Curiosity on Montenegrin pitches: When all football players, both first-team and reserve players, are "bonus" football players

Iskra defeated Rudar in Pljevlja with all 20 players under the age of 21.

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The Football Association of Montenegro has long since introduced a rule that in the federal leagues - the First and Second Leagues - there must be at least two players under the age of 21 on the field at any given time.

The goal, of course, is clear - to turn teams towards young football players as much as possible.

And while some clubs, especially first-league clubs, have struggled in recent years to meet this requirement, which has often shaped the composition of the team, changed coaching ideas and concepts, there are also opposite examples.

An absolute precedent, but in a positive sense, occurred last weekend, in the match of the 31st round of the Second League between Rudar and Iskra in Pljevlja.

All the players of the visiting Danilovgrad team, but literally all of them - 11 first team players and nine reserves, a total of 20, were under 21 years of age.

Next to all 20 names in the match report was the letter M - junior, all of them were so-called "bonus" football players.

Iskra
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In Montenegrin fields, at the federal level, such a case has not yet been recorded.

Instead of being a common occurrence, it is a real rarity.

To make the message from this match even stronger, Iskra pulled off a surprise and beat Rudar in Pljevlja 2:0. In perhaps the most important match of the season, Milan Radulović's team, still the current semi-finalists of the Montenegrin Cup, came one step away from survival in the Second League.

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