Varvari are an Ultras group, established in 1987, who support FK Budućnost Podgorica, a football club from Podgorica, Montenegro. They support all Budućnost Podgorica sports clubs which include basketball, volleyball and handball teams.
In English "Varvari" means "Barbarians".
The group's traditional colours are blue and white which are also the colours of all the Budućnost sports clubs. For FK Budućnost Podgorica home games, Varvari stand in northern stand (śever) of the Podgorica city stadium.They are best organised fan group in Montenegro. They also have a reserved stand at the Morača Sports Center, as supporters of volleyball,basketball and handball team of Budućnost.
Throughout the first years of their existence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Varvari maintained close links and friendly relations with Red Star Belgrade firm Delije. This was seen as a natural extension of the historical and cultural closeness of Montenegro and Serbia, as well as of the fact that these two republics continued as part of the same country after the final breakup of SFR Yugoslavia in 1992. However, this Delije-Varvari special relationship changed towards the late 1990s as the relations of Montenegrin and Serbian political leaders within FR Yugoslavia became more strained.
This is when a solely Montenegro-focused activity began to be displayed by Varvari, although they managed to mostly stay away from openly supporting the Milo Djukanovic. The focal point for the group during the late 1990s was the basketball club, which started investing heavily into expensive acquisitions while the football club toiled at the lower half of the table.
Even though most of the firm's members identify themselves as Montenegrins (as opposed to Serbs), and as such are supporters of Montenegrin independence, during the 2006 referendum campaign Varvari frequently emphasized the fact they are an apolitical group.
Varvari also furiously oppose any form of implementation of gay rights in Montenegro, as in November 2004 some hundred of them besieged the building of Montenegrin state television during the guest appearance of a notable gay rights activist Atila Kovač from Serbia.[1][2]
Varvari occasionally engage in clashes with Montenegrin police. From time to time they're also known to take on the other football firms, notably those from Serbia, though these clashes rarely feature the extreme levels of nationalism, chauvinism, and xenophobia that are usually the staple of firm fights throughout the Balkans.They also support Montenegro in all sports.
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