Football World Cup 1930 / Yugoslavia

This article covers the Yugoslav national team at the 1930 World Cup .

qualification

There was still no qualification at the first World Cup , as only a small number of national teams - in times of the global economic crisis and before the introduction of regular transatlantic air traffic - were prepared to undertake the expensive and long journey to South America . Yugoslavia was one of only four European teams that made their way to Uruguay .

Contingent

In the Yugoslav federation, there were already some time before the tournament disputes between Serbian and Croatian officials , as the headquarters of the Association of Zagreb to Belgrade was moved. For this reason the regional association of Zagreb, which was against participating in the World Cup anyway, refused to interrupt or postpone the championship because of the World Cup. The associations of Split , Sarajevo and Subotica joined this refusal shortly afterwards . This led Boško Simonović to nominate 13 players from leading Belgrade clubs. In addition, a player from Vojvodina Novi Sad was nominated and three legionnaires who were active in France .

Surname	Association at the time	Date of birth	Sp.	Gates	Space management
goalkeeper
Milovan Jakšić	SK Soko	21 Sep 1909	3	0	0
Milan Stojanović	Belgrade SK	?	0	0	0
Defense
Milutin Ivković	SK Soko	03rd Mar 1906	3	0	0
Dragoslav Mihajlović	Belgrade SK	Dec 13, 1906	3	0	0
Teofilio Spasojević	SK Yugoslavija	Jan. 21, 1909	0	0	0
Dragomir Tošić	Belgrade SK	0Nov 8, 1909	0	0	0
runner
Milorad Arsenijevic	Belgrade SK	0June 6, 1906	3	0	0
Momćilo Đokić	SK Yugoslavija	Feb. 27, 1911	3	0	0
Ljubiša Stefanović	FC Sète 34	0Jan. 4, 1910	3	0	0
attack
Ivan Bek	FC Sète 34	Oct. 29, 1909	3	3	0
Branislav Hrnjićek	SK Yugoslavija	0June 5, 1908	0	0	0
Blagoje Marjanović	Belgrade SK	0Sep 9 1907	3	1	0
Božidar Marković	Vojvodina Novi Sad	?	0	0	0
Dragutin Najdanović	Belgrade SK	Apr 15, 1908	1	0	0
Branislav Sekulić	Sports Olympiques Montpelliérains	Oct. 29, 1906	2	0	0
Aleksandar Tirnanić	Belgrade SK	July 15, 1910	3	1	0
Djordje Vujadinović	Belgrade SK	0Dec 6, 1909	3	2	0
Trainer
Boško Simonović		Feb 12, 1898

Games

Yugoslavia competed in Group 2 against Brazil and Bolivia . After a somewhat surprising narrow 2-1 win over Brazil and a 4-0 win against Bolivia, the Southeast Europeans were shown the limits in the semifinals by eventual world champions Uruguay .

Group 2

rank	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1	Yugoslavia	2	2	0	0	6: 1	+5	4-0
2	Brazil	2	1	0	1	5: 2	+3	2: 2
3	Bolivia	2	0	0	2	0: 8	-8th	0: 4

Preliminary round

Mon., July 14, 1930, 12:45 p.m. in the Estadio Gran Parque Central
Yugoslavia	-	Brazil	2: 1 (2: 0)
Thursday, July 17, 1930, 12:45 p.m. in the Estadio Gran Parque Central
Yugoslavia	-	Bolivia	4: 0 (0: 0)

Semifinals

Sun., July 27, 1930, 2:45 p.m. in the Estadio Centenario
Uruguay	-	Yugoslavia	6: 1 (3: 1)