Red Star - Shandung 3-1 (1-0)
Belgrade, February 16 - Red Star Belgrade beat Shandung, winner of the Chinese Championship and Cup, 3-1 (1-0) in a friendly football match in Belgrade. Host team was far superior and reached the deserved triumph against the team of Slobodan Santrac, the former coach of the Yugoslav national football team.
Red Star Stadium in Belgrade. Attendance: 8,000. Scorers: Dudic (31), Gojkovic (65) and Mirkovic (74) for Red Star; Jao Ze (68) for Shandung.
RED STAR: Kocic, Dudic, Ilic, Vukomanovic, Glogovac, Bunjevcevic, Gvozdenovic, Lerinc, Bakoli, Stevanovic and Boskovic. Disljenkovic, Bajcetic, Drobnjak, Vitakic, Miljkovic, Markovic, Stojanovic and Micic also played in the match.
Yugoslavia still on the 13th place
Zurich, Switzerland, February 16 - In the latest FIFA world ranking of the best national football teams, Yugoslavia still keeps the 13th place (692 points).
There has been no change among the national football teams on the top rungs - Brazil is on the top with 836 points, Czech Republic is the 2nd, and the world champion France is on the 3rd place.
Nigeria, the runners-up from the African Nations' Cup, is the biggest mover (51st, up 25).
Yugoslavia-Russia, on October 7th
Zurich, Switzerland, January 21st - The representatives of football associations of Yugoslavia, Russia, Switzerland, Slovenia, Faroe Islands and Luxembourg reached an agreement today in Zurich in regard to the schedule of their national teams' matches in the first group of the European qualifications for the World Cup which will be held in Japan and South Korea in 2002.
2000
September 2/3
Switzerland - Russia
Luxembourg - YUGOSLAVIA
Faroe Islands - Slovenia
October 7/8
Switzerland - Faroe Islands
Luxembourg - Slovenia
YUGOSLAVIA - Russia
October 10/11
Russia - Luxembourg
Slovenia - Switzerland
YUGOSLAVIA - Faroe Islands
2001
March 24/25
Luxembourg - Faroe Islands
YUGOSLAVIA - Switzerland
Russia - Slovenia
March 27/28
Switzerland - Luxembourg
Slovenia - YUGOSLAVIA
Russia - Faroe Islands
June 2/3
Russia - YUGOSLAVIA
Slovenia - Luxembourg
Faroe Islands - Switzerland
June 5/6
Switzerland - Slovenia
Luxembourg - Russia
Faroe Islands - YUGOSLAVIA
September 1/2
Switzerland - YUGOSLAVIA
Slovenia - Russia
Faroe Islands - Luxembourg
September 4/5
Luxembourg - Switzerland
YUGOSLAVIA - Slovenia
Faroe Islands - Russia
October 6/7
YUGOSLAVIA - Luxembourg
Russia - Switzerland
Slovenia - Faroe Islands
European championship without Mirkovic
Zoran Mirkovic
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Geneva, Switzerland, January 20th - Yugoslav football team will participate at this year's European Championship in Belgium and Netherlands without Zoran Mirkovic. UEFA reduced his ban from four to three matches due to the excluding from the qualifications match against Croatia in Zagreb. This means that the Juventus player will miss all the matches in the group and return to the game only if Yugoslavia places into quarterfinals of the European Championship.
Before UEFA's decision, the Yugoslav head coach Vujadin Boskov announced that he would take Mirkovic to the Championship in case his ban was reduced to one, eventually two games in the official matches. Since it did not occur, Mirkovic will, due to his hasty move, be excluded from the list for this year's biggest football competition.
