Together for Slovenia!

South Africa, 11.06. – 11.07.2010


The World Cup is featuring 32 national teams, which qualified to the main tournament through a competition in group stages featuring 203 national teams from all over the world. The winner of the World Cup 2010 is SPAIN.

Here you can watch an interview with the captain of Slovenia's national team Robert Koren.

The draw determined that Slovenia plays in the Group C together with Algeria, USA and England.

Results

The Slovene national team, by all means a very pleasant surprise of the World Cup, gave a hard time to both the American and English teams and kept the whole Group C in suspense to the final moment. The team proved to be homogeneous and self-confident, which is something that a number of the 'big' teams lacked in the World Cup this year. The Slovene squad was in excellent physical shape and their play enthused World Cup followers both in Slovenia and elsewhere in the world.

The Slovene team did say goodbye to South Africa after the group stage, however, in Slovenia they were nevertheless welcomed as national heroes, who had united their homeland. Twenty-three football players and the expert staff members did their job in a heroic, upstanding, self-confident and superb manner. The team fell short of making it into the knockout stage, which they had been trying to until the very end, but they are heroes, who have a very special place in Slovenia's history.

Looking at the final results in all eight world cup groups, it is evident that the Slovene players under head coach Matjaž Kek boasted a fighting spirit and pluck and thus got more points than many of the football superpowers.

2010 FIFA WORLD CUP SQUAD

GREAT STORY IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE HAS BEEN CREATED BY:

Head Coach: Matjaž Kek

Captain: Robert Koren

Players: Samir Handanovič, Jasmin Handanovič, Aleksander Šeliga, Bojan Jokič, Marko Šuler, Boštjan Cesar, Branko Ilič, Matej Mavrič-Rožič, Elvedin Džinič, Mišo Brečko, Suad Filekovič, Andraž Kirm, Andrej Komac, Rene Krhin, Dalibor Stevanovič, Aleksander Radosavljevič, Valter Birsa, Milivoje Novakovič, Zlatko Dedič, Zlatan Ljubijankič, Nejc Pečnik, Tim Matavž.