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| SLOVENIA On the sunny side of the Alps! First of all Slovenia isn't Slovakia, Russia and not Slavonia! We are a coutry in middle of Austria, Italy, Hungary and Croatia. We are independent from 1991, till then we were under Yugoslavia. The highest mountain is Triglav (2864 m) and we have 45 km of seaside. Biggest cities are: Ljubljana, Maribor, Celje, Kranj, Murska Sobota, Koper,... but the biggest is Ljubljana (330000 people). Our country is 90% Slovenian. The religion is Roman Catholic. The coutry is "chicken - shaped". EURO 2000 QUALIFICATIONS, GROUP 2 SLOVENIA : Greece 2:2/0:3 SLOVENIA : Norway 1:2/0:4 SLOVENIA : Latvia 1:0/2:1 SLOVENIA : Georgia 1:1/2:1 SLOVENIA : Albania 1:0/2:1 STATS |
| Team | G | W | D | L | Goals | Points |
| Norway | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 21:9 | 25 |
| Slovenia | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 12:14 | 17 |
| Greece | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 13:8 | 15 |
| Latvia | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 13:12 | 13 |
| Albania | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 8:14 | 7 |
| Georgia | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8:18 | 5 |
| PLAY-OFF
MATCH
: SLOVENIA : Ukraine 2:1/1:1 TOP STRIKERS Zlatko Zahovic 9 goals Milenko Acimovic 2 goals Saso Udovic 1 goal Aleksander Knavs 1 goal Miran Pavlin 1 goal Milan Osterc 1 goal ALL-TIME BEST STRIKERS Zlatko Zahovic 21 goals Saso Udovic 15 goals Primoz Gliha 10 goals Milan Osterc 5 goals Ermin Siljak 4 goals Milenko Acimovic 4 goals ALL-TIME MOST APPEARANCES Ales Ceh 48 Marinko Galic 46 Dzoni Novak 46 Zlatko Zahovic 45 Darko Milanic 39 Robert Englaro 36 FRIENDLY MATCHES in year 2000 SLOVENIA : UAE 1:1 Sultan Kavbus stadium, 500 viewers Referees: Fadhil, Al Shahi, Al Qasmi, Al Harrassi (Oman) 1:0 Udovic (83), 1:1 Yassir (90) SLOVENIA : Simeunovic (Dabanovic), Karic (Udovic), Rudonja, Milanic (Milinovic), Galic, Knavs (Bulajic), Novak, Ceh (Istenic), Osterc, Zahovic (Acimovic), Pavlin Yellow cards : Karic, Galic; Masoud SLOVENIA : Oman 4:0 Sultan Kavbus stadium, 400 viewers Referees: Abdullah (UAE), Al Shahi, Al Qasmi, Al Naqbi (Oman) 1:0 Pavlin (15), 2:0 Zahovic (32), 3:0 Udovic (57), 4:0 Acimovic (67,11-m) SLOVENIA: Dabanovic (Simeunovic), Bulajic, Rudonja (Novak), Istenic, Galic (Milanic), Milinovic, Gajser (Karic), Acimovic, Osterc (Udovic), Zahovic, Pavlin (Ceh). Yellow cards : Attaie; Istenic Red card : Bulajic SLOVENIA : France 2:3 Stade de France, 63820 viewers Reffere: : El Arjoune (Mar) 0:1 Milinovic (2), 0:2 Udovic (8), 1:2 Trezeguet (63), 2:2 Blanc (73), 3:2 Trezeguet (90+) SLOVENIA: Dabanovic, Milinovic, Milanic, Knavs, Novak (Gajser), Ceh, Karic (Galic), Pavlin (Pavlovic), Rudonja, Udovic (Osterc), Zahovic Yellow cards: Zahovic, Pavlin SLOVENIA : Saudi Arabia To be played in Ljubljana on 3rd June 2000. SLOVENIA'S STARS ALEKSANDER KNAVS Born : Maribor, 5.12.1975 height : 190 cm weight : 86 kg club : Tirol Innsbruck position : defender appearences : 20 goals : 1 1st "A" appearance : 5.2.1998 (Iceland) Aleksander is FC Tirol Innsbruck's best defender and one of the best defenders in Autria. Foreign mannagers are crazy to sign him. Tirol didn't let him go to Leeds at the start of this years season. Before coming to Tirol he played for Olimpija Ljubljana. ZLATKO ZAHOVIC Born : Maribor, 1.2.1971 height : 180 cm weight : 76 kg club : Olympiakos Piraeus position : midfielder apperances : 45 goals : 21 1st "A" appearance : 7.11.1992 (Cyprus) Zlatko is a true leader. The best Olympiakos FC midfielder was the best player of Slovenia in the EURO qualifications. He should leave Olympiakos this summer. He played for Partizan, Guimares, Porto. SASO UDOVIC Born : 12.12.1968 height : 180 cm weight : 75 kg club : LASK Linz position : attacker appearances : 35 goals : 15 1st "A" appearance: 7.4.1993 (Estonia) Saso Udovic played in Slovenia, Belgium and Switzerland before settling in LASK from Linz where he is the best scorer and 5th best scorer of the Austrian league. He owns the record for most goals on one match (against Iceland, 5 goals) in 1997. COACH : SRECKO KATANEC Born: 16.7.1963 former clubs: Ljubljana, Olimpija, Dinamo, Partizan, Stuttgart, Sampdoria coach: Slovenia (U-21), HIT Gorica, Slovenia JUGOSLAVIA appearances: 31 goals: 5 SLOVENIA appearaces: 5 goals: 1 Srecko Katanec is one of our best footballers. He played for many good teams and won the Cup Winners Cup with Samporia and was a finalist of the UEFA Cup with Stuttgart. His biggest succes as a coach was the qualification for EURO 2000 with Slovenia. STYLE OF PLAY SLOVENIA's play in very attacking when we play with weaker teams, and can be more conservative as we play with bigger teams. At that time, we have 4 defenders, 5 midfielders and 1 attacker. If we are the better opponent the style is always 3-5-2. We play with fast counter-attacks as the ball gets to Zahovic who gets it foward to Udovic or Osterc. Many time Zlatko finishes the action himself. Our defence is very good with good-old libero Galic, Knavs and Milanic on the sides. The midfield works good with Novak, Ceh, Zahovic, Pavlin, Rudonja. We have few good fowards the leader is one of the top Austrian scorers Saso Udovic. Katanec's joker is Red Star Belgrade midfielder Mile Acimovic. Our strenght is our defence, our weakness is our attack, because our best scorer is a midfielder! The atmosphere in our national team is very good, infact it's great. All players and coaches are friends, no "mobs" are in the team. Srecko Katanec did a very big improvement on this thing, because it wasn't so great at former coach Dr. Zdenko Verdenik. The press doesn't say much about our NT, except our only sport paper "Ekipa" except when games are to be played. LINKS Slovenian national team (Slovenian only) http://move.to/slovenija Zlatko Zahovic (Slovenian & English) http://www.isfa.com/server/web/zahovic Slovenian F.A. (Slovenian & English) http://www.nzs.si/ Slovenina on EURO 2000 (Slovenian & English) http://nogomet.iprom.si/ Morel - EURO 2000 (Slovenian only) http://www.morel.si/euro2000 nogomet.net (Slovenian only) http://www.nogomet.net/ NK Maribor PL (Slovenian & English) http://www.nkmaribor.com/ Luka Maselj luka.maselj@siol.net |