Varvari

Varvari are an Ultras group, established in 1987, who support FK Budućnost Podgorica, a football club from Podgorica, Montenegro. They support all Budućnost Podgorica sports clubs which include basketball and handball teams.

Background

"Varvari" in english means "Barbarians"

The group's traditional colours are blue and white which are also the colours of all the Budućnost sports clubs. For FK Budućnost Podgorica home games, Varvari stand in northern stand (Sjever) of the Podgorica city stadium. They also have a reserved stand at the Morača Sports Center, as supporters of Budućnost basketball club. However, since the early 2000s they have boycotted basketball team matches, because of a dispute with the clubs management.

Throughout the first years of their existence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Varvari maintained close links and friendly relations with FK Radnicki Nis firm Meraklije. This was seen as a natural extension of the historical and cultural closeness of Montenegro and Serbia, as well as of the fact that these two republics continued as part of the same country after the final breakup of SFR Yugoslavia in 1992.

This is when a solely Montenegro-focused activity began to be displayed by Varvari, although they managed to mostly stay away from openly supporting the Montenegrin regime.Fact|date=October 2007 The focal point for the group during the late 1990s was the basketball club, which started investing heavily into expensive acquisitions while the football club toiled at the lower half of the table. This soon changed, as during 2000 Varvari became embroiled in a row with basketball club's management (Danilo Mitrovic and Branko Vujosevic). Varvari have been boycotting the basketball club's matches ever since.Fact|date=October 2007

Varvari occasionally engage in clashes with Montenegrin police. From time to time they're also known to take on the other football firms, notably those from Serbia, though these clashes rarely feature the extreme levels of nationalism, chauvinism, and xenophobia that are usually the staple of firm fights throughout the Balkans.

*Brother groups: Meraklije Niš
*Friend groups: Red Firm Novi Sad
*Rival groups: Grobari Beograd, Delije Beograd, Streetboys Berane

External links

* [http://www.varvari.net/ Varvari Official website]