Judo In Montenegro

In this fashion, M. Vujisić, wrote about the participation of the Judo
Club “Titograd” in the federal league in an article entitled “Breathtaking
Performance of Titograd’s Judokas”, and introduced by a lead reading:
“Three Teams Compete in Titograd”:
“When the referees announced that the Youth Judo Club “Titograd”
was the best team of the east group of the First Federal League at the
end of the tournament held last week, the hall of the Centre of the Yugoslav
People’s Army in Titograd suddenly went quiet for a couple of
seconds. The silence was broken by a thunderous applause given by the
audience from Titograd, who thus greeted this great success.
No one had hoped for such a triumph. Especially having in mind
the fact that “Bosna” (Sarajevo) and “Hercegovac” (Mostar) competed
at the tournament. Both these teams badly wanted to reach the final
tournament, which is to be held on June 4 and 5 in Sarajevo, through
this competition. The first position was practically reserved for the
team from Sarajevo. But, it turned out otherwise. Having won only one
point, “Bosna” took the third, i.e. the last place. It is a real pity that
“Željezničar” (Sarajevo) did not come to the tournament. But this does
not reduce the value of the victory achieved by the young men from
Titograd.
“Titograd” and “Bosna” fought in the first round. The team from
Sarajevo started the fight in a superior way. Filipović thrashed Mićković
and showed, at least at the beginning, that the fear of the Titograd’s team
was justified; however, sport is sport and the winner is the one who wins
the fight (this is why forecasts of great experts often do not come true).
The next two fights were won by the talented Lazović and the experienced
Trifunović, who crushed their opponents and earned their team
precious points. Everybody realised that “Bosna” was brought “to its
knees”. The only thing to be done was to keep the acquired advantage.
Nobody doubted that this would happen, having in mind the fact that in
the next fight the Titograd’s team were to be represented by the heavy
weighter Vuk Rašović, the holder of black belt and a judo master, who
was ranked third at the last year’s absolute state championship. But,
feeling the weight of the importance of the fight (Rašović was also the
team’s coach), the renowned master lost to little known Puškarević.
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