The decision to disband did not catch the leaders of RSK Zora off guard. The ink on the ban has not even dried yet, if such an act existed, and...
"The party has not given up," said Milan Raičević.
“Work began on creating a new sports society. We named it Buducnost, because every one of our actions was imbued with the fight for a better life and a safer future.”
The reincarnation did not go smoothly. The first attempt to register a new, or rather renewed club with Spasoje Raspopović (a carpenter and trade union activist, born around 1895 in Podgorica. He has been a member of the Socialist Workers' Party of Yugoslavia since February 1920, when its branch was founded in Montenegro. As a prominent communist, he was one of the founders and secretary of the first workers' singing society "Abrašević", and a member of the leadership of the RSK Zora. He died in March 1930.) as president, well known to the police authorities, failed. The district administration rejected the rules of the society. In order to survive and exist, a compromise had to be agreed to - Budućnost was registered as a "civil sports club", and it represented Niko Keljevic, former first man of Dawn.
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The connection with the defunct club has been maintained in the club's colors - red will continue to be the recognizable symbol of Buducnost - as well as in the coat of arms.
The design, which exudes the aesthetics of the 20s, represents a heart. In addition to the full name of the club, it includes a stylized ball in which the shape of a star, a symbol of communism, can be seen. There is also the Sun, with rays, which is visible on the right, eastern side, and indicates the awakening of the day, or dawn.
The date of the club's founding has faded into the mists of the past. However, an article in Split's Jadranska Pošta - the then official newspaper of the Split Football Association - which had escaped earlier chroniclers, reveals the details of Buducnost's first match, played on March 24, 1929. And the choice of opponent in the friendly match - at the Balšić stadium, Lovćen was the guest - was a kind of message that they had not deviated from the course set by the start of Zora, which had been shut down only a month earlier.
The “newly founded club” triumphed 4:1, and from the report of the inevitable Jovan P. Vukčević It is learned that two players played for the winning team. Mitrovic - Milan i Gojko, as well as “Çaća”, which may be a typo and refers to Arsen Ćar MarkovićIt is recorded that the first match of Buducnost was refereed by Spiro Mugoš and that "there was a lot of audience, of course, almost all for free."
How do we know it was the first? Because the author of the text stated that this match opened the season in Podgorica, "after a long winter sports break."
It is unusual and difficult to explain that in the Montenegrin press throughout 1929 there was no mention of Buducnost. What remains is an attempt to revive its first months through sporadic articles in Split newspapers. Even in the center of the Sub-Union, where information from the “province” arrived with considerable delay and “by the spoonful”, there was no doubt about the manner in which Zora ceased to operate, or that it continued to exist in another form.
"The following were dissolved by the authorities: SK Sloven Gruda, RSK Zora from Podgorica," wrote Novo Doba on May 4, 1929.
“The latter has now turned into Gr.SK Budućnost, and a new one: GSK Obilić - Nikšić has submitted the rules to the authorities.”
A few days before that, on April 27, 1929, the Adriatic Post published official news from the Split Football Sub-Association that the Civic Sports Club Budućnost was being accepted as a temporary member. The process of full membership took time.
(From the monograph “Proud Past, One Future”, which will be on sale soon)
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