He was probably the first - major reinforcement of Buducnost. The negotiations regarding his transfer from Lovćen in December 1975 were followed almost daily by the newspapers of the time ("Pobjeda", "Titogradska tribina", "Sport"). The transfer saga was probably the first of its kind in Titograd, Buducnost and Montenegro in general.
The Titograd club eventually paid compensation to the Cetinje club, and Mojas Radonjic got an apartment. As an Olympic representative, the "king scorer" of the Second League (five out of six second league seasons in Lovćen, whether it was South or East - he finished as the top scorer), corpulent, uncompromising, with a Beatles haircut, and with his very appearance, he portrayed the football romance of the 70s in the most original way.
Over the next five and a half years, he became one of the greatest legends of the first-league Buducnost, against whom he had previously fought many second-league battles while wearing the Lovcen jersey. And so on until he moved to AEK Athens in 1981, to succeed the "prince from the Neretva", Dušan Bajević.
The type of attack - "on Mojaš" - has become a true urban football legend and describes when a team attacks desperately: with long balls, on a robust center forward.
Although Radonjić himself claims that - is used incorrectly:
"I had Ante Miročević", who could hit me from 30-40 meters, as they say - in the blink of an eye. And today they don't play, they kick the ball."
Mojaš's choice of the "ideal" team for Buducnost, actually two teams, and the description of the football players who are in those teams, is in itself a great, historical story - worthy of the century of the largest Montenegrin football club.
Most of the players he put on his team were either his teammates or he himself was their coach - and in some cases, like Slavko Vlahovic - both.
"Buducnost had so many great players that it's difficult to put them in three teams," he notes.
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Still, it starts - from the goalkeeper.
"Let it be Dragoje Leković". I was his coach. The Golden Chilean. In that country, at the age of 19, he was a member of the A national team, on the list for two World Cups."
Milutin-Mišo Folić, a right back, is the only player from the first team that Radonjić did not play with, or coach. The opposite is true:
"Mišo was my coach. I watched him play before that, I think it was 1963. I studied at the Trade School in Titograd, we watched the game from a poplar tree, which fell in the middle of the game - and we all fell, got hurt. Buducnost played against Željezničar from Niš, for whom he played Miroslav Vardic", I remember that."
When choosing a stopper tandem, Radonjić thought for a bit longer...
"How many good players... Nikola Jovanovic "He may not have played for Buducnost for long, but considering what he did in his career, where he played, in Red Star, Manchester United, let him be. He played both right-back and center-back, captivating with his elegance. I didn't find him in Buducnost, I played against him, when he was in Red Star. He was paired with Slavko Vlahović. We played together, I was his coach. And he was such a player that every coach would want him," says Mojaš Radonjić.
He chooses the left back position Dragoljub Brnović.
"Both right-handed and left-handed, two completely identical feet, it's rare to 'get it right' like that. He could play everything, he even played libero."
Radonjić didn't hesitate much when choosing the last midfielder for his team Buducnost.
"Janko Miročević"Such energy, in such a fragile body... It was incredible. At the game, it was like he had four lives."
Janko's brother, Ante, deserves a special description. Of course, he is next in Mojaš's best team, Buducnost.
"Tonko was undisputed. If someone from Buducnost played for the national team of the former Yugoslavia, it was a miracle. And when he played his best for Buducnost - he didn't get a call-up, for some reason, but only later. The question is whether something similar will ever be born. The best, until the appearance of Leaves i Peje". It was hard for all of us to play in the mud, but not for him - all the same, naturally. He danced like on the best grass. He could not train for a whole week and play a match masterfully. I was the opposite example - if I didn't train well that week, if I didn't do a strong training session on Friday, I was nowhere to be found."
Radonjić later recalls an anecdote from the beginning of his coaching career to describe who Ante Miročević was.
"The late eighties, Ivica Osim was the coach, I went to Zagreb to watch the national team's training, he was waiting for me at the 'Laguna' hotel together with his assistant Mušović. When I entered, he said to Mušović: 'Tell him how badly Buducnost played'. I didn't know what it was about, and in fact Osim was remembering a story from the 70s when he was the coach of Željezničar, when he sent his emissaries to Titograd to film Buducnost. They told him that Buducnost played the same way - Tonko hits me with a long ball, who is between the stopper and the libero, I head it straight to the side. Osim told his people - 'whatever, that's wrong'. And the game comes, we win 4:1, we score three goals in that way".
Next - Mijatović and Savicevic. The greatest sons of Titograd football. Mojaš was their coach - assistant, head...
"They were talents outside the box. Mijatović appeared - and every move he made, every touch with the ball - you could see the difference. He was destined. And then there was Savićević! He was born like that, I don't know if the coaches played a role at all. I was an assistant Stanko Poklepović when we trained in the gym, in the Sports Center, in a small area full of players, and Dejo was hitting the ball nonchalantly, and I was struggling to explain that he was hitting it 'more correctly'. Then one day Poklepović invited me to lunch at the Crna Gora Hotel, and said to me: 'Don't say anything more to that Savićević. God gave him everything, and we can't fix anything for him - we can only take away what he has'. That's what the famous Špaco was like - a miracle of a coach. I think I did help Savićević head the ball. And he scored many goals in his career that way.
Left striker, or left winger, the player Radonjić was deadly in tandem with - Dragan-Guzo Vujović.
"In the beginning, he was a classic winger, and he didn't have the constitution to be able to run, to sprint, such a distance. When he was switched to another striker, he was fantastic. You give it to him and you don't worry! Even we on the field, we watch and enjoy it.
When it comes to a central striker, Mojaš chooses Ante Drobnjak.
"He had everything a true striker has, but also what was perhaps not so relevant at that time, and there is much more of it in today's football - defensiveness."
This is Mojašev's first best team from Buducnost, and the second? All from the beginning...
"Keeper Momcilo Vujacic. Incredible composure. It looked like he didn't have the height for a goalkeeper, but 'one on one' - no one could beat him. Right back Zeljko Petrovic, although he was also a midfielder. Mother Nature gave him exceptional technique, he also had a light constitution, he could play everything except a defender and a classic center forward. A couple of defenders: Branislav Drobnjak - Nisa Saveljic". Drobnjak played for the national team of the old Yugoslavia as a player of Buducnost. To make it from Titograd - it's like being a European champion. Saveljić didn't play in France by chance."
Zoran-Zoja Vorotović is the left back in this Radonjić team. At one time, before his death, Zoja said to the TV camera in an interview: "Ask Mojaš if his head hurts from my crosses."
Mojaš now says jokingly: "It hurts, that's how the balls were, hard, heavy, even when they were filled with water."
Jokes aside...
"We had the two most offensive defenders in Yugoslavia! Slavko Vlahović on the right, while he was playing that, Zoja Vorotović on the left. They had other teams too, but one each, no two."
Coming up Branko Brnović, as the last midfielder, and in front of him, on the right - Dimitrije Mitrović.
"Brnović was a universal player, the last midfielder he played for the national team. Dimo was an incredible talent, he had everything - except the way of life. If he had lived a sporty life, where would he end up."
For another, left midfielder, Radonjić chooses a still active football player - Draško Božović.
"I was his manager when he started at Buducnost, coach at Lovcen. He could have done a lot more in his career - it's his fault, and maybe other people's, that he didn't play well consistently, that's why he only showed flashes of what he can do, and he could have done a lot."
And the attacking trio: Drago-Četka Kovačević right, Milan Calasan left, Željko Janović central.
"Kovačević was like Garinča - everyone knew how he would dribble, no one could stop him. And it wasn't easy to play wing back then - you pass the defender, the libero is waiting for you, you have to pass two people. That's why he hit two out of three crosses where he needed to. Ćalasan was a real striker, he could play left and right, Janović too - strong, dangerous, he knew how to play with the ball".
Mojaš's two ideal teams for Buducnost
The first best team of Budućnost, chosen by Mojaš Radonjić, includes:
Dragoje Lekovic - Milutin Folic, Nikola Jovanovic, Slavko Vlahovic, Dragoljub Brnovic - Janko Mirocevic, Ante Mirocevic, Predrag Mijatovic - Dejan Savicevic, Dragan Vujovic, Anto Drobnjak.
Mojaš's second best team looks like this:
Momcilo Vujacic - Zeljko Petrovic, Branislav Drobnjak, Nisa Saveljic, Zoran Vorotovic - Branko Brnovic, Dimitrije Mitrovic, Drasko Bozovic - Drago Kovacevic, Milan Calasan, Zeljko Janovic.
After the Buducnost games, there was a convoy of cars heading to Cetinje
Mojaš Radonjić “fell in love” with Buducnost when he was 15 years old, when he watched the Marshal Tito Cup final against Dinamo live at Marakana.
- I was studying at the Trade School, we were on a field trip. And that's when Budućnost was playing in the Cup final. Štefanić, Šorban, Franović, Todorović, Gardašević, Todorović, Savković, Pavlović... not to mention everyone, I'll forget someone.
Twelve years later, Mojaš Radonjić on the Marakana pitch, in a blue jersey - another Cup final, this time against Hajduk.
- It's a shame we didn't succeed, neither them nor us. We played exceptionally that season, under Marko Valok, and the final is one game, anything was possible against a strong Hajduk. In the regular 90 minutes we were closer to winning, but we lost in extra time.
Radonjić remembers his debut in the Budućnost jersey, in January 1976.
- It was at the Titograd tournament, against Ferencvaros. Knee-deep mud, I scored two goals.
This was preceded by a real "soap opera" about his arrival at Buducnost. Before that, he almost ended up at Čelika from Zenica, who were previously coached by the coach who eventually brought him to Buducnost - Dušan Varagić.
There are many anecdotes...
“We were rushing from Cetinje to Kotor, in the Southern Region, Čedo Milošević and I, to get a ticket so that we could register for Buducnost on time. We were driven by Miki Martinović, a glass cutter, a big Buducnost fan. Rain, snow on Obzovica, our tire blew out. Čedo and I changed it, in a hurry!”
Buducnost's matches were a celebration.
"I remember that every Buducnost game in Titograd was watched by at least two thousand people from Cetinje. After the game, I go to Njeguše, and towards Cetinje - there was such a column returning that the journey took several hours."
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