Baština (Jan 2018)
The abolition of Serbian club 'Victory' in Đakovica 1935-1937
Abstract
The foundation of sport's clubs in the territory of Kosovo and Metohia in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was controlled by the state due to the number of the Albanian population. Each selfinitiated starting up of each kind of association had for its consequences the possibility of negative impact on the youth, which had to be brought up in the spirit of integral Yugoslav orientation. Propaganda conducted by Kosovar Committee or Italian agents toward national masses had the most easily been transferred via football, which experience its rise in the interwar period. The foundation of the sport's club 'Victory' in Đakovica in 1935 threatened to become detrimental to the interest of the state in the milieu with greater percentage of the Albanian population so that it had to be prevented in the beginning. Bearing in mind the dossier of the founder mostly of Islamic religion, the authorities in Zetska banovina and the Ministry of physical education of the people banned, two years afterwards, the work of the club from the fear of negative impact and possible association on religious basis. There had been similar cases in 1939 in Kosovska Mitrovica and Pristina, which were settled at the same way.
