Whoever was at the stadium near Gorica on Saturday night and who stayed a little longer in the stands after the draw between Budućnosti and Sutjeska probably regretted being there at all and almost certainly won't think of coming again.
This time it's not about whether Montenegrin club football is more or less high-quality, four goals were scored in the derby (2:2), but about the fact that an ordinary fan could see how the players should not behave because of after all, he attended the duel between the two biggest Montenegrin clubs.
It is known that in our football, on the way to the trophy, resources are often not chosen on and off the field, but Budućnost showed on Saturday that it does not have a mechanism to deal with its own problems. And she experienced perhaps the biggest shame in history, even though there was everything in and around the Podgorica club. However, it never happened that one player knocked out another.
Buducnost lost the key battle after the duel with Sutjeska. She allowed the fans to wonder, to step onto the field as soon as they wanted, to then head to the locker room ready to re-educate the footballers, but also the goalkeeper Đorđi Pavličić to throw the institution of the club whose jersey he wears under his feet by hitting his teammate Igor Ivanovic. If there were no journalists, if there were no social networks, perhaps all these incidents would have remained far from the public eye and would only have been recounted, perhaps the club would have tried to hide them and solve them "within four walls", but there is no hiding and it cannot wake him up, because the whole region could see what happened. That is why the club and the disciplinary bodies of the Football Association of Montenegro are now on the move.
Bućnost first needs to clear up with itself and convince the public that it is a great club, because I guess the moment has come (although it was a long time ago) to clearly tell its own fans what role they should play. And it must not be such that the players are ordered to take off their jerseys, to go to the locker room and try to physically deal with individual players... All this was seen on Saturday after the draw with Sutjeska when the ultras allegedly "burst the film" due to their lack of commitment. more than because of the result that distanced Podgorica from the fight for the title.
Bućnost, therefore, did not do their homework in the organization of the match and therefore will surely be punished. Now, it is more important than that punishment, whatever it may be, that Budućnost proves that it is a club and to prevent further embarrassment, even though the damage has already been done. In yesterday's statement, the club announced that it had suspended Pavličić, but did not devote a word to what the fans did, whose desire to deal with the players led to the conflict between the goalkeeper and the attacker.
"Football club Budućnost, as the largest and most representative club in the country, has always strived for fair play, chivalrous competition exclusively on the field during the game, great interpersonal relations, as evidenced by our proud history. As a club, we distance ourselves from non-sporting matters, with the hope that we will all find strength together in the period ahead of us, because only united can we dream of great deeds", the announcement states.
In the case of Pavličić, the club can learn something from the example from 2009. During a friendly match, football player Đorđije Ćetković attacked his coach Mihailo Ivanovic. In the end, there was no physical contact, but Budućnost knew what it had to do - Ćetković was given a clean slate and left the club. At that time, the head of the professional staff and institutions was also protected, and at the same time a message was sent that there are clear rules that must be followed.
The goalkeeper of Budućnost will surely be punished by the FSCG Disciplinary Commission, and for a similar incident 12 years ago Sutjeska's captain Milorad Krivokapić was suspended from football for a year because after the derby against Budućnost he hit the opposing player Mitar Peković. Krivokapić wasn't even on the score sheet at the time (he was doing double cards), but that didn't bother him to find himself in the restrictive area in front of the changing rooms.
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