Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade, Serbia

Racist is as racist does

After the U21 football game between Serbia and England, which ended with racist chants yelled by a great number of Serbian fans to black English players, England’s got beef with Serbia. According to the British tabloids, that is. If you read British tabloids, you may really begin to believe Serbia

Movie about Radivoj Korac – Belgrade’s basketball legend

Radivoj “Zucko” Korac was an interesting character to say the least – one of the first real European basketball superstars, loved to read and learn new stuff, brought the first Beatles record to Serbia, and shot free throws in an mst unorthodox way from today’s perspective. Now there’s a movie

Red Star – Partizan Footbal Derby coming up

The eternal derby between two biggest Belgrade’s football clubs, Red Star and Partizan has been a security issue for about two decades now, even though the clubs exist and compete with each other since 1945. Two weeks after the Belgrade gay pride came under attack by six thousand hooligans and

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

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

Novak Djokovic Unveils Monument to Himself at Serbia Open

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

Documentary about Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac in production

UPDATE: The Vlade Divac / Drazen Petrovic documentary premiere is scheduled for 12th of October 2010. 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 an automobile accident. Had he lived, he

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

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

Phelps vs Cavic – a great rivalry

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

Whistled away

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

Ana, Jelena and Bill

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


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