Mehmed Bazdarevic in uefa cup semi-final against Videoton and some other clips. A seemingly widely forgotten player internationally,but he's a player i really like and you can see in the Videoton game why this guy has had over 50 caps and was a regular for almost a decade in an era when Yugoslavia strength was its midfielders; he's an excellent neat and tidy central midfielder with vision, technique and tactical intelligence. I've been watching some of the late 80s national team games, especially the 1990 qualifiers, and he's usually at the heart of the midfield in any formation that Osim uses, be it 5-3-2, 4-4-2 or the odd lopsided 5-4-1'ish thing he often uses with Bazdarevic-katanec-Susic central trio and stojkovic off to the right. He's usually the glue that holds everything together, especially if the more defensive Katanec isn't playing and he was still playing the role up until the end of the 92 qualifiers when the national team was banned.
However, he got also banned for a year for spitting on the referee in the second last world cup qualifier against Norway and missed the entire tournament. Add in the 92 ban and the team going through a less than the sum of the parts period in the mid-80s, and you get a really good player that could easily have been a 4-5 tournament stalwart, yet ends up only playing in one. Also had the sort of relatively low visibility club career that was easily possible in those times for even excellent players. Never played for any of the biggest Yugo clubs, then when allowed to move abroad at 27-28'ish didn't exactly secure the ideal move for an international regular player...going to France like a lot of Yugoslav league players did in that era, specifically to Sochaux, a club that had just been relegated. He helped bring them straight back up and into two 4th place finishes, a great result for a smaller club, but it was never a move that was going to bring much glamour.
