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On this date the great writer, athlete and footballer Miloš Crnjanski was born. His love for soccer is best described in Boki Stanišić’s book “Miloš Crnjanski Footballer and Athlete”, in which we learn the details of this not-so-real black passion:
As a high school student in Timisoara, where the Crnjanski family lived from 1896 to 1912, he played front center or left hemisphere, first in the gym and then at the Kinjiži professional railway club, where, says coach Sidon (former player of the club). taught “amazing gifs”.
Before the Great War, he played as a student in Rijeka (then called Fijume), in Sušak, Victoria and Novi Sad (MTK), and after the war in Belgrade and Pancevo.
With the fame of the leading avant-garde poet and prose writer (“Ithaca’s Letters”, “Carnojevic’s Diary”), he was captain, registered soccer player in the Banat de Pancevo (Belgrade parish).
As a veteran, he played for the Yugoslavian veterans, whom he supported before the war, and that was fiery. In this club his students from the Fourth Men’s Gymnasium played (Milutinac, Đokić, Hrnjiček – they traveled to Montevideo), and his brother-in-law Jovan Ružić, the first Serbian international, was official.
As a soccer player in Pancevo, he was remembered for “graceful, intelligent and effective movements”, technically tight game, goals, but also for his lively behavior towards the referees.
He left a mark on his attitude towards football in letters to Ivo Andrić, when he served in our ambassadors in the Vatican and Bucharest, in “Ithaca and the comments” (1959) and in interviews.
In the only sports interview for the newspaper “Sportista”, a magazine whose founder was in 1924, in June 1930, he said that he would prefer to play in the first team of Yugoslavia, but to receive the Oscar again.
According to him, Crnjanski “grew up in football” and could never forget football. He recalled his teammates from Sušak (Prestini, Grandić, left-back Brane, the Hungarian Jao Pište, the famous center who in 1914, when the war started, did everything he could to help him move to Serbia), and the match against Yugoslav Hajduk in Split.
Among the Yugoslav players, he most appreciated Lubiric, Dragan Jovanovic Zena (“the type of first-class English soccer player”) and Milutin Ivkovic Milutinac (“the type of our racial game”). They are undisputed masters and I have never seen better plays in the big games abroad ”. And he looked at the greats of that time: Rapid, Ferencvaros, Celtic …
During his stay in London, his opportunities for magnificent performances, English football matches, and he fell in love with the game and style of Arsenal, was all that allowed him, which he enjoyed from the stands of the mythical “Highbury” stadium. In addition to all of the above, Arsenal reminded him of his late Yugoslavia of Belgrade by the red color of their jerseys, and that is why he chose “Topdžije” among the great English.
Of our post-war footballers, before his death, he singled out Dušan Savić as the best and his favorite, because the roar of the tribunes shouting the full name of this murderous center forward made him, as he puts it, “feel young again. “.
PS Both in this text and in the book, the information provided by Goran Putnik is missing: Miloš Crnjanski also played football, often and with joy, in Ilandža, a town where he spent his holidays with his grandparents, and then later he was a guest. and in which the earthly remains of their loved ones rest in the family tomb.
In memory of the older locals, Miloš Crnjanski, was remembered as – the essence of local patriotism – “our best football player from before the war”.
Kurir sport / Facebook / Opside
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