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The Serbian football team at a training camp - Source: Reuters -
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Serbia play the All Whites in a pre-Cup warm up in Klagenfurt Austria on May 30 at 3.15am.
Serbia
SRB
Nickname: Beli Orlovi (White Eagles)
Coach: Radomir Antic
Qualifying region: Europe
Home kit: Red shirt with white detail, blue
shorts, white socks
Away kit: White shirt and shorts, blue socks
2010 World Cup qualifying campaign:
Dark horses Serbia beat out France Austria, Lithuania, Romania and
Faroe Islands and qualified for South Africa after
topping their Group. France also qualified in by a play-off
against Northern Ireland.
2010 FIFA World Cup Group: D (along with
Germany, Australia & Ghana)
FIFA World Ranking: 16
World Cup history:
2010 South Africa will be Serbia's first World Cup appearance as an
independent nation (since 2006)
As Serbia Montenegro:
Germany (2006) - placed last in their Group (behind Argentina,
Netherlands and Ivory Coast) and failed to progress to the second
round
As part of Yugoslavia (prior to independence in 2003):
Yugoslavia has appeared at 9 World Cups - most recently in France
98 where they reached the second round, but where knocked out by a
2-1 loss to the Netherlands.
The also reached the World Cup finals held in Italy in 1990 where they reached the quarter finals, only to lose out to Argentina.
Yugoslavia's highest place was reaching the semi finals of the 1962 World Cup held in Chile, where they lost to Czechoslovakia, and finished in fourth place behind Chile.
Trophy case:
Serbia has yet to win a mayor trophy
As part of Yugoslavia:
Olympic Gold - 1960 Rome
Olympic Silver -1948 London, 1952 Helsinki, 1956 Melbourne
UEFA European Championship - Runner Up 1968 and 1960
Key Players: Nemanja Vidic, Dejan Stankovic (C), Marko Pantelic, Milan Jovanovic
Group Matches (D):
v GHA - Jun 14 at 2.00am in Pretoria
v GER - Jun 19 at 6.30am in Port Elizabeth
v AUS - Jun 24 at 6.30am in Nelspruit
