That is why the Father frozen him permanently with him until his death spoke.
Djuric took football through Hungary to Australia, and then Singapore where he was a living legend. He achieved 327 goals and was a statistical best attacker in the world. For Geylang United in 126 games, he gave 97 goals, for Singapore Armed Forces hit no 129 times in 150 games …
Today, the name of Singapore is standing next to his name, although he was born in Doboj. When asked by the journalist of the tportal what he was actually, he replied:
– I’m a Serb, but I’m a Bosnian. Real Bosnianos, as he is said, and Singapore. I was Yugoslav, then that land fell apart so I was refugees because those countries were no longer. Bosnia was always mine and it will be mine. But look, my parents never told me what I am. I was from a small Serb village, there was a Muslim village to us, and there were never any problems. My two best friends are Muslims, Damir and Samir, we are good.
Forget the football because Đurić was in Barcelona in a completely different sport. And as a refuge from Hungary, because it was previously 1991. escaped into that country after leaving the JNA. He says he was arrested because of that, but he used the permission to escape to escape.
I was interested in just a sport
– Bosnia and Herzegovina was a new state and received the right to perform at the Olympics. But since it was only a few months old, she couldn’t give her athletes in the qualifications, so she was told that she could send ten of them in individual sports. And he tells me a friend that the news of the local RadioMater came to seek me the BiH Olympic Committee.
– In Sarajevo, they remembered me as a good cananist, they heard that I was a refuge in Hungary and through the radioamaters somehow managed to reach me. I went to that radio station and answered the Olympic Committee. They told me that I would like to present BiH and that I have one day to decide because they have to send a list of athletes, and the Olympic Games are in a month! I remember walking toward the apartment and thinking what to do.
I couldn’t hear my home, because there was no telephone connection, I talk to them. I knew that the father and brother were in the Serbian army and how I will perform for Bosnia and Herzegovina now? But I was only interested in sports, I was athletes my whole life and I told my arm in Sarajevo to go to the game, “Djuric said.
By hitchhiking to olijada
He went to Barcelona by hitchhiker.
– Yes! They told me from Sarajevo that I would send me a fax confirmation that I was going to the Olympics and I had to come to Ljubljana, where will we have a plane in Barcelona. So how do I do to Ljubljana, man, my passport is worth it, how will I go across the border, and I have to go through Austria to Slovenia!? A friend couldn’t drive me all the way to the border, drove me to the highway and told me to stop. Some truck stopped and connected me. Asks the driver of me: “Where are you going?” I say, “I’m going to the Olympics in Barcelona.” And he seducibly says, “You’re going, you’re going, how do I don’t. I’m going too.” Of course he didn’t believe me.
The film story on the way to the Slovenian capital continues.
– Leave me at the border, I’ll be on foot again, I get to the Austrian transition and knock on that window. I give that my red passport, he tells me a cop so he’s not worth it and asks me in English where I’m going. I knew something English and tell him I’m going to Slovenia, then to the Olympics, and he looked at me, “You’re going, you’re going, how to no. I’m going too.” He didn’t trust me either! But I had that fax from the Olympic Committee, I showed him him and he told me to wait and left.
I sit there, with that one purse I had, when here he is in ten minutes with five other officers. There I was sure he was an end. Or they will deport me or I will go to jail, no third option. He reaches me, he turned to officers and in English, that I understand, “You complain about your lives, and he is refugees and does everything to go to the Olympics – the story Đurić and adds that he could not believe.
– He found me a police officer driver who drove me straight to Ljubljana and I met with other members of our small delegation. Some were refugees like me, some came from America, some directly from Bosnia even through the tunnel under Sarajevo.
Brother and mother watched opening olimy, her father did not want
He came to Barcelona without canoe and oars, the Spaniards gave him a desperate boat, ten pounds heavier than normal. He had no chance in him, he dropped out in the qualifications.
– It doesn’t even matter, I was in the Olympics! I had that accreditation around the neck and I could drive with her subway and busy and go to all competitions. Some people went to shopping. What a shopping, I don’t have a bank in my pocket, let me watch sports.
He says that the opening of the Olympics will be cut in memory forever.
– Opening I will never forget. We received ovation of the entire stadium, we ten of us present Bosnia and Herzegovina. He told me a brother later that he and his mother watched the opening on the TV, and his father did not want. From then, not until he talked to me again before his death, he talked to me for that, “Djuric discovered.
After the Olympics, he returned to Szeged, where he still had refugee status, and in September 1992. he ended up in Sweden. He planned to hire, and he trained with AIK from Stockholm. However, Swedish authorities have deported him back to Hungary. In Hungary, he started playing football in one other league, until 1995. When he settled in Australia.
Complete conversation with Alexander Đurić Read Here.
(Vijesti.ba)
