Judo In Montenegro

It was not before 1981, after twenty “chased off” competitors of
“Titograd” (Ranko Miranović, Vukašin Đurović, Vaso Đokić, Sreten
Kipa, Milorad Mladenović, Momčilo Markuš, Mihailo, Vojin and
Božidar Markuš, Dragan Đuretić, Gano Janković, Zdravko Milić, Pavle
Milić, Dragomir Škatarić and Marko Velimirović) had addressed all
socio-political and sport institutions of the city of Titograd in writing,
and with the “damage” done becoming evident, that some personnel
changes were made in the Judo Union of Montenegro, which significantly
weakened the position of the wrongdoers in “Titograd”.
As an account of an extremely bad situation in “Titograd”, I shall
quote from “The Report on the Work of the Presidency of the Judo Union
of Montenegro for the period 1981-1982” (page 2, paragraph 3):
“…In this respect, we should point out the negative example of
“Titograd”, which, despite the quality of its broad judo base, for a long
time has not met its statutory obligations (has failed to hold a conference,
the official club president has distanced himself from the club
activities, the club responsibilities have been taken over by individuals,
etc.).”
To the detriment of judo sport both in Titograd and Montenegro, the
situation described lasted a long time. Judo in Podgorica and Montenegro
even now suffers the consequences of the conflict between Milić
and Jovanović and of the extremely undue reaction of the club management
and the Union.
At the time of these events in Podgorica, Nikšić saw a lot of work.
Instead of quarreling, the judokas opted for fellowship. The judo clubs
“Akademik”, led by Petar Ilić, and “Čelik”, founded by the coach
and competitor Dr Dušan Martinović, and later the judo clubs “Braća
Labudović”, with coaches Dr Bojan Mandić and Ljubo Nikolić, an engineer,
and “Dragova Luka”, with the coach Milinko Labudović, became
the most powerful centre of the Yugoslav judo.
The judo club “Titograd” changed its name to “Budućnost”, which
dropped out of the Federal League. Vukašin Đurović, having become
the coach, the work in the club became more serious, which led to remarkable
results.
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