Red Star, at the top of Europe, in 1991.
The best football pitching in Eastern Europe happened in times of disintegration. While new diseases were born in that land, the best generation of players gave ninety minutes of enthusiasm for their country and continent. Yugoslavia was called their shelter territory and began to disintegrate.after call hours iron court.
The squad and the stand sheltered Serbian players and fans (the majority), Montenegrins, Slovenians and even Macedonians and Croats. They looked at each other and got to know each other. Same and different. Jugovic, Mihajlovic, Savicevic, Prosinecki, Pancev. They are a collective, a joint search on green grass.
The Red Star is, above all, a shining light in the context of an impending hell. And that light illuminates Europe: in the 90/91 season, after suffering a penalty shootout against Olympique de Marseille, the team led by Serbian Ljupko Petrovic won the Champions Cup (the Champions in days this). This is the last phenomenon born of Eastern Europe. And it was -probably- the biggest surprise since then.
In the cracks that eventually stand out in other destinations, the Crvena Zvezda (which is not a pronounced name in Spanish and translated as red star in English) is intended as the Balkan War looms on the immediate and dreadful horizon. That group of magicians and kings was also a metaphor at the time: his separation was a reflection of another dismemberment. The offending country has made it easier for its most successful and visible sporting expression to become a puzzle scattered among neighboring countries.
before the rain the film was called (nominated in 1994 for best film abroad) describing the contradictions of those times and of those pains, of the complex confrontations between neighbors. Football, which appears modestly in a distant radio story, has throbbed almost never before and like never before. in that geography that changed after so much horror.
In 1990, Estrella Roja went from commitment to luxury team, to pure vertigo. On that tour, he won the League and the Yugoslav Cup; He also provided players and concepts to his country’s national team, which participated in the World Cup in Italy. It was only after that appointment where he was left in Maradona’s Argentina that the glory happened. Today, the shining champions are a memory that describes an impossible: in the Champions League today there is no room for football miracles.
Source: Clarin
