Presentation of book "Sport Remembers"

BELGRADE - The book titled "Sport Remembers" on the Serbian-British sporting contacts during the First World War was presented at the press center of Tanjug news agency on Saturday with British Ambassador to Serbia Denis Keefe as one of the speakers.

The book shows us nobler, nicer and more human side of one of the most horrible periods in the history of the world. This book is a kind of a sports testimony and it greatly contributes to a better understanding of the relations between the Great Britain and Serbia, the British ambassador said.

Keefe said that the book by Dejan Zec, Filip Baljkas and Milos Paunovic shows that the British sporting spirit had a positive impact on the development of sports in Serbia.

We will remember all those wonderful people who made the common history of Serbia and the Great Britain, the ambassador said.

Dejan Zec, one of the authors of the book, said that "Sport Remembers" is the first project of the Center for sports heritage of southeastern Europe.

Milos Paunovic, another co-author of the book, pointed out that football in Serbia was popular even before World War I, though no one knew the rules of the game.

Numerous Serbian boys and soldiers, who stayed in England during World War II, took up sport and accepted fair play and later upon their return to the homeland, they applied it in other areas of life as well, he underlined.

The book was also commended on by Christopher Adams of the University of Central Lancashire, Ivan Cvetkovic, journalist with Belgrade daily Politika, Louise Miller, publicist from Edinburgh and Danilo Sarenac of the Belgrade Institute of Contemporary History.

Photo Tanjug,O.Toskic,ilustration