{"id":19161,"date":"2021-09-22T23:12:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T23:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/22\/why-ex-yugoslavs-are-the-best-footballers\/"},"modified":"2021-09-22T23:12:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T23:12:26","slug":"why-ex-yugoslavs-are-the-best-footballers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/22\/why-ex-yugoslavs-are-the-best-footballers\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY ex-Yugoslavs are the best footballers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footballers from the countries which used to make up Yugoslavia are impressing worldwide, but why? Luka Modric even won the World Footballer of the Year Award in 2018. Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo &#8211; all produce outstanding football talent and we delve into the reasons for their success. Kick off! reporter Sebastian Saam argues that ex-Yugoslavs should be classed among the best players in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Report: Sebastian Saam<br \/>\nCamera: Thomas Steimer<br \/>\nEdit: David Jacobi<\/p>\n<p>\u25b8 subscribe:<br \/>\n\u25b8 help us create subtitles:<br \/>\n\u25b8 our channel: <\/p>\n<p>More football stories here:<br \/>\nFacebook:<br \/>\nTwitter:<br \/>\nWebsite:<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H8Mznsq8_qY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footballers from the countries which used to make up Yugoslavia are impressing worldwide, but why? Luka Modric even won the World Footballer of the Year Award in 2018. Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo &#8211; all produce outstanding football talent and we delve into the reasons for their success. Kick off! reporter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[53961,1628,53963,53955,53970,53966,53949,53954,53952,53974,53971,53972,16514,19960,2781,53969,53956,53950,53951,9155,53953,53957,53958,223,53967,53959,16189,53965,53968,1629,53960,16080,8870,35958,53964,53973,53962,21854],"class_list":["post-19161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european","tag-bosnia-herzegovina","tag-croatia","tag-davor-suker","tag-dejan-lovren","tag-dinamo-zagreb","tag-dragan-stojkovic","tag-dw-kick-off","tag-edin-dzeko","tag-ex-yugoslavs","tag-exyugoslavs","tag-fk-partizan","tag-fk-sarajevo","tag-football","tag-footballers","tag-fun","tag-hajduk-split","tag-ivan-rakitic","tag-kick-off","tag-kickoffexplainer","tag-kosovo","tag-luka-modric","tag-mario-mandzukic","tag-miralem-pjanic","tag-montenegro","tag-nemanja-vidic","tag-nikola-kalinic","tag-north-macedonia","tag-predrag-mijatovic","tag-red-star-belgrade","tag-serbia","tag-sime-vrsaljko","tag-skills","tag-slovenia","tag-stars","tag-stjepan-bobek","tag-world-class-palyer","tag-world-cup-2018","tag-yugoslavia","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}