Slovenia, a nice surprise in South Africa
Last Wednesday I vibrated with sincere happiness when Slovenia certified his pass to the World cup of South Africa, conquering against any prognosis Russia in the play-off. Slovenia returns to the World cup, after his absence in 2006, a fact immensely significantly, if we bear in mind the limited soccer potential of this small green and captivating country, where the soccer only has force at selection level, due to the low level of the league and the recent crisis that has shaken the giant of Ljubljana, historically Olimpia, who fortunately has managed to emerge and he competes already successfully in the maximum category.
The Slovenes are lover of the soccer, certainly, although there are other sports, principally the basketball, which are superficially in the ancient republic of Yugoslavia. There the people adopt the Italian, Spanish and English soccer as as own, considering the low profile of his teams. All these circumstances give the highest value to the classification mundialista of a country with scarcely 2.000.000 of inhabitants, whose national stadium, Ljudski de Maribor, scarcely is provided with capacity for 12.000 spectators.
In Slovenia it gives priority to the force of the set over any individuality. There are no stars, it is enough to see his eleven habitual. Under sticks we find Samir Handanovic, a good goalkeeper who is still in learning phase. His best trick is the height, it is to title in the Udinese and it has been consolidated entirely in the Calcium. The rest of players fits a little to this profile: good soccer players who triumph in teams of the average area of the big leagues, ideally. Let’s see the defense. The skillful side street is usually for Miso Brecko, like Handanovic, of 25 years, habitual in the Cologne. To stop and Suler forms in the center of the defense. Both perform enormous importance, very good at the top, but discreet. To stop plays of titling in the French Grenoble, while Suler in the Belgian Gent. In the left-handed side street Milan Jokic substitute in the Sochaux is a fixed one.
Into the midfield it does not change the dynamics. Slovenia plays with 4-3-3 I fix. In the second line they operate Radosavljevic, Koren and Kirm. Radosavljevic acts in Russian Tom, Koren in West Bromwich Albion and Kirm in the Wisla of Krakow. Koren has goal, enclosed Radosavljevic, but none is at a height of playing neither in a selection of the first line nor in a team capable of aspiring to do important things. More of the same above, where they form Birsa, of the Auxerre, Novakovic, classic effective tank facing door and one of the props of the Cologne, and Dedic, the hero of the crossing before Russia, since his goal in the Ljudski cost the pass to the World cup. The latter player, servant futbolísticamente in the Parma, scarcely is to title in the German Bochum.
The reality is that the classification of Slovenia, before rivals like Czech Republic, Poland or Russia, the last one in the play-off, is a formidable fact for the Balkan soccer. Slovenia was never a real soccer potency but it is going to dispute his second World cup, in only 19 years of existence. Part of fault in all this matter corresponds to Matzaj Kek, first of all a soccer players forming one. Kek was a skillful central one with great dowry of control, which triumphed in the Maribor, in the beginning and end of his career, having a fruitful step along the Austrian soccer between averages. It was to hang the boots and to begin to direct in the Maribor, first like second and from 2000 as first. It gained two leagues and stood out for his good dealing with the youngest. In 2006 it ended up at the Slovene Federation to do with the control of the cocktail sub 15 to him and sub 17 and finally the challenge of the absolute one came to him several years ago.
Not even the proper Kek might believe in the exceptional stupidity achieved by Slovenia. Years behind, when Zahovic or Acimovic were leading it in his best moment, Slovenia obtained certain respect in the continental soccer panorama. Now it does not even have stars, although the Novakovic goal in this team marks differences, but the sleep for retrieval makes something big in South Africa more force that never. And in the background of this team, hidden, there is an interesting, very interesting soccer player, the young man Rene Krhin, a 20-year-old offensive midfielder who has great that to say. Mourinho supports in the Inter … his Slovenia, undoubtedly a nice surprise in South Africa.
