I’ll try and actually keep this short for once. Portugal will deservedly play at the World Cup in South Africa next year and I wish them the best of luck there. We were outplayed. The fundamental reason for our loss is that our opponents were a more complete team that tactically outmaneuvered us. Critical injuries, [...]

In the build-up to our showdown against Portugal, most of the international attention on Bosnia’s roster is focused on the usual suspects: Džeko, Misimović, Pjanić and Ibišević (and roughly in that order too). But for me the most interesting players are two new additions to the roster, who have thus far been largely ignored outside [...]

With only a few hours leading up to the draw, conventional wisdom goes something like this: everyone in their right mind would hope to draw Greece, seeing as, although they’re by no means a bad team, they’re undoubtedly the worst of the four. As prospective opponents, the remaining three rank from bad to worse, but [...]

Well, we did what we had to yesterday in Yerevan and came away with the expected 0-2 victory. Ćiro claims we went in with too much respect towards the opponent, Senijad Ibričić says that we didn’t have enough. One way or the other, the performance left something to be desired, in large part due to [...]

Who the @#$% was Mirnel Sadović? Ćiro seems not to have known either; he allegedly screamed “who sent you to me?!” at a pre-friendly training session. No matter. With or without Mr. Sadović, Bosnia embarrassed itself against Iran, conceding three goals in the final fifteen minutes or so of the match. Not much is left [...]

Time for another post in the build up to the August 12th friendly against Iran. This time I’ll discuss a new (and rather questionable) call-up to the squad, the latest developments in the Begović saga, our players performances in Europe and some more issues surrounding the game itself. More below the fold.

Miroslav “Ćiro” Blažević has just released the list of players he’s counting on for the upcoming friendly against Iran in Sarajevo. I’ve listed them below by position and alphabetical order.
Keepers: Asmir Begović, Adis Nurković, Nemanja Supić
Defense: Sanel Jahić, Adnan Mravac, Damir Mirvić, Safet Nadarević, Boris Pandža, Ivan Radeljić, Emir Spahić
Midfield: Zlatan Bajramović, Dario Damjanović, [...]

As most domestic competitions in Europe wind to a close, it’s a good time to look at the impression that our players have made and what we can expect from the summer transfer window. As if the picture didn’t give you enough of a clue, I’ll definitely give my thoughts on the latest round of [...]

Well, you can’t complain that the world of Bosnian football is boring. The latest media firestorm erupted over some choice comments made by our former manager Blaž “Baka” Slišković about current boss Miroslav “Ćiro” Blažević. The media bickering has since then escalated to include veteran striker Marko Topić and Slišković’s predecessor Drago “Mišo” Smajlović. Allegations [...]

A lot has happened since our second victory in the series against Belgium, so I thought the time was right for a brief news roundup. The four things I want to loosely cover are: 1.) The game itself, 2.) our subsequent (and drastic) move up the FIFA rankings, 3.) the storm of transfer speculation that [...]