So what’s the main thing that makes country a country?

Is it being recognized by most other countries in the world? Membership in the United Nations? Complete and utter sovereignty and territorial integrity?

Hell no!

A country is a country only if they have a national football team.

FIFA, couple of days ago:

An application for affiliation from the Kosovo football association was deemed not to comply with art. 10 of the FIFA Statutes, which stipulates that only “an independent state recognised by the international community” may be admitted. In accordance with the Statutes, Kosovo cannot play any friendly matches.

A fairytale ending; two Serbian tennis players in the finals of the Australian Open.
Djokovic outplayed Federer 7-5 6-3 7-6 and Ana Ivanovic staged an amazing comback to beat the Slovak Hantuchova 0-6 6-3 6-4.

Federer at times played some of his best tennis but could not match the tempo or quality of Djokovic.
Novak’s game was all [...]

The stage has been set and the party marking Vlade’s farewell from professional basketball is about to start.
Unlike many famous sportists who just make a farewell game and maybe donate some amount of money to their favorite charity upon their retirement, Divac has something else in mind.
He has decided to use all the hype around [...]

Another ‘sports’ section post that has a little to do with sports.
National assembly of Serbia recently decided that they don’t want to hold sessions if the national TV doesn’t broadcast their work live. Yesterday they were supposed to disscuss the signing of the Kyoto protocol, after Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro signed it a bit earlier [...]

Our basketball journey ended pretty sudden, but not completely unexpected this year, we had a not-so-good team and maybe even more important, Moka Slavnic – good player, but terrible as a coach. As for the players, well, it seems that they have some individual qualities but unfortunately they suck as a team, especially our two [...]

Nole maybe missed the chance to show that he is the best on court this year on Roland Gaross, but he certainly has the best sense of humor of all the top ten players today. Enjoy

Say it quietly but the best known sporting stars from Serbia these days are tennis players. In that spirit lets talk about the best of them: Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic.

Serbia and Montenegro volleyball team celebrating bronze (photo B92) Serbia has proven again her great sports potential, but this time the tender gender. Namely, the SCG women selection in volleyball has, against all predictions, won the bronze medal in the World [...] (click the title for the full article)