Maroon Friends 1946 ( bs, 'Bordo prijatelji 1946') is an

FK Sarajevo Fudbalski klub Sarajevo (; English: Sarajevo Football Club) is a professional football club based in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is one of the most successful clubs in the country. Founded on 24 October 1946, FK Sara ...

fan association and

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organized by influential individuals from the financial, political, and cultural sectors of Bosnian society with the aim of lobbying both locally and internationally for the club and influencing club policies. The association has strong informal ties to FK Sarajevo

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, Horde Zla.

History

In 2009, a handful of eminent supporters of FK Sarajevo, including fashion designer Adnan Hajrulahović, poet and musician

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, entrepreneur Avdo Salihbegović and others started having informal meetings about the possibility of organizing a new supporter's association with the goal of helping the club. These meetings led to the formal registration of an Association of Citizens in 2010, which quickly struck a strong partnership with the club's Ultras group, Horde zla. After a thorough analysis of club finances and the announced shift in

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licensing, the association came to the conclusion that the club would be in a dire situation by 2012. After the founding Assembly, a platform and organizational plan were forged under the working title ''Projekt 2010-2014''. The association wrote a new template for the club's statute and found bureaucratic loopholes in Bosnia's law in order to potentially attract foreign investment seeing the country has no

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. FK Sarajevo's management at the time, witnessing the association's polyvalence, quickly invited members to join the club's assembly and board, which they did. On 14 July 2012, the new club statute was voted into power, enabling

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n businessman, investor and Chairman of Berjaya Group,

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, who had earlier been lobbied by

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director and association member Feđa Kusturica, to buy majority stocks and become ''de facto'' owner of the club.

Media

Maroon Friends 1946 has been publishing a monthly magazine named ''Maroon Fan'' ( bs, Bordo Fan) since 2010. Furthermore, it has, in cooperation with

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, an

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provider and subsidiary of the BH Telecom, founded an internet-based television channel named ''Bordo TV''.

Bodies

Presidency

''As of 29 July 2016''

Assembly

''As of 29 July 2016''

Gallery

Bordo.prijatelji.tv.png, ''Bordo TV'' (Maroon TV) Cover art. Maroon.fan.jpg, The December 2013 edition of ''Bordo Fan'' (Maroon Fan).

References

External links

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