Partizan veterans played their first game back in 1992 and this weekend they were out on the field for the 1369th time. It was for a friendly against brotherly club PAOK Thessaloniki.
It was a meeting of both club`s true legends and Partizan won it 3-0 although the result itself was far from important. Just for the record, goals were scored by Nebojsa Marinkovic, Gabriel Radojicic and current FK Partizan Head Coach Igor Duljaj.
Two veteran teams played one friendly before. This time, visitors from Greece were led by former Partizan and PAOK goalkeeper Mladen Furtula.
“Partizan and PAOK have brotherly club connections. Lots of players played for both clubs and I would like to thank our guests for accepting our invitation. We won it today but it`s not so important. I hope we`ll meet again soon and it`s really important we socialize while we are able to. Now, we can move to club`s restaurant here for a bit of party time and to remind ourselves how young we are”, said FK Partizan veterans team captain Goran Kadenic.
“I didn`t play on a full-length pitch for a long time but I did a training session with Partizan first team earlier on. I played veterans game for 15 minutes and managed to score. I`m happy to be part of this and I hope we`ll have a similar meeting in Thessaloniki”, said Igor Duljaj.
Friendly in Partizan-Teleoptik Sports Centre was also attended by Greek Embassy Atache Evangelos Hatzopulos who was hosted by FK Partizan Deputy General Director Milorad Nikolic.
Partizan veterans were represented by Zeljko Budisa, Marko Jovanovic, Branko Savic, Milan Smiljanic, Kuzman Babeu, Nemanja Pavlovic, Nenad Marinkovic, Zdenko Muf, Vladimir Jocic, Nebojsa Marinkovic, Milos Bogunovic, Igor Duljaj, Danijel Aleksic, Darko Tesovic, Zeljo Radojicic, Goran Stojkovic, Gabriel Radojicic, MIlos Radosavljevic and Goran Radenic while PAOK veterans team consisted of Karageorgiu, Aleksandridis, Pelios, Lagonidis, Toursounidis, Arguropilos, Kanakoudis, Nastas, Kasiotis, Zavanias, Votias, Koutsopoulos, Papritsa, Bolkas, Argiriou, Spasic, Furtula, Psomiadis, Peliou, Joanidou, Vantosu, Papa, Kasioti, Teokari and Faloutsoi.