Photo of the day - Vulićević has returned

Miroslav Vulićević has recovered from his serious injury he got on the autumn season’s eternal derby. Today he joined the team for a training match against FK Srem Jakovo. He played only for the first 30 minutes. Gradualness is essential.

(photo: Facebook/Fudbalski klub Partizan)

Partizan won the game to 6:1.

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The scandal around Gagić doesn’t want to calm down. The basketball team had a bitter press release that includes even personalities. The person in question still didn’t talk to the press. Rumours speak about Gagić setting up a claim against the team to get his salary the team still couldn’t pay for him. Other than these, everyone is just guessing.

Dear Basketball Team,
I love you a lot. You gave me countless wonderful, fantastic moments. Not only to me. With and without Gagić. I very kindly ask you never ever to make such a press release. It does not matter what was the reason behind, that made Gagić decide to take these steps. It does not matter what he said and what he is about to do. You must know, because you’re not blind, hell broke loose among fans. Your job would be now to calm the heated atmosphere down, not pouring oil to the fire. There are things that are not for the public. Getting personal in private is fine, but is strictly forbidden in a press release. Let us respect each other enough not to generate media war from the by default nasty incident. We must avoid to give reason for the numerous enemies of the club to further intrigues. No matter how painful or upsetting you see all these that happened, you must never forget your own responsibility for your fans.

Yours faithfully,
a very bitter and disappointed fan

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Gregor Balažić is now officially Partizan’s player. Today was the press conference, the player got the number 6.

(photo: Facebook/Fudbalski klub Partizan)

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Ivan Bandalovski debuted in the football team. Partizan played today a preparational game against Sinđelić. We won to 5:0, goal scorers are Radulović (own goal) 15., Ninović (penalty) 41., Kojić 56., Marinković 59., Šaponjić 67.

(photo: Facebook/Fudbalski klub Partizan)

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Scandal has been swirling around Pantić, too. The latest news were about Chelsea buying him. Not much later Partizan offered him a stupendous contract, which the midfielder refused to sign. Right now all that we know is that Pantić will not travel back to Belgrade with the team from the Turkey training camp.
Marko Nikolić told hotsport.rs he is sorry things got this turn with Pantić. As he said, the midfielder was dropped out of the team even before Nikolić arrived, having a six-month-long suspension. Nikolić said, for Pantić it would be the best to stay for at least two more seasons at Partizan instead of hanging on loans by big teams. He added, this decision was made by Pantić’s parents and manager, making it clear the player himself didn’t have much say in it all, if any.

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Milan Mačvan is Player of the Month in January at Adriatic League.

(photo: Facebook/ABA Liga)

All sorts of news

Panathinaikos is allegedly interested in signing Vojislav Stanković. So far nobody confirmed it, but as Stanković did not extend his contract with Partizan, he will surely leave the club this winter.

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Sharp-eyed observers could see Ivan Paunić around the basketball team in the past days. The 27-year-old player would arrive from Budućnost Podgorica and stay until the end of the season. Better said, Paunić would return, as he started his professional career in Partizan. Apropos, this Sunday Partizan will play against Budućnost in Adriatic League.

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Rumours have been spread about Enver Alivodić, too. Vojvodina’s midfielder would allegedly like to come to ul. Humska very much and the club is also interested in signing him. It isn’t the first time the Novi Pazar-born player is called from Belgrade, but so far the attempts weren’t successful. Now Alivodić himself confirmed to "Sport" that there are indeed negotiations between him and Partizan and there might be more news within a few days.

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The football team starts the preparations for the spring season on 10th January. That day they gather at the Zemun training complex for medical check-ups, then on 20th they travel to Antalya, Turkey to play preparational games.
23rd January: Dinamo Moscow
27th January: Zürich
29th January: Austria Wien
Then they come home and play at home in the Zemun playing ground on 4th February, opponent is not confirmed yet. On 7th February they play against Sarajevo, a day later comes another match, opponent is not confirmed yet. 10th February will see the team playing against Litex Lovech, 12th February against Maribor, 13th against Shakthar Doneck. And on 21st February kickstarts the spring season.

Asesoft Ploiesti (ROM) - KK Partizan 87:59 (training match)

Again a huge slap in the face. We had to travel to Ploiesti to get it.
The Romanian opponent demolished the team right at the beginning. The result after the 1st quarter was 27:14. In the half-time it was 51:22 - in the 2nd quarter Asesoft tore Partizan to pieces, to 24:8 (!!!). In the 3rd quarter black and white boys picked themselves together a bit, making it 16:18 for that part, but the Romanian team took back their advantage for the final quarter.
Our best player was Milutinov with 18 points. Others who scored: Milutinović (9), Marinković, Dallo, Andrić (all 7), Bogdanović (6), Gagić (4), Šalić (1). Torlak, Aranitović, Kouzeloglou, Miković and Bezbradica didn’t score.

Another basketball-related news is that the team welcomed a new boy on board. Edo Murić comes from Slovenia and made no secret about how happy he is.
- It was my childhood dream to wear the black and white jersey one day and to play for the best fans in the world.

We love you, too.

(photo: Twitter)

Dobrodošao!

Mega Vizura - KK Partizan 80:54 (training match)

This is devastating.
We lost against Mega Vizura with 26 points. These guys will bite through our throats in Adriatic League :(
So, when the first quarter is 24:16, half time is 40:29 and the third quarter is 56:48 (which means, we scored SIX!!!! points in the last quarter), so, dear everyone, we must pull up our socks, to say the least.
Partizan's best player was Bezbradica with his 15 points. Next one was Torlak with 8, Bogdanović scored 6, Marinković, Dallo, Andrić and Milutinović all scored 5, each of them. Gagić made it 3, Šalić 2, Jovanović, Aranitović, Kouzeloglou and Miković finished without scoring.

Trouble doesn't stop until three (or even more)

Only bad news around Partizan... After Brašanac’s pieces was picked by Italian emergency medicals, two other players got injured as well. Miloš Ostojić broke his leg during training, goalkeeper Lukač had to come off today during a training match in the 3rd minute, having pains.
Oh, and after all these we lost the training match. (Donji Srem - FK Partizan 4:3)
Wonderful, isn’t it... Europa League, Jelen SuperLiga and Serbian Cup are all coming up. What else is there?...

And to make this day even more beautiful, the basketball team was beaten by Yenisey Krasnoyarsk today, to 74:83. Russians took a huge lead right in the beginning. Gagić could still earn 19 points against them... (Other scorers: Milutinović 13 points, Aranitović 5 points, Torlak 6, Kouzeloglou 1, Marinković 9, Dallo 4, Bezbradica 3, Bogdanović 4, Šalić 6. Also played Lončarević and Miković.)