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Category: Cold War National Teams in 2019

A look at how good former nations such as the USSR and Yugoslavia would be at football if they still existed.

Posted on February 4, 2020March 3, 2020

Cold War National Teams in 2019: UEFA Euro 2020

So, here we are, everyone. After hours of gruelling research that has forever made me not want to set foot in the Eastern side of Germany, here we are. The five teams from the Cold War era have been constructed and now it’s time to test them on the international stage. Hypothetically. In this scenario …

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Posted on December 12, 2019December 16, 2019

Cold War National Teams in 2019: Yugoslavia

Howdy lads, and welcome to the fourth and final part of our modern-day Cold War XIs. For those of you who read the first three articles and are somehow still here for a fourth, I commend you, and I wish I had more friends like you in real life. The final team we’re looking at …

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Posted on December 12, 2019December 13, 2019

Cold War National Teams in 2019: USSR

Salutations comrades, it’s time for another long-winded post about how football may or may not look if the giant red star of socialism still reigned over eastern Europe. This time we’re looking at the big daddy of Communism, the Soviet Union (or the USSR). Don’t lie, you can hear the anthem going off as you …

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Posted on December 12, 2019December 20, 2019

Cold War National Teams in 2019: East Germany

Howdy lads, it’s that time of year again – the time of year we cast our minds back to the 1980’s and attempt to envisage the socialist utopia that was the east of Germany, and wonder what a team of East German footballers could achieve on the international stage. At least it’s the time of …

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Posted on December 12, 2019December 13, 2019

Cold War National Teams in 2019: Czechoslovakia

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the first part of this series on modern-day Cold War football squads. As you can tell by the link you just clicked, part one involves us looking at a potential Czechoslovakian squad, to see if the combined talents of the Czech Republic and Slovakia would be any better than …

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