Football in Yugoslavia

BELGRADE - Serbian football giants Red Star Belgrade have announced that head coach Milos Milojevic's contract was expiring at the end of the season.

In a statement on Thursday, the club thanked Milojevic for his excellent cooperation and the club's success during his tenure.

Blue Sky Investment from North Macedonia is taking over the indebted football club FC Vardar from its previous owner, the Russian-born businessman Sergey Samsonenko, the City of Skopje which mediated the negotiations said on Wednesday.

Shackled by debts and relegated from the top tier, Skopje's once mighty FC Vardar faces an uncertain future.

Police arrested two people on Sunday on suspicion that they participated in an attack earlier that day on a group of five younger people in Supetar, a small town on the Croatian island of Brac.

The young people who were attacked were Croatian citizens doing seasonal work on Brac, among them two Croatian Serbs. They sustained minor injuries as a result of the incident.

The Croatian State Attorney's Office in Osijek, eastern Croatia, on Wednesday filed an indictment against Dejan Lovren, a Croatian football player and Liverpool defender, for giving a false statement during the corruption trial of Zdravko Mamic, the former chief of the Dinamo Zagreb club, and three co-defendants, on September 1, 2017.

Relatives of Yugoslav soldiers killed in May 1992 on Dobrovoljacka Street in Sarajevo as they were withdrawing from the city will not mark the anniversary in the capital for the second year in a row.

BELGRADE - Red Star Belgrade will host CSKA Moscow at a packed Rajko Mitic Stadium in the Europa League Round of 32 after the UEFA decided on Monday to accept the club's appeal against a stadium ban.

The UEFA appeals body accepted the arguments of Red Star's legal team after the club had already sold 28,000 tickets for the match against CSKA.

Photo: Red Star FC

BELGRADE - Serbian football giants Red Star Belgrade are set to host CSKA Moscow in the UEFA Europa League Round of 32 in empty grounds after receiving a one-game stadium ban on Friday.

BELGRADE - Mladen Krstajic, caretaker head coach of the Serbia men's national football team, has been given the approval of the Football Association of Serbia (FSS) Expert Committee and will be promoted to a permanent role, FSS Sports Director Goran Bunjevcevic confirmed to Tanjug on Friday.

The Interior Minsitry (MUP) announced this on Thursday, adding that it was ordered by the prosecution to identify the persons who took part in the incidents.

Among those injured in the fighting in Belgrade last night were several foreign nationals, the MUP said.

Unofficially, they came from Croatia, Greece, and Macedonia.