The story of most world-class footballers starts at a local park, where the future star would spend hours a day kicking a ball around with friends from an early age. The standard…
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In 1976, an energetic and exuberant 41-year-old Bosnian Croat named Miroslav Blažević was appointed as manager of the Switzerland national team. Back then, the ethnic composition of the central Europeans was largely…
In an era littered with pure athletes and raw physical specimens, it is the game’s artists that separate themselves from the rest. They’re the ones who dictate matches; the ones who make…
Many in Bosnia believe that there will never be another Safet Sušić, while even more in Paris believe that he won’t be topped as the club’s greatest import
Another round of international fixtures yielded another unsavoury incident in the stands in the Balkans recently as the Group H fixture between second-placed Greece and third-placed Bosnia and Herzegovina was marred by…
“I support Serbia.” It was not the answer we were expecting. My colleague and I had just concluded an interview with a coach associated with an NGO tasked with the unenviable project of…