Torcida Split
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Croatia
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, founded on 28 October 1950. The name "Torcida" is the Brazilian Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
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word for "supporters". Club fans operate from Zrinsko Frankopanska-17, Split
Split (city)
Split is a Mediterranean city on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea, centered around the ancient Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian and its wide port bay. With a population of 178,192 citizens, and a metropolitan area numbering up to 467,899, Split is by far the largest Dalmatian city and...
. The slogan of the fans, "Hajduk lives forever ", testifies to the long and continuing tradition of Hajduk Split, which has survived without change from its establishment until today (While states and leagues have failed, "Hajduk lives forever").
Torcida members and other fervent fans of the club gather in the north stand at the stadium of Poljud from where they fiercely support their club.
The founding and beginnings
Before the establishment of Torcida, organized supporting existed since the very beginning of Hajduk in the 1911. The first organized trip to the fans home visit was recorded in 1927. against HAŠKHAŠK
HAŠK was a Croatian football club established in Zagreb in 1903 which ceased operating in 1945. The club was one of the most successful sides in Zagreb and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the period between the two World Wars...
in Zagreb
Zagreb
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, and on foreign visit 1936 against Roma
A.S. Roma
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in Rome. Torcida was established on 28 October in the 1950, before the football match against Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade
Red Star Belgrade is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia. The club is a part of the Red Star Sports Society.Red Star Belgrade is the most successful Serbian club, with a record of 25 national championships and 23 national cups in both Serbian and ex-Yugoslav competitions...
. The students from Split, who studied in Zagreb, wanted to make the unprecedented spectacle in order to help their club and how they succeeded. Following the example of BrazilWorld Cup was played in Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
), Hajduk on 29 October won against Red Star with result 2-1, with a triumphant goal that has scored a legendary player of ajduketa]] the 86th minute. That season the team Hajduk won the championship without a single defeat, which has remained unsurpassed record.
After the game party
League of Communists of Yugoslavia
League of Communists of Yugoslavia , before 1952 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia League of Communists of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Savez komunista Jugoslavije/Савез комуниста Југославије, Slovene: Zveza komunistov Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Сојуз на комунистите на Југославија, Sojuz na...
and government structures, to the personal intervention of Milovan Djilas, began with repressive measures toward Torcida and its members. Defeat of the privileged Red Star and the circumstances around it were extremely disturbed for the regime in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
. The Hajduk's leadership was sanctioned, Torcida's action and its name forbidden, and some of the members were detained and against them proceedings were conducted. One of the founders, Vjenceslav Žuvela, was excluded from the Communist Party and sentenced to three years in prison. Later, his sentence was reduced to three months.
Despite the ban highlighting names and organized action, the fans continued to support its great players and team.
The first significant case of violent fans in the stadium dates back to the meeting with "FK Sarajevo
FK Sarajevo
FK Sarajevo is a professional football club based in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina and is one of the most popular clubs in the country. Founded on October 24, 1946, the club was the most successful club from SR Bosnia and Herzegovina in former Yugoslavia, winning two First League...
" from 1 October 1961 when referee Aleksandar Skoric was attacked after the match, because he denied the equalizing goal for Hajduk player Vidosevic. Skoric was beaten and in the auditorium, there was a vandal, with the consequences of which Hajduk had to play three home games in Šibenik
Šibenik
Šibenik is a historic town in Croatia, with population of 51,553 . It is located in central Dalmatia where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea...
.
Another large-scale incident occurred on 11 September 1966, when the masses of fans, disappointed by the defeat of Hajduk, staged a massive fight in which they demolished a dorm, bleachers and goals. Hajduk was then punished by playing one match in Rijeka
Rijeka
Rijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...
.
The Glorious Years
Torcida continued its activities in the underground. At the beginning of the 1970s a small group of fiercest Hajduk's supporters begins to continuously gather on the east standing on the Stari Plac to lead the supporting.During this decade supporters adopts the southern manner, which is characterized by emphasizing the large number of club flags and banners, with the symbols of the club and large march through the city before and after important games (popular "carousel"). Also, part of the adoption was and northern manner of supporting which is manifested by wearing scarves and expressive patterns of violent behavior, especially toward rival supporters. Along with scans more and more supporters' anthem are beginning to use.
Until the end of the seventies violent behavior of fans were extended toward most fans of other clubs, so because of that they would not come in larger numbers to match of their teams in Split, on the other side Hajduk fans have supported their club throughout the former Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
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.
Within 1970s Hajduk string of great results (won four championships and five cups). Such exceptional success is followed with maintaining the Mediterranean Games in Split
1979 Mediterranean Games
The 8th edition of the Mediterranean Games was held in Split, Yugoslavia from 15 to 29 September 1979. Fourteen nations competed in 26 different sports.The games' mascot was the Mediterranean Monk Seal Adrijana.-Medal table:...
1979 as part of which was built a new city stadium Poljud, which became the new home of Hajduk.
Renewal of activities
Name Torcida began to publicly use in 1980 when the new generation of fans of Hajduk wanted, by old name and tradition to celebrate and support the club. Since then, the fans began to assemble in the north stand of the new stadium in Poljud.After Torcida's renewal, in the late 1980s the supporters group of the other three big clubs in Yugoslavia – Dinamo, Partizan
FK Partizan
Fudbalski klub Partizan is a professional football club based in Belgrade, Serbia. In its long history, FK Partizan won as many as 37 trophies. The club is the holder of 23 national championships, 12 national cups and 1 national supercup, and has also won the Mitropa Cup in 1978...
and Red Star are founded, but also those of smaller clubs.
The incidents of fans in the north stands became more common with unwanted consequences. So before the game, "Hajduk" - "Tottenham
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
", held in Split in April 1984. one fan in the center of the pitch slaughtered rooster, as the symbol of club in London is a "Rooster". This is reacted with a UEFA
UEFA
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ban on playing international matches in Split.
Organized group of Torcida starting to spread beyond the city and the stadium begin to appear banners of Hajduk fans from the surrounding towns, and later expanding to much of Dalmatia.
Croatian independence and the Division
During the war many Torcida members together with their counterparts from other fan groups stood at the forefront of fronts to "defend" their homeland. Memorial plaque on the north side of the stadium at Poljud bear the names of 27 members of Torcida killed in the fight for Croatian independence.In addition to numerous subgroups organized by Torcida Split neighborhoods (Špinut, Brda, Mertojak, Radunica etc.), numerous subsidiaries Torcida organized in the country (Sisak
Sisak
Sisak is a city in central Croatia. The city's population in 2011 was 33,049, with a total of 49,699 in the administrative region and it is also the administrative centre of the Sisak-Moslavina county...
, Zagreb
Zagreb
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, Makarska
Makarska
Makarska is a small town on the Adriatic coastline of Croatia, about southeast of Split and northwest of Dubrovnik. It has a population of 13,716 residents. Administratively Makarska has the status of a town and it is part of the Split-Dalmatia County....
, Zadar
Zadar
Zadar is a city in Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. It is the centre of Zadar county and the wider northern Dalmatian region. Population of the city is 75,082 citizens...
, Šibenik
Šibenik
Šibenik is a historic town in Croatia, with population of 51,553 . It is located in central Dalmatia where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea...
, Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...
, Trogir
Trogir
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, Vukovar
Vukovar
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, Vinkovci
Vinkovci
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, etc.) and in Europe
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(Düsseldorf
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, Munich
Munich
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, Stuttgart
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, Rotterdam
Rotterdam
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, Zürich
Zürich
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, Mostar
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, Ljubljana
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- Torcida Rotterdam are numbers of Fanatic Feyenoord Rotterdam supporters who frequently attend the infamous Vak S side. Apart from the Croatian diaspora living in Rotterdam this group also consists of men of Dutch origin who symphatise with Hajduk. Torcida Rotterdam attends all Feyenoord games and European Hajduk games.
Statutes KN Torcida
Statutes of the Club passed on 10 January 1998. The Assembly of the fan club Hajduk Split - Torcida Split.General provisions, activities and membership
By these statutes were enacted provisions of the name and headquarters of the club (art. 2), coat of arms (Article 4). Club represented by its President and Secretary (Article 6). Among the activities of the club are set out, inter alia, promotion of organized supporting at the games HNK Hajduk, organizing trips to matches HNK Hajduk Split out, the fight against fan violence at stadiums and organized gathering of members (Article 8). Membership is available to all interested parties (Article 10) with payment of fees (Article 13).Administrative authorities Club
Governing bodies of the club are the Assembly, the Presidency, the Supervisory Board and Disciplinary Commission (Article 17).Assembly is the highest governing body of the club, which consists of all members of the Club (Article 18). It can be regular, elective and extraordinary and will meet once during the year, while the Assembly meeting, held every four years. Sessions of the Assembly shall be convened by the Presidency of the Club (Article 19), and chaired by her club president (Article 20).
Executive functions performed by the Presidency of the Club (Article 23) which consists of nine members, a meeting convened by the president of the club Presidency (Article 24).
Presidency, inter alia, elected and appointed by the secretary and treasurer of the Club shall be convened by the Assembly, establishes the proposed program activities and plans, manages the assets of the Club and shall report on the work of the Assembly Caucus (Article 25).
The Supervisory Board monitors the Club and supervise the work of bodies established by statute, and on its work to inform the Assembly. The supervisory board supervises the special material and financial operations of the Club. (Article 28). It consists of three members, a decision by majority vote (Article 29).
President, who is the function of Chairman and President, elected by the Assembly for a term of four years. The President, among other things, represents the Club, the discussion on certain issues, cares about the public awareness work of the Club, the Assembly and its bodies and manages the Assembly and the Presidency. In case of absence is replaced by the club secretary (Article 30).
Club secretary elected and appointed by the Presidency for a term of four years to conduct professional and administrative duties at the club. He maintains the Register of Members, in the absence of the President replaces the Club and takes care of organizing the departure of members at HNK Hajduk Split away football game (Article 31).
The disciplinary committee has three members from the presidency of the club. They carry out disciplinary proceedings and report to him the Presidency and the Assembly of the club (Article 32).