Judo In Montenegro

not implemented, that is, the republican judo organization whose goal
was supposed to be taking care of the development of this sport in Montenegro,
was never formed.
The absence of such an organization is only confirmed by the data
on the selection of Montenegrin representatives to the Judo Union of
Yugoslavia. The Judo Club “Titograd”, being both the best organized
and most successful at the time, usually chose Montenegrin representatives
to the federal structures, upon the agreement of the senior team
management. authorities.
Thus, in 1973, the representative of Montenegro to the Judo Union
of Yugoslavia was Vuk Rašović, who joined the judo club “Titograd”
in 1972 again and helped the team become member of the First Federal
League for the second time. (According to Momčilo Milić’s account of
the events on August 3, 2006).
The need to establish the Judo Union of Montenegro, as an organization
capable of playing its role in the development of Montenegrin
judo, was imposed by the ever-increasing number of emerging judo
clubs. At the time, due to organization of competitions and other activities,
the republican and municipal Unions of the Organizations for
Physical Culture (UOPC) were forced to organize clubs and initiate
the formation of the Judo Union of Montenegro. By Act No. 03-66 of
March 12, 1975, the Secretary of UOPC of Montenegro, Dragutin-Lale
Martinović, sent a formal note to the municipal UOPCs in the towns
with established judo clubs in which he, among other things, informed
them that:
“At the initiative of the Judo Club Titograd and the Unions of the
Organizations for Physical Culture of Montenegro, a meeting of the
representatives of the judo clubs in our republic will be held with the
aim of preparing and organizing the founding conference of the Judo
Union of Montenegro as soon as possible.
The meeting will be held on Monday, March 24, 1975, at the premises
of the Montenegrin UOPC at 12 o’clock.”
From the contents of the note No. 04-106, dated April 11, 1975,
which the Secretary of the UOPC of Montenegro, Mr Martinović sent
to the judo club from Kotor, it can be concluded that at the meeting of
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