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The Eastern European country of Serbia boasts a national football side
known as the Serbia national football team that is controlled by
the country's official football governing body, the Football
Association of Serbia (FSS), which has been a FIFA member since 1921
and a UEFA member since 1954. With the breakup of Yugoslavia in the
early 1990s, the FSS replaced the Football Association of Yugoslavia
(FSJ) and the Yugoslavia national football team became known as the
Serbia and Montenegro national football team.
On March 31, 1991, the Serbia national football team won its first
official match 1-0 against Uruguay in a friendly. In June 2006, the
side was renamed the Serbia national
football team. In terms of the team's World Cup record, the Kingdom of
Yugoslavia, as it was then known, entered a national team in the first
ever World Cup in 1930 in Uruguay, where it finished fourth. In the
1962
World Cup in Chile the side also finished fourth. These are still the
team's best World Cup results.
The Serbia national football team has also reached the quarterfinals of
the World Cup three times - in 1954 in Switzerland (where it finished
7th), in 1958 in Sweden (where it finished 5th) and in 1990 in Italy
(where it finished 5th). Most recently, under the guidance of head
coach Radomir Antić, the Serbia national football team qualified for
the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
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