Vote for the best team in the hundred-year history of Buducnost!

One hundred years have passed since the Budućnost Football Club was founded.

The very fact that something lasts a century, in a country where there is not always a sense of tradition and historical heritage, not only in sports - to survive, to last for such a long period, is a feat worth admiring. And it will continue, in blue and white.

Buducnost is a club that has been adorned throughout history, more than anything else, by football players. Great football players, the greatest in Europe.

Budućnost from Podgorica went through many difficult periods, problems with organization, infrastructure, and all the other "basic" elements that make up a club, problems that were and remain chronic - both at the beginning and now, both before and after the war, both in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Perhaps there was a lack of trophies, training conditions, better placements, a few more appearances on the European stage (Buducnost is 13th in the greater Yugoslavia in terms of the number of appearances on the international stage), but there was no shortage of players, masters of the ball.

The fact that at the 1998 World Cup in France, Budućnost fielded five players who wore the jersey of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, who originated from its ranks, and that 11 years before that in Chile, it had three first-team players who became youth world champions, goes hand in hand with this thesis.

And yes - two players who decided the Champions League final, who were Silver Ball winners in the famous France Football award for the best player in Europe.

That's why Buducnost = great footballers, more, much more, than anything else. Names that have surpassed the club.

Precisely because of the players who marked eras, not only of Titograd (Podgorica), Montenegrin or Yugoslav football, we decided to conduct a unique and difficult, but challenging survey at the end of the 100th year of the existence of our largest club - to choose the "ideal" team of the Future in the past century, with the help of readers and club legends!

"Ideal", in quotation marks, because there is no ideal team - it is impossible to put it together in the right way. Every such choice is subjective, even if it is made up of a thousand subjective opinions, and there is no form of choice that can be considered ideal.

The feat is even more difficult if you know how difficult it is to piece together periods, compare eras, and connect today's and past football, which, in terms of the rhythm and intensity of the game, seem like two different sports. The feat is even more difficult because in a century full of games, it's not easy to even count, remember legends, and not forget someone...

Well, still, despite all the limitations - let's go with the poll, let's go with the election.

We will try to at least get closer to the ideal concept.

In the next two months, until the end of the 100th year of Buducnost, readers will have the opportunity to choose, to vote.

The fact that they list the names of candidates for the best team for each position should not be a limitation - because someone has certainly been "forgotten", for someone a better player is someone who is not on the list, compared to someone who is on the list.

Therefore, our suggestions (seven or eight players for each position - over 60 in total) should by no means be seen as a list of the best players in history. Such a selection is impossible without a dose of subjectivity, or personal preferences.

Everyone who votes, due to all of the above, will have the opportunity to add a player they believe belongs to the ideal team, but who is not on this expanded list.

Although the team is set up in a sort of 4-3-3 formation, we will not be slaves to systems, or even positions themselves.

If the second-placed player in one of the positions receives significantly more votes than the player who was chosen as the first in a "similar" position, we will not hesitate to shuffle the cards a bit. Because many Buducnost footballers in history were equally good - in multiple positions.

Clearly, the decisive factor in the selection will be the votes, or rather the number of votes - and the votes of the club legends, which you will have the opportunity to read through the interviews, will be worth more than the votes of the others, the fans.

Really, who could be the best team in the hundred-year history of Buducnost?

Follow this poll, this selection, in the days when, in addition to the interviews, you will be able to read parts of the fantastic monograph dedicated to the club's centennial, which has recently, finally, been published.

Because, "a proud past, a united future," is the club's slogan for the anniversary.

Future with a lowercase or uppercase initial letter - it doesn't matter.