yes. But given the situation in Serbian football today, I have a hard time blaming the players and coach when there are so many non-football related issues going against them.

I get sick to my stomach when I see Tole (Jaba the Hut) beside Suker. A businessman of questionable character beside a legitimate soccer legend, both running their respective FA. To me that says more about the soccer situation than what happened on the field.

As for the fans, I couldn't agree more with Jovan. Both sides (and all the balkans for that matter) have more than their fair share to be ashamed about. Its a real shame it's so bad we can't even have a regional league (in my mind the only thing that can save Balkan football) because of security.

For those of you who want a change of coach. Who else do we have? Do you really think changing coaches every year is going to solve anything? Mihajlovic imas moj podrsku!

Lenard

Since you are a man of values I wonder why you made no comment on the way croatian fans behaved? If it was the other way around you would be all over the place with your condemnation. I know there are good and decent croats but you are not one of them. Go back to Mostar and plan another bombattack against the muslims.

Lenard said, "So don't be jealously constipated Serbs..."

A dignified human being, who respects himself, would not write such crude and useless trash.

MikeC not good but as you can see in my link Serbs it first.

@ jovan

I for one am so impressed with how much of an expert in sporting statistics you are and how much you know about the popularity of different sports around the world. I didnt even know that tennis wasn't a sport until I read your post, thanks for the heads up on that, would of made a real fool of my self going around talking about the sport of tennis.
what exactly is the difference between a game and a sport? just off the top of your head can you name some world famous footballing legends pre pele and bjon borg era?? no googling, that would be cheating!
...and what exactly is lawn darts, is it a sport or a game, does it even exist!?? maybe you saw it first hand whilst conducting your world cup survey in the remote villages of Siberia.
people mentioned other sports because maybe they enjoy other sports and are proud that their country has made achievements in those sports! its very arrogant of you to determine whats more popular or relevant or irelivant. I didn't know this site was a footballing forum, I thought you could just make comments and respond to other peoples comments. why are you wasting your time here with the footballing ignorants like myself when you could go to fifa.com or some other similar site and impress the hell out of hardcore football geniuses with your superior expert knowledge of the game.

THERE IS NO HOPE FOR QUALIFICATION??

On another point.

Croatia scored 2 goals on 3/4 chances.
1 goal off a mistake
1 goal off a simulated foul

Serbia scored 0 goals on 3/4 chances. 2 of which were on the doorstep.

That is soccer... Serbia should focus less on changing the coach as much as they should focus on finding some finishing! You could have the best team/coach/fss in the world but if you don't finish your chances... ZA NISTA!

Do I detect bitterness in your comment. You must learn to be a gracious loser, earning more respect, instead of uttering petty criticisms toward your superior opponent.
(The Count of Kosova, 23 March 2013 05:49)

So the opposition fans give right arm salutes, boo their opponents anthem and chant 'Kill the Serb' in order to provoke the Serbian players, meanwhile these acts of overt racism somehow miss you and you go on to lecture the Serbs here about learning to be "gracious losers".

Now if the shoe had been on the other foot and the Serb fans were chanting "Death to Albanians", you would be jumping up and down demanding action but when its racism directed towards Serbs you somehow contrive to ignore it as if nothing happened. Well I condemn racism and intolerance no matter where it comes from and directed towards whom.

Some people really do need a sense of perspective.

P.S. Serbia were rubbish on the night and those defensive errors have really cost them. Time is running out for Mihajlovic.