Yugoslavia name players to tour Asia
First Published: May 22, 2000Yugoslavia coach Vujadin Boskov has named a squad of 24 players to tour Asia before Euro 2000.
The list includes all the established foreign-based stars that have been a feature of the Yugoslav national team for more than ten years but Boskov must reduce the squad to 22 by June 1st to meet the UEFA deadline for the Euro finals.
Yugoslavia play China - coached now by Belgrade-born Bora Milutinovic - on May 25th in Beijing and two matches against South Korea in Seoul on May 28th and 30th. The tour ends on June 3rd in Hong Kong against a representative eleven.
The squad in full -
Goalkeepers - Ivica Kralj (PSV Eindhoven), Zeljko Cicovic (Las Palmas) and Aleksandar Kocic (Red Star Belgrade).
Defenders - Ivan Dudic (Red Star Belgrade), Slobodan Komljenovic (Kaiserslautern), Miroslav Djukic (Valencia), Sinisa Mihajlovic (SS Lazio), Nisa Saveljic (Bordeaux), Goran Bunjevcevic (Red Star Belgrade), Goran Djorovic (Celta Vigo) and Mladen Krstajic (Partizan Belgrade).
Midfielders - Slavisa Jokanovic (Deportivo La Coruna), Vladimir Jugovic (Internazionale), Albert Nadj (Oviedo), Dejan Stankovic (SS Lazio), Jovan Stankovic (Real Mallorca), Ljubinko Drulovic (FC Porto), Dragan Stojkovic (Nagoya Grampus Eight), Dejan Govedarica (RKC Waalwijk) and Nenad Grozdic (Vitesse Arnhem).
Strikers - Predrag Mijatovic (Fiorentina), Savo Milosevic (Real Zaragoza), Darko Kovacevic (Juventus) and Mateja Kezman (Partizan Belgrade).
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