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Slovenia name World Cup play-offs squad

First Published: Oct 26, 2001

Slovenia have named their squad to face Romania next month if play-offs to reach the 202 World Cup finals.

Sloventia host Romania on November 10th and then travel to Bucharest four days later for the decisive tie to reach the finals in Korea and Japan next May.

The squad in full -

Goalkeepers - Mladen Dabanovic (Lokeren), Dejan Nemec (Club Bruges) and Marko Simeunovic (Maribor).

Defenders - Marinko Galic (Velenje), Spasoje Bulajic (Koln), Muamer Vugdalic (Shakhtar Donetsk) and Zeljko Milinovic (Jef United).

Midfielders - Milenko Acimovic (Red Star Belgrade), Sasa Gajser (Ghent), Ales Ceh (Graz AK), Amir Karic (Ipswich Town), Miran Pavlin (Porto), Dzoni Novak (Unterhaching), Zoran Pavlovic (Austria Memphis), Zlatko Zahovic (Benfica) and Rajko Tavcar (Nuremberg).

Strikers - Sebastjan Cimirotic (Lecce), Mladen Rudonja (Portsmouth) and Milan Osterc (Hapoel Tel Aviv).