On January 6, 1929, the Yugoslav king Alexander I Karađorđević dissolved the National Assembly, banned the work of all political parties and unions, political gatherings, introduced censorship, proclaimed the ideology of “integral Yugoslavism” and changed the name of the state from the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The illegal Communist Party of Yugoslavia responded by calling for an uprising against the dictatorship.
"The only way out of this crisis for the working class and the peasantry is armed struggle, a civil war against the rule of the hegemonic Serbian bourgeoisie."
The attempted communist uprising was reduced to isolated incidents.
In suppressing opposition activities, the regime also targeted workers' clubs. According to some information, in just one year, the police "disbanded" 49 clubs throughout Yugoslavia. Among them were Nikšić's Hajduk and - Zoru, the forerunner of Budućnost.
At the end of February 1929, the district administration in Podgorica banned all sports and other activities of the RSK Zora.
"Simply put, the mayor of Srez ordered us to bring red jerseys and a ball to the headquarters and that the club be banned from activity. He communicated this verbally to me personally," claimed Šefket Šabanadžović.
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Word of the ban quickly reached the center of the Podsavez. Novo Doba of March 12, 1929, reported, among other things: "The Workers' Club from Podgorica, RSK Zora, has been dissolved."
Dawn broke and announced the arrival of the Future.
From a time distance of a century, in a situation when newspapers of the time did not list the lineups in their scant match reports, it would be as pretentious as it is frivolous to come up with a list of players for the Workers' Sports Club Zora that would be said to be complete, final and unquestionable.
In the material they collected and published Husein Tuzovic, Milan Raicevic and journalist of Pobjeda Milan Markovic, mentions: Bećir Abdomerović, Andro Bulatović, Luka Cevka Bulatović, Karlo Vugrinec, Vaso Vukadinović, Đorđije Ljalja Vučelić, Ilija Ico Vučelić, Milan Đurović, Ahmet Jakupović, Vojo Kazić, Saćir Kapadžić, Smajo Koristović, Mahmut Buto Krkanović, Ahmet Kupic, Cazim Maljević, Arso Ćaro Marković, Božo Milačić, Mitar Milačić, Gojko Mitrović, Milan Mitrović, Milo Pajović, Luka Pavicevic, Šćepo Pejović, Jovo Petrović, Petar Popović, Blažo Prelević, Milan Raičević, Branko Rajković, Vlado Raković, Smajo Ramović, Vojo Rogošić, Rizo Serhatlić, Saćir Špico Serhatlić, Jusuf Cufo Taljanović, Mustafa Cafo Hodžić, Vaso Čarapic, Vlado Čejović, Musaja Čelebicić, Tahir Čelebicić, Duljo Džaferadžović, Šefket Sabanadzovic, Blazo Zila Sutulovic i Kico Scepovic.
It is necessary to emphasize that these are members of Zora (and Budućnost), which does not necessarily mean that they played for them. We could add to the list the names of those who, by decision of the Split Football Sub-Association, are registered for Zora: Jovan Vučinić, Vaso Glomazić (in the Adriatic Post Office it says "Gzmagzić"), Bosko Djordjevic, Ibrahim Djurbuzovic, Milivoje Zukic, Pero Krivokapic, Ivo Miković, Veljko Milatović, Vasilije Misović, Ahmet Mujadzevic, Stevo Ljakovic, Dimitrije Pajovic, Jovan Petrovic, Savo Radonjic, Amar Orahovac, P. Uskokovic, including Bozo F. Vukcevic, "an impregnable bulwark", who crossed from Balšić to Zora in January 1928, "and was immediately voted captain", as he wrote Jovan P. Vukcevic in the Adriatic Post Office from February 11th of the same year.
Feeling called out, the new captain responded two weeks later in the same place that it was "untrue that titles or any promises forced me to leave the Balšić sports club and join Š. K. Zoro".
In the Adriatic Post, the long-standing official SNP gazette, both "Šatir Kopanić" and "Asim Leopold" are mentioned.
An insight into what Zora's standard lineup looked like, or rather most of it, was provided by Radni narod from October 1, 1927, in a report from a friendly match in which the "red team" defeated Balšić 1:0 on September 25, 1927.
It was mentioned that the goalkeeper stood out in the winning team Musaja Celebicic, defenders Bećir Abdomerović i Vaso Vukadinović, centarhalf Riza Serhatlic, right hemisphere Arsen Markovic, these wings Tahir Celebicic i Branko Rajkovic.
(From the monograph “Proud Past, One Future”, which will be on sale soon)
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