A volcano, a rock, a dragon woman, a born leader, a great journalist and editor, a great and unwavering Yugoslav woman... With these words, among others, friends and colleagues say goodbye to Nadežda Gaća, the founder and editor of the weekly "Novi Magazin" and the former president of Nuns.
That in our football "students beat the experts" is nothing new, but it is breaking news when the general secretary of the Football Association of Serbia, until recently, the chief operative for the last eight years, a man from the system who served one of the most famous (and today's richest) progressive coursers - Slaviš Kokeza
Before the championship, the Spanish national team was not in the first row of favorites, regardless of the good games and results in the last two years and the victory in the League of Nations last summer, and, according to the estimates of bookmakers and experts, it was behind England, France, Germany and Portugal in terms of chances. and slightly ahead of Italy and Belgium. In the end, she won the title in an impressive way: she won all seven games, which no European champion has managed to do so far, and she defeated all the main and secret favorites - Croatia, Italy, Germany, France and England - in direct duels.
He agreed to be the regime's mascot, to emphasize the contribution of the president of the state at every opportunity, to be at his side for pictures, to be on his support lists... And he was more and more similar to progressive officials, so that after the poor results in Germany in completely turned into an arrogant and self-loving progressive, who does not tolerate criticism, nor does he think of self-criticism
It's a real pity, and one might even say an injustice, that the two most efficient and concrete teams - the Spanish and German national teams - already met in the quarter-finals.
Of the 24 teams at the European Championship, Serbia was 13th in terms of player value (a total of 313 million euros) and 14th in terms of chances to reach the finals, but did not even make it into the top 16. She scored only one goal, had the fewest shots on goal and the most back passes. In short, it was a pale shadow of a team that until recently played with more goals
At the first participation in the European Championship after 24 years, our national team did not celebrate and ended the participation after the first round in the last place in the group, with two draws and one defeat. And what is especially disappointing, with the idealess and boring game, which few provided during the first stage of the tournament in Germany
It was known, unfortunately, that the fans of several Balkan countries would cause the most problems for the organizers and the police. It doesn't surprise anyone anymore that, apart from the pitch, we also brawl in the stands and on the streets of German cities. It has been confirmed once again in front of the whole world that many "in these areas" are still poisoned and blinded by hatred, and thanks to them, it seems that numerous football fans throughout Europe, as well as the organizers themselves, can't wait to "see the back" of all of us.
After 24 years, the national team performed at the European Championship and at the premiere in Germany experienced a minimal defeat against the favored England. This was interpreted by many as a kind of success considering the reputation of the rivals, even though the team coached by Stojković seemed timid, slow and idealess for the most part of the meeting and practically did not even try to take advantage of the obvious fatigue of the English players and the restraint of their coach Southgate.
In the elections for councilors of the City Assembly of Kikinda, almost all the committees of the opposition parties except the New DSS, but in two columns. Kikinda's progressives gathered on the list with Vučić's name all the previous satellites from the government and added, for the first time, SPS and SRS. In addition, they "pushed" the list of a group of citizens called "Kikinda against violence" led by their until recently well-known official - Miki Aleksić.
The good results of Zvezda and Partizan rest on foreign players, and at the same time, only a few players from the youth teams of both clubs entered the first team. It turns out that with a greater interest in basketball and full stands of the Arena, we got even greater hatred between the fans of the two clubs, and a continuous series of mutual insults, name-calling and fights. Also, large state investments have not yet led to Zvezda and Partizan becoming self-sustainable, which is a prerequisite for obtaining a permanent Euroleague license and thus earnings from television and other rights.
Since Vučić has announced that he does not have the strength to carry out privatization, and it is, in his opinion, the only solution, there is every chance that the practice of non-transparent, unplanned and wanton state and parastate aid will more or less continue, and that the administration will use that money without public excuses to spend on necessary and unnecessary reinforcements. At the same time, not only will it be difficult for Zvezda and Partizan to reach the end of the Euroleague, but there is also the question of whether, due to finances that depend on the goodwill of politicians, they will stay in the competition at all.
During the election campaign, the only Kikinda television reported only on the activities of progressives in public and party roles, while it did not dedicate a single second of its program to the presentation of opposition candidates from Kikinda. That same television, as expected, survives thanks to money from the public budget, primarily the city budget
Today's football scene is in many ways reminiscent of that time of doom and gloom in the nineties. Megalomaniacal and overpriced new stadiums, nor millions of investments in arrogant projects by Zvezda's and Partizan's administrations, and least of all bribing hooligan groups, do not help here.
