Serbia. Not only famous for warlords like Arkan and women who are quite good at tennis. Jamie Walker reckons they aredecent at football too...

What do Yugoslavia, Serbia & Montenegro, and Serbia have in common? That's right, they're all the same ruddy place. Well, it keeps getting smaller, what with all the splitting up and forming new countries, but they represent the same place at international football. Answers for who will be representing that part of the Balkan region in 2014 on the back of a postcard...

Serbia

66/1 (William Hill)

Nickname

The White Eagles

How They Qualified...

Topped a group which included Crazy Raymond's France, in spite of recording two losses; one against the French, the other away to Lithuania.

Commentators are most likely to bang on about...

Whether they will be quite as sh*te as they were in '06, where they lost all three of their 'group of death' fixtures; against Argentina, The Netherlands & Ivory Coast, meaning they statistically finished dead last.

Players you've heard of...

Of the several players who ply their trade in the Premiership, Utd's Nemanja Vidic & Chelsea's Branislav  Ivanovic are by far the most well known and the most talented. Captain Dejan Stankovic has just won the Champions League with Inter, so they're not exactly short of quality around the park.

A player you can pretend to have heard of...

Nikola Zigic. Having just signed for Birmingham from Valencia, expect to see him marking Crouchy at all set pieces when they play spurs. Why? Because he's the only professional taller than him, measuring in at 6'8". A quick glance at his Wikipedia page reveals that he's got similar dashing good looks as Crouch as well.

Mental Manager Rating...

Raddy Antic has got to be just a little bit mental. After all, he's one of only 2 men to have ever coached both Real Madrid & Barcelona. If you need to know how mental crossing that divide is, just ask Luis Figo what traitor's pigs head tastes like. He also had to settle a €12,000 court case with journalist Hermann Tertsch, whom he labelled a 'nazi' in 1995. On top of that, he's also hailed as a hero in that hub of footballing greatness; Luton.

Chances of Hooliganism...

Pretty darn high. Domestic Serbian football is often marred by groups of organised football 'ultras'. The most recent major incident involved one perpetrator receiving a ten-year sentence for an attack on a police officer at a 2008 Red Star Belgrade game. So expect them to take to fighting in Saffa like ducks to water.

If they were a celeb they'd be...

Vinnie Jones. They might be renowned hardmen, but expect them to play a bit-part in the major picture, possibly without any lines.

How we reckon they'll do...

Might have a few more quality players, and be in a slightly easier group than in '06, but chances are that Germany and Ghana will prove too strong for them. 3 points against the Aussies, and then on the plane home.