Sports

Serbia vs Germany, World Cup 2010 – to be or not to be

June 18, 2010

It happens every time – Serbian team goes all pumped up to the championship ready to take the trophy home. After the first lost game, the atmosphere turns to despair and somehow we are left with the choice – beat Germany or go home. But the old saying goes that football is a simple game; 22 [...]

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Novak Djokovic Unveils Monument to Himself at Serbia Open

May 7, 2010

Novak Djokovic may not be world’s number one tennis player yet, but he definitely is number one in eyes of his family. Why else would they build him a monument and then make him unveil it just before Serbia Open? Scratch that, one of the commentators reveals that the monument was built some time ago, [...]

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Documentary about Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac in production

February 2, 2010
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Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic were two of the greatest European basketball players of all time. Vlade retired recently, and Drazen, sadly, died back in 1993 in a car crash. Had he lived, he would probably be a household name by now, just like Divac is. After the war broke out in former Yugoslavia, however, [...]

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Red Star stadium “Marakana” to become – “Gazprom Arena”?

October 27, 2009

Here’s a news flash that could possibly shadow over that questionable love relationship between Russia and Serbia: Serbian media are all buzzing right now that one of the city landmarks, Red Star stadium nicknamed Marakana, could in the near future get a new, official name – Gazprom Arena. Judging by the public outburst so far, [...]

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Phelps vs Cavic – a great rivalry

August 1, 2009

I’m not so much of a sports person, that’s why there aren’t so much sport posts on this blog in the first place. But I do love a good sports story, fair play and great rivalries, regardless of the sport. It appears to me that another such rivalry is about to develop, or it already [...]

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Whistled away

July 1, 2009

We started jeering our own national anthem back in the nineties, and maybe even earler, I don’t remember exactly when it all began, but it soon turned into a tradition. Every time the first tones of Hej Sloveni would be heard from the speakers at any stadium, it would soon be covered by loud whistling, [...]

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Ana, Jelena and Bill

March 30, 2009

Besides a couple of facebook hate groups, not a lot of fuss has been surrounding this recent photo of Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic posing together with former US president Bill Clinton. I still find this photo interesting from a symbolic perspective, though. In Serbia, “Bill Clinton” still = “USA bombing Serbia”, which isn’t far [...]

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Djokovic beats Delic, fans beat other fans up in Melbourne

January 23, 2009

It was funny when it happened for the first time, and it’s still funny as hell: Thousands of miles away from their native countries, after sipping on their expensive cool beverages and enjoying their pricey stadium burgers and fries, after paying couple hundred Aussie dollars to watch two high profile players compete in one of [...]

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What makes country a country?

November 3, 2008

So what’s the main thing that makes country a country? Is it being recognized by most other countries in the world? Membership in the United Nations? Complete and utter sovereignty and territorial integrity? Hell no! A country is a country only if they have a national football team. FIFA, couple of days ago: An application [...]

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Hold the press: Djokovic beats Federer for place in final – Bganon’s analysys of Serbian tennis stars

January 25, 2008

A fairytale ending; two Serbian tennis players in the finals of the Australian Open. Djokovic outplayed Federer 7-5 6-3 7-6 and Ana Ivanovic staged an amazing comback to beat the Slovak Hantuchova 0-6 6-3 6-4. Federer at times played some of his best tennis but could not match the tempo or quality of Djokovic. Novak’s [...]

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Vlade Divac’s farewell party

September 23, 2007

The stage has been set and the party marking Vlade’s farewell from professional basketball is about to start. Unlike many famous sportists who just make a farewell game and maybe donate some amount of money to their favorite charity upon their retirement, Divac has something else in mind. He has decided to use all the [...]

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Basketball is bad for our health

September 15, 2007

Another ‘sports’ section post that has a little to do with sports. National assembly of Serbia recently decided that they don’t want to hold sessions if the national TV doesn’t broadcast their work live. Yesterday they were supposed to disscuss the signing of the Kyoto protocol, after Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro signed it a bit [...]

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Darko Milicic explains what really happened

September 7, 2007

Our basketball journey ended pretty sudden, but not completely unexpected this year, we had a not-so-good team and maybe even more important, Moka Slavnic – good player, but terrible as a coach. As for the players, well, it seems that they have some individual qualities but unfortunately they suck as a team, especially our two [...]

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Novak Djokovic – a star is born

June 11, 2007

Nole maybe missed the chance to show that he is the best on court this year on Roland Gaross, but he certainly has the best sense of humor of all the top ten players today. Enjoy

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Serbian tennis stars

June 5, 2007

Say it quietly but the best known sporting stars from Serbia these days are tennis players. In that spirit lets talk about the best of them: Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Novak Djokovic.

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SCG Women Volleyball Selection wins Bronze

November 16, 2006

Serbia and Montenegro volleyball team celebrating bronze (photo B92) Serbia has proven again her great sports potential, but this time the tender gender. Namely, the SCG women selection in volleyball has, against all predictions, won the bronze medal in the World Cup in Japan with a victory against Italy 3:0. As the coach and the [...]

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European water polo champions – Serbia

September 11, 2006

Just a short one – we just won the waterpolo European championship, and here’s a short video with the atmosphere from the streets of Belgrade (Kolarceva street, more precisely). It’s like this after all major successes in sports, but this is the first time we did it under the name of Serbia, so cheers for [...]

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The future of Serbian football

June 17, 2006

And so to clarify and to confirm the fact that SCG is officially out of this years world cup. Yes its a pity and this probably isn’t the place to dissect the teams performance but one was left with the impression that the team simply gave up. Most supporters were quite agitated and angry – [...]

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Argentina vs Serbia and Montenegro live on the blog today! (Ok, not exactly live, but close enough.)

June 16, 2006

Yes, Serbia is also one of the civilised countries where football is one of the most important things in life; where sport clubs are for some people on the “love list” even higher than mom and dad; where it’s perfectly normal to die or to kill for your favourite club; and when it comes for [...]

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Obvious

June 13, 2006

As I am writing, Togo is leading 1-0 against South Korea …. I am obviously writing about the Football World Cup 2006 that is held in Germany…. Sorry for the interruption…. Korea just scored a goal…. That’s 1-1 and my business is getting better… I put all my money on a win from Korea over [...]

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