Serbia & Montenegro OVERVIEW 
Serbia and Montenegro is as a new national team since the dissolution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991 -- a nation that had a long and proud tradition with football. They reached the semi-final stage of the first ever FIFA World Cup Finals and had qualified for the FIFA World Cup Finals 7 times. Under their new incarnation they will hope to make a similar impact at the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
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Serbia & Montenegro World Cup Statistics
Confederation: EuropePrevious World Cup Appearances: 1930, 1950, 1958, 1962, 1974, 1990, 1998 (as Yugoslavia) Best Finish: Semi Finals (1930) as Yugoslavia Serbia & Montenegro General Information
Capital City: SerbianCurrency: New Yugoslav Dinar Population: 10.7 million Official Languages: Belgrade Country History and Background
Serbia and Montenegro, union of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro, located in southeastern Europe on the Balkan Peninsula. The republic of Serbia is much larger and more populous than Montenegro, and it is home to the capital and largest city, Belgrade. From 1945 to 1991 Serbia and Montenegro was part of Yugoslavia, a larger Communist federal state consisting of six republics. Yugoslavia’s named changed to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in 1963. In 1990 the Communist Party collapsed, and new non-Communist parties formed. Multiparty elections that year ended 45 years of one-party rule but also brought nationalist political parties into power in all six republics, contributing to ethnic tension in the SFRY. Four of the republics—Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Slovenia—declared their independence in 1991 and 1992, leaving only Serbia and Montenegro unified. The SFRY’s dissolution led to a series of armed conflicts known as the wars of Yugoslav succession. In April 1992 Serbia and Montenegro acknowledged the breakaway of the four republics by proclaiming themselves the successor state to the SFRY, taking the name Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY). In early 1996 the FRY was recognized as a country by the member nations of the European Union (EU). Many other countries, including the United States, did not recognize the FRY until 2000. Although the United Nations (UN) did not recognize the FRY as the successor state to the SFRY, in 2000 the UN admitted the FRY as a new member. During the late 1990s, tensions escalated between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in the Serbian province of Kosovo, and FRY president Slobodan Miloševi? used police and military forces to suppress ethnic Albanian separatism in the province. In March 1999 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began an air war against the FRY after Miloševi? refused to accept an international peace plan for Kosovo. The UN has administered Kosovo—still legally a part of Serbia—since the war ended in June 1999. Player to Watch
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