Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Football news

Former goal scorer and demigod of FK Partizan, current Lokomotiv Moscow player Petar Škuletić celebrated his 25th birthday yesterday.

A belated Happy Birthday to him! Srećan rođendan, Škule!

His teammates made him a video as a gift, where they all tell what a great guy Škule is.
He got cake, too.


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In the meantime Partizan signed Cameroonian player Aboubakar Oumerou. Aboubakar has already played at numerous clubs of the Serbian superliga, e.g. Vojvodina, OFK Beograd as well as Crvena Zvezda. He signed for 2 years and after the medical checkup he joins the team that is currently on training camp in Slovenia. Aboubakar's jersey number will be 15.


I could say so many things on it. Probably the same that comes to your mind right now, dear fellow fan who is reading this. Let's agree in the jolly-joker term "we'll see".

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Meanwhile our sons found their place at Arena Hotel and training complex in Pohorje, Slovenia, where they continue the preparations for the 2015/16 season.

Bojinov is full of life

His fellow citizen Bandalovski is a bit less enthusiastic, while Fabricio tries to look determined

The young forces are doing great

Brašanac is explaining something keenly

They are followed by the two Slovenians

"I see what you did there" - nothing avoids Lukač’s attention

Hard work

Interesting excersises...

Light jogging to channel the training down



Živko Živković has taken Bogosavac under his fatherly wings

The boys will surely not take the chair-lift to get to the top

They are getting ready - forever joyful Kojić and determinated Ninković

Saša Lukić chose the optimistic menu point

It was great to see Predrag Luka in the team. Not so long ago some rumours were spread that Luka might be put on loan to Novi Pazar. I don’t want to quote those nasty curses the humble author of this blog started to yell when hearing about it. Come on, people! We want Predrag Luka to the starting eleven!
(feel free to use it as a hashtag #PredragLukaToTheStartingEleven)

"Okay, boys, so there's that winding road. You run uphill on that 3 times in a row, until then we go and have some ćevapi. Good luck!"

Here is an approx. 15-minute-long video about all the training camp fun.


Time-table of preparational matches:
1st July, 18:00: Rudar Velenje, venue: NK Brunšvik Stadium, Rače, Slovenia
4th July, 10:30: Aluminijum Kidričevo, at Arena Hotel's football field
4th July, 17:00: Terek Grozni, venue: Wildon Stadium, Wildon, Austria
8th July, 10:30: Kovinar - Tezno, at Arena Hotel's football field
8th July: Amkar Perm (time and venue tba)

(photos: Facebook/Fudbalski klub Partizan)


Sunday, June 28, 2015

Photo of the day - Dragan Milosavljević in Berlin

Dragan Milosavljević met the sports director of Alba Berlin and he received his jersey number, too.

(photo: Facebook/Dragan Milosavljević)




Friday, June 26, 2015

...and the Best Goal of the U20 World Cup Award goes to... Andrija Živković!

After the U20 World Cup FIFA asked fans to vote for the best goal of the tournament.
It wasn’t even a question. It doesn’t even need any further comment.


Čestitke, Žile!!!! Such a great goal deserves even bigger congratulations :)





Nikola Milutinov drafted by San Antonio Spurs

At 01:00 CET started the NBA-draft in Boston for the 2015/16 season. Nikola Milutinov was the 4th on the international players' list (while being 26th on the draft list).
San Antonio Spurs drafted him, right in Round 1.



Milutinov was this very happy when he learned he had been drafted :)


Milutinov will likely start the next season in Texas.

Big big congratulations and all the very best, Maestro, for your American Dream. And I hope (just like everyone else, most probably) that one day you'll return to Partizan and will show us what you learned during your Great Adventure.

Čestitke i srećno!


Thursday, June 25, 2015

Basketball news

Partizan's basketball team will not participate in the Eurocup-series next season. It was confirmed by team president Predrag Danilović. The reason behind is financial difficulties. The team’s finances do not allow Partizan to enter the competition.

A big thanks to everyone who is responsible for this. We appreciate it. We’ll show our gratitude, too, you can be sure.

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Partizan basketball team’s captain Dragan Milosavljević signed to German Bundesliga team Alba Berlin for 2 years. Alba Berlin confirmed it on their Twitter page.



Three other players are still unsure about the future. Well, I should correct myself, because Milan Mačvan will surely not play in Partizan in the next season, there are no infos though where he will continue his career. The contract of Milenko Tepić and Saša Pavlović have expired, and Nikola Milutinov is looking forward to be drafted by an NBA-team (most probably by Cleveland).
As for Tepić, nothing is known. The player himself also just shrugged when journalists asked him about his future. While rumours about Pavlović talk about the possibility that he might end his professional basketball career.

Captain,
A big big thank you for everything. It’s hard, maybe even impossible to put our gratefulness into words for all that you did for Partizan. You risked your health, you won matches, you carried the whole team on your back. You always acted and talked like a real sportsman. You were a role model for young players and children. We will miss you a lot, still it had to happen. Good luck to you and show those Germans what Partizan-heart is like.

As for us, dear fellow fans, from now on we’ll watch German basketball Bundesliga matches as well.


Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Grupa JNA - Sale, hvala ti

New single by Grupa JNA, for the glory of Saša Ilić.
Pogo time!!!


Tattoo na ramenu, slika kapitena
Uvek će ostati za sva vremena
Na dresu dva’es’dva, više golova od Bobeka
Dobar dribling, tačan pas, crno-bela legenda
Sale, Sale, hvala ti na igrama i ljubavi
Pevaju ti Grobari, Sale, Sale, hvala ti

Sale, hvala ti, Sale, hvala ti
Pevaju ti Grobari

U Partizanu od rođena
Gospodin kakvog nema
Čujte nova pokolenja
Učite od kapitena
Sale, Sale, hvala ti na igrama i ljubavi
Pevaju ti Grobari, Sale, Sale, hvala ti

Sale, hvala ti, Sale, hvala ti
Pevaju ti Grobari

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Football news

The Serbian U20 national team is the world champion! With Andrija Živković, Ivan Šaponjić and Miladin Stevanović the "Orlići" played the U20 World Cup final at 07:00 CET against Brazil. They won to 1:2 in extra time.

(photo: hotsport.rs)

Here are the highlights of the final:


Players celebrate...


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Posted by Ivan Saponjic on Saturday, June 20, 2015




(photo: Twitter)


...and everybody sends out their best wishes.


Ko to kaže, ko to laže, Srbija je mala!
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A photo posted by Milos Jojic (@14zeka) on

Big big congratulations and all the best wishes to the players and last but not least to the Serbian U20 team coach/manager and former Partizan player Veljko Paunović and his coach staff.

(photo: fifa.com)

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In the meantime Partizan’s football team have already started the preparing for the 2015/16 season. The boys went to the picturesque Tara mountains for a training camp.
On the first day they had terrible weather, cold and rain. But our boys are not made from sugar to melt from a little water.

Ninković and Babović chose the "optimistic" option

Exemplary sportsmen: Vulićević and Marinković


Exuberant atmosphere and joyous mood despite the weather (or something like that)

Saša Ilić gets wet down to his socks

In the meantime a new player signed to the team in Belgrade. Fabricio (Fabricio Silva Dornellas) arrived from Brazil. The 25-year-old left back comes from team Bragantino in Brazil. He signed for one year, his jersey number will be 44.


He was immediately packed and sent to Tara to join the team in the training camp.

(photo: partizan.rs)

In the mountains the rain has stopped, the preparations can go on with full force.

Hard work in process


Ninković practicing

Forever alone Ninković

A group of children were watching the players near the field as they were training

Instructions

Then the team headed to the gym. Here is Balažic working out

Yoga (who knows, maybe it will be good for something...)

Meanwhile Partizan’s youth team player, 18-year-old Nemanja Glavčić signed his first ever professional contract with the team for 5 years. He joined the seniors in Tara on 19th...

(photo: partizan.rs)

...where hard work starts to show its fruits.


Training for goalkeepers

Kojić and Vulićević

Saša Ilić gets a friendly scratch on the back of his head from Bojinov

Rondo with Bogosavac in the middle

Fabricio joined the training session

Best friends forever: Bojinov and Ninković

Back to the gym, cracking joints

Abdominal muscle training

Ready for Champions League

This 15-year-old boy standing next to Zoran Milinković arrived from Priboj on his bicycle. The young man decided to come over to Tara on his bike to see his beloved team. The journey took a bit more than 2 days (65 km in air kilometres).
Huge respect. THIS is Partizan heart.

(Unmarked photos: Facebook/Fudbalski klub Partizan)


Crvena Zvezda - KK Partizan 58:54 (Serbian SuperLiga final, 3rd match)

That’s it, folks. It’s needless to attenuate it. We failed at the basketball final and lost the championship title.
We can analyze it though. We can blame the terrible financial state of the team, we can blame all the injuries, we can call it bribe, we can shame the absolutely not impartial referees, we can even call political tailwind. The fact will still remain fact. We could not win even one game during the final.
At the beginning we warmed up.

Little Mara, everyone’s angel helped Marinković to warm up

The boys were wearing these T-shirts during the warm-up. They are for the benefit of Humanitarna fondacija Novi Beograd

Pavlović warms up

A handful of Partizan-fans were allowed only, but they overscreamed red fans even in the beginning, holding torches, making smoke. In the first quarter the two teams battled bitterly with clenched teeth. It was a nip and tuck game, the standing was 16:16 soon before the end. There was a great fight on the court, Zvezda pressured one more basket into the ring (18:16), the end result of the quarter was 18:17 after Marinković scored 1 from free throw.
In the beginning of the second half we took the lead. Milutinov dunked Pavlović’s rebound. What is more, Milosavljević scored a giant 3-pointer from at least 8 metres (18:22). In the meantime Pavlović was wrestling with two Zvezda-players. The referee didn’t whistle, instead he let Zvezda equalize. That’s the right thing to do, isn’t it, Mr. Referee?... (22:22) Never mind, Mačvan took us back the lead (22:24). Kalinić rubbed himself to Pavlović with a homoerotic twerking, hoping for the referee to whistle foul (he did). Despite all we kept our advantage. At 23:26 Andrić scored a 3-pointer (23:29). Kalinić took full advantage of the "moron idiot" mode, but eventually he was freaked out when the referees validated Andrić’s next score (23:31), even though he, or rather He, Nikola Kalinić personally smashed the ball off the backboard, just when it was about to fall into the ring. (Rules of basketball say it clearly: when the ball is about to fall into the ring, but an opponent player blocks it right before it touches the ring, it must be still validated as a regular score.) Mitrović also yelled at Andrić after referees whistled the 3rd foul on Zvezda’s player. Yet this was the point when the fuse was blown for the referees. They gave a lot of free throws to Zvezda while whistling foul for Partizan-players, one after the other. Zvezda reduced the difference to 27:31. At this point Mačvan, Milosavljević and Milutinov put their reserve energies into action and increased the difference to 27:37. Our advantage was 10 points. We could have made it for the half-time, but referees just had to whistle a free throw for Zvezda right before the buzz. (28:37)

Fans again sent their greetings to everyone

When 3rd quarter started, the stream collapsed. A desperate search for a working one started - thanks to KLS’s stream I could see Zvezda brutally reduced their difference.

I wish I didn’t see that.

At first it was 33:39

at this point I found ArenaSport 2’s stream, thank God. I watched the first half on RTS - their speaker was beneath criticism

then it was 44:44. What the hell was going on?... Did these red-white striped trolls lick plutonium in the locker-room during half time or what?...
And then came the coup de grace. Right at the buzz.


The referees validated it. Rules say, if the player drops the ball, and the ball leaves his hands still before the buzz, the score must be validated. Well, after numerous re-watching I’m still not sure whether Zirbes threw the ball before or after the buzz. I admit though, I’m not impartial.

We finished the third quarter with 46:44.
It quickly became 48:44. Kalinić pushed Mačvan to the floor within the paint, but the referees didn’t mind it. We kept the pace even though everything was against us. Red fans yelled disgusting swearings on Partizan-players, referees openly favoured Zvezda, but despite all we kept ourselves to 50:48. Again it looked like whenever we had a chance to reduce the difference, equalize, or God forbid, took back the lead, Zvezda immediately got a free throw gift to keep them safe. That’s how 50:48 quickly became 54:48. Yet when Tepić was pushed down to the ground heavily, and someone from Zvezda squeezed the ball out of his hands, nobody whistled (maybe only Partizan-fans, as the sign of their disapprove). But when someone from Partizan wanted to tackle Kalinić, referees immediately whistled foul. There were only 9 seconds left. We got a free throw. Milosavljević stood to the paint.
And a rotten bastard from the red mass dazzled him with a laser pointer. The green laser dot was clearly seen in the replay.
May your hand rot off your arms, you lousy moron, who did it.
The Captain missed out the first throw, well, no wonder. He scored from the second. 56:54.
9 seconds left. Hell broke loose on the court. Players were wrestling and fighting. And in the very last moment referees gave a free throw to Zvezda, because it couldn’t have happened any other way.
58:54.
The end.

Players went up to the tribune among fans at the end




They were a bit out of clothes when they walked back to the locker-room, but this time nobody bothered

Mačvan will not stay at Partizan. He himself announced, he’d play at another team in the next season (no details yet).

Rumours say, Dragan Milosavljević might also leave for Spain



(Photos: Twitter)