Exactly on this day 46 years ago, the strangest match in the history of Dinamo took place. At the prestigious Mostar tournament, on February 9, 1980, the result was an incredible 9:2 for the home team Velež.
Although it was an insignificant friendly match, at the traditional and once prestigious tournament in Mostar, not a single defeat by Dinamo in history – exactly 46 years ago – did not have such a negative impact as the famous 2:9 against Velež on February 9, 1980 (yes, it sounds unbelievable: the result was 9:2 on February 9).
That was Dinamo’s biggest and heaviest defeat in history – until the recent 2:9 with Bayern in Munich – and he was signed by one of the most important coaches who ever led the Blues, Vlatko Marković.
It was played in Mostar at the Pod bijeli brijegom stadium from 1:30 p.m. in front of 20,000 spectators, and the judge from Novi Sad was Maksimović.
The scorers were: 1:0 Skočajić (4th), 2:0 Okuka (5th), 3:0 Skočajić (23rd), 3:1 Kranjčar (29th), 3:2 Deverić (40th), 4:2 Slišković (43rd), 5:2 Slišković (49th), 6:2 Skočajić (56th), 7:2 Skočajić (63rd), 8:2 Slišković (71st), 9:2 Slišković (82nd).
The following performed for Velež: Marić, Ćutuk, Hadžiabdić, Vukičević (Jakirović), Matijević, Đurasović, Okuka, Slišković, Slato, Ledić (Zovko), Skočajić (Kalajdžić).
For Dinamo: Stinčić (Ivković), Hadžić, Tucak, Mustedanagić (Devčić), Kurtela, Bošnjak (Marić), Kranjčar, Bručić, Deverić, Janjanin (Bonić), Mlinarić.
So how did such a Dinamo disaster come about in the first place? Be careful, in the previous season, in 1978/1979, Dinamo was the champion of Yugoslavia, and lost the title through administrative means. So we are talking about an impressive and incredibly talented team.
Everything worked for us, it’s one of those games when everything you imagine goes through, and everything you shoot at goes into the goal. So here, I scored four goals for Dinamo, which I never did again. The most I scored was a hat-trick against Sloboda from Tuzlarecalled Velež’s hero, then bearded Blaž Baka Slišković.
Urban legend says that Mlinarić complained to you after the game that the Dinamo players were tired from a night out the night before, and that you replied: ‘And what do you think, if we were in the theater last night?’
It was like that. As we walked towards the dressing rooms, fatigue was indeed visible on the faces of Dinamo’s players, but also on ours. you know, At that time, Mostar offered interesting places for night outsyou could go out, have a good time, have fun. And then I can understand Dinamo players, yes there was a little relaxation, Slišković added.
His teammate Vlado Ćutuk claims that the most important impulse for the Velež players in that incredible match was given by their coach, the fanatical Vukašin Višnjevac, a native of Gacka in eastern Herzegovina.
He constantly asked us to attack, rush, pressfrom the bench during the match, from the first to the last minute, his well-known positive terror emanated: ‘come on, faster, stronger, until the end…’, even if it was a friendly match. I must point out that Velež was very powerful at that time and that, along with Liverpool, it was the only European team that had not lost a game at home for three years.
We had players like Slišković or Halilhodžićwho solved games with their class, and we also had the incredibly fast, elusive left defender Džemal Hadžiabdić, a player who could still play in any club today.said Ćutuk and added:
We had great respect for Dinamo, but also a terrible motive because Dinamo had a large number of fans in Herzegovinaso there was a traditional rivalry between Velež and Dinamo. That’s why the victory over Dinamo was always a matter of prestige and very sweet.
And what do Dinamo’s players say about the 2:9 defeat? Džemal Mustedanagić he joked.
2:9? I have nothing to do with it. Coach Vlatko Marković replaced me in the 20th minuteand then it was only 2:0the legendary Džemo laughed, then continued:
Why was I replaced? That afternoon I was in charge of Slišković, who was clearly in a great mood to play, and coach Marković felt that I was not up to the task so he took me out of the game early. While I was in the shower, gunsmith Nikola Marković came to me and said: “Dude, it’s already 3:0, they’re breaking us.”
At that, I, angry and disappointed about the substitution, made some inappropriate comment, and Nikola passed it on to Vlatko, so at the next game in Tivat I was on the bench, and the one after that, in Dubrovnik, in the stands. But when the championship was resumed, Marković brought me back to the team and I was irreplaceable. In the Cup final with Red Star in Belgrade, I was the man of the match.
It was said that at that time Dinamo’s players did not have a great relationship with Vlatko Marković, and that is why they played with Velež at half throttle.
It’s not true!Dinamo’s goalkeeper immediately denied it Tomislav Ivkovićwho entered the game with a score of 5:2, and then explained the genesis of the heavy defeat:
With the score 3:2, we had a chance to equalize, but as it didn’t happen, we went head to head with strawberries, and they countered and scored on us. Simply, when such a match comes, miracles happenespecially in friendly, preparatory matches in which there is no competitive charge. That defeat was hard for all of us, especially coach Vlatko Marković, who was a real gentleman after him he offered to resign. But she was not accepted.
And it’s better that it wasn’t, because that spring in 1980, Dinamo, although only 12th in the standings at the end of the championship, surprisingly won the Marshal Tito Cup by defeating the favored Crvena zvezda in the final (1:0, 1:1). interestingly, Two months after the 2:9 defeat, Dinamo was again a guest in Mostar and played 1:1 in the championship.
And in the aforementioned tournament, where they were defeated 2:9 in the semi-finals, Dinamo beat Sarajevo 2:0 in the match for third place, while in the final, Velež defeated Partizan 1:0 with a goal by Blaž Slišković.
