Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda (Serbian Cyrillic: ????????? ???? ?????? ??????, IPA: [fûdbalski: klû:b ts???ena: z??:zda]), commonly known in English as Red Star Belgrade (Serbian: ?????? ?????? ??????? / Crvena zvezda Beograd) or simply Red Star, is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, the major part of the Red Star multi-sport club. Since FIFA's 2017 recognition of Intercontinental Cup as World titles, they hold the distinction of the only Eastern European or Socialist World Champions in football, having won the Intercontinental Cup, in 1991. They are the only Serbian and ex-Yugoslav club to have won the European Cup, also in 1991. With 27 national championships and 24 national cups between Serbian and the former Yugoslav competitions, Red Star was the most successful club in former Yugoslavia and finished first in the Yugoslav First League all-time table, and is the most successful club in Serbia. However, since the 1991-92 season, Red Star's best results are in the UEFA Europa League knockout stage.
According to 2008 polls, Red Star Belgrade is the most popular football club in Serbia, with 48.2% of the population supporting them. They have many supporters in all other former Yugoslavian republics and in the Serbian diaspora. Their main rivals are fellow Belgrade side Partizan. The championship matches between these two clubs are known as The Eternal Derby. In September 2009, British Daily Mail ranked the Red Star - Partizan derby fourth among the ten greatest football rivalries of all-time.
According to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics' list of the Top 200 European clubs of the 20th century, Red Star is the highest-ranked Serbian and ex-Yugoslavian club, sharing the 27th position on the list with Dutch club Feyenoord.
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History
In February 1945, during World War II, a group of young men, active players, students and members of the Serbian United Antifascist Youth League, decided to form a Youth Physical Culture Society, that was to become Red Star Belgrade on 4 March. Previously, as of December 1944, all pre-war Serbian clubs were abolished, and on 5 May 1945, communist Secretary of Sports Mitra Mitrovi?-Djilas signed the decree dissolving formally all pre-war clubs on the territory of Socialist Republic of Serbia. The clubs were dissolved because during the German occupation, there was an attempt to organize the league so all the clubs were labelled collaborators by Josip Broz Tito's communist regime. Two of the most popular clubs from Belgrade were SK Jugoslavija and BSK Belgrade. Red Star was formed on the remains of SK Jugoslavija and they were given SK Jugoslavija's stadium, offices, players and even their red and white colors, along with the logo with addition of a red star. The entire BSK Belgrade roster also joined along with some other players from Belgrade and central Serbia.
The name Red Star was assigned after a long discussion. Other ideas shortlisted by the delegates included "People's Star", "Blue Star", "Proleter", "Stalin", "Lenin", etc. The initial vice presidents of the Sport Society - Zoran ?ujovi? and Slobodan ?osi? - were the ones who assigned it. Red Star was soon adopted as a symbol of Serbian reactionary element within Yugoslavia and a sporting institution which remains the country's most popular to this day. On that day, Red Star played the first football match in the club's history against the First Battalion of the Second Brigade of KNOJ (People's Defence Corps of Yugoslavia) and won 3-0.
Red Star's first successes involved small steps to recognition. The club won its first championship in 1951. It was a team of players consisting of Branko Stankovi?, Vladica Popovi?, Rajko Miti?, Bora Kosti? and Dragoslav ?ekularac. Those football players, whose names are still remembered, won four Yugoslav championships and two Yugoslav Cups, not missing the opportunity to win every Yugoslav Trophy for five straight seasons. As champions, Red Star were Yugoslavia's entrants into the 1957-58 European Cup where they were famously beaten 5-4 on aggregate by English champions Manchester United in the quarter-finals. Manchester United, managed by Matt Busby defeated Red Star 2-1 in the first leg in England before drawing 3-3 with them in Yugoslavia in the return match on 5 February at JNA Stadium. The second leg is notable for being the last match played by the Busby Babes: on the return flight to England the following day, the plane crashed in Munich, resulting in the deaths of 23 people, including eight Manchester United players.
After the Miljan Miljani? era, it was the time of Branko Stankovi?, whose reign as head coach was to last four years and bring Red Star three trophies and the first great European final. After eliminating teams like Arsenal, West Bromwich Albion and Hertha BSC, Red Star made for the first time the UEFA Cup final. There, Red Star met Borussia Mönchengladbach, who played five European finals from 1973 to 1980. The Germans fell behind one goal from Milo? ?esti?, but Ivan Juri?i?'s own goal gave Gladbach a psychological advantage before the rematch. This game was played at the Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf, where the Italian referee Alberto Michelotti gave a questionable penalty to the Germans, and the Danish player Allan Simonsen sealed Red Star's fate. The Foals won 2-1 on aggregate.
After the 1970s, historical matches against Udo Lattek's Barcelona followed during the 1982-83 European Cup Winners' Cup. In both matches, Barcelona were the better team and Red Star was eliminated. Remarkably, when Barça's Diego Maradona scored his second goal in front of approximately 100,000 spectators at the Marakana, the Belgrade audience were so excited about the goal that even the loyal Belgrade fans applauded Maradona. Gojko Zec returned to the team in 1983, finding only one player from the champions generation he was coaching back in 1977, Milo? ?esti?. Zec similarly repeated the club's triumph from his previous mandate by winning the championship immediately upon his arrival. Zec would later leave the club in a controversial ?ajber's case-style scandal which was the result of irregularities in the 1985-86 season.
After Zec left in 1986, there were great changes in the club. The management of the club, run by Dragan D?aji? and Vladimir Cvetkovi?, began to build a team that could compete with some of the most powerful European sides. During that summer, Velibor Vasovi? became coach and the side was strengthened by acquiring a number of talented young players, among whom Dragan Stojkovi? and Borislav Cvetkovi? stood out. In the first season that started with penalty points, Red Star focused on the European Cup and achieving good results. In 1987, a five-year plan was developed by the club with the only goal being to win the European Cup. All that was planned was finally achieved. On the club's birthday in 1987, it started. Real Madrid were defeated at the Marakana. From that day through to March 1992, Red Star enjoyed the best period of success in its history. In these five seasons, Red Star won four National Championships; in the last of those four years of heyday, the club won the 1991 European Cup Final, played in Bari, Italy.
Red Star coach Ljupko Petrovi? brought the team to Italy a week before the final in order to peacefully prepare the players for a forthcoming encounter with Marseille. By that time, Red Star had 18 goals in 8 matches, whereas the French champions had 20. Therefore, the 100th European competing final was expected to be a spectacle of offense. Nonetheless, both Petrovi? and Raymond Goethals opted for defence and the match settled down into a war of attrition. After this match the rule was passed that the ball must not be returned to the goalkeeper. After a 120-minute match and only few chances on both sides, the match was decided following the penalty shootout. After several minutes of stressful penalties, one of Marseille's players, Manuel Amoros, missed a penalty, and Darko Pan?ev converted his penalty to bring the European Cup to Yugoslavia for the first time. Red Star won the shootout, 5-3, on 29 May 1991 in front of 60,000 spectators and the millions watching on television around the world. Twenty-thousand Red Star fans at the Stadio San Nicola and millions of them all over Yugoslavia and the world celebrated the greatest joy in Red Star's history. Red Star went unbeaten at the 1990-91 European Cup in Bari and the 1991 Intercontinental Cup in Tokyo.
In 1992, the club was weakened by the departure of almost the whole champions generation (new players were later added, such as Anto Drobnjak and Ilija Ivi?). In addition, Red Star had to defend the trophy out of their country due to the war in former Yugoslavia (not even in Serbia, although there was possible locations), thereby reducing their chances of defending their title. UEFA changed the form of the championship that year and instead of the cup they started the 1991-92 European Cup, in which eight best teams from the continent participated. In domestic competition, main rival Dinamo Zagreb left the league, just as all the other clubs from Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia did, and the championship in Yugoslavia that was cut in size was played on the edge of observance of regulations around the beginning of the Bosnian War. At the end of May, the United Nations had the country under sanctions and dislodged Yugoslav football from the international scene. The Breakup of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Wars, the inflation and the UN sanctions have hit Red Star hard. In the period between May 1992 and May 2000, only one championship victory was celebrated at the Marakana. However, they did manage to win five cups, along with several glorious European performances, including the famed 1996 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup showdown against Barcelona side which featured Ronaldo and Hristo Stoichkov.
Immediately after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia ended, Red Star won the 17th cup in its history by winning 4-2 against Partizan. Two seasons later, the club returned to the European spotlight by making it to the 2001-02 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, where Red Star was eliminated by Bayer Leverkusen (0-0 and 0-3), which would later be a finalist in the Champions League that year. Slavoljub Muslin left the bench in September 2001, after which Red Star's subsequent seasons became more volatile.
In the 2006-07 UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, Red Star was barely eliminated (3-1 on aggregate) by the same Milan side which ultimately won that year's competition. Furthermore, the campaign in Group F of the 2007-08 UEFA Cup was a large disappointment, especially given that the first game against Bayern Munich was a sensational last-minute loss (by a score of 2-3 in Belgrade). In those recent years, Red Star's teams featured the likes of Nikola ?igi?, Marko Panteli?, Bo?ko Jankovi?, Aleksandar Lukovi?, Du?an Basta, Milan Bi?evac, Vladimir Stojkovi?, Nenad Milija?, Ognjen Koroman, Segundo Castillo, Ibrahima Gueye and Du?an ?oki?. After a six-year drought, Red star won their 26th league title in 2013-14 season.
Despite Red Star's success on the pitch in 2013-14, the financial situation at the club has worsened, so much so that the club were banned from participating in the 2014-15 UEFA Champions League for which they qualified by winning the Serbian SuperLiga. The UEFA Club Financial Control Body found Red Star's debts to players, some of whom had not been paid for at least six months, staff and other clubs, totalled EUR1.86 million. The club board were also alleged to have hidden debts and falsified documents. This, on top of an earlier UEFA disciplinary measure in 2011, meant Red Star did not meet the necessary Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play criteria and, as such, should not have been granted a UEFA license by the Serbian FA. Rivals Partizan took Red Star's place in the UEFA Champions League.
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Crest and colours
At the end of the World War II, several of pre-war Yugoslav clubs were dissolved because they had played matches during the war and were labelled collaborators by Josip Broz Tito communist authorities. One of these clubs was SK Jugoslavija from Belgrade. Red Star was formed from the remains of Jugoslavija and they were given their red and white colours. The typical kit of Red Star is a shirt with red and white vertical stripes, and red or white shorts and socks. Sometimes used the club also an all-red one next to the all-white one. Red Star used also as away kit or third kit, an all-blue jersey, but very rarely, so that the club used all the colours of the Serbian flag. The crest is a red five-pointed star, white framed, on a red-white background. In addition, the whole crest is framed with gold colour. There are two golden stars on the top of their emblem, symbolizing the 20 titles won.
Stadium
Red Star's home ground is the Rajko Miti? Stadium (since 21 December 2014), formerly known as Red Star stadium. With a seated capacity of 55,538, it is the largest stadium in Serbia and in the former Yugoslavia. The stadium was opened in 1963, and in the course of time and due to the fact that stadium's former capacity was about 110,000, it got the unofficial moniker Marakana, after the large and famous Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Belgrade's sold-out Marakana garnered the reputation of being a very tough ground for visiting teams to play in. During the mid-1990s, in order to meet UEFA demands for spectators comfort and security, standing places at the stadium were completely done away with and seats were installed on all four stands. In the years, since the stadium's capacity was gradually decreased, followed different stadium modernisations.
In 2008, the club reconstructed the stadium's pitch, under-soil grass heaters, improved drainage systems were installed and new modern turf replaced the old surface. The training pitch, located next to the stadium, was also renovated by laying down synthetic turf and installing new lighting equipment. In 2011, the stadium received also a new modern LED scoreboard. Today, the stadium has a central lodge, named 5 Zvezdinih Zvezda (English: 5 Stars of Red Star), which consist of five segments, each bears the name of one of Red Star's legendary players (Miti?, ?ekularac, D?aji?, Petrovi?, Stojkovi?), two other VIP lounges and a special VIP gallery with over 450 seats. It has also a modern press box with a capacity of 344 seats including seven extra-comfortable seats, an extra media center, the Red Cafe and a restaurant. On the west stand of the stadium exist also an official Red Star shop along with a Delije shop. The playing field measures are 110 × 73 m, and is illuminated by 1,400 lux floodlights. According to the known German Web portal "Stadionwelt", Belgrade's "Marakana" is in the top 50 football stadiums in Europe. In 2012, American Bleacher Report ranked the Red Star Stadium, especially if it is sold out, as the among the most intimidating stadiums in the world.
Youth school
History
Some of the most notable home-grown players are Dragan D?aji?, named the best player in the history of Serbia (the choice of the Football Association on the 50th anniversary of UEFA, known as the Golden Player), who reached third place at the election for the European Footballer of the Year in 1968, then Dragoslav ?ekularac - a runner-up with Yugoslavia at UEFA Euro 1960, Vladimir Petrovi? "Pi?on" - the fourth Star of Red Star, Vladimir Jugovi? - two times the European Cup winner (with Red Star and Juventus), as well as Nemanja Vidi?, Dejan Stankovi? and Du?an Savi?.
Other former home-grown players include Stanislav Karasi, Vladica Popovi?, Vladislav Bogi?evi?, Bo?ko and Milko ?urovski, Zoran Filipovi?, Ratomir Dujkovi?, Ognjen Petrovi?, Stevan Stojanovi? (the goalkeeper of the 1991 European Cup-winning squad) and Milo? ?esti?. Further notable players from the last 25 years include Nemanja Vidi?, Dejan Stankovi?, Perica Ognjenovi?, Neboj?a Krupnikovi?, Goran Druli?, Zoran Jovi?i?, Vladan Luki?, Goran Gavran?i?, Nikola Lazeti?, Marko Panteli?, Bo?ko Jankovi?, Du?an Basta, Nenad Tomovi?, Zvonko Milojevi?, Filip ?or?evi?, Vladimir Stojkovi?, Dragan Mr?a, Dejan Milovanovi? and Vladimir Di?ljenkovi?.
Former Red Star and Real Madrid coaching legend Miljan Miljani? was also a member of Red Star's youth school.
Current coaching staff
Supporters
The organized supporters of Red Star are known as Delije, the plural of the singular form Delija, which in Serbian generally signifies a courageous, brave, strong or even handsome young man. A rough English translation might be simply "Hardman" or "Studs". The name Delije first began to be used by hardcore Red Star supporters during the late 1980s, with official inauguration taking place in 1989. Up to that point, the Red Star fans were scattered amongst several organized fan groups that shared in the north stand of Red Star's stadium. The Delije are today one of the most famous supporter groups in the world, who support all clubs in the Red Star multi-sport club. Their style of supporting includes the use of large and small flags, displaying of banners and especially the creation of colorful and large choreographies, noisy and constant cheering and other supporters stuff. The acoustic support is often coordinated by a so-called "Vo?a" (Serbian: leader) by a megaphone and accompanied by drums. Subgroups of Delije exist outside of Belgrade as well, in cities across Serbia and all other ex-Yugoslav republics. As a sign of appreciation, Red Star painted in the late 1990s, the word Delije in block letters across their stadium's north stand.
Since the mid-1980s the supporters maintain brotherhood relations with Olympiacos CFP ultras - a friendship based on common Orthodox faith and same club colours. Since the mid-2000s FC Spartak Moscow fans are also included in this friendship.
The Eternal Derby
Red Star's fiercest and long standing city rival is FK Partizan, the other large and popular sport society in Serbia. They also have many supporters in all other former Yugoslavian republics and also in the Yugoslavian diaspora. The rivalry started immediately after the creation of the two clubs in 1945. Red Star was founded with close ties to the Interior ministry and Partizan as the football section of the Yugoslav People's Army. Since then, both clubs have been dominant in domestic football. The match is particularly noted for the passion of the Red Star's supporters, called Delije, and Partizan's supporters, the Grobari (English: "Gravediggers" or "Undertakers"). The stands of both teams feature fireworks, coloured confetti, flags, rolls of paper, torches, smoke, drums, giant posters and choreographies, used to create visual grandeur and apply psychological pressure on the visiting teams, hence the slogan, "Welcome to Hellgrade." Some fans also sometimes use trumpets, similar to the supporters in South America. This creates for the region a typical and distinctive Balkan Brass Band atmosphere. Both sets of supporters sing passionate songs against their rivals, and the stadiums are known to bounce with the simultaneous jumping of the fans. There are many derbies in world football but very few compare to this, it is more than just game and has a deeper meaning. The duel is regarded as one of the greatest football rivalries in the world and the matches between these rivals have been labeled as the Eternal derby. Given its widespread touch on the entirety of a major city, it's dubbed one of, along with the Old Firm, the Rome derby and the Istanbul derby, the most heated rivalries in European football. In 2009, British newspaper Daily Mail ranked the Eternal derby as fourth among the ten greatest football rivalries of all-time. The biggest attendance for a Red Star - Partizan match was about 108,000 spectators at the Red Star Stadium.
Honours and achievements
Red Star has won 2 international, 2 regional and 51 domestic trophies, making them the most successful football club in Serbia and the former Yugoslavia.
Domestic
National Championships - 27 (shared record)
- Yugoslav First League
- Winners (19): 1951, 1952-53, 1955-56, 1956-57, 1958-59, 1959-60, 1963-64, 1967-68, 1968-69, 1969-70, 1972-73, 1976-77, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1987-88, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92
- First League of Serbia and Montenegro
- Winners (5): 1994-95, 1999-00, 2000-01, 2003-04, 2005-06
- Serbian SuperLiga
- Winners (3): 2006-07, 2013-14, 2015-16
National Cups - 24 (record)
- Yugoslav Cup
- Winners (12): 1948, 1949, 1950, 1957-58, 1958-59, 1963-64, 1967-68, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1981-82, 1984-85, 1989-90
- Serbia and Montenegro Cup
- Winners (9): 1992-93, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, 1999-00, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2005-06
- Serbian Cup
- Winners (3): 2006-07, 2009-10, 2011-12
International
Red Star is the most successful club from Serbia (and former Yugoslavia) in all European competitions, and the only club from Eastern Europe that has won both the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup. On October 27, 2017, FIFA officially recognized all winners of the Intercontinental Cup as club world champions, in equal status to the FIFA Club World Cup. The club competed in 50 European seasons, and the most notable results are:
International titles - 4
- European Cup / UEFA Champions League
- Winner (1): 1990-91
- UEFA Cup / Europa League
- Runners-up (1): 1978-79
- Mitropa Cup
- Winner (2): 1958, 1967-68
- Intercontinental Cup / FIFA Club World Cup
- Winner (1): 1991
- UEFA Super Cup:
- Runners-up (1): 1991
Friendly Tournaments - 19
Individual awards
Domestic
International
Club records
Dragan D?aji? is Red Star's record appearance holder with 389 matches. The goalscoring record holder is Bora Kosti? with 230 goals. Numerous Red Star players were in the Yugoslavian national team and Branko Stankovi?, Rajko Miti?, Vladimir Beara, Bora Kosti?, Vladimir Durkovi?, Dragoslav ?ekularac, Miroslav Pavlovi?, Jovan A?imovi?, Dragan D?aji?, Vladimir Petrovi?, Dragan Stojkovi? and Dejan Savi?evi? are among them. Dragan D?aji? played 85 matches for the Yugoslavian national football team, a national record.
Red Star holds records such as to be only the second foreign team that could beat Liverpool at Anfield (after Ferencváros in the 1967-68 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup), which was also the only defeat of Liverpool at home in the European Cup history in the whole 20th century (during the 1973-74 European Cup). Red Star was also the first team that could beat Bayern Munich on the Olympiastadion in its long UEFA competition history (during the 1990-91 European Cup).
They are the only Serbian (and ex-Yugoslav) club, and only the second team from this southern corner of Europe and Southeast Europe, to have won the European Cup, having done so in 1991, which was also the 100th UEFA competing final. Red Star is among the nine clubs, which have ever won the European Cup unbeaten. They are also the only team from the Balkans and Southeast Europe to have won the Intercontinental Cup, also in 1991. Red Star is the most successful club from the Balkans and Southeast Europe, being the only club to win both the European Cup and Intercontinental Cup. The Romanian football player Miodrag Belodedici was the first ever Red Star player to have won the European Cup with two different teams, Steaua Bucure?ti and Red Star, and very curious both of the team's names mean "Star". Later, the double winners were also Dejan Savi?evi? (Red Star and Milan) and Vladimir Jugovi? (Red Star and Juventus).
Top ten most appearances of all-time
Last updated on: 23 May 2017
Top ten scorers of all-time
Last updated on: 23 May 2017
Club all-time European record
- As of February 13, 2018
UEFA Ranking
- As of 8/12/2017
Best results in European competitions
Biggest win in UEFA competition:
Current squad
- As of 14 February 2018.
First team
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Players with multiple nationalities
- Filip Stojkovi?
- Nemanja Supi?
- Sr?an Babi?
- Vujadin Savi?
- Milan Borjan
- Mitchell Donald
- Dejan Jovelji?
- Ben Nabouhane
- Stefan Hajdin
B List
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Other
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Out on loan
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For recent transfers, see List of Serbian football transfers winter 2017-18.
Retired number(s)
12 - Delije (the 12th Man)
Club officials
Coaching history
For details see List of Red Star Belgrade football coaches
Club presidents
Notable players
Stars of Red Star
Red Star has almost a 50-year-long tradition of giving the title of the Star of Red Star (Serbian: ???????? ?????? / Zvezdina zvezda) to the players that had a major impact on the club's history and have made the name of the club famous around the globe. So far, five players and the entire 1991 team were officially given the title. They are:
- The 1st Star of Red Star: Rajko Miti?
- The 2nd Star of Red Star: Dragoslav ?ekularac
- The 3rd Star of Red Star: Dragan D?aji?
- The 4th Star of Red Star: Vladimir Petrovi? "Pi?on"
- The 5th Star of Red Star: Dragan Stojkovi? "Piksi"
- The 6th Star of Red Star: The 1991 European Cup Winner Generation
The 1991 European Cup Winner Generation
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Notable players
- To appear in this section a player must have played at least 80 matches for the club.
- Flags indicate national teams they played for, not nationality.
Notable foreign players
- To appear in this section a player must have played at least 30 matches for the club.
Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors
In popular culture
The club's name in Serbian is also the title of the 2013 Italian novel Crvena Zvezda by Enrico Varrecchione. Written in the alternate history genre, utilizing elements of uchronia, its story is based on the premise of what if the 9 November 1988 return leg of the European Cup second round clash between Red Star and AC Milan hadn't been ordered abandoned by German referee Dieter Pauly in the 65th minute due to thick fog that night in Belgrade. Red Star were leading 1-0 after a goal by Dejan Savi?evi? and were also a man up due to Milan striker Pietro Paolo Virdis receiving a red card. After abandonment, UEFA cancelled the match and ordered it replayed in full the next day. This time it finished 1-1 and went to penalties (the first leg in Milan also ended 1-1) where Milan won and went through to the quarter-finals, eventually winning the European Cup -- thus getting the coveted trophy again after twenty years, the club's first under its recently arrived owner, ambitious businessman Silvio Berlusconi. In the novel's parallel universe, Red Star won the 8 November 1988 match in Belgrade and eliminated AC Milan, which thus never won its 1989 European Cup, meaning that Berlusconi's ultimate entry into Italian politics had a much weaker background push, which adversely affected his performance at the 1994 Italian general election. The novel also follows the fate of Red Star's fictional striker, loosely based on Savi?evi?, Jovan Eldzic who scored the famous goal in the fog and later went on to transfer to AC Milan where he achieved more accolades, eventually taking Italian citizenship, remaining living in Italy upon retiring from football before entering politics and running for mayor of a small town in Piedmont's Alessandria province.
Billy Bragg's 1991 UK top thirty hit song "Sexuality" contains the lyric "I had an uncle who once played for Red Star Belgrade." When interviewed many years later Bragg was asked if this was true, to which he replied that his uncle actually played for Fulham but that did not fit the rhyme with played.
Two non-related bands, one of them from Great Yarmouth, Great Britain, and the other one from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, shared the name Red Star Belgrade.
A football club in Ecuador, in the city of Cuenca, created in 1961, is inspired in Red Star Belgrade. It is named CDS Estrella Roja. Estrella Roja is the translation and the way Red Star is known in Spanish speaking countries. The club crest is even the same as the one Red Star had between 1995 and 2011.
References
External links
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- Official website
- Red Star Belgrade at UEFA
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