Part 1, Out of obscurity
Introducing the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Prince Milan Obrenovic II at just 16 he is an aspiring striker in the Partizan Belgrade youth team. With him as ever is the Partizan goalkeeper and Milan’s adviser, Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, who at 30 years old has had much experience of the international game. Milan was outraged but Serbia’s recent defeat to lowly Montenegro and a plan must be prepared.
Milan, “How is it even possible we lose to Montenegro! Such a tiny nation, at least usually we get hammered 5-0 by the Austrians and have the old population size excuse.”
Alex, “It was never a penalty, the referee was Ottoman and you know how they always try to punish us for being under the influence of Russia”
Milan, “Why are we even playing against Montenegro? They speak practically the same language as us, if only we can unite all the Serbs in the region our team could win anyway”
Alex, “How about the Bosnians, Croats and Slovenes, with them we would be even stronger”
Milan, “Excellent thinking, and while we’re at it, aren’t most the players in the Austrian team not really Austrians?”
Alex, “Go on my Prince”
Milan, “How about we make them all have their own countries, that way they are smaller, we are bigger, we can win with ease!”
Alex, “A most excellent suggestion”
Milan then drew out a map of the areas that should be part of the new Yugoslavia and handed it to Alex to make it happen.
A speech was prepared and the people of Serbia responded, they clearly want war!
So Alex wasted no time in meeting the Russian ambassador to discuss an alliance that was gladly accepted.
War was declared that very day, those Ottoman referees would pay dearly for there cheating ways. The Russians were as planned called in to do most the real fighting though.
Serbian troops hold back defensively while the Russians are seen coming from the hills (Caucasus) or plains here of Ukraine, hopefully they will get the Turks attention before I get smitten.
Staying loyal to the plan we defended what we had an won against a small force that marched against us.
With the Russians in full attack mode victory would be ours soon.
The new bigger better Serbia, with three times the population of the old country we should now be able to find some quality left backs amongst the population.
The Prince was pleased with his new territory but soon hit upon another plan as ambitious monarchs do.
Milan, “Navy, I want a navy!”
Alex, “Why ever for, you don’t play football at sea, that is water polo”
Milan, “I have seen other nations set up training camps in Africa, it all sounds very prestigious and we should have a part of it”
Alex, “Wouldn’t that require more of our men to become soldiers instead of playing the beautiful game”
Milan, “I can’t believe how stupid you are today! The Serbians play football, the colonial subjects join the army and die for our cause under the leadership of those that miss penalties”
To war again for Ottoman Montenegro, again the Russians would be called in to help. Which was dearly needed as our army was defeated at Nis and ran away to Montenegro to recover. Thankfully the Russians turned up to take them on, seeing this our brave warriors joined them in battle and the Turks were defeated.
Revenge was complete when another large Ottoman army was defeated in a valiant defence of Pristina
The Resistance was broken and Serbia now had a coastline to launch an invasion of a nation with great training facilities.
Six transport ships was hastily constructed and set to the coast of Egypt, war declared and the men ran for land. Just as well they did because the Egyptian navy arrived and sunk the lot of them. Meanwhile the land invasion continued after the Egyptian army was wiped out.
This expedition was leaking money by the day and four Egyptian frigates had blockaded our only port, with no naval power to speak off we had to wait until a naval base and some warships could be built.
To help with this dilemma we moved to capture all the coastal provinces of Egypt. They still had Crete that would need invading but it was hoped that the main fleet would be relocated to the Red Sea, well away from Serbia. It was indeed spotted in Sharm el-Sheik shortly after this picture was taken. Meanwhile two Serbian frigates launched attacks against the Egyptian navy repairing and regrouping each time until finally the blockade was lifted
To our surprise we also received an invite to some kind of international tournament hosted by Russia, the other teams looked a little bit out of league for now though so we declined the invitation.
After seven years of war with Egypt the entire nation was conquered in 1853, over the following years new armies were trained and the debts of the nation were paid off. It would soon be time continue uniting Yugoslavia behind one football team thought Milan.
Introducing the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Prince Milan Obrenovic II at just 16 he is an aspiring striker in the Partizan Belgrade youth team. With him as ever is the Partizan goalkeeper and Milan’s adviser, Aleksandar Karadjordjevic, who at 30 years old has had much experience of the international game. Milan was outraged but Serbia’s recent defeat to lowly Montenegro and a plan must be prepared.
Milan, “How is it even possible we lose to Montenegro! Such a tiny nation, at least usually we get hammered 5-0 by the Austrians and have the old population size excuse.”
Alex, “It was never a penalty, the referee was Ottoman and you know how they always try to punish us for being under the influence of Russia”
Milan, “Why are we even playing against Montenegro? They speak practically the same language as us, if only we can unite all the Serbs in the region our team could win anyway”
Alex, “How about the Bosnians, Croats and Slovenes, with them we would be even stronger”
Milan, “Excellent thinking, and while we’re at it, aren’t most the players in the Austrian team not really Austrians?”
Alex, “Go on my Prince”
Milan, “How about we make them all have their own countries, that way they are smaller, we are bigger, we can win with ease!”
Alex, “A most excellent suggestion”
Milan then drew out a map of the areas that should be part of the new Yugoslavia and handed it to Alex to make it happen.
A speech was prepared and the people of Serbia responded, they clearly want war!
So Alex wasted no time in meeting the Russian ambassador to discuss an alliance that was gladly accepted.
War was declared that very day, those Ottoman referees would pay dearly for there cheating ways. The Russians were as planned called in to do most the real fighting though.
Serbian troops hold back defensively while the Russians are seen coming from the hills (Caucasus) or plains here of Ukraine, hopefully they will get the Turks attention before I get smitten.
Staying loyal to the plan we defended what we had an won against a small force that marched against us.
With the Russians in full attack mode victory would be ours soon.
The new bigger better Serbia, with three times the population of the old country we should now be able to find some quality left backs amongst the population.
The Prince was pleased with his new territory but soon hit upon another plan as ambitious monarchs do.
Milan, “Navy, I want a navy!”
Alex, “Why ever for, you don’t play football at sea, that is water polo”
Milan, “I have seen other nations set up training camps in Africa, it all sounds very prestigious and we should have a part of it”
Alex, “Wouldn’t that require more of our men to become soldiers instead of playing the beautiful game”
Milan, “I can’t believe how stupid you are today! The Serbians play football, the colonial subjects join the army and die for our cause under the leadership of those that miss penalties”
To war again for Ottoman Montenegro, again the Russians would be called in to help. Which was dearly needed as our army was defeated at Nis and ran away to Montenegro to recover. Thankfully the Russians turned up to take them on, seeing this our brave warriors joined them in battle and the Turks were defeated.
Revenge was complete when another large Ottoman army was defeated in a valiant defence of Pristina
The Resistance was broken and Serbia now had a coastline to launch an invasion of a nation with great training facilities.
Six transport ships was hastily constructed and set to the coast of Egypt, war declared and the men ran for land. Just as well they did because the Egyptian navy arrived and sunk the lot of them. Meanwhile the land invasion continued after the Egyptian army was wiped out.
This expedition was leaking money by the day and four Egyptian frigates had blockaded our only port, with no naval power to speak off we had to wait until a naval base and some warships could be built.
To help with this dilemma we moved to capture all the coastal provinces of Egypt. They still had Crete that would need invading but it was hoped that the main fleet would be relocated to the Red Sea, well away from Serbia. It was indeed spotted in Sharm el-Sheik shortly after this picture was taken. Meanwhile two Serbian frigates launched attacks against the Egyptian navy repairing and regrouping each time until finally the blockade was lifted
To our surprise we also received an invite to some kind of international tournament hosted by Russia, the other teams looked a little bit out of league for now though so we declined the invitation.
After seven years of war with Egypt the entire nation was conquered in 1853, over the following years new armies were trained and the debts of the nation were paid off. It would soon be time continue uniting Yugoslavia behind one football team thought Milan.
