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Excellent high quality super well-illustrated and detailed 35th anniversary history of this Yugoslav club who had their best years in the fifties when they twice finished third and reached the FA Cup final.
The greatest moments in club's history came after the Second World War. In 1950 the club won promotion to the Yugoslav Second League and in 1953, after beating another historical club FK Macva Šabac in the play-offs, the club gained promotion to the Yugoslav First League. In their first top league season, in 1953–54 the club finished in 12th place, among 14, and avoided relegation; in the next season the club did better, finishing 10th. In the 1955–56 Yugoslav First League the club achieved its biggest success by finishing in 3rd place, behind only the Belgrade giants Red Star and Partizan. The team that season was coached by former Partizan coach Illes Spitz and among the best players were Zlatan Ljujic, Blagoje Vidinic, M. Petrovic, Radmilo Ristic, Ðura Cokic, B. Pavlovic, M. Ljubenovic, Milorad Diskic, Pflander, Paškovic, Zoran Prljincevic, Aleksandar Petakovic, Ljuba Ognjanovic, Josipovic, Jovan Jezerkic, Tihomir Markovic Marcel Žigante and Bozidar Mladenovic.
The next season playing with basically the same team, the club finished 8th but reached the 1957 Yugoslav Cup final. The match was played in Belgrade on May 26 against FK Partizan in the JNA Stadium. At half-time Radnicki was winning by 3–0, having scored the goals Belin (own-goal), Petakovic and Prljincevic. That final is remembered as one of the craziest ever, because in the second half Partizan turned the match around and in the end won 5–3 with goals from Valok, Mesaroš and Kaloperovic. Despite the loss, Radnicki made an impact in Yugoslav football at that time. Due to playing their matches on a field at Viline Vode near the Danube, the team earned the nickname of "Majstori sa Dunava" ("???????? ?? ??????"), in translation: "The Masters from the Danube".
In the 1957–58 Yugoslav First League Radnicki finished 3rd again, behind Dinamo Zagreb, Partizan and in front of Red Star with equal number of points but better goal difference. In the season 1958–59 they finished 4th, after Red Star, Partizan and Vojvodina. However, these were the last seasons of the golden era of the Danube masters, because afterwards a fall begin, with a 9th place in 1959–60 and a relegation awarding bottom 12th place in the 1960–61 Yugoslav First League.
28 x 21 cms, hardback, 228 pages.
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