Red Star Belgrade

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The name Crvena Zvezda can also be applied to KK Crvena Zvezda and VK Crvena Zvezda.
FK Crvena Zvezda
Logo of Red Star Belgrade
Full name Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda
Nickname(s) Zvezda, Crveno-beli
Founded March 4, 1945
Ground Stadion Crvena Zvezda,
Belgrade
Capacity 51,328
Chairman Serbia Dragan Stojković
Manager Serbia Dušan Bajević
League Meridian Superliga
2005-06 Prva Liga, 1st
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Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, English: Red Star Football Club) is a football club from Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. The club is known by different names worldwide.[1] According to a recent Gallup poll, Red Star is by far the most popular club in Serbia.[citation needed]

Red Star is the only Serbian club that has won a UEFA competition by winning the European Champions Cup 1991 in Bari, Italy. The same year in Tokyo, Japan the club won Intercontinental Cup. Red Star lost the European Super Cup finals that year to the Cup Winners' Cup champion, Manchester United. The club also made the final of the UEFA Cup in 1979, losing to Borussia Mönchengladbach. Red Star also has won a record 24 State Champ titles.

Red Star was founded by students from Belgrade University in 1945. Red Star fans are called Delije (Serbian Cyrillic: Делије). A rough English translation might be "courageous and brave young men" or simply "The Heroes". In contrast with other teams' reliance on imported footballers, Red Star have had many homegrown superstars, such as Dejan Savićević, Vladimir Jugović, Siniša Mihajlović, Darko Pančev, Dejan Stanković, and Dragan Stojković.

The Stadion Crvena Zvezda has a capacity of 51,328 and is the largest stadium in the country, due to its former capacity of over 100,000 the stadium is commonly called "Marakana" after the famous Brazilian stadium.

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[edit] Current squad

As of August 30, 2006

No. Position Player
1 Serbia GK Ivan Ranđelović
3 Serbia DF Dušan Anđelković
4 Serbia DF Aleksandar Pantić
5 Serbia MF Nikola Trajković
6 Serbia DF Milan Biševac [2]
7 Serbia MF Nenad Milijaš
9 Serbia FW Dušan Đokić
10 Serbia MF Radovan Krivokapić
11 Serbia MF Marko Perović
13 Serbia FW Đorđe Tutorić
14 Serbia MF Aleksandar Trišović
15 Serbia DF Nebojša Joksimović
17 Bulgaria MF Blagoy Georgiev
18 Brazil FW Ely Tadeu
No. Position Player
19 Japan FW Takayuki Suzuki
20 Montenegro FW Milan Purović
21 Senegal DF Ibrahima Gueye
22 Montenegro GK Zoran Banović
24 Serbia DF Bojan Miladinović
26 Serbia DF Goran Adamović
27 Serbia FW Milanko Rašković
28 Serbia FW Miroslav Lečić
30 Serbia DF Dušan Basta
31 Serbia GK Saša Radivojević
32 Serbia MF Dejan Milovanović
33 Brazil FW Ailton Gonçalves da Silva
35 Ecuador MF Segundo Castillo

[edit] Squad changes during 2006/07 season

In:

Out:

[edit] Notable players

[edit] The Stars of Red Star

Red Star has almost a 50 year long tradition of giving the title of the Star of Red Star (Zvezdina zvezda) to the players that have had a major impact on the club's history and that have made the name of the club famous around the globe. So far, only five players in the club's history were officially given the title. They are:

Though it may sound strange, none of the players that have won the only European Champion title for the club is titled Star of Red Star. Actually, no new "stars" were added to the list since Dragan Stojković, titled in 1990, who is also the current president of the club. In his recent statement, Stojković said that the tradition of naming the club's stars is going to be continued, probably by naming Dejan Savićević the sixth "star", although there are opinions that the entire 1991 generation should be named the sixth star.

[edit] The 1991 European Champions Generation

Goalkeepers:

  • Milić Jovanović
  • Željko Kaluđerović
  • Stevan Stojanović (captain)
  

Defenders:

  • Miodrag Belodedić
  • Slobodan Marović
  • Ivica Momčilović
  • Ilija Najdoski
  • Duško Radinović
  • Refik Šabanadžović
  

Midfielders:

  

Strikers:

Coach: Ljupko Petrović

[edit] Other notable players

 

[edit] Coaching history

   

[edit] Trophies

  • State Champions (24):

SFR Yugoslavia Champions (18):
1951, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1991

FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro Champions (6):
1992, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006

  • National Cup (21):

SFR Yugoslavia Cup (12):
1948, 1949, 1950, 1958, 1959, 1964, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1982, 1985, 1990

FR Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro Cup (9):
1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006

[edit] World Cup 2006

Five Red Star players represented their nations at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. Nikola Žigić and Milan Dudić played for the Serbia and Montenegro national team, while Dušan Basta and Vladimir Stojković were members of the squad, but did not play. Haminu Dramani was a part of the Ghana national team. Žigić scored a goal against Ivory Coast and Dudić made two penalties for handball on the same match. Dramani was the scorer of the first goal for his side on the match against United States.

[edit] Rivalry

Red Star's city rival is FK Partizan, and the matches between these rivals are often called "the eternal derby" (Serbian Latin: večiti derbi, Serbian Cyrillic: вечити дерби). These games were always hotly anticipated and quite spectacular, but the lower quality of football that’s been displayed in recent times, as well as very large amount of violence and hooliganism, made the fall of the attendance an inevitable consequence. The derby played May 11, 2005 in the semi-final of the Serbia and Montenegro Cup had only 8,000 spectators, which is all-time lowest attendance in these matches.

[edit] Munich air disaster

Main article: Munich air disaster

Red Star played a peripheral role in a tragedy of football history. In 1958, Manchester United played at Red Star in a European Cup fixture. The plane that carried the team back to England crashed in Munich, shortly after refuelling. Among the dead were eight United players; manager Matt Busby and several other players were injured. The incident would forever be known as the Munich air disaster.

[edit] Trivia

  • A Chicago-based rock band Red Star Belgrade was named after FK Crvena Zvezda's usual name in English [6].

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Official
Unofficial
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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ In English speaking countries it is known as Red Star; in German it is as Roter Stern; in French as Etoile Rouge; in Spanish as Estrella Roja; in Italian as Stella Rosa etc.
  2. ^ Biševac signed for Lens August 25, 2006, and is officially on loan to Red Star until January 2007, so he had to be re-registrated and couldn't wear the same jersey number he had already worn in the UEFA Champions League qualifying games. Because of that, Biševac wears number 66 in the UEFA Cup matches.
  3. ^ Miloljub Ostojić resigned 09/16/99 after UEFA Cup 1st leg loss to Montpellier and poor league form.
  4. ^ Slavoljub Muslin was fired Aug '01, after loss to Bayer in wake of the feud with star striker Mihailo Pjanović.
  5. ^ Ljupko Petrović resigned 09/17/04 after crashing out of Champions League and UEFA Cup.
  6. ^ Red Star Belgrade (band) at bluerose-records.de
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