In mid-1934, Buducnost retained the title of the strongest team in Zeta County. In the June championship match, they were better than Zmaj (in Danilovgrad on June 10, it was 1:1, and seven days later in Podgorica 5:1 for Buducnost), then on July 15, they defeated Hercegovac (4:1), and on July 22 and 30, they were twice better than Balšić (5:0, 2:1) in what would turn out to be their only competitive obligations until the spring of 1936. They were left without a prize or an upgrade: due to the inactivity of the administration, but also the assassination in the French port of Marseille, in which the Yugoslav king Alexander I Karađorđević was killed on October 9, 1934, the Cetinje Football Sub-Association championship was not even held.
It was as if that was the last straw. Constant pressure from the police authorities, demotivation due to titles that were not rewarded with entry into the federal ranking, lack of money, the departure of several key players, such as Veljko Zeković i Djordje Premovic, who returned to Nikšić and strengthened Hercegovac, the constant "war" with the Podsavez, the lack of their own playing field - all of this reflected on Buducnost and led to its weakening.
When they took to the field for the first time in 1935, immediately after New Year's Eve, in a friendly match against Yugoslavia in Kotor, only one team remained from the team that had become the CNP champion in November 1932. Sefket Sabanadzovic, Arso Markovic i Pavle VujovićAlong with them, the red and white jersey was also worn by Doda Tahiri, Vojo Popovic, Vojo Mugosa, Vlado Bozovic, Milos Pavicevic, Asim Djurdjevic, Veljko Petrovic i Miso Begovic.
In the picture: From Buducnost's away game in Kotor, in January 1935: (from left to right) Doda Tahiri, Vojo Popovic, Vojo Mugoska, Arso Markovic, Vlado Bozovic, Pavle Vujovic (kneeling), Šefket Šabanadzovic, Milos Pavicevic, Asim Đurđević, Veljko Petrović, Mišo Begovic, Ilija Marinovic (football referee from Kotor).
In that entire year, only two more matches of Buducnost were mentioned in the Montenegrin press, and they were friendly matches: a triumph over Balšić (4:1) in the first half of May and a draw with Hercegovin (1:1) on September 21st.
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After a long period of inactivity, the Cetinje Football Sub-Association scheduled the first round of the new season for September 8, 1934. Buducnost and Hercegovac found themselves on the same side, refusing to participate in the championship. They were guided by the same reasons. Weighing what to do next, Buducnost cut in and announced that it was boycotting the sub-association competition, with a detailed explanation:
1) That the club that would be the champion of the Cetinje sub-association will never participate in the state championship;
2) That the financial side of championship matches is unbearable, because clubs do not have the funds to pay referees and delegates, whose daily wages are abundant;
3) If the club did not have its own stadium, every game it played with a foreign club would inevitably result in a deficit, and finally;
4) that the Cetinje Football Sub-Association bears all moral responsibility for this entire situation that exists in sports.
An almost identical explanation - and statement - was signed by Herzegovinian a few days later. In the "truncated" competition, which was played only by Cetinje clubs, Lovćen became the champion by defeating Montenegrin on December 8, 1935.
The main football news for Montenegrin football in those days did not come from Cetinje, but from Belgrade. At the assembly held on 15 December 1935, the Yugoslav Football Federation decided to change the system of the national competition, which finally, after almost five years of waiting, included the Cetinje Football Sub-Association. The new organization implied that after the championships in the sub-associations, the champions, sixteen in total, would qualify for the federal rank and then, using a double cup system, the Yugoslav champion would be decided.
The decision for Buducnost, which had passed its qualitative zenith, came too late. With varying success, the Podgorica club began the championship and played four matches against Zmaj and Balšić, before on April 13, 1936, just before its closure and dissolution, it was defeated by Lovćen 3:2 in Cetinje. The significance could not have been more complete: the second life cycle of Buducnost was completed five years after the duel with the same rival.
(From the monograph “Proud Past, One Future”, which will be on sale soon)
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