1990 Yugoslavia v Netherlands football match

November 2019 Yugoslavia v Netherlands (1990) International friendly Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 30px 0 Netherlands Netherlands 30px 2 1990 06 03 yes Maksimir stadium Zagreb Friedrich Kaupe (Austria) 30,000 On 3 June 1990, Yugoslavia hosted the Netherlands in an international friendly at Zagreb's Maksimir stadium. The match was the last preparation friendly (known as the dress rehearsal) for Ivica Osim's Yugoslavia side ahead of the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. However, the contest is mostly remembered for the controversy raised due to the spectator behaviour: throughout the match, a nationalist Croat crowd of 20,000 shouted down the Yugoslav national anthem, insulted Yugoslav team players and jeered the head coach. Play on the pitch quickly became secondary as the match turned into another football-related incident reflecting ethnic tensions and rising nationalism in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Background Although on what would soon turn out to be its last legs, SFR Yugoslavia (multi-ethnic federation made up of six constituent republics) still existed as a state in 1990 while Socialist Republic of Croatia was its second largest constituent republic populated mostly by ethnic Croats with a large ethnic Serb minority. Ten years after the death of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia was crippled by rising ethnic tensions. In parallel, in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the country was transitioning its system of governance from communist one-party system to democratic multi-party system. SR Croatia's first parliamentary elections took place from 22 April to 7 May 1990 with nationalist right-wing Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) led by Franjo Tuđman winning in a landslide. With tensions running high, a football riot took place on 13 May 1990, at Maksimir during a Yugoslav First League match between the Croatian club Dinamo Zagreb and the Serbian club Red Star Belgrade. Croatian midfielder Zvonimir Boban kicked the policeman Refik Ahmetović and as a result got suspended by the Football Association of Yugoslavia (FSJ) for six months, causing him to miss the 1990 FIFA World Cup as well as the pre-tournament preparation friendlies.The Day Yugoslav Soccer Died Game The exhibition versus the Netherlands took place on 3 June and was the last exhibition before the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The crowd of 20,000 booed the Yugoslav national anthem "Hey, Slavs".Football https://web.archive.org/web/20080804064250/http://www.sportin.ba/tekst.aspx?id=8610 4 August 2008 Fans cheered for the Netherlands, heckling the Yugoslav team and its manager Ivica Osim.http://www.jutarnji.hr/sport/nogomet/clanak/art-2008,2,2,,107187.jl Remember the last time we hosted the Netherlands? 7 September 2008 6 February 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080206090450/http://www.jutarnji.hr/sport/nogomet/clanak/art-2008,2,2,,107187.jl dead Many Dutch flags were also seen in the crowd, owing to their similarity to the Croatian tricolour (red, white and blue).In the bus Aftermath The match was the last of the Yugoslav team to be played in Maksimir.Yugoslavia National Team List of Results 1990-1999 https://web.archive.org/web/20080619051605/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/joeg-intres90.html 19 June 2008 , RSSSF On 17 October of that year, the Croatia national team played its first international match in Maksimir against the United States. Match details 3 June 1990 YUG 0–2 Report NED Rijkaard 53 Van Basten 83 Stadion Maksimir Zagreb 30,000 Friedrich Kaupe (Austria) _yugoslovia1990_home _france home adidas _color_3_stripes_white 0000FF 0000FF FFFFFF FF0000 Yugoslavia _netherlands90h _netherlands90h _netherlands90h _netherlands90h _color_3_stripes_white FF5F00 FF5F00 FF5F00 FFFFFF FF5F00 Netherlands GK 1 Tomislav IvkovićDF 18 Mirsad BaljićDF 3 Predrag SpasićDF 4 Zoran Vulić DF 5 Faruk HadžibegićMF 13 Srečko Katanec 59MF 8 Safet Sušić 59MF 19 Dejan SavićevićMF 6 Davor Jozić MF 10 Dragan StojkovićFW 11 Zlatko Vujović (c) 75Substitutes:MF 2 Dragoljub Brnović 59FW 9 Robert Prosinečki 59FW 7 Darko Pančev 75Manager:YUG Ivica Osim GK 1Hans van BreukelenDF 2Berry van Aerle 68 DF 4Ronald KoemanDF 13Graeme RutjesDF 5Adri van Tiggelen MF 3Frank RijkaardMF 6Jan WoutersMF 7Erwin Koeman 79MF 10Ruud Gullit (c)MF 9Marco van BastenFW 12Wim KieftSubstitutes:MF 8Danny Blind 68DF 11Richard Witschge 79Manager:NED Leo Beenhakker Footnotes See also Dinamo–Red Star riot External links Video: Yugoslavia - Netherlands 1990 1990 Category:Sports competitions in Zagreb Netherlands Netherlands Yugoslavia Category:International association football matches in Europe Yugoslavia v Netherlands Category:1990s in Zagreb Category:Croatian nationalism 1990 1990