Football
Yugoslavia competed in the Olympic football tournament for the first time. It lost both of its matches.
- Team roster
- Andrija Kojić
- Nikola Simić
- Dragutin Vrđuka
- Vjekoslav Župančić
- Jaroslav Šifer
- Stanko Tavčar
- Slavin Cindrić
- Rudolf Rupec
- Dragutin Vragović
- Artur Dubravčić
- Branimir Porobić
- Emil Perška
- Ivan Granec
- Jovan Ružić
- Josip Šolc
- First round
| August 28, 1920 |
Czechoslovakia | 7–0 | Yugoslavia | Broodstraat, Antwerp Attendance: 600 Referee: Rafael van Praag (NED) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanik 20' 46' 79' Janda 34' 50' 75' Sedláček 43' |
Report |
- Consolation first round
| September 2, 1920 |
Egypt | 4–2 | Yugoslavia | Olympisch Stadion, Antwerp Attendance: 500 Referee: Rafael van Praag (NED) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abaza Allouba Hegazi |
Report | Dubravčić Ružić |
- Final rank
- 14th
Read more about this topic: Yugoslavia At The 1920 Summer Olympics
Famous quotes containing the word football:
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
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Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
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—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)