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Slovenia play Qatar in a friendly match March 2010 -
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Slovenia play the All Whites in a pre-Cup warm up on
Saturday June 5 in Maribor, Slovenia.
tvnz.co.nz's Michael Burgess will be LIVE scoring the match
- kick off is at 6.45
Slovenia
SVN
Nickname: Zmajceki (Dragons)
Coach: Matjaz Kek
Qualifying region: Europe
Home kit: White shirt, with green detail, white
shorts, white socks
Away kit: Green shirt, green shorts and green
socks
2010 FIFA World Cup Group: C (along with England,
USA and Algeria)
FIFA World Ranking: 23
2010 World Cup qualifying campaign:
Slovenia were a surprise qualifer after drawing a group that
included Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. After placing second
behind Slovakia, Slovenia advanced to a two leg play off
against Russia. Russia won the first game 2-1, but Slovenia took
the second 1-0 and advanced on aggregate.
World Cup history:
2010 South Africa will be Slovenia's second appearance as an
independent nation
Korea/Japan (2002) Slovenia placed last in their Group (behind Spain, Paraguay and South Africa) and failed to progress to the second round
As part of Yugoslavia (prior to 1991): Yugoslavia appeared at 8 World Cups - most recently at Italia 1990 where they reached the quarter finals, but lost to Argentina. Yugoslavia's highest place was reaching the Semi Finals in 1962, where lost to Czechoslovakia, and finished in Fourth place behind Chile.
Trophy case:
Slovenia 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: Milivoje Novakovic, Samir Handanovic, Robert Koren (C)
Group Matches (C):
v ALG - Jun 13 at 11.30pm in Polokwane
v USA - Jun 19 at 2.00am in Johannesburg
v ENG - Jun 24 at 2.00am in Port Elizabeth
