Talk:Serbia national football team

I realise that there is a movement to claim Yugoslavia football's achievements under the Serbian FA banner (e.g. all the WC and EC qualifications and achievements). Even if FIFA allows this misconception to be maintained in a technical sense, claiming that the Serbia football team reached the World Cup finals 11 times etc.. doesn't make it true.

Linked to this, the substantial section of this article relating to the pre-1992 period is without question biased. It is stated that 'During its existence Serbian footballers would continually play a pivotal role in the Yugoslav national team...'. Where is the evidence that for this? For example where is the evidence that the 1962 Yugoslavia team which came 4th in the World Cup did not pivotally rely also on Croatian, Kosovan players etc..? It looks like special pleading to me, and no neutral observer (I include myself) would see it as an objective statement. Statements like this in fact prove that the whole attempt to claim Yugoslavian football achievements as Serbian football achievements is based on flawed and biased thinking. It would be better if the whole section 1.1 were removed and a simple reference to Yugoslavian football pre-1992 inserted.

By comparison the Czech Republic football page simply starts at 1994 (again the numbers section of that page confusingly claims that Czech Republic have reached many more World Cups etc.. than they have, but at least there is no special pleading in the main text that Czechoslovakia somehow achieved was they did thanks to 'Czech players'.).

Similar flaws apply to the Russian football page. Again this claims all the achievements of USSR football as those of Russian football. It is well known that players from many parts of the Soviet Union made 'pivotal' contributions to those successes e.g. the outstanding player of the 1982 USSR team was Alexander Tchivadze, and tellingly, despite all those achievements by 'Russian Football', the top scorer over those years - Oleg Blokhin - is not mentioned anywhere in that article - presumably because he was from Ukraine.

I simply don't understand how Wikipedia can allow such clear distortions of the truth to persist — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scientist2 (talk • contribs) 05:42, 4 July 2021 (UTC)

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Remove Yugoslav football stats
The Yugoslav national football team has a separate page that includes all its history and stats. Please remove them from this page. This page should only focus on the Serbia national football team (ie. from 2006 onwards) 76.170.142.83 (talk) 02:08, 8 July 2024 (UTC)