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The troubling relationship between Serbian politics and football hooliganism
The wind howls down a bleak Belgrade avenue, rain thumping against the windscreen of the…
Red Star Belgrade and Steaua Bucharest: the fallen giants of Eastern European football
THIS SEASON the Champions League has thrilled fans, with the traditional big boys strutting their…
Sergej Milinković-Savić: the Lazio star providing Serbia with renewed hope
THE STADIO MARC’ANTONIO BENTEGODI IN VERONA bore witness to one of the finest individual performances…
How history defeated a great era of Yugoslav national team talent
SOME TEAMS HAVE LEFT THEIR MARKS ON TOURNAMENTS, only to watch on as another team…
Dragan Džajić: the Serb lauded by the game’s biggest legends
Illustration by Federico Manasse On the wrong side of retirement, in the pained days of…
How a night in Athens saw Balkan football’s ugly side return
Another round of international fixtures yielded another unsavoury incident in the stands in the Balkans…
Yugoslavia in the 1990s: the wonder-team that never was
In 1991 the great Red Star Belgrade of Savićević, Prosinečki and Pančev won the European Cup,…
Red Star and the immortal triumph of 1991
AS THE IRON CURTAIN descended over Eastern Europe following the Second World War, when Josef Stalin’s…
A Tale of One City: Belgrade
This feature is part of A Tale of One City It’s March 1992, and the Marakana…
A World of Ultras: Red Star
This feature is part of A World of Ultras Delije: a term that strikes fear across…