FK Rad

Football club infobox
clubname = FK Rad
fullname = _sr. Fudbalski klub Rad


nickname = "Građevinari"
founded = 1958
ground = Stadion Kralj Petar I, Belgrade
capacity = 5,000
chairman = flagicon|Serbia Branko Miljković
manager = flagicon|Serbia Aleksandar Janjić
league = Serbian Superliga
season = 2007-08
position = Prva Liga Telekom Srbija, 4th
"Promoted"
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FK Rad (Serbian Cyrillic: "ФК Рад") is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. It plays at Stadion Kralj Petar I, which is located in the southern part of the city's Banjica neighbourhood.

Translated into English, the club's name signifies "work" or "labour", which is due to the fact that it was formed by a construction company of the same name.

Over the years, the club served as breeding ground for a number of well-known players, including Vladimir Jugović, Ljubinko Drulović, Zoran Mirković, Miroslav Đukić, Goran Bunjevčević, Željko Cicović, Slavoljub Muslin and others.

History

Football club Rad was founded in 1958, entering competition in the lowest rank. The club was created by workers of a company. From the start the club had two major local rivals: Banjica and Jajinci, these rivalries were the rivals of the company but quickly it passed to football. These people we can consider as founders of the club: Petar Đerasimović the first president, Radojica Tanasijević the first general selector, Željko Marjanović the first financial adviser, Ljubomir Lazić the first vice president. The players that have played in 1958 can feel like founders as well, FK Rad had a lot of young players that were schooled in the First league teams, some players would include: Lazar Slavković, Đurđe Ivković, Vladimir Acević, Teodor ušnjar, Milan Abramović, Brana Djaković, Aleksandar Banić, Živojin Rafailović, Aleksandar Andrejić, and a little later Sreten - Sele Antić, Milan Jovanović - Selja and others. The first coach was Nikola Marjanović. The parliament has given the club a pitch in the center of Banjica, a few concrete stands were made, and later locker rooms are made and so is a restaurant. The club only gets better and year by year FK Rad keeps moving up the league. On the stadium there has always been 2,000 to 3,000 fans. FK Rad had a very good attack from counters and scored many goals that was that kept bringing fans to the stands. The club had a large following in the Banjica region, the fans followed their club away and home. FK Rad quickly got promoted to the Belgrade league. In the period from 1965 to 1969 a change of generations had taken place. At theat time the leaders were Ljubomir Lazić and Radomir Antić, notable managers were Đorđević and Đurđević, leaders for the players were Ratomir Janković, Vlada Vlaović, Matović, Zoran Bulatović, Dutina, Čeh and others. A few years later the club turns to change and the club colors are now different, youth school has received much pressure, the control on the players and much more. The club's greatest success occurred in 1988-89 season when it finished the Yugoslav league competition in fourth spot, ahead of many richer clubs such as FK Partizan and Dinamo Zagreb. This success qualified FK Rad for the UEFA Cup in the 1989-90 season, where it was eliminated 2-3 on aggregate in the first round by Olympiacos (Rad lost 0-2 in Athens after winning 2-1 on home ground).

Name changes through history:

*1958 : club founded under the name of "FK Rad Belgrade"
*1990 : renamed to "FK GRO Rad Belgrade"
*1993 : renamed again to "FK Rad Belgrade"

Stadium

The stadium of FK Rad holds 5,000 people.

Supporters

FK Rad's supporters call themselves United Force, and are known as some of the most loyal in Serbian football. They're also infamous for taking part in many violent acts, both inside and outside various Serbian stadiums.

Current squad

External links

* [http://www.fcrad.co.yu/ Official club web page]
* [http://www.united-force.org/ United Force homepage]