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Judo In Montenegro

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Milorad Vujović on judo sport, his current workplace and of course,<br />

personal accomplishments of this young and talented athlete, who has<br />

been doing judo for less than four years.<br />

Even though judo is a fairly young sport and has no tradition in<br />

<strong>Montenegro</strong>, Vujović has managed to earn himself a place among the<br />

best judokas in the country. This fact is proved by his greatest success,<br />

achieved at the international competition “Adriatic Cup”, held in Split.<br />

Among 70 athletes who had come from all over Europe, he reached the<br />

finals, thus placing himself among 10 most successful competitors. If<br />

we complete Vujović’s sport ID with the fact that he has reached the<br />

semifinals of the state championships twice, and obtained the master<br />

candidate title (Vujović is the only master candidate in <strong>Montenegro</strong>)<br />

and the brown belt, this success comes by no means by chance or as a<br />

great surprise.<br />

- How did you start doing judo?<br />

- One afternoon I had some free time and didn’t know what to do<br />

and so I somehow found myself in the gym where judokas were practicing.<br />

At the same time, deep down in me, a desire was born to master this<br />

martial art, full of spirit and dynamics, to reinvent myself into another<br />

Milorad, unfamiliar to me and the sport public…<br />

- What win do you find dearest and what is your most memorable<br />

success?<br />

- The “Adriatic Cup” competition has come as a huge success after<br />

a standstill brought about by objective reasons (Vujović has been<br />

coaching the judo club in Titograd). And every victory is dear to me and<br />

I can’t choose the dearest one.<br />

- What was your heaviest defeat and when were you angry with<br />

yourself?<br />

- The last defeat is always the heaviest. Still, I’d say it would be<br />

the defeat by Brančić from Novi Sad. It was my debacle at the last<br />

year’s belts competition. For this defeat I myself was to blame, because<br />

my confidence of certain win made me lose easily from a weaker<br />

competitor.<br />

- You are the coach of the <strong>Judo</strong> Club “Titograd”. Tell us something<br />

about the conditions for popularising judo in <strong>Montenegro</strong>.<br />

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