In the initial months after the start/resumption of Buducnost's work, the captain performed the coaching duties. Bećir Abdomerović, whose toughness and sharpness in the game did not go unnoticed by the Montenegrin sports reporters of the time.
However, due to a knee injury, the former Balšić player had to retire from the field. He took over the captaincy and coaching roles. Sefket Sabanadzovic, whose proactivity will be one of the key elements of Buducnost's competitive rise.
During 1930, he spent two weeks in Zagreb, next to Belgrade, the first football center of the Yugoslav kingdom, whose teams had won four out of eight Yugoslav championship titles by then.
The picture shows Budućnost from 1932. From the left, standing: Ahmet Jakupović (football referee), Jovo Šutulović, Blažo Šutulović, Božidar Ulić, Ivo Milošević, Mustafa Hodžić, Gojko Mitrović, Arsen Marković, Sergije Stanić (secretary); crouching: Šefket Šabanadžović, Pavle Vujović, Jablan, Mihailo Popović, Blažo Đurović.
Šabanadžović (born in 1912 in Podgorica) was already recognized as a great football talent at the age of 16 and became a member of Zora. He studied at the University of Zagreb. He was a long-time coach and captain of the pre-war Buducnost, and later played for Montenegro. After the war, Šabanadžović remained in football for several more years, dispensing justice on Montenegrin fields. Older generations of Titograd citizens remembered him as a professor at the Trade Academy (Secondary School of Economics). Around 1960, he moved to Mostar and continued his pedagogical and educational mission. He died in the city on the Neretva River on January 24, 1989. On behalf of Buducnost, the then president of the club said goodbye to him Milan Milić.
"I watched the training sessions of... Građanski, Haško and Konkordija," said Šabanadžović.
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He stated that on that occasion he met Građanski's coach. Marton Bukovim. However, the Hungarian did not take over the club until 1936. At the time of Šabanadžović's visit, the Zagreb team was managed by an Austrian. Johan Strnad.
"First he asked me what system we were playing. I told him it was a rather disorganized game: the full-backs guard the half-backs, and the midfielders the wings. The centre-half was pushed forward. He then told me that it was no longer played like that anywhere and that we had to switch to a modern 'double-ve' system. In fact, the full-backs move to wing positions and help the attack, while the midfielders build the game and guard the middle of the field. The centre-half is at the back, closest to the goalkeeper, as a sweeper. From football theory and history it is known that the 'WW' or 'Metodo' system, as a variation on the 'Danube football school' - whose excellent representatives were Austrian coaches - was introduced by the Italian Vittorio Pozzo, coach of the Azzurri national team that won two world titles (1934 and 1938).
Upon Šabanadžović's return to Podgorica, the new football paradigm was gladly accepted by the management. The players showed less enthusiasm.
"The new way of playing and training was received with disapproval by the players. There was much more work than before. I taught the players how to dribble the ball, head the ball, how the defenders ran into the wing positions and crossed the ball," said Šabanadžović, who had not the slightest complaint about the club's discipline.
"Given that the Party influenced the work of the club, it can be safely said that the discipline was excellent, true Party discipline. Each player had to carry out his task. The players were never late, nor were they punished. They were exemplary on the field."
The results showed that they had mastered the material.
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