Couldn't resist come back here briefly for two things due to much appreciative fans of football present.
First this;
Being Croatian I don't have a favourite club in Serbia. Then, I don't have one in Croatia either. I simply admire dedication within football wherever it may be present and it's often damn amazing in Serbia.
A bloke named Milovan Jolicic has just released a book. He is as unknown to me as I dare guess he is for you. I happened about it by chance yesterday through a Serbian forum where they don't write Cyrillic, because I can read about as much Cyrillic as I understand Navajo.
Three years spent - on his own - putting together a 1008 page thick encyclopaedia about Partizan Belgrad where you have details about all the games Partizan played in Europe, the games they played during seasons when they won the league or domestic cup, all their [so far] 583 players and 137 kits throughout the years since 1945 when they were established.
I would order it instantly just because of what it is, but I don't read Cyrillic. Then I might order it because I have always wanted to learn Cyrillic and it shouldn't be that hard. What other way could be better than to learn that alphabet than through something which is browsing a book you can describe as a Panini sticker album, times about a million.
And that book also got me thinking. What other clubs have books like these? Encyclopaedia?
AC Milan have one, released by the aforementioned Panini, a brilliant thick book with stats from beginning 'til today. The kind we who loved to study an Atlas, would love every page of this.
I'm impressed.
It's one thing for some PL-club or Seria A or whatever to release this kind of thing. But one bloke dedicated to Partizan spending three years?
So much respect.
First this;
Being Croatian I don't have a favourite club in Serbia. Then, I don't have one in Croatia either. I simply admire dedication within football wherever it may be present and it's often damn amazing in Serbia.
A bloke named Milovan Jolicic has just released a book. He is as unknown to me as I dare guess he is for you. I happened about it by chance yesterday through a Serbian forum where they don't write Cyrillic, because I can read about as much Cyrillic as I understand Navajo.
Three years spent - on his own - putting together a 1008 page thick encyclopaedia about Partizan Belgrad where you have details about all the games Partizan played in Europe, the games they played during seasons when they won the league or domestic cup, all their [so far] 583 players and 137 kits throughout the years since 1945 when they were established.
I would order it instantly just because of what it is, but I don't read Cyrillic. Then I might order it because I have always wanted to learn Cyrillic and it shouldn't be that hard. What other way could be better than to learn that alphabet than through something which is browsing a book you can describe as a Panini sticker album, times about a million.
And that book also got me thinking. What other clubs have books like these? Encyclopaedia?
AC Milan have one, released by the aforementioned Panini, a brilliant thick book with stats from beginning 'til today. The kind we who loved to study an Atlas, would love every page of this.
I'm impressed.
It's one thing for some PL-club or Seria A or whatever to release this kind of thing. But one bloke dedicated to Partizan spending three years?
So much respect.
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