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Uvijek Vjerni
How ? 1998. team toyed with Germany and this team needed SO to beat solid yet nothing special teams like Denmark and Russia. 1998. team would have been European champion in 1996. if not for obvious bias ref in quarters against Germans (1:2). They also won U21 World Cup in Chile in 1987.
Those are just their player qualities/achivements, yet they were much more loveable among fans and had way more patriotic charge than these "we have more luck than average cat lifes" guys.
Recall, in that 1998 QF versus Germany the Germans had a sending off and they played with 10-men for a good chunk of the game.
I would say, the 98’ starting 11 was better, by how much, tough to say. They had class at each position. Boban, Suker, Jarni, Prosinecki, etc.
Boksic missed out unfortunately.
I might give this teams bench an advantage.
I remember even Ladic, who was poor in the qualifiers leading up to France 98’ had a real strong tournament.