FRANCE 98 – The aventures of two supporters of Yugoslavia

Two Yugoslav supporters had the last word at the press conference given by YUGOSLAVIA on Monday 15 June at the “La Charpinière” hotel in Saint-Galmier, close to SAINT-ETIENNE. Milorad Majkic (51), university sports teacher and one of his students, Zoran Blesic (29), cycled from Futog a small Yugoslav village of 3000 souls, to congratulate the team and Slobodan SANTRAC coach on their win against IRAN, Sunday 14 June.

These two cyclists trained for nearly three months and spent their savings of about 5 000 German Marks (close to 17 500 francs) in order to take on the 2058 kilometres separating YUGOSLAVIA from France without any worries. Only one sad moment in the 10-day trip, professor Majkic fell and hurt himself at Cannes and had to finish by train, leaving his student friend to finish the last few kilometres to SAINT-ETIENNE alone. They reached the capital of the Forez on Saturday 13 June and were able to watch the YUGOSLAVIA-IRAN match at the stade Geoffroy-Guichard on Sunday 14 June.

Milorad and Zoran, very proud of their adventure and delighted to hand over a very long list of Yugoslavs supporting the team for the World Cup, will now go on to Paris for a few days before returning to YUGOSLAVIA, but this time by train.