Unconvincing at the 1982 World Cup finals, a trio of defeats in the group stages of the 1984 European Championship finals, a failure to qualify for the 1986 World Cup and the 1988 Euros, while the Yugoslavia senior national team found the 1980s to be a decade of decay, in Chile, during October 1987, a golden generation of young talent was introducing itself to the world, by winning the FIFA World Youth Championship, inspired by the likes of Robert Prosinečki, Zvonimir Boban, Predrag Mijatović, Davor Šuker, and Igor Štimac.
A bright footballing horizon lay ahead, before conflict enveloped a fragmented and disintegrating nation of convienience. Amid a war-scarred landscape, Yugoslavia qualified for the 1990 World Cup finals, and then Euro 92, only for it all to fall apart before they could set sail for Sweden.
Stretching into the beginning of the 1990s with this module, thus risking some kind of Your Boys Took a Hell of a Beating multiverse time and space fabric rip, Steven Scragg and Michael Hamlen, the man behind the wonderful 80s & 90s Football Twitter/X account, delve into some highfalutin hipster territory.
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