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Slovakia

A great success for the little football-nation Slovakia. For the first time the slovak national soccer team participates in a soccer world cup. Slovak finished first in their qualifications-group, whereas die big rival Czech Republic missed as third the world cup in South Africa. Altough Slovak lost both games against slovenia, the slovak team managed to win the group. Slovenia qualified via play offs for the world cup.

It's the first big competition for the little country, the never took part on a World Cup or European Championship. A slovak soccer team existed also befor the seperation from the Czech Republic from 1938-1944- First opponent in an international match was Germany. As national team from Czechoslovakia both countries (Slovakia and Czech Republic) won 1976 the European Championship.

Team profile - Slovakia

	Confederation: UEFA
	FIFA-ranking: 33
Association: Slovenský futbalový zväz (1938)
Jersey colors: Blue jersey, white shorts
Achievements: 1x World Cup appearance

Squad - Slovakia

Goalkeeper
Dusam Kuciak	Jan Mucha
Dusan Pernis
Defense
Marek Čech	Jan Durica
Peter Pekarik	Martin Petráš
Kornel Salata	Martin Škrtel
Radoslav Zabavnik
Midlefield
Marek Hamsík	Kamil Kopúnek
Ján Kozák	Juraj Kucka
Marek Sapara	Zdeno Strba
Vladimír Weiss
Offense
Filip Holosko	Martin Jakubko
Erik Jendrisek	Stanislav Šesták
Miroslav Stoch	Robert Vittek
Coach
Vladimir Weiss