The Role of Red Star Football Club in the Construction of Serbian National Identity

Authors

  • Ivan Đorđević Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihajlova 36, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2016450108

Keywords:

Red Star Belgrade FC, football, nationalism, former Yugoslavia, Serbia // nogometni klub Crvena zvezda, nogomet, nacionalizem, nekdanja Jugoslavija, Srbija

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to provide an analysis of social, political and historical processes, in which due to very specific circumstances Red Star Belgrade FC became the Club - Hero. As such, it inherits diverse „values“, marking the team as a real national symbol.

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V prispevku avtor analizira socialne, politične in zgodovinske procese, v katerih je zaradi specifičnih okoliščin beograjski nogometni klub Crvena zvezda zaslovel kot »klub – heroj«. V tem klubu so se gojile in ohranile različne »vrednote«, zaradi katerih se je nogometna ekipa dejansko vzpostavila kot nacionalni simbol.

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Published

15.06.2016

How to Cite

Đorđević, I. (2016). The Role of Red Star Football Club in the Construction of Serbian National Identity. Traditiones, 45(1), 117–132. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2016450108

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