Football club Vojvodina is celebrating its 107th birthday today. On this day, in 1914, a group of students from the Great Serbian Orthodox Gymnasium in Novi Sad decided to found a club that would later grow into a two-time champion of Yugoslavia and winner of the Serbian Cup, as well as a winner of the Central European Cup, but also a club that produced a large number of internationals and players of the highest world level.
On that occasion, in Temerinska Street No. 12 in Novi Sad, at the place where the club was founded, the president of FK Vojvodina Dragoljub Samardžić and the president of the Veterans Section of the Old Lady Vasa Pušibrk laid a laurel wreath on a memorial plaque erected to mark the club’s centenary in 2014.
On behalf of the entire management of FK Vojvodina, the president of the club, Dragoljub Samardžić, stated that he is very pleased to be in this place today.
– This is a historical place where our Vojvodina was born 107 years ago. I am glad that Vojvodina is growing and progressing today, and in any case it deserves respect in the football world. It is our obligation to look far into the future, but never to forget the past. We must not forget the people who created and built this club, leaving it to us in trust. These 107 years are a long period of time, but we who love our Old Lady still consider her young and believe that she will shine with her full splendor – said Samardžić.
Addressing the present veterans, fans, as well as media representatives, a member of the Management Board of FK Vojvodina and historian Petar Đurđev said that the Old Lady was founded in a place between two worlds, Podbara and Salajka, where the dream of freedom, equality and sporting advancement was born.
– After the first Serbian football club was founded in Novi Sad in March, that dream began to grow, so the first game was played in June. Then came the World War 1, but the club continued to live after the liberation. Only 15 years after that, Vojvodina has become an indispensable part of the collective identity of the citizens of Novi Sad, and after the World War 2 it began to achieve top results, including winning trophies and appearing in the quarterfinals of the then European Champions Cup – said Đurđev, emphasizing that FK Vojvodina represents the pride of Novi Sad and expressing belif that, after winning the Serbian Cup last year, the club will continue to achieve good results.
With respect to the valid measures for the suppression of the corona virus, the football club Vojvodina thus symbolically marked the most important date in its history, which lasts for a full 107 years already.
