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Stojan Vranješ for HEDONIST: Goals Are My Fuel
The English often say that goals are like double-decker buses - you wait and wait, and then several arrive at once. Few understand that better than Stojan Vranješ, who recently made his 300th appearance for FK Borac Banja Luka. One of the most decorated footballers ever to come from the city on the Vrbas River, Vranješ won four Bosnian Premier League titles with the red-and-blue side.
Why Novak Doesn’t Need Applause
Some athletes grow on applause. And then there are those rare ones who do not depend on it. Novak Djokovic belongs to that second, almost forgotten kind, the kind that no longer seeks validation from the outside because it has long since found balance within.
Gone with the Wind: Has Sport Lost Its Soul?
At the end of the promenade, near Ciglana and Vitanova Bara, right by the large bend where the Danube forms whirlpools capable of spinning the boats of careless fishermen for hours, lies Ledine. It is a meadow where a small-sided football tournament is held every sunny Sunday, and where, every other day, rain or shine, muddy kids from the surrounding alleyways chase a ball day and night.
