NK Široki Brijeg
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| Full name | Nogometni klub Široki Brijeg Football club Široki Brijeg |
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| Nickname(s) | Široki, Plavi | ||
| Founded | 1948 | ||
| Ground | Pecara Stadium Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Capacity: 8,000) |
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| Chairman | Zlatan Mijo Jelić | ||
| Manager | Ivica Barbarić | ||
| League | Premier League | ||
| 2008-09 | Premier League, 6th | ||
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NK Široki Brijeg is a Bosnia-Herzegovinan football team from the town of Široki Brijeg that currently plays in the Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Considering the size of the town, NK Široki Brijeg had a great deal of success and has started to expand that success to European Cups as well in recent years.
The club was established in spring 1948, but due to many circumstances, some of them including unfavourable conditions towards the town of Široki Brijeg during the communist rule and relative size of it then, NK Široki Brijeg has experienced its greatest successes in the 1990s and onwards, and has become one of the most successful clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina today. They play on Pecara Stadium, a modern stadium with a capacity of about 8,000. The stadium itself meets all UEFA criteria. The club also has a sports and recreational centre just outside of town which is used as training grounds for the team.
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[edit] Honours
- Herzeg-Bosnia First League Champion: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
- Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina Champion: 2004, 2006
- Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina Runner-up: 2002, 2008
- Football Cup of Bosnia and Herzegovina Winner: 2007
[edit] Colours and badge
The club wears blue and white striped jerseys at home while away the team has a yellow kit. The club's crest features a football bordered by the club's name and topped with the Croatian chequy.
[edit] Škripari
Škripari is the organisation of football supporters of the Croat-backed club NK Široki Brijeg. They also support Široki Brijeg's other sport clubs, primarily HKK Široki in basketball.
The name for the fan club as it exists today was given in 1996. At that time (from the year 1993/1994 onwards, reaching a peak in 1998), Škripari were the only real supporters in Herzegovina, aside from a small faction of supporters in Ljubuški, as well as Torcida Kiseljak and Torcida Mostar who where only really active in home matches of teams that they supported.
The very name Škripari (or križari to be more precise, which means crusaders) is in tribute to those originally known by that name, who resisted communist rule in Yugoslavia for several years after World War II and presented an unsolveable enigma to the communist authorities of that time. They would often hide in caves (local term being the so called škripine) and thus the name Škripari.
An earlier idea for the fan club's name was Broadly Hill Boys dating from the year 1989, more specifically when supporters came up with that name during a basketball match of the Republic league of Bosnia and Herzegovina between KK Mladost (at the time) and KK Borac Čapljina. It was accepted almost immediately and from that day on all up until the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina a blue banner with the words Broadly Hill Boys written in white could be seen in all matches where the local clubs of Široki Brijeg played. This was a play on Dinamo Zagreb's Bad Blue Boys, as well as a play on the name of their own club (Široki Brijeg means wide, or broad, hill).
Škripari support the Croatian national football team primarily, as well as other Croatian national teams and Croatian players. The official song of the Škripari is Igraj, igraj Široki (Play Široki, Play). They also made a new song with the Croatian Hip-Hop group Berette called U mom srcu rijeci te.. (These words in my heart..). Both songs can be downloaded from the Škripari official website.
[edit] Club Organization
- Club President: Zlatan Mijo Jelić
- Committee (Board) Chairman: Marinko Gilja
- Club Director: Ljubo Soldo
- Club Spokesman: Mario Marušić
- Chief Secretary: Josip Bevanda
- Sports Director: Damir Kutle
- Chief Of Staff/Manager: Ivan Katalinić
- Stadium Director: Ivan Mandić - Duka
- Chief of Security: Mariofil Ćužić
- Chief of Finances: Drago Ćavar
- Secretary: Josipa Orošnjak
- Club Physician: Vlatko Krešić
- Contact Person: Josip Bevanda
- Board Members: Mirko Grbešić, Viktor Lasić, Miro Kraljević, Željko Knezović, Marinko Mikulić - Ćipukić, Ivo Crnjac, Petar Barišić, Tomo Primorac, Željko Gugić, Vencel Matijević, Josip Kožul, Mario Hrkać, Drago Lovrić, Predrag Kožul, Robert Grbešić
- UO Club President: Zlatan Mijo Jelić
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] Famous players
[edit] External links
- Official website of NK Široki Brijeg (Croatian)
- Škripari Fan Website (Croatian)
- NK Široki Brijeg at UEFA.com
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