Showing posts with label Duško Vujošević. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Duško Vujošević. Show all posts

Monday, October 5, 2015

Photo gallery: Celebrating Partizan’s 70th birthday

Partizan sports society (JSD Partizan) celebrated the 70th anniversary of its foundation on 4th October. For this occasion the team rent National Theater (Narodno pozorište) in Belgrade to remember these 7 decades in the proper way. Former players were invited as well as the current squad and for great (and not too pleasant) surprise there were politicians, too. Here are a huge bunch of photos taken at the event together with a long video, because RTS 2 broadcasted it all live and since then it has been uploaded to Youtube, of course.

Mateja Kežman arrives

Vladica Kovačević

Veljko Paunović

Omnem dimitte spem, o vos intrantes - leave all hope, ye who enter. Even if you’re Albert Nagy personally, because if you want to get into the Hall of Fame, you have to get through Miloš Vazura...

...and Milorad Vučelić

Did you notice the sickening colour of Vazura’s face? What about those panda-sized circles around his eyes?

Saša Ilić and his family

Marko Jevtović with his parents

Predrag Mijatović

On this photo there is a legendary former player of Partizan hidden. Send your answers to us and the winner gets the footprint of Zoran Popović as a prize

There were all kinds of people. Insignificant ones...

...legendary ones...

...and well... these guys.
Partizan’s management is smoozing with Serbian first deputy prime minister Ivica Dačić

Posing with the bosses was surely a must

It would be interesting to know where Petar Grbić found this amazingly orange jacket

For this hat even the most forgiving judge would give 10 years of forced labour in a quarry to Bojinov

Everyone must get photographed with the bosses. No escape

I get that there was probably no dress code for this event. I get that, too, that a football player isn’t necessarily a fashion icon. I get even that reason, that a football player cannot buy a 3-piece Giorgio Armani-suit. But has nobody told this scatter-brained Bulgarian that you must NEVER wear a hat
a) in theatre
b) at the table
c) while dancing
d) generally indoors
because it is considered as one of the biggest indecorums. A gentleman wears hat only outdoors. Period.

Džigi, Subić and Brašanac

The Master and the young padawan

Zoran Popović had a speech. You can read it here, if you want to

Then Grupa JNA appeared on stage performing U mislima mojim

Then came a stage play, written and directed specially for this occasion. The main character, a 15-year-old Grave Digger remembers back the golden ages with his grandfather and father. By the way, did you know that Albert Einstein was a Grave Digger?

Yes, he was, just like Vuk Karadžić

Here the grandfather is telling stories to the young fan about Stjepan Bobek

Great names to remember...

...and some are still with us: Vladica Kovačević...

...Ivan Ćurković
(Mustafa Hasanagić was also there, but nobody took any photos about him)

Meanwhile the scene changed, here are the parents of the young Grave Digger

The father was a Grave Digger as well, of course, one of the first members of the Southern Tribune. He also remembered the great old days...

...and the Living Legend, Momčilo Moca Vukotić, who can’t, who mustn’t be forgotten

Grupa JNA again, now performing Partizan anthem with Saša Aleks

It cranked up the atmosphere

Albert Nagy enjoyed it

Those who sit at cheap seats may clap their hands. Those who sit at expensive seats, it’s enough to rattle with your jewels

Then the father continued to remember back, telling about Dragan Mance...

...Predrag Mijatović...

The top moment was when Saša Ilić appeared on stage and handed his own jersey to the young fan


At the end, Partizan’s future, the children

The final: Dobro pamtim sve with the kids and Nele Karajlić

Party time


Great applause at the end. It was nice, emotional, just like a remembrance should be

After-party with Mr. Hat and friends

Duško Vujošević: If I remember well, the emergency exit is near the male toilet on the left...

Politicians, boot-lickers and outsiders

Here is the entire event:


(photos: Facebook/Fudbalski klub Partizan)

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

New management of KK Partizan elected

I could have also gave the title "Nuclear bomb dropped".
In short: after Predrag Danilović resigned, the basketball team of Partizan elected the new team presidency. It has been an open secret for a while that his successor would be Partizan’s former, Minnesota Timberwolves’ current player, 29-year-old Nikola "Pekmen" Peković.
But the real shock brain haemorrhage surprise was not this.
It was the news that Duško Vujošević has (had to?) left Partizan’s bench.
Dear everyone, dear fellow fans and Grave Diggers, I think we can say that an era in KK Partizan’s history has ended.

We can also say that has been rumoured for a while, namely that party politics have wormed their way into the management of the basketball team.

Duško Vujošević’s successor is Partizan’s former player and second trainer, Petar Božić.

On the photo, from left to right: KK Partizan’s sports manager Dragan Todorić, Petar Božić and Duško Vujošević
(photo: kurir.rs)

The rest of the management is, as follows: KK Partizan's vice president as well as Peković’s general deputy is Miroslav Berić. Other members are: Sanja Lubardić, Maurizio Vallo, Milan Iskrin, Pero Šaranović, Ilija Dražić, Vladimir Vrbaški, Boško Janković, Ratko Čakarević, Velibor Jojić, Ivan Trifunović and Petar Grubor.

Berić (left) and Peković
(photo: Facebook/KK Partizan)

Photo of the day

There was press conference as well, with the usual commonplaces.


It’s very hard to say anything now, being shocked, trying to get used to the fact that Duško Vujošević is not Partizan’s head coach anymore. (The fact that he stays at the club as advisor doesn’t make it any better.) You think back of all those victories, the long list of players who worked with him and who all play now at top clubs, in NBA, in the national team of their countries. (Think of Bogdan Bogdanović and Joffrey Lauvergne.)
In these moments "thank you" is just a superficial cliché. There's not enough "thank you"-s and gratitude in this world to express it.
Stand up straight and salute.
Now.