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У Београду је данас у 63. години преминуо бивши фудбалер Црвене звезде и репрезентације Југославије Зоран Антонијевић.

Популарни Жота рођен је 20. октобара 1945. у Београду.
Почео је да игра у омладинској екипи "21. мај" из Раковице, затим је прешао у ИМТ Раковица (1966-1967) и као члан овога клуба одиграо седам утакмица (1966-1967) за аматерску репрезентацију Југославије.

Члан Црвене звезде је од 26. јула 1967. до 5. јуна 1975. године.
Одиграо је укупно 429 утакмица (од тога 185 првенствених) и постигао 65 голова. Спада међу играче са великим бројем освојених националних трофеја: четири пута је у дресу "црвено-белих" освајао првенство (1968, 1969, 1970. и 1973.) и три пута  националниКуп (1968, 1970. и 1971.). Играо је десног халфа, десну полутку и десно крило.



Уз седам утакмица за аматерску и две за младу репрезентацију, (1967-1968). одиграо је и осам утакмица за најбољу селекцију Југославије. Дебитовао је 9. новембра 1970. против СР Немачке (1:0) у Загребу. Последњу утакмицу одиграо је 13. маја 1972. против екипе СССР-а (0:3) у Москви.

Играо је и две сезоне (1975-1977) за грчку екипу Ираклис из Солуна  где је завршио играчку каријеру.

По завршетку каријере, у неколико наврата био је члан стручног штаба ФК Црвена звезда. Зоран Антонијевић био је први помоћник Љупку Петровићу у сезони када је Црвена звезда освојила титулу клупског првака Европе, као и Владици Поповић који је предводио генерацију која је тријумфовала у мечу за титулу клупског првака света.
Време и место комеморације и сахране Зорана Жоте Антонијевића биће накнадно објављено.
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01. 11.08. Црвена Звезда - чукарички (20)
02. 18.08. Црвена Звезда - смедерево (20)
03. 25.08. хајдук - Црвена Звезда (17)
04. 01.09. Црвена Звезда - бежанија (19.30)
05. 15.09. борац - Црвена Звезда (16.30)
06. 22.09. Црвена Звезда - војводина (19)
07. 29.09. партизан - Црвена Звезда (18.30)
08. 06.10. Црвена Звезда - банат (17)
09. 20.10. офк београд - Црвена Звезда (16.30)
10. 27.10. Црвена Звезда - младост а. (16.30)
11. 31.10. младост л. - Црвена Звезда (14)
12. 03.11. чукарички -Црвена Звезда (13.30)
13. 10.11. смедерево - Црвена Звезда (13.30)
14. 24.11. Црвена Звезда - хајдук (15.30)
15. 01.12. бежанија - Црвена Звезда (13)
16. 08.12. Црвена Звезда - борац (15.30)
17. 12.12. војводина - Црвена Звезда (15.30)
18. 16.02. Црвена Звезда - партизан
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Пивница / Срамота!!!
May 28, 2007, 07:15:02 PM
Егзит фестивал је дао себи право да мења границе наше државе и да учини нешто што нема никакве правне и законске основе, наиме на званичном сајту фестивала www.exitfest.org можете видети следећу вест

Улазнице за Егзит сада се могу купити и у земљама региона, у Словенији, Македонији, Босни и Херцеговини, Хрватској, Црној Гори, на Косову, у Италији и у Румунији.

Косово није земља у региону!!!! Одакле права једном фестивалу да одваја Косово од Србије!!!
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Северна трибина / Finale kupa
April 27, 2007, 04:08:02 PM
Финале купа је померено за један дан, играће се у истом термину али 15 маја уместо 16 маја...

Ово је чисто да знају они који долазе издалека да могу да се испланирају, закључати док не буде актуелно...
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Северна трибина / 18 godina
January 07, 2007, 07:32:19 PM
Данас је 18 рођендан навијачке групе ДЕЛИЈЕ СЕВЕР




Седмог јануара 1989 године на Божић, у прес центру испод западне трибине је одржан тај скуп. Било је пуно људи, препуни прес центар. Скупу је испред клуба, присуствовао Драган Џајић, а састанак је отворио наш брат Жорж. За нову групу је предложено једанаест имена:

1. Делије
2. Звездине Делије
3. Делије са Севера
4. Зулу
5. Ултрас
6. Анархија
7. Северна песница
8. Поларни медведи
9. Звездина Армија
10. Легенде
11. Несаломиви

Гласањем (дизањем руку), убедљиво je победило предлог-име "ДЕЛИЈЕ".
Одмах затим су сви присутни запевали:

ДЕЛИЈЕ, ДЕЛИЈE
ДЕЛИЈЕ СМО МИ,
НАЈЈАЧИ СМО,
НАЈЈАЧИ,
ПЛАШЕ НАС СЕ СВИ.

ТАКО ЈЕ ПОЧЕЛО!
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Црвена звезда је одлучила да улаз на утакмицу 16. кола Меридијан Суперлиге са Борцем из Чачка буде бесплатан. Утакмица се игра у суботу од 13 часова.
Црвена звезда на овај начин жели да се захвали навијачима на великој подршци коју су пружали тиму током првог дела сезоне и позива их да у што већем броју дођу на утакмицу са Борцем на којој ће се прославити освајање титуле јесењег шампиона
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Терен / Nova sezona 06/07
July 07, 2006, 09:03:04 PM
Da ne mesam sa klubom ali ovo su neke odluke saveza

FLEŠ SA ZASEDANjA

Novi grb
U nizu odluka vezanih za nepromenljivost kadrova našlo se mesto i za jednu promenu, istina nevezanu za ljudstvo već za amblem. Zajednica superligaša je dobila novi grb takmičenja na kojem u fudbalskoj lopti dominiraju boje srpske zastave.
ZAŠTIĆEN TERMIN
Prenosi nedeljom

Saradnja Dajrekt medije i Zajednice superligaša nastavlja se i u premijernoj sezoni u kojoj će elitni rang činiti samo klubovi iz Srbije. Za razliku od prethodne godine kada su prenosi išli i subotom i nedeljom, u novoj sezoni će se ligaški mečevi na malim ekranima naći isključivo nedeljom.
Planirana su 32 prenosa, 22 u prvom delu i 10 po odvajanju liga na plej-of i plej-aut. Novinu predstavlja i podatak da više neće biti multi prenosa, već će se direktno gledati samo jedan meč, a u večernjem terminu od 21 do 22 i 30 je planirana specijalizovana emisija posvećena Super ligi.

BEZ IZMENA
Poverenje komesarima

Pored prvog čoveka Zajednice superligaša poverenje Skupštine su dobili i komesari koji su prethodne sezone vodili računa o svim aspektima takmičenja u elitnom rangu.
Tako će komesar za takmičenje i u sezoni 2006/2007. biti kao i ranije Branislav Delić, dok je zamenik Zdravko Savić. Komesar za bezbednost ostaje Sveta Radosavljević, a zamenik Milorad Lapčević. Promena nije bilo ni kod disciplinaca, pa će kazne i dalje određivati Nikola Latinović i Dragče Dimitrijević.
Predsednik Komisije za žalbe biće Mile Simić, dok će ulogu predsedavajućeg u Arbitražnoj komisiji obavljati Radosav Petrović.

ČLANOVI UO
Den Tana kadar Zvezde


Šesta tačka dnevnog reda Skupštine bila je uz izbor predsednika i potpredsednika vezana za formiranje Upravnog odbora. U njemu će sedeti po dva predstavnika svakog kluba, a javnosti su juče prezentirana imena glavnih predstavnika klubova u UO.
Crvenu zvezdu će predstavljati Den Tana, Partizan Ratomir Babić, Hajduk Nikola Džomba, OFK Beograd Vladimir Bulatović, Zemun Ranko Karić, Borac Slobodan Ilić, Bežaniju Goran Mijatović, Banat Salma Gašpar, Vojvodinu Cvetko Riđošić, Mladost Apatin Dragi Bogić i Voždovac Aca Bulić.
Drugi član Upravnog odbora biće predstavnik kojeg klub odredi.

NADZORNI ODBOR
Minić predsednik

U Nadzornom odboru Zajednice superligaša će se i u novom mandatu naći tri člana, a uloga predsednika pripašće kao i prethodne sezone Momčilo Minić, predstavnik OFK Beograda.
Pored njega ovaj organ će činiti Veselin Paskaš (Hajduk) i Novica Matić iz Zemuna.

SKUPŠTINA ZAJEDNICE SUPERLIGAŠA UVELA HIMNU KAO OBAVEZU
"Bože pravde" pre svake utakmice!

Dragan Bulić predsednik još četiri godine, produženi mandati svim organima. Primarni zadaci regularnost i povratak publike
Utakmice Meridijan Super lige u premijernoj sezoni pod okriljem FSS kao nacionalnog saveza imaće obaveznu uvertiru u vidu himne "Bože pravde". Odluka iznenadna, ali jednoglasno usvojena na jučerašnjoj Skupštini Zajednici superligaša, predstavlja najznačajniji detalj uz overu novih mandata svim organima.

Tako će pozivanjem na nacionalnu svest čelnici Zajednice krenuti u borbi za ostvarenje jednog od dva najvažnija cilja po rečima prvog čoveka Dragana - Ace Bulića - povratka publike na tribine.
- Želimo veću javnost u radu kako bi se vratilo poverenje gledalaca. Publika je jedino pravo merilo onoga što radimo i zato moramo da učinimo sve što je u našoj moći da se publika vrati na stadione - apostrofirao je Bulić.

Uz novi četvorogodišnji mandat Buliću, juče su potvrđene i potpredsedničke funkcije Cvetka Riđošića i Ratomira Babića. O nastavku rada bez Crne Gore Bulić kaže:

- Mislim da je mnogo urađeno za napredak takmičenja i fudbala u celini. Prvi put ćemo igrati u srpskom miljeu, moje je mišljenje da će razdruživanje doprineti oboljšanju srpskog fudbala.
O privatizaciji...

- Osim Partizana i Crvene zvezde svi se susreću sa neophodnošću vlasničke transformacije. Za klubove bi najbolje bilo da se pretvore u privatne kompanije što pre, a neka naša očekivanja i nadanja su da bi to moglo da se dogodi do kraja godine.

Prvi operativac Zajednice superligaša Miodrag Janković je pričao o licenciranju i famoznim depozitima, koji za razliku od takmičenja u doskorašnjoj državnoj zajednici neće biti potrebni.

U narednim danima će biti poznata odluka prvostepene komisije za licenciranje. Posle obilazaka stadiona utisak je da će klubovi uspešno završiti posao, a prema propisu svaki stadion mora da ima najmanje 3.000 sedećih mesta. S obzirom da članovi lige imaju potvrdne revizije od strane zvaničnog revizora FSS garancije neće biti potrebne.
Analizu jučerašnje Skupštine, ali više onoga što očekuje srpski fudbal u bliskoj budućnosti zaključio je Dragan Bulić.

- Pred nama je sistem takmičenja koji se u Hrvatskoj i Švedskoj nije pokazao u najboljem svetlu, ali to nije razlog da ne verujemo da će kod nas funkcionisati na pravi način. Mislim da ovaj sistem vodi ka poboljšanju regularnosti, a za svakog ko misli da isprlja ruke zarad sitnih interesa poručujem da neće imati mesta u srpskom fudbalu - završio je Bulić.
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Karta za nas protiv vozdovca ce biti 500 dindzi
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Северна трибина / Karte za PSV
August 09, 2004, 04:00:14 PM
Upravo sam se vratio sa Mare, gde sam kupio kartu za sever. Cena prava sitnica 1200 dinara. :bes
Inace tapkaros kod koga sam kupio ima oko 200-300 karata, ceo bunt. Pitam se odakle mu?
Na blagajni ima jos nesto Istoka i Juga.
Pa svima koji kupuju karte sa srecom
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Пивница / RIP Marlon Brando
July 05, 2004, 04:28:02 PM
Marlon Brando 03.04.1924. - 01.07.2004.
Rodjen Omaha Nebraska USA
Sinoc je umro jedna od najvecih legendi filma Marlon Brando u osamdesetoj godini zivota. Svi ga pamtimo po filmovima Kum, tramvaj zvani Zelja, Ostrvo doktora Moroa, Pobuna na brodu Baunti. Njegov poslednji film Brando i Brando gde glumi sebe izaci ce tek na leto 2005. godine
Neka mu je slava.
Filmografija
-Brando and Brando (2005) (announced) .... Marlon Brando/Himself
-Score, The (2001) .... Max
-Free Money (1998 ) .... The Swede
-Brave, The (1997) .... McCarthy
-Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1996) .... Dr. Moreau
-Don Juan DeMarco (1995) .... Dr. Jack Mickler
-Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980, The (1992) (V) .... Don Vito Corleone
-Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) .... Tomas de Torquemada
-Freshman, The (1990) .... Carmine Sabatini aka Jimmy The Tucan
-Dry White Season, A (1989) .... Ian McKenzie
-Formula, The (1980) .... Adam Steiffel, Chairman Titan Oil
-Apocalypse Now (1979) .... Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
-"Roots: The Next Generations" (1979) (mini) TV Series .... George Lincoln
-Superman (1978 ) .... Jor-El
-Missouri Breaks, The (1976) .... Robert E. Lee Clayton
-Ultimo tango a Parigi (1972) .... Paul
-Godfather, The (1972) .... Don Vito Corleone
-Nightcomers, The (1972) .... Peter Quint
-Queimada (1969) .... Sir William Walker
-Night of the Following Day, The (1968 ) .... Bud
-Candy (1968 ) .... Grindl
-Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) .... Maj. Weldon Penderton
-Countess from Hong Kong, A (1967) .... Ogden Mears
-Appaloosa, The (1966) .... Matt Fletcher
-Chase, The (1966) .... Sheriff Calder
-Morituri (1965) .... Robert Crain/Hans Kyle
-Bedtime Story (1964) .... Freddy Benson
-Ugly American, The (1963) .... Ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite
-Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) .... 1st Lt. Fletcher Christian
-One-Eyed Jacks (1961) .... Rio
-Fugitive Kind, The (1959) .... Val Xavier
-Young Lions, The (1958 ) .... Lt. Christian Diestl
-Sayonara (1957) .... Maj. Lloyd Gruver, USAF
-Teahouse of the August Moon, The (1956) .... Sakini
-Guys and Dolls (1955) .... Sky Masterson
-Desir
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Пивница / BOJKOT!
March 26, 2004, 09:06:55 PM
?!
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Пивница / Fred Perry i Hooligan
March 02, 2004, 08:35:46 PM
BANNE JE GLUPA PINKOVSKA SELJACINA KOJU TREBA IZBACITI SA FORUMA POD HITNO!!! KIZO BANUJ OVU BUDALU
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Пивница / Pivo
March 01, 2004, 01:26:59 PM
BANNE JE GLUPA PINKOVSKA SELJACINA KOJU TREBA IZBACITI SA FORUMA POD HITNO!!! KIZO BANUJ OVU BUDALU
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Пивница / Navijacki filmovi
February 29, 2004, 06:34:51 PM
BANNE JE GLUPA PINKOVSKA SELJACINA KOJU TREBA IZBACITI SA FORUMA POD HITNO!!! KIZO BANUJ OVU BUDALU
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Football, blood and war

They took their cue from the English - and became Europe's most feared hooligans. With their close links to Arkan and his murderous paramilitaries, Serbian football fans are the only supporters whose hatred sparked a bloody national conflict. Now their country has been paired with Bosnia in the World Cup. Dave Fowler meets the gang leaders in Belgrade as they prepare for another violent campaign

Sunday January 18, 2004
The Observer

Whenever Red Star Belgrade meet their local city rivals Partizan, the atmosphere is rancid with hatred and aggression. Their rivalry is as fierce and embedded as any in world football. But on the afternoon of 22 March 1992, when Partizan visited Red Star's 60,000 all-seater 'Maracana' stadium for a routine league match, something strange happened. Before the game, as the fans began making their way to the stadium from across the city, there had been sporadic outbreaks of fighting and violence. Inside the stadium, once the game had started, the Red Star 'ultras', massed in the north stand, began taunting the supporters of Partizan, denouncing them as 'faggots, Turks, Muslims, blacks, communists'. There was nothing unusual about any of this and no doubt the hooligan gangs of both clubs were eager for more trouble after the game.
Then, abruptly, the chanting stopped. The crowd watched as a group of Serbian paramilitaries (the self-styled 'Tigers'), dressed in full uniform, took up positions in the north stand. There were about 20 of them and, one by one, they held aloft road signs: '20 miles to Vukovar'; '10 miles to Vukovar'; 'Welcome to Vukovar'. More road signs were brandished, each one bearing the name of a Croatian town that had fallen to the Serbian army. From high up in the stand, Arkan, the notorious commander-in-chief of the Tigers and director of the Red Star supporters' association, emerged to receive the delighted applause of supporters who were no longer fractious but united in hatred of a common enemy - the Croats. The match continued, but what took place had less to do with sport than with ardent nationalism and with what it meant to be a football supporter in a country at war.

As Serbia moves uneasily towards a kind of western-style democracy, the Belgrade derby of 22 March 1992 is remembered now as a celebration of Serbian hooligan power and of a time when Serbian hooligan gangs seized control of football and of the criminal underworld, as well as committing some of the worst atrocities during the wars of secession in former Yugoslavia. It was a time when the Serbs of Belgrade became, unequivocally, the most powerful football hooligans in history.

'Looking back today at that particular match, it is ironic that the result never mattered,' says Igor Todorovic, a Serbian football commentator and contributor to the fanzines Daj Gol (Goal), Mi Smo Grobari (We Are Partizan) and Kop. 'I was there that day and it was remarkable when the supporters of the two teams, who hate each other so passionately, cheered together in unison. They had never done so before and I don't think they have since. The game finished goalless, which was hardly surprising. The players could barely concentrate; most of the Red Star players were watching what Arkan was doing in his box, not what the opposition were doing in theirs. We were united by nationalism and hatred of the Croats. There was an amazing sense of power within the ground, as if football supporters were changing the world. And in a sense they were, even if the situation was never to be repeated, even during the Kosovo conflict.'

Today, the hooligans of Belgrade may not be as powerful as they were during the Balkan wars, but they remain among the most violent and racist in world football. I have been to games in Belgrade where the violence between supporters was worse than anything I have witnessed in England, or indeed anywhere outside the former Eastern bloc. The violence is not restricted to football: Partizan and Red Star have affiliated clubs in other sports, such as basketball and handball, which are infected by hooliganism. Sometimes rival fans unite to disrupt public events, as they did when they smashed up Serbia's one and only attempt at a gay pride festival in 2001.

On 29 May 2003, I attended the Serbian cup final between Red Star Belgrade and Sartid of Smederevo, a small industrial town 20 miles south of the capital. The game was played in Belgrade at the Partizan Stadium. This should have been as unthreatening as a match between, say, Manchester United and Brighton & Hove Albion, which meant that I was not expecting any trouble. I was naive. Inside the stadium as many as 7,000 hard-core ultras from Red Star's north stand were massed together, chanting in unison. Theirs were catchy little numbers: 'We hope you die like all those Italians at Heysel'; 'You're going to get your xxxxing head stamped on like a Kosovan'.

At the other end of the stadium, a group of about 400 bewildered Sartid fans banged their drums. The game was dull, but ended disastrously for Red Star when Sartid scored a golden goal to win the cup in extra time. Hundreds of riot police and others on horseback responded to the agitation of the Red Star supporters by moving quickly to prevent them invading the pitch. But several hundred ultras escaped to attack the Sartid supporters; meanwhile, others were outside destroying the team bus of their own defeated team. Soon I found myself surrounded by Red Star supporters, dressed in red and white, who were pouring petrol on to plastic seats and setting them alight. Many were carrying knives and iron bars. The sense of violence about to erupt was intense.

The ultras of Red Star - the Delije or heroes - are the most feared, organised and uncompromising of the Serbian hooligan gangs. One of the founders of the Delije is a thin, silver-haired maths teacher called Zoran Timic. To meet him is to meet the antithesis of the stereotypical beer-bloated, shaven-headed English hooligan. He is pensive, quietly spoken and slight. When we go to a bar he mocks my English taste for beer and orders himself an iced cappuccino. Yet it is his role at games to 'choreograph the crowd', which, as he told me when I visited him at the official offices of the Delije at the stadium, he does enthusiastically with the aid of a megaphone. That the Delije have their own official offices is, in relative British terms, a bit like Roman Abramovich opening an office at Stamford Bridge for the Chelsea Headhunters. But then Chelsea, unlike Red Star, do not pay a hard-core of fans to travel to games and arrange choreography. Nor do they provide the 'boardroom' table around which hooligans plot attacks on rivals at home and abroad - something to which the Red Star hooligans are happy to admit and discuss.

The mood at the offices is one of suspicion mixed with bravado. It lifts when I tell them that I am a third-generation Liverpool fan. The Delije ask to see my tattoos. I tell them they are on my heart, which disarms them temporarily. They ask me if I was at Heysel. I wasn't, but I can give them details of what happened, which satisfies their blood lust. There is among the young Delije leaders, drinking free lager from the club bar and smoking cigarettes, a certain respect for the English hooligan. 'English fans don't have offices because all they do is fight,' says Marco, one of the young leaders, who refuses to concede that he is a hooligan. 'We organise the best choreography in the world. We're not just hooligans; we are ready for anything. For example, we showed those English homosexuals from Leicester how to fight a few years ago. We met them in the Uefa Cup and ran them in Leicester and again when we met up with them later in the year in Germany. We think that in England you don't realise how tough the Serbs are. We respect the English as the founders of hooliganism, but where are you now? Other nations have overtaken you.'

Padja, another young Delije leader, explains how he is responsible for smashing up the Red Star players' cars whenever they perform badly. He carries a handgun under his jacket and boasts of how he recently destroyed the car of Red Star's captain, Nemanja Vidic, after he appeared in a fashion shoot with the captain of Partizan. 'If you now have Kosovan refugees in your country,' he says, turning to me, 'it's your own xxxxing fault because you didn't let us finish the job. Now, they're all taking your money and your state benefits.'

Apart from a brief spell when he fell out of favour with Arkan, Zoran Timic has been Red Star's choreographer and mentor to young hooligans for much of the past decade. Away from football and teaching, he works on a history of Red Star, which he researches from a small room in his flat in north Belgrade. 'Football was a base for people to rebel against communism in Yugoslavia,' he told me. 'Most Red Star supporters were already very nationalist. What we did at the end of the 1970s was to take the choreography from Italian football and the hooliganism from England and mix it together to create our own style of football anti-communism. Hooliganism became a way of showing that we were free; of resisting the communist regime.'

The old multinational Yugoslav league, with its nationalist rivalries that communism could never fully suppress, was consistently marred by hooliganism. At first, the state-controlled media were reluctant to report on the growing hooligan menace. But then, on 14 September 1978, the country's first full-scale football riot took place when a train carrying Partizan supporters to a game against Sarajevo was halted by police at Sid in Croatia. The Partizan fans responded by demolishing the train. The violence spread to the town itself and the fans fought running battles with the authorities for many hours.

'You have to realise that the establishment may have been communist and pro-Yugoslav,' explains Igor Todorovic, 'but football fans in the main were not. Partizan fans might hate Red Star but, at the end of the day, they are still Serbs. One of our most famous sayings here is that "Serbs united will never be defeated". We take that sentiment very seriously.'

Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, the football grounds of Yugoslavia became popular places for nationalist recruitment. In May 1980, when the Yugoslav head of state, Marshal Tito, died, leaving behind no obvious unifying successor, nationalists, both in Serbia and Croatia, understood how they could use football to further their own ends. Nationalist football violence escalated in tandem with the crumbling of central control. The 'Gravediggers' of Partizan rampaged to the sound of British punk bands; the Red Star ultras attacked rival fans using bayonets and iron bars. In Croatia, one hooligan leader kidnapped a supporter of Hajduk Split and raped him with a broom handle over a period of two days.

By the early 1990s, hardline nationalist and anti-government sentiment was so entrenched among supporters that battles with police before and after matches were weekly events. On 13 May 1990, Red Star travelled to Croatia to meet Dynamo Zagreb, in what would be the last game before the collapse of the old Yugoslav league and with it the state itself. In what have been described as the worst scenes of football hooliganism witnessed in Europe, thousands of Delije fought the Zagreb 'Bad Blue Boys' mob, as well as the local police. The game - a portent of the wars that followed - was abandoned after 10 minutes, but not before Zagreb's best player, Zvonimir Boban, who later joined AC Milan, kicked a policeman who was trying to prevent Croatian hooligans from attacking the Red Star end. After this, the fighting went on for more than an hour and the stadium was eventually set on fire.

Some time in 1990, Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic became so concerned by the activities of Red Star's Delije that Jovica Stanisic, the former head of state security who is now on trial for war crimes at the Hague, enlisted Zelijko Raznatovic - Arkan - to help control and direct the violence of the hooligans. Arkan, a criminal and agitator who was eventually assassinated on 15 January 2000, understood that Red Star could be for him what Real Madrid were for Franco, or the Italy team, playing in black shirts, were to Mussolini - a force of power and influence in wider society.

Arkan took over effective control of the Delije, running everything from ticket sales to foreign travel and intimidation of match officials. He built himself a luxury mansion overlooking the ground, a post-communist exercise in shiny marble and smoked glass topped with satellite dishes. Within a year, he began to recruit and organise groups of nationalists - the notorious paramilitary Tigers - to fight the 'patriotic' war in Croatia and, later, in Kosovo. The wars in these territories were as much about business as they were about politics. By invading, looting and setting up monopolies in oil, alcohol and cigarette companies, Arkan and his employers grew wealthy while ordinary Serbs struggled. Arkan recruited extensively from the north bank of the Maracana. Hundreds of hard-core fans took pride in joining his disciplined, clean-shaven mobile killing squads. But not all Tigers were Delije; many were Partizan Gravediggers.

One Red Star supporter, Dejan Vukelic, whom I met in a coffee shop in central Belgrade, explained how he was in China 'living above a brothel and taking full advantage' when the Balkan war broke out. He returned home to fight in the Yugoslav army, only to find the demoralised communist force in disarray. It was while he was in the army that he heard about Arkan's training camp. 'I went straight to Arkan's people in Croatia,' he says. 'As a nationalist I thought it was my duty to be there. At first, I was impressed with the order and the sense of discipline. The training was good and the emphasis on cleansing the Croatians and Muslims from Serb territory was essential. But I didn't witness the atrocities that the Western media talk about. I didn't see much criminal behaviour...'

Many of Arkan's paramilitaries are now back in Belgrade and once more involved in sponsoring crime and violence, before, during and after matches. To these disaffected men and their younger, admiring brothers, football is war and war is football. Can they ever be stopped?

Zeljko Tomic, a member of Serbia's Parliament, is a 36-year-old committed fan of Partizan Belgrade and a voice of sanity in the disturbed world of Serbian football. 'The first thing we need to do is tackle the problem of corruption in our football,' he says. 'If we continue to sell off our best players in scams there will never be any money in our football and the game will remain at a low level. When Partizan sold Mateja Kezman to PSV Eindhoven, for example, we were supposed to be sent new floodlights by Philips, the owners of PSV, but theywent missing en route. That kind of deal where someone pocketed all the cash for himself - at the club's expense - is typically Serbian.

'The other main area we have to address is violence at sporting events, particularly football. Over the past season the hooligan issue has not improved, with vicious fighting between fans of Partizan and Red Star, and with these fans and the police. All matches in Serbia are affected in one way or another. We have to reverse the situation.' Can you succeed?

'I don't know,' he says,cautiously, 'but we must try. The government has recently introduced a law to combat hooliganism, and I backed it. We are starting to make some progress.'

The violence among Serbian football supporters is not as extreme as it was in March 1992 when the Tigers invaded the north stand of the Maracana to display their road signs, their trophies of war. But the violence remains, as does the pervading fear among supporters. Fortunately, Serbs have never supported their national team, Serbia and Montenegro, with anything approaching the fervour they reserve for their clubs. That may change soon, however, if Montenegro, as expected, finally ends its uneven union with Serbia following a referendum later this year. The hooligans may then gather behind a united, fully Serbian national team. If and when this happens, the world of football had better watch out.

Serbia have been drawn with Spain, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lithuania and San Marino in Group Seven of the European phase of qualification for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
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Северна трибина / Pozdrav...
December 03, 2003, 08:08:24 PM
... od novog clana iz Beograda.
Stalno sam na tekmama, od kraja osamdesetih sto uz manje vise prekida traje do danas. Nisam pripadnik nijedne grupe mada, bilo je par pokusaja da napravim i svoju grupu devedestih godina sa ortacima iz kraja tako su nastali  "Glue-sniffers" i kasnije "Shtayga utd" ali ipak  smo se prikljucili vecini delija. Eto sad sam resio da malo se modernizujem nabavio sam komp i naleteo sam na sajt. Odlican sajt pohvala za one koji su ga napravili.
:ruke
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