July/August 2017

MAGAZINE

It is our duty to help the society in which we live and do business Vojvodjanska Banka in CSR

- Unstoppable - Marija Sharapova

Heat waves will be more frequent, more intense and more deadly. “The killing factor” that has been taking over tens of thousands of lives around the world has been revealed! First digital business and sports magazine in Serbia 3 issue From the editor

We started in May. As we complete preparations for “the breaking point“of our digital magazine, Up to this day, my team and I have worked the heat wave, called “Lucifer“with every daily to make our project recognizable since right, distorted the beautiful face of the we want for our readers to visit our website Old Continent, its southern and eastern eagerly and gladly. part: what will accelerated climate change bring to us, extreme weather that is And, slowly, this place is being visited directly affected by these changes and the more and more often. The synergy that is consequences that they have on our lives accomplished together with all of you, to and health. our pleasure, motivates us to enrich the atmosphere of our site where we live and We did not omit the events and the people where we hang out together, to enrich it that marked this summer, on this site, where with the contents that you rarely see in the team is waiting for you, ready as always, times that are radically changing people, for one more match. circumstances and events. Welcome! For this number, we have decided to introduce you to the other side of the top sport, representing you the world renowned tennis player, Maria Sharapova. Everything you seldom read about, and you want to know about this tennis diva, you will find at this particular place. From the other point of the 1 In focus 7 view: Milan Maglov: “If we set off somewhere, we’ll arrive somewhere!” News 2 Binoculars: 8 Basketball in China: Through Time: 3 Fred Perry: From a brand of a tennis player to a ten- Science and business: nis player who became a Tesla Model 3: Ilon Musk, a brand! 9 man who “destroys” The life of celebrities: traditional car industry 4 Boris Becker: When life and career clash in Healthy life: incredible ways! 10 „The killing factor“

The other side of sport: Society: “Unstoppable” Mari- 5 Vojvodjanska Banka ja Sharapova: intimately 11 dedicated to projects of about moments when socially responsible business applause stops!

World Around Us: Business Calendar: Little programmers: Is it 6 12 Events in August teaching children how to make codes at an early age good or a bad thing? Recommendations: 13 Cultural and sports events in August

Chief executive officer - Ivan Kudinov Chief operating officer - Darko Nikolić Chief content officer - Marina Raguš Editor in chief - Neda Krstić Design - NBGteam Translation - Sanja Uzurov In focus

Day dream

Although a large number of people like to spend their afternoons napping, NASA researchers have 26 found that it is best for us to sleep for 26 minutes in the afternoon. Caesar

Julius Caesar is the most famous Roman ruler, although he rulled for 4 just four years.

TV and life

It is almost impossible to imagine a life without a TV set today. Almost every household has at least one, 100 and sometimes they could be found in every room. Of course, that was not always the case. It is interesting that Hiroshima in 1926, there were only 100 TV sets in the world. The consequences of the atomic bomb that was thrown at Hiroshima 300k still exist. It was recorded that the temperature after the explosion of the bomb was about 300 000 ° C.

Pele

Even today, football icon Pele has got many fans around the world who believe that he is one of the greatest 1k football genius. However, only in the city of Santos, Brazil, on November 19th, his fans celebrate 1000th goal he scored. Most expensive watch

Humbolt, the Swiss watchmaker, 5 mil presented the world’s most expensive watch of $ 5 million. This watch is decorated with 1282 diamonds and it has been made by 17 people for more than a year. Green Bay Packers

“Green Bay Packers“ is an American football professional team. They are so popular in Green Bay that it takes 30god about 30 years for a fan to buy a season ticket, because over 100 000 season tickets are sold every year. It is, therefore, the custom in this place Michael Jordan’s sneakers to place the name of the newly born baby immediately on the waiting After his basketball career, famous list to allow the child to attend the basketball player Michael Jordan matches of this famous team. 190.372 remained to be an idol to many of his fans. Interestingly, the sneakers this basketball player was wearing at the final match of the 1984 Olympic Asia Games were sold at the auction for 190 372 $. Asia is famous for the production and consumption of rice. Interestingly, 1 kg of rice yield takes 5 000 litres of 5.000l water.

EXIT Festival

Exit festival is known for its good music and entertainment. It takes 190k place in Novi Sad. In 2017, over 190 000 visitors came to this festival in just three days.

Djeravica

Djeravica is the highest peak in Serbia and is reaches 2 656 m above sea level. It is located in the south of 2.656m Serbia, on mountain called Prokletije. Thermal springs

Serbia is a country rich in natural thermal springs. Many springs have 100 °C not even been turned into spa facilities. However, in Serbia, there is also the hottest spa in Europe -Vranjska Spa, whose water can Vineyards reach a temperature of even 100°C.

“Toplica vineyards“ in Prokuplje are the largest winery in the Balkans. Within the winery, there are even 80 80 hectares of grapevine.

Recycle

Although there are more and more discussions about environmental 1% protection and recycling, only 1% of waste is recycled in Serbia, while the remaining 99% is goes to the landfill. Unlike our country, member of EU fiat recycle even 28% of waste.

About 640 FIAT cars are manufactured daily in Kragujevac. 640 News by MP

Announced competition for the installation A new Chinese Cultural Center in New of bicycle stations in Belgrade Belgrade is being built

The Chinese Embassy was demolished during NATO bombing in 1999 in New Belgrade. In this place, the new Chinese Cultural Center will be built in next 18 months, the first one of its kind in the Balkans.

The construction of the Center has already begun and will cost € 45 million. This cultural Screenshot: Santander London City Cycle System Docufeel via@youtube institution is expected to bring 400 new The city of Belgrade has announced a places. competition for setting up bicycle rental stations that should be located on the The building itself will be extremely modern territory of the capital. The competition and large. There are eight floors above envisages the installation of 150 stations with ground and two planes underground. The a total of 750 bicycles available. building will have a total of 32 000 m2.

Deadline for submitting an application is Sberbank buys Telenor Bank? August 21st 2017.

The competition is announced in accordance with the plan of the city of Belgrade on giving priority to pedestrians and bike riders in the Screenshot: Super Kredit via@youtube capital. This plan should bring Belgrade Recently, information that Sberbank will buy closer to some other capital cities around Telenor Bank has emerged. Apparently, the the globe, in which this traffic regime for bike negotiations are in the final stage, thus the riders has already been applied. official announcement of the purchase is expected soon. It is planed that future stations also have certain devices and installations that will Telenor Bank belongs to the Norwegian primarily enable the keeping of bicycle Telenor Group and represents the first records, communication with customers mobile and online bank in the Balkans. The and various payment methods for rental success of this bank is verified by the fact services. that 300 000 accounts have been opened in just three years. Being interested in purchasing this bank, as well as suspicious activities on the capital Sberbank shows an intention to be a serious market that are harassed by Energoprojekt, factor on the Serbian banking scene. With shareholders, the capital market and the this purchase, the Russians would become state as the single largest shareholder”. leaders when it comes to online and mobile banking in Serbia. Petrovic remains on the agenda of the Fiscal Council Swiss Namics opens a competition for startups in Serbia. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s proposal on the re-election of Pavel Petrovic Swiss Softer Development Agency, Namics, as President of the Fiscal Council was launched a competition for all Serbian accepted by the Parliamentary Committee startups which deal with the development on Finance, the Republican Budget and of software solutions. The best startups will Public Expenditure Control. This means that be offered assistance in advancing ideas, Petrovic continues his work on the whole of removing potential shortcomings in the this body. business concept and more successful launching of products on the market. The Besides Petrovic, the Committee re-elected consultations will be held in “one-on-one” Nikola Alitiparmakov and Vladimir Vuckovic form and rewarded experts from the digital as Members of the Council. The proposal industry will be a part of them. on their election was sent by the Ministry of Finance and the Governor of the National The competition is open until August 30th Bank of Serbia. 2017 until midnight. Competition is free and it is aimed at all technological startups from Daily flights Dubai - Belgrade from October Serbia. A public presentation of the proposed 29th solutions is expected in September.

The bid for the acquisition of Energoprojekt submitted, the management does not support the offer Screenshot: www.flydubai.com Airline company FlyDubai has announced Joint stock company Napred razvoj that it will organize daily flights on the route with companies GP Napred, Montinvest Dubai-Belgrade starting from the October Properties, Swiss Jopag AG and Dobroslav 29th 2017. This means that the number of Bojovic have recently submitted a takeover flights will increase and so will the capacity bid for the remaining 64.68% of shares that on this line, since the ongoing arrangement are not in their ownership. includes four flights per week on this route. FlyDubai is a low-cost airline from the United However, the management of Energoprojekt Arab Emirates. • refused this offer. As it has been said, this has been done due to “the abundance of unlawfulness, mistrust in the professional, Source: www. bigstockphoto.com financial and moral capacity of the bidders, Through Time: Fred Perry: From a brand of a tennis player to a tennis player who became a brand!

by MP

Screenshot: Fred Perry: tennis champion, class warrior via@youtube This is a story about Fred Perry, a famous “The Mod” subculture and Hollywood divas fashion brand and a fantastic British tennis Let’s go back to the Fred Perry brand now. player. The path of expansion of the brand The popularity of these polo shirts moved Fred Perry and the growth of a tennis player from tennis courts to the streets of London Fred Perry were following an interesting path. in the 1960s. In that period, these T-shirts Here are some completely independently became a symbol of the so-called “Mod selected episodes from that path, which subculture”. somehow seem to be similar to each other. In addition to Fred Perry’s T-shirts, young The appearance of Fred Perry – a brand people’s clothing was composed of the and a tennis player most modern Italian suits. The popularity of this subculture was influenced by the A fashion brand Fred Perry was launched emergence of pop music (modern jazz, in 1952 on Wimbledon. It was a white polo soul, ska and RNB) as well as the exceptional T-shirt with short sleeves, a collar and a popularity of Vespa Scooter. neckline with buttons, similar to Lacosta. It was made of cotton and it had a recognizable sign in the upper left corner - laurel wreath.

This T-shirt was an immediate success and it became very popular among tennis players. And this was expected in a way, since this was the famous British tennis player Fred Perry stood behind the brand. With the help of his friend, Austrian football player Screenshot: Fred Perry AD Campaign via@youtube Tibby Wegner, he designed and created this In a somehow strange way, Fred Perry’s sporty shirt. T-shirts became a symbol of young people, who were misunderstood by traditional Twenty years earlier, immediate success fellow countrymen. At the same time, this on Wimbledon was also achieved by Fred subculture has become extremely popular Perry himself. Between 1934 and 1936, He primarily due to the appearance of some of won this tournament three times in a row. the UK’s biggest pop bands. In that period, Perry was the best amateur tennis player. Also, Perry led the British to In the late 1930s and early 1940s, one similar four consecutive triumphs in the Davis Cup. story happened to a tennis player, Fred Perry. Despite achieving remarkable results It should be mentioned that the parallel at Wimbledon, the success of Fred Perry between the appearance and success of was not very well accepted within the British Fred Perry’s brand and Fred Perry, a tennis tennis establishment, which often referred player at Wimbledon, is extremely arbitrary to him as “upstart”. and unconnected. It is one more peculiarity. This is verified by the fact that, after the finals when Perry won the championship, champagne was awarded to Perry’s The abovementioned hooligans were mostly defeated opponent. In addition, one of the members of the working class, mostly from officials said that a better player he did not northern England. A particularly well-known win this match. And finally, the tie of the All group was the Manchester supporters, England Lawn Tennis Club, traditionally known as Perry Boys. Of course, their name given to the winner of Wimbledon, was originated from their favourite T-shirt brand, simply waiting for him in the hall without any and not from the tennis champion. official award and congratulations. One extremely interesting fact is that these After deciding to join in the circles of football hooligans were not quite different professional tennis players, Perry was almost from the tennis player Fred Perry. Namely, cast out of the British tennis. Because of Perry’s father was a worker at the cotton that, he had decided to continue his career factory, thus Fred also came from the in the United States, whose citizenship he working class. This was one of the main received. reasons why he was unhappy in a high tennis society. In addition to having an exceptional tennis career, he had also enjoyed enormous (But, this was just one more oddball . . . popularity in America. First of all, he almost unnecessary to remark) caught the attention of the media with his romantic affairs with Hollywood stars The return of a brand and the recognition like Marlene Dietrich and Helen Vinson. of a legend Therefore, although unaccepted on behalf of his traditional compatriots on one side, When it comes to this brand, it did not Perry, on the other hand, found himself “a stay on to chests of cheerleaders for too tribe” in which he experienced exceptional long. After a quiet period for several years, popularity. it again became popular. Thanks to some music stars and, above all, Andy Murray, who Of course, this was just another similar used this equipment during one period in episode in the expansion of a brand and a his career, the brand Fred Perry was once tennis player, nothing more than that. again present on the big scene.

Football hooligans and workers’ origin And when it comes to a tennis player, Fred Perry, he finally received recognition from his The destiny of Fred Perry’s brand took compatriots. All England Lawn Tennis Club, an unbelievable course during the 1970s. (which rejected him during his career) set In those years, instead of impressive and up his bronze statue in Wimbledon in 1984. sophisticated tennis players, these polo T-shirts were taken over by rough football The British could not deny the fact that Perry, hooligans. Surely, this kind of twist from the triple winner of Wimbledon and the first tennis to football could not have been holder of Grand Slam title, was one of the envision by Wegner himself, Perry’s assistant best players in this game. To make things in making t-shirts, even though he was a even more interesting, up to the triumph of footballer. Andy Murray, Perry was the only Briton to win Wimbledon.

But once again, this was all about random similarity of episodes from the fate of a brand and a tennis player of the same name. Because of the different time periods, it is clear that these episodes only show resemblance by accident.

However, no matter how much we justify it by common sense, it is irresistible to think that perhaps there is something else. Deeper, fateful. . . The fact that episodes take place at different times, independently of one another, only prevents us from seeing the connection.

We do not see numerous things, and still. . . •

Screenshot: Fred Perry Interview (1970-1979) via@youtube The life of celebrities: Boris Becker: When life and career clash in incredible ways!

by MP

Screenshot: Boris Becker 2017 Analysis Federer’s 8th Wimbledon Title via@youtube “The person who keeps his head buried in Becker’s lawyers tried to persuade a judge the sand” to make a different decision by pointing out that it is not in their client’s best interest to go Last month information that Boris Becker bankrupt- like some other individuals - given went bankrupt arrived from England. The his status and reputation in public. Judge former German tennis player was sued by a Derrett replied: “Mr. Becker should have private banking company Arbuthnot Latham thought about it earlier”. She also added due to the large debt that Becker has against that “it is not such a common situation that this company, dating since 2015. The value a professional person has such a debt dating of his debt was not published. from October 2015”. Due to that, “there is an impression that he is a person who keeps The Bankruptcy Court in London estimated his head buried in the sand”, concluded Ms. that Becker’s lawyers were not able to give Derrett. sufficient guarantees that this German would pay off his debt to Arbuthnot Latham. Ms. Deret seems to be quite aware of They stated that Becker put his property Becker’s tennis reputation. in Majorca under the mortgage, based on which a Spanish bank would pay him off Rarely anyone could remain indifferent to about 6 million Euros. Lawyers said the that seventeen-year-old blonde boy who, payment of this sum was expected within a in spite of all expectations and estimations, month and demanded the postponement became the youngest winner on Wimbledon of the court’s decision in accordance with tennis grass field in 1985. this period and the last chance for Becker to avoid bankruptcy. Ever!

However, a judge Christine Derrett However, in 2017, Ms. Christine Derrett estimated that these guarantees were not found herself standing in front of Becker as sufficiently substantiated, and then she a judge and not a tennis fan. Anyhow, a final made a decision on Becker’s bankruptcy. court decision was made and Becker had to By her own confession, Ms. Derrett did this declare bankruptcy. with grief because she recalls his games in the Central Field. This practically means that executors will take over the management of the remaining Becker’s assets in order to pay the debt. That includes the salary Becker was earning as an expert consultant of BBC related to recently completed Wimbledon. Becker is not “a sophisticated person when He is most certainly best known to our public it comes to finance” for his role of Novak Djokovic’s coach in the period from 2013 until 2016. That has The words quoted in the subtitle have also been the most successful period of emerged from the mouth of Becker’s lawyer Djokovic’s career, and Becker’s influence is during the bankruptcy trial. Although his job certainly not negligible. was to defend his client from bankruptcy, he could not ignore Becker’s financial history.

After a great tennis career and the winning six Grand Slam titles (three of which were Wimbledon) and two Davis Cups, the former number one went into some other venture.

Since 2000, he has been the owner of the tennis branch of Volkl Company, which is Screenshot: Tennis documentary - BORIS BECKER - (Fer Film) via@you- engaged in the production of tennis rackets tube and wardrobe. And since 2003, he has However, Becker’s extreme private life, been working as a commentator during which was too much under the light of Wimbledon on BBC. Interestingly, Becker media, resulted in his financial losses. was also engaged in playing poker. Until 2013, he recorded a remarkable success in In 2001 Becker divorced his wife Barbara this game, participating in the European and Feltus, with whom he has got two children. World Poker Tour with a profit of around 90 One of the reasons for the divorce is his brief 000 Euros from awards. affair with Angela Ermakova, with whom

Screenshot: Tennis documentary - BORIS BECKER - (Fer Film) via@youtube he got one more child, a daughter. It was why judge Derrett described Becker as “a estimated that Becker had to pay nearly 20 person who keeps his head buried in the million pounds in the name of his divorce sand”. That is why Becker’s fantastic and and alimony. unforgettable tennis shows seem not to have their parallel outside the tennis court. Next year, Becker’s irresponsible behaviour It looks that, when it comes to the financial cost him an extra 2.5 million pounds for tax field, Becker - said in tennis’s terms - had evasion. At that time, Baker claimed to have too many “uncertain mistakes”. It remains to been living in Monte Carlo, although he lived be seen whether this bankrupt will be a lost in Munich. match for Becker or only one lost set that will lead to a positive twist in the game. . . • In 2013, Spanish court ordered Becker to pay 600.000 pounds to two companies that worked on his estate in Majorca and to which Becker owned money. It was precisely this property that was supposed to save him bankruptcy now, but it was all in vain.

German newspaper Spiegel writes that Becker has been investing in the Nigerian oil and gas industry and that, at one point, he had an investment of more than $ 10 million.

And bearing in mind all these negative information about Becker’s past, it is clear

Screenshot: Tennis documentary - BORIS BECKER - (Fer Film) via@youtube The other side of sport: “Unstoppable” Marija Sharapova: intimately about moments when applause stops!

by MP

Source: from material The Player’s Tribune www.theplayerstribune.com

Source: www. bigstockphoto.com On September 12th, the autobiographical Sharapova and many Russian athletes were book of the famous Russian tennis player absent. Hard work, decades of renunciation Maria Sharapova is going to be published: and sacrifice brought the cancelation of “Unstoppable: My Life So Far”. Everything disqualification for this top athlete just that has been a subject of speculations, before the Olympics in Rio. There are no which was maliciously manipulated, a events that are more important for an athlete beautiful Russian, famous tennis player than the Olympic Games because there, the Maria Sharapova has decided to put into her best compete for the prestigious place of autobiography. number 1 on the planet. For Sharapova, as well for the numerous Russian top athletes, She worked on her book for a year and it this right was denied. attracted the world’s attention once the publishing was announced. Although the world’s media tried to explain “medical” and other reasons, it was clear to the audience that the politics had made the final decision. This time,too. Sharapova was disqualified due to the usage of medicine, a meldonium, which reached “the forbidden list” of drugs on the 1st of January last year. Until then, it was entirely acceptable to use this medicine, which can be bought in Russia as a supplement that improves metabolism after strenuous physical activity.

So much for doping! And so much for this topic.

Suspension expired and Sharapova returned to the court.

But this time, in a slightly different edition. She has decided to open the doors that are

Maria Sharapova - Unstoppable: My Life So Far rarely being opened, and behind which, all those intimate moments of a top sportsman And how it wouldn’t! live when the lights are turned off, and the applause stops. After all Sharapova went through in the last few years, it is completely normal that the Like the trailer, before the publication of the supporters who faithfully follow this top autobiographical book, Sharapova jumped athlete show such an interest in this book. into the “Unknown”, rarely visible court- Just to jog our memory, last year in Rio there, the one that belongs only to her… full of emotions, dilemmas, fears, rage, bitterness Hated? Relieved? Scared? On one hand, it’s and all those small things for which we, even such a simple idea — describing, or even after the greatest happiness or sadness, predicting, a feeling. It’s such a simple usually say: “That’s life!” question. But on the other hand … it felt so unknowable. It felt like all of the emotions in We believe that the life of a thirty-year-old the world, every single one of them, might be Russian world famous player, who came on the table that night in Stuttgart — when I from the Russian city of Nyagan (Н)ягань to America stepped back onto the court after 15 months when she was only seven, following the away from the game. advice of the unforgettable tennis player, Martina Navratilova. She saw the potential And I think at first my instinct was to prepare of young Sarapova and she saw the future for all of them. At first, I think, it was like, O.K. top athlete, thus she advised her to move in — how will I react if I feel like this? How will I order for Maria to improve her game. Marija react if I feel like that? And how will I react if Sharapova’s father Yuri accepted all (im) I feel like this, this, and that? And so on. And possible tasks in order to enable his little why not, you know? After all, that’s my job girl, in who he immensely believed, to realize — to prepare for every match, and to train his dream. myself to perform at my best.

And, she did it: when she won Serena But pretty soon, I think I realized that any Williams on her 17th birthday, Marija won preparation like that would be futile. That Wimbledon (2004) and entered the VIP Club this was just … one of those things. And that of the world’s top tennis players in grand no matter how hard I tried, there simply style… wouldn’t be any way to train for what was to come. I could try to guess, I could try to This is part of her story, which we we took imagine, I could try to play every scenario from PlayersTribune and which announces out in my head. But in the end, there was just 304 pages of autobiography “Unstoppable!” no way to know. I realized that I didn’t have a choice: I was just going to have to step out “Before my first match back from suspension, onto that court, and take a deep breath, and it seemed like everyone in my life only have no clue. wanted to know one thing: How I was going I was going to have to walk out into the to feel. Whether it was my friends, or my unknown. family, or even the limited amount of press that I did leading up to the event, this was the My relationship with uncertainty has always question I’d get asked more than any other: been a complicated one. Maria, how are you going to feel? As a tennis player — and I’m sure this goes for many other jobs — I find that I’m And my answer would always be the same: constantly at the center of this battle, this I have no clue. push and pull, of certainty vs. uncertainty It was the honest truth. I just … had no clue! in my world. There are the certainties of Was I going to feel nervous? Excited? routine, of course: nonstop gym, nonstop Confident? Cautious? Happy? Sad? Loved? practice, nonstop travel, nonstop sleeping in a bed away from home, nonstop lonely through it. Those 15 months made it clear to thirty-minute car rides to the courts while me that there were two levels I had to get listening to random international music, back to: physical, yes, but also mental. nonstop calendar that seems to loop back in on itself before you can blink. There was the known and there was the unknown. But there are also, in this weird way, these There was coming back — and then there uncertainties of routine: Every tournament was believing it. has its own balls. Every tournament has a different surface. Every day there’s a new opponent. Every day has its own weather conditions. How do you prepare for each of those? Did you have a press conference? How did that go? When’s your next match? Against who? What’s your next tournament? Where are you with your current goals? And so on.

And after 15 years of those routines, after 15 years of those certainties and uncertainties both — you know, what can I say? It’s been a long freaking time. It really is just the strangest feeling: The clock, the schedule, the calendar — how it never stops. And yet, how it always feels like it’s starting back at zero.

Even this particular moment, preparing for my first match back after 15 months, it felt like that. Part of me felt like I had been through this before: I’d had my shoulder surgery, in ’08, and done most of the same long-term training; from that experience alone, I was pretty certain I could take extended time off and get my level back.

But another part of me knew there was something unique about this particular time off. There is something about a suspension — the judgments, and the scrutiny, and the emotional toll — that is just hard to compare to anything else … and almost impossible to have any certainty about, until you’ve been Source: www. bigstockphoto.com The night before my return match, in April, I slept more soundly that night than I had in I was talking with my mom. years. I’m going to admit something to you now: I She usually travels with me, but never goes like having a little mystique. to matches. Seriously — my mom’s probably been to like three matches in 10 years. I’ve never been someone who wants to be And not even in a bad way. I just think the known by everyone, or loved by everyone, or tournament vibes, the player’s lounges, the even understood by everyone. Sometimes watching from the stands, and all of that … I wonder, self-consciously, if this dates me it’s not her scene. (Moms get to make their — if there’s something old-school about own rules.) But anyway, the night before that. One thing I’ve noticed recently, in the the match, my mom and I were just sort of locker room, is how almost every player on casually talking — you know, about who tour has the exact same post-match habit: knows what, in the way that moms and Walk off the court, head into the locker room, daughters do. And as we were winding and then immediately — I mean, literally down, and I was about to head back to my before they’ve even changed their clothes hotel room for the night … well, I just asked or taken a shower — grab their phone, log her, pretty much out of the blue: “Mom — on to Twitter, and then search through their would you like to come tomorrow?” mentions.

I’m not sure what got into me. It was one of It’s something I began to notice a few years those things that you don’t even fully know ago, and it just really struck me. Here is this you’re saying until you’ve started saying it, … it’s like an Opinion Machine, or a Validation and that you don’t even totally think through Machine, and everyone seems consumed by until you’ve finished. it. And who knows — maybe I’m missing out. Maybe it’s wonderful. But that’s just never My mom gave it a few seconds of thought. been my way. And then she looked at me, and she said, “You know what? Yeah. Yeah, I would.” Do I want people to be tweeting about me, And I was like, “O.K.!” or talking about me, or caring about me, or coming to see me play? Of course. I won’t It was this little moment, this little thing, be disingenuous: I’ve worked hard to get barely a conversation — but as soon as it to where I am. And the spotlight — that’s happened, I knew it meant so much me. I just part of where I’ve gotten to. I always think I already knew how different this match want to be playing in big-time matches, and would be from any other I’d ever played. I know that that will always come with big- And instead of running and hiding from time attention. I’ve never wanted a life that that, I think a part of me decided to almost plays out on court 18. Center court, for me, is … confront it head-on. Like, Yes, O.K. — this where I feel at home. But at the same time, match will be different. But at least in one there is a difference between attention and way, now, it will be different on terms of my validation. And that is where I have always own. felt a bit different. I don’t need to know what I said goodnight to my mom, and told her I’d people are saying about me. Knowing that see her tomorrow. they’re saying it, I suppose, has always been Which isn’t to say it’s an easy choice. Trust enough. me — easy would be to do the opposite. It would be so easy for me to walk into a press One thing I’ve noticed, though, is that there conference, and sit down, and just take those is sometimes an overlap between people questions about the things my peers have seeing you as having a mystique … and said about me as they come — to critique, people seeing you as being invulnerable. and bash, and jab back, and get in the mud. And that’s something I’ve been thinking And the competitor in me … I mean, good about more and more lately. Because the grief: A lot of people don’t know this about truth is, I feel vulnerable all the time — no me, but I’m a boxing obsessive. Ever since different from any other person. And the I was a little girl, it’s the other sport besides walls I’ve built around myself … they aren’t tennis that I’ve most been fascinated by. I nearly as impenetrable as people think. would watch boxing on TV. I would box for Things still get through, and still make me cardio training. And my favorite part would feel certain ways. always be the same: the way that you enter the ring. It’s always felt so calm, and yet so And I mean that from a couple of different intense. Rhythmic and majestic. And I would perspectives. think to myself, in these press conferences — just, like, how easy it would be for me to One perspective is that, yes — I’m not imagine that I was dipping and gliding, under oblivious. I’m aware of what many of my and through those ropes, and stepping into peers have said about me, and how critical of the ring to spar. To dance around, get a few me some of them have been in the press. If jabs in, maybe land a few combinations and you’re a human being with a normal, beating then call it a day. heart, you know … I don’t think that sort of thing will ever fully be possible to ignore. But I simply have no interest in that. Tennis And I don’t think it will ever not be weird or — that’s where the fighter in me goes. I made hurtful to go through. that decision as a young girl, and I’ve stuck with it ever since. And the off-court negativity But at the same time … I’ve always tried to … it’s just not something that I have in me. keep a generous attitude toward critics in It’s tricky to explain. And it’s even trickier to general — whoever they are, and whenever understand; I get that. It’s so internal. But in they’ve been there. I’ve never wanted to the end, in my heart, I honestly do have so respond to the people trashing me by much respect and admiration for everyone trashing them back; that’s always been on tour — including my critics. important to me. I’ve always wanted to respond by showing grace — something And eventually I hope they’ll change their I learned from my mom, one of the most minds, and have the same for me. graceful and elegant people I know. I’ve always wanted to face my critics by simply But there is also another perspective of taking the high road. And by showing them, vulnerability that I’ve learned a lot about by showing everyone, that taking the high over these past several months — that has road is a choice. nothing to do with criticism, and nothing to do with my peers. It has to do with my fans.

Opening up to my fans, and even to the idea of fandom, is not something that has always come naturally for me. It’s not that I haven’t appreciated my fans — completely the opposite, of course. I cherish my fans, and I know how essential they’ve been to my success. I know all of that. But there’s knowing...and then there’s knowing. And I hope you won’t hold it against me when I say that it wasn’t until I had this time off, and then came back, that I think I really began to understand just what my fan base means to me — not only as an idea, but on a deeper level. On a human level.

And when I say “a human level,” I mean — take a concept like loyalty. To me, loyalty is one of the most powerful characteristics there is. When it comes to relationships, loyalty can be everything. And when you go through adversity, I think it’s fair to say: That’s often when you find out how loyal people are. There are a lot of people who are with you when you’re on top — but then will turn on you pretty quickly when circumstances change. And it’s funny, because you think of this more, maybe, in terms of friendships, or business partnerships, or that sort of thing. But the people whose loyalty I’ve been most moved by over these last two years, I have to be honest — it’s been my fans.

After the news broke … they stuck with me. After the ruling … they stuck with me. During the suspension … they stuck with me. And when I got back to the court….I mean, I’ll never forget it.

I’m usually someone who likes to get to tournaments early. But in my first tournament Source: www. bigstockphoto.com back, I caught a bit of bad luck: Because my make these signs … and then traveling here, suspension ended on the same day as my coming here, to this one practice court … and first-round match, I wasn’t able to practice then supporting me, and letting me know on-site until the very day of. Which meant they were there. Suddenly I was so aware of that my first official practice — on the indoor these signs, in a way that I’d just never been center court — wouldn’t be until just hours before. I was hitting balls on the court — but before my match. Which meant that there in my head, all I was doing was imagining was going to be a lot of press at my practice these girls: at home, finding the right glue, that morning. Which meant that it was going and the right glitter, and the right markers, to be … pretty intense. and deciding on the exact right thing to say. And doing all of that for me. And I hope I’m And it was fine. It was more press around explaining this right, but it was suddenly just one court for a practice than I think I had this overwhelming thing. It was incredibly ever seen in my life … but the practice itself moving for me. It was like this reminder — went fine. At the same time, though, there after that first practice, in front of all those was something almost … adversarial about cameras — of who it is that I truly play this it, you know? Like, the entire situation — it game for. was all just a little tense, a little performative. And now I feel like it’s my turn, finally, to And it was something that was hard to find pay them back. Because if there’s anything much joy in. that I most would like to accomplish during the next phase of my career, I think it’s this: But then later that afternoon, I went out being a player and a person worth cheering onto one of the smaller practice courts — for — for this group of fans who have been to stay loose before my match and hit a few so loyal to me. balls. Nothing more than a quick 25-minute session, no big deal. But when I got there … I And who would cheer for me no matter what. don’t even know what to say. It was like, this moment … this emotional release, that I can’t It’s funny how things change. really explain. Very quickly, when they saw me, a bunch of my fans gathered around the I think people probably have this idea of court to watch the practice. And they had all me, where, maybe I’m this person who has these Russian flags … and these WELCOME everything. And that, because of this — BACK, MARIA signs that they had made … maybe it would take a lot to make me happy. and they were just clapping, and yelling, and cheering for me, the whole while. But I’ll tell you of this recent moment in my life, a very precise moment, when I felt truly I’m usually a laser beam of focus during content. practice, especially so close to a match — but in that moment, I have to admit, I kind of lost it a little. Just the idea of these fans … choosing me, out of all the players … and then sticking with me, after all that’s happened … and then taking the time to It was a couple of months ago, on a morning in this weird way — it almost felt like I was in mid-May. I was playing the Italian Open, experiencing this part of my life, all over and had won my first-round match in straight again, for the first time. Thrilled to be in a sets. This was my third tournament back, hotel; proud to be in the second round; filled and I was starting to feel like I was slowly with anticipation about a wild card — it was regaining my confidence. In retrospect, a set of emotions that I hadn’t exactly felt in maybe it was a mistake to play three a while. tournaments in a row after having played But I just remember waking up that morning none for 15 months. (O.K., no “maybe” — in … and being so happy about it all. Feeling like retrospect, it’s like, Come on, Maria, what this place that I was in, you know — it was an were you thinking?) But I was just so excited O.K. place to be. to be back. Have you ever stayed up all night, just because you’re doing something And then, of course, it all came crashing fun, and you don’t want the night to end? down. By the time that day had ended: I had That’s almost how I felt about playing three lost my match (after having to retire due to tournaments in a row — like my body would injury); I was out of Rome; I was out of the be able to keep up on the excitement alone. French Open; and, though I didn’t know it at And after two sets in Rome, anyway, I was the time, I was out of Wimbledon as well. In feeling great. fact, the only thing that I was in by the end of the day was an MRI machine — about to My second-round match was a night match find out that I had a grade 3 tear in my hip — prime-time, Italian style: 7:30 p.m. And so muscle. Funny how life works, right? If the I got to enjoy my morning a little. I woke up a birds were still chirping, I couldn’t hear them. little later than usual, and ate breakfast in my And I won’t lie to you: I was pretty down after hotel room. My room had this gorgeous view, all that. It seemed so cruel, after those 15 from a hill overlooking the city. The Vatican, long months away from the game, to have the Colosseum … right there … I mean, almost finally started to feel like I was taking a step like you could touch them. The weather forward — only to be forced to take two was beautiful, May in Italy. The birds were steps back. To now have to skip the French chirping. And to top it off: A decision was and Wimbledon, both, for the second year scheduled to come down at any minute on in a row … to now have to come off tour again my wild-card status for the French Open — … it seemed like someone was playing a which I felt really good about. mean trick on me. I’m sure there are critics of mine, reading this now, and thinking, you Maybe I’m making this moment sound better know, Karma. And if they want to think that, than it actually was — because to tell you then they’re entitled. But it sure didn’t feel the truth, it wasn’t that uncommon for a that way at the time. It sure didn’t feel like morning on tour. You wake up in a foreign karma on that night, in that pain, in that MRI city, you eat breakfast, and then you get machine. On that night … I just wanted to play. ready for practice. Big deal. But on this day, It just felt bad. even something nearing routine — it really And it felt bad for a while. did feel special. Suddenly … it didn’t feel like I had been doing this for 15 years. Instead, But then eventually, I think, it also felt good. Not the injury, of course; but what I’ve missed it.” • came after. And what came after is that I rediscovered — or maybe just reconfirmed — something about myself: That feeling of uncertainty around every corner? That feeling of having to walk out … over and over … into the complete unknown? I love that feeling.

I realized that, as much as I yearned while I was gone for the comfort and routine of my old life as a tennis player — what I yearned for even more was the discomfort, and the lack of routine. I yearned for the feeling that tennis gives you, of … it’s hard for me here to think of just the right phrase. Maybe it’s tough love. How tennis will isolate you, and exhaust you, and wear you down, and test your resolve, in some of the most brutal ways possible. But if you can just make it through … then it will also reward you in ways that are beyond compare.

If you love tennis enough, then at the end of the day, it will love you back.

And though these last two years have been tougher — so much tougher — than I ever could have anticipated … my passion for the game has never wavered. If anything, it’s only grown stronger.

I’m getting ready for the North American hardcourt season now, one of my favorites. I’ll play Stanford, then Toronto — and I’m going to give it everything I have. And then I guess we’ll see what happens to my summer from there. I’m sure I’ll win some, and I’ll lose some. I’m sure my dozens of critics will show up, and so will my thousands of fans. But ultimately, who knows? When it comes to tennis, good or bad — there’s really only one thing that I know for certain. World Around Us: Mali programeri: Da li je rano učenje dece da kodiraju dobro ili loše?

by MP

Little programmers: Is it teaching children Encoding in schools how to make codes at an early age good or a bad thing? In many European and more developed non- European countries, the schooling systems In recent years, the world is increasingly include a subject that involves teaching of talking about the need to teach children the computer science and accounting in some basics of coding. Roughly speaking, coding form. This, however, does not mean that represents the writing of specific instructions coding is included in this program. Schooling through codes (a programming language). systems differ on this issue. These instructions then perform certain actions (the functioning of some software In Serbia, starting from the next school or the functioning of a machine, a robot, etc.. year, the subject Informatics and Computer ). In this sense, coding represents the basis Science will be compulsory for students of programming. from 5th to 8th grade of elementary schools. So far, this subject has not been obligatory. Screenshot: Teach Children Basic Coding With iPad-Savvy Blocks via@youtube

Unlike Serbia, some European countries offer Informatics from the first grade of elementary school. It is interesting that this subject involves learning the basics of coding. This group of countries includes France, Estonia, Finland, Great Britain and Poland. Similar programs outside the borders of the European continent are offered by Australia and South Korea.

In almost all countries mentioned, the curriculum of Informatics involves an easy introduction of the coding basics to students. First, they practice the basic logic operations, and then they learn to code in visual programs, so that they could learn some advanced programming languages at one point.

The introduction of coding into programming also indicated the abandonment of the old syllabus, which implied the development of their knowledge of informatics. The reason for the rejection of this program is that today’s children are working and growing in the environment of computers and other technological achievements, and in a certain sense, they learn the computer basis from an early age. In addition, according to the survey conducted among pupils, they find the old IT program to be “boring”.

Coding through games

Except in schools, children are increasingly given the opportunity to get acquainted with coding through games. This kind of education

Screenshot: Coding Classes for Kids Are the Latest Craze for Chinese Parents via@youtube is provided by some associations that among little ones. In addition, this project organize certain events and manifestations. in particular highlights the important role of In addition, there are also a variety of online teamwork in creating a game. systems and platforms that pursue the same goal in different ways. This attitude appears to be true, but it is too limited by the event organized by As an example of how the whole thing of LeapLearner, so it cannot be generalized. encoding through the game functions, Therefore, in certain extreme situations, of we give an example of LeapLearner. course, the parental fear of asocial children’s LeapLearner is an educational and caused by the premature and exaggerated technological company from Shanghai. This exposure to digital interaction is justified. year, this company organized a big event attended by a lot of children who together However, there is the other side of the contributed to the creation of a video game. medal. The fact is that we all live in the digital environment today. Understanding Namely, children aged 3-15 had a task to this environment is certainly commendable fulfill with the help of a mentor. They had and worthy to encourage. If learning coding to develop and test a part of the game that can contribute to it (and it seems that it can), lasts for 3 seconds. They wrote the code then it could be very important for all people. for their part of the game with an adequate After all, a critical distance in relation to help. At the end, all codes (or parts of the something could only be achieved with a game) are combined and formed a video full understanding of that thing. game called FrogLeap that has a total of In addition to this, the digital environment 5000 lines of code. It is now available to play is increasingly becoming a new medium online to everyone in the world. for demonstrating creative ideas. Encoding is one way of expressing creativity. In that Advantages and disadvantages of learning sense, it can in no way harm the development how to code at an early age of children. On the contrary.

Although interesting and intriguing, But, as it goes for everything in life, it is teaching children coding when they are important to avoid extreme situations when 3 years old has caused a certain dose of we talk about coding too. The excessive concern and criticism. Some people (mostly sitting in front of a computer is as bad as parents) believe that this kind of stimulating the continuous sitting and reading of books interaction with computers and video without training of a sport or social life, or games is creating unsocial personalities. vice versa, uninterrupted socializing without Children are thus being agitated and they learning. are being denied contact with each other and socializing. So we could end up with an old Chinese proverb, seemingly paradoxical, but Nevertheless, the representatives definitely worth thinking: of LeapLearner point out that those manifestations, however, have the goal to There is no need to exaggerate, nor even promote socializing and making connections in moderation. • FROM THE OTHER POINT OF THE VIEW: Milan Maglov: “If we set off somewhere, we’ll arrive somewhere!”

by MP

Photo: Milan Maglov He started his career of successful • MP: How did that business twist happen? freelance marketing expert out of whim. When did you decide to dedicate Milan Maglov occupies 1 position based yourself to “community management?” on the number of his fans through social MM: After I’d created Daily dose of networks (Facebook, Instagram with 28k creativity which reached over 200 000 followers). Somebody once told him that fans, I received first offers to deal with he was not creative enough. community management. Soon enough, it all went quite fast, so I quit my job in Today, Milan Maglov cooperates with many the agency and I started doing this. agencies, he has got many fans, he expands Now, besides community management, The Daily dose of creativity and organizes I organize educational workshops related courses all around the whole region in the to this area. area in which he successfully proved that he can, will and is worth it!

• MP: If you could go back in your childhood, do you think you would find some answers related to your profession there? MM: Honestly, I don’t have answer to this question. Many children want to be a doctor, an actresses, a singer, an

astronaut. Probably, I gave myself some Photo: Milan Maglov time to figure out what I wanted. I assume • MP: What are your future goals? the high school was just a way to prologue MM: What I’ve learned is not to make making this decision. Still, I’m satisfied long term plans in advance when it that my university education thought me comes to work, but I do that every six exactly what I needed to know in order months. So basically, I know what I’ll be to establish the grounds for the job I’m doing ‘till the end of this year. One of the doing today. biggest challenges will be to form a team of people who will give me a hand. In • MP: Nice. But, how do you reach 12th the previous period, I had to come down position according to the number of fans with the fact that I couldn’t do everything and how do you make that a good career? on my own, so my goal for the new few MM: I’m someone who always loves months will be to find good and qualified social network. Privatly. Doing a job of people who would like to do a job that I an account manager in one marketing currently deal with. agency, my first Facebook page was created from pure whims. Later on, I’ve fruitfully started running Facebook pages and Instagram profiles for various companies. • MP: Who are your clients? • first time, it is always easier to come back MM: I was lucky enough not to focus on a again, because people decide to attend particular group. On contrary, I deal with due to recommendations, and they are a variety of clients. This is why my clients the best ads. are from completely different branches. They are younger women, men, and • MP: The future of social media. usually they are women and men with What do you expect in next 10 years? families etc. MM: I don’t think anybody knows that. No one could have guessed that MySpace • MP: What makes you different from will shut down, or that Twitter won’t be others who are in the same branch? so popular anymore. It’s completely MM: Frankly speaking, I don’t compare unpredictable. But the fact is that we myself with others so much. I like to will be present on social media more and have an insight in what they are doing, more. But, it includes virtual reality so so I follow many foreign professionals we are unsure whether to feel happy or but everybody has something that scared. Anyway, I’m someone who enjoys distinguishes them from others. I do innovations and I can’t wait to see what’s my job with ease. When I do a job for a ahead of us. client, I do it like I’m doing it for myself. I dedicate myself to their business and • MP: Do you do any sport? If so, which one? I feel good when they achieve good MM: I’m one of these people who, from results. I get excited when someone’s time to time, get an urge to do sport business advances due to my activities. I in order to gain a better looking body. love when clients appreciate my work, so I’ve been a little bit lazy this year, but I I try my best to give them a reason to be definitely have plans to include more pleased about what I’ve done for them. physical activities in my everyday life. I love swimming and that’s never boring • MP: How did you win over you followers for me. from abroad? (we saw to give your lectures in Banja Luka, Zagreb…) • MP: Sport and business – together or apart? MM: I have very honest approach when MM: It would be ideal to make balance it comes to people and they recognize between our business and sport activities. that. Everything that is pointed out on my I often complain how I don’t have enough website related to the knowledge they time for sport since I have a lot of gain while attending my course, I really work to do, but basically, when we are provide for them. Currently, there is an determined, we can even out everything. impressive urge for the knowledge in this area of business, and I’m someone • MP: What would be the best who has that knowledge and who has advice for people who are organized his lectures well, so I present it starting their own business? to people in an easy and simple way. After MM: Try! Overthinking about business hosting a lecture in a certain town for the and keeping ideas just for yourself isn’t a good thing. My advice is to go for it and • don’t be afraid. You shouldn’t be afraid of anything: of success or of failure. If we set off somewhere, we’ll arrive somewhere. Sometimes, you may realize that something is simply not your cup of tea and that the idea you had is not so brilliant, as we’ve expected. Sometimes you’ll realize how brilliant we are and how all the effort we put in actually paid off.

Either/ Or questions:

• MP: Facebook or Instagram? MM: At this time, I would go with Instagram. Somehow, it’s a happier place for me.

• MP: Book or a film? MM: Book, and then a film.

• MP: Internet or newspaper (printed)? • MM: Definitely internet.

• MP: Give me a recommendation of a book. MM: The Kite Runner.

• MP: People or animals? MM: People.

• MP: IOS or Windows? MM: Windows.

• MP: T-shirt or shirt? MM: Both.

• MP: If you could switch your life with somebody else for a day,who would that be? MM: I can’t decide on just one man - Elon Musk, Justin Trudeau or even Emmanuel Macron. • Photo: Milan Maglov Column Binoculars: Izvor: www.freepik.com Basketball in China by MP

If you ask people in Serbia what is the first China. Well, even if we offer China as an thing that comes to their mind when they answer. . . think about basketball, the vast majority, if not all of them, would say Serbia. It is, of But as we are allocating basketball power to course, completely normal: it is “a country a certain country, the Chinese are developing of basketball” in a way. But even without a plan how to seriously intermingle in this the excessive subjective, patriotic pathos, discussion. our country earns its place at the top of this imaginary list, objectively. The short history of basketball expansion in China The real people would mention the United States and Spain, too. The ones who know Beginnings a bit more about basketball would also take Although many assume that the basketball into account Lithuania or France. Moreover, has only recently “reached” China, the there are those who would try to be original truth is that it came to the most populous at all costs, and they would include Turkey, country in the world just a few years after Greece or Italy. Although these countries are it was invented in Springfield in 1891. The very important in the world of basketball, members of the Christian Association of they are not the first association when this Young Men, who visited China at that time, sport is discussed. Finally, there is always are responsible for this. somebody who would mention Russia, simply because of some “worldwide However, during the 1920s, the basketball in balance” and “neutrality”. Well, although China became widely popular among young the Russian basketball is currently at the top people from urban areas and in 1935 this of the European championship league, the activity was declared a national contentment. Russians have not given us a reason to talk The extent to which the basketball was about them as a basketball force for some actually accepted by the Chinese reflects time, unfortunately. through the fact that the Chinese people did not bind this sport to America until 1987, And however thoroughly the psychology of the year when the NBA sold its broadcasting Serbian decision-making has been analyzed rights to the Chinese National Television. and regardless of how much attention it has been paid to the subconscious reasons for qualifying a certain country for this list, one 1990s Foreigners in the CBA

The Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) The development of the CBA League did was founded in China in 1995. It is the first not just open the door for the Chinese professional league in this country. As the players to the world, but it also welcomed interest in this sport grew, so did the CBA the foreigners join the Chinese basketball. league. Over the years, there have been First of all, big money investments enabled significant players who have even reached the arrival of some NBA stars in the late the NBA. The most famous basketball player period of their career. The most famous who crossed the road from CBA to the NBA among them are Stephon Marbury, Steve is the famous Yao Ming. Francis, Kenyon Martin and Tracy McGrady. The last three spent only one season in The giant influence of the Chinese giant China, while Marbury actively participated from 2010 to 2017.

It is interesting to mention that the Serbs have their representatives in the CBA league. The latest news is that Miroslav Raduljica signed for Jiangsu Dragons. This will be his second term in China, since he was already been there in 2014.

Screenshot: Yao Ming’s 2016 Hall of Fame Induction Speech via@youtube Apart from Raduljica, Aleksandar Kesar represents Serbia in China. The former With his height of 230 cm, it was impossible assistant of Dusko Vujosevic in Partizan, for Yao Ming not to be noticed in China. the assistant of Duda Ivkovic and of Moka However, with his basketball dexterity, he Slavinac also, he works as a coach of managed to win the hearts of Americans Sandong now and he does it with great (and the entire world) during the period success. Only a few months ago, his face of eight years, which he spent playing for was on all covers of sports newspapers in Houston Rockets. China due to the historical achievement when his team took part in the playoff. Yao actively contributed to the development of the basketball in China providing a good Basketball in China: today and tomorrow example and his later hard work. Even today, he stands as an idol for many Chinese Nowadays, basketball is one of the most basketball players and children who are yet popular sports in China. Their CBA league to enter a world of basketball. is certainly the strongest basketball league in Asia. Investments in the league do not Besides Yao Ming, three other Chinese end and their clubs have huge budgets basketball players played in the NBA which could level top Euro league teams. League: Mengke Bateer, Sun Yue, Yi Jianlian More and more foreigners are coming to and Wang Zhizhi. the CBA league, since the Chinese are now Screenshot: Korea v China - Group C - Full Game - 2015 FIBA Asia Championship via@youtube investing more and more in quality players from both America and Europe, and not just in the famous NBA reinforcements who are at the end of their careers.

Some analysts estimate that, at this pace of development, China will become one of the four strongest basketball forces in the world in 10 years. No matter how this prognosis sounds to us, time will show.

In 2019, China will have its first chance to shine on the big scene. That year, China will be the host of the World Cup in basketball. Despite being able to play in front of the domestic supporters, it seems that it is a bit too early to talk about greater success of their national team. However, there is no doubt that China will astonish the world in the field of organisation of a whole manifestation and enthusiasm that will be implicated in it. • Science and business: Tesla Model 3: Ilon Musk, a man who “destroys” traditional car industry by Marina RaguS

Tesla Model 3, presented on July 7th, Good connoisseurs of Ilon Mask suggest when the start of production was officially that we can expect new models with solar announced, was the most anticipated car roofs and / or hoods in the near future. in the world. And, if that happens, the existing auto Ilon Mask, the owner of Tesla Company, industry is then totally “riding downhill”. succeeded in what no other car manufacturer has ever done: In addition, it should be emphasised that this would be a real chain reaction with the He made over half a million orders worth over same outcome in a wide range of related $ 10 billion and that was just a presentation industries! of Model 3prototype. Perhaps this is the answer to dilemma why On the 21st of July, he handed out the first Mask gave the name Tesla to his Californian thirty “keys” of Model 3 to employees of this company. Californian company. We say “keys” though this car does not have a key since it opens Let’s just bring to mind the Serbian genius with Smart phone, through a Bluetooth scientist Nikola Tesla who devoted his life to signal. the project of free energy and he paid high price during his career: According to its design, Tesla 3 targets particular customers who are used to the His laboratories were burnt down, the luxurious segments of the BMW 3 Series, investors left him, his life was in danger… the Mercedes-Benz C-Class and other best- and all of this happened just because he selling sedans on the market. wanted to show to the world that energy was all around us, free and clean and very It uses electrical energy. simple to transfer and use. For the time being! Screenshot: The Tesla Model 3: The Culmination of Elon Musk’s Master Plan | WIRED via@youtube Of course, for exploiters like Edison and indicated that he was about to start with the various “companies”, such an approach destruction of the existing cars production did not fit well, so they made Tesla’s life a which, according to MIT data, takes 53 000 nightmare. lives annually by emission of pollution in the atmosphere! At least, in the segment in which they occasionally met, the dimension we knew For traditional predators, this was an alarming and accepted. warning.

Nikola Tesla was a scientist who worked beyond all the existing boundaries of science, as well as dimensions. Let’s just mention the Philadelphian experiment or Tunguska event, for which some scientific circles today claim to have coincided with Tesla’s extraordinary energy experiments. Nikola Tesla, his patents and experiments will be a subject of our column some other Screenshot: The Tesla Model 3: The Culmination of Elon Musk’s Master Plan time. | WIRED via@youtube

Ilon Mask, who appears to be a kind of a It would not be a surprise, given the Tesla Tesla philosophy follower, went backwards: Company’s production expectations, that First he earned huge amounts of money and the first stepping stone Mask could expect then he started initiatives which one after ahead of him is high taxes, or the higher each other destroys one of the (today’s) price of electricity. major industries: Lobbies are lobbies, but Mask also seems From car and energy, through giants of to know all the marketing tricks. IT industry, he has donated the world an open Artificial Intelligence project (OPEN But that would be discussed when the time AI), he invests significant incomes to teams comes. dealing with the future under the artificial intelligence, to SPACE X and intergalactic Let’s go back to Model 3, and what we know voyages, along with the unforgettable about it so far: potential colonization of the planet Mars. And these are just some of the famous The starting price of the basic model is $ projects. 35,000, slightly higher than the rival electric car Nissan Leaf ($ 30,680) or Chevrolet Volt On July 7th, when he presented the ($ 34,095). beginning of Model 3production, he did not reveal his complete (as he had announced it ,“Top Secret”), but he said enough when he However, compared to the previous models According to all its characteristics, more of Tesla S and X, which had a starting price of favourable Model 3 was a huge step forward $ 80,000, Model 3 is, of course, a real boom! for a company that in April this year recorded a profit of $ 49 billion. According to the company data, the plan is to produce 5,000 models per week, just during And, this is just the beginning of the this year. If the plan is successfully realized, realization of Mask’s top secret “Master companies such as Mercedes, BMW and Plan”, which, taking into account the Lexus will be beaten multiple times in gathered team of scientists, researchers, production, and thus in accomplished profits. engineers, analysts and media employees, Regarding the characteristics of the Model will completely lead the world straight to 4th 3, the electric battery will be able to reach Industrial Revolution. 354 km after charging, and according to Mask, the company does not intend to make The real question is: is the world, or more slow cars. We know that the basic model of precisely: $35,000 offers 220 miles in range, at a speed of 60 km / h in 5.6 seconds, while $ 44,000 are the traditional elites with all their skeletal version exceeds 310 miles, at a speed of 60 and overstated institutions, but with the km / h in 5.1 seconds. same urges, ready for the tsunami that is visible on the horizon ahead of us?! • In addition, each new model will reach a growing autonomy, so the drivers will be able to “talk freely on their phones, watch movies, sleep...”

Screenshot: The Tesla Model 3: The Culmination of Elon Musk’s Master Plan | WIRED via@youtube Healthy life: „The killing factor“ Heat waves will be more frequent, more intense and more deadly. “The killing factor” that has been taking over tens of thousands of lives around the world has been revealed!

by MARINA RAGUS

“When it comes to heat waves, our options go from bad to worse”, said Camilo Mora, a Hawaiian University researcher and leader of the science team, signing the latest study on the connection of extreme weather conditions and human death rates.

In the general hysteria which the world of science has divided into those who claim that the climate change is already there and that we are too late to (at least) slow it down and that the state of emergency must now be officially declared; to the ones who deny the changes - nature has decided to show, and someone would even say to charge, everything we “drank on its expense”.

And we drank a lot!

From the first industrial revolution to this day, civilization has largely contributed to rapid climate change, and, what we call extreme weather conditions today will be quite common. The real extremes are just ahead of us.

Screenshot: What If Yellowstone Erupted Tomorrow via@youtube From heat waves to freezing weather. Given the true war going among science, Chicago in 1995, 700 people died. business and politics, some scientific teams have decided that extreme weather, as a Truth to be told, earlier summer temperatures result of climate change, has to be monitored were higher but more bearable. in various ways, but what is common to them is that they quantify all these phenomena Today, even at much lower temperatures, and show how much it costs to harshly and in some cases at 23 degrees Celsius, turn our heads away to all of those brutal the mortality rate associated with altered outcomes which are consequences of weather conditions becomes higher. decades of climate change. Why is it so?

Therefore, we are here dealing with heat waves and their impact on the mortality rate. June heat wave, which sent images of Europe from hell to the world, brought the study, mentioned at the beginning of our article, to daily light. Mora’s team came to astonishing information:

• Since 1980, the rate of mortality and Screenshot: Climate Change Explained via@youtube disease caused by heat waves has It was precisely this topic that gathered increased by 30%. The world population the Mora’s team of scientists. It has been today has even an average of 20 hell days concluded that, the degree of humidity of air per year. significantly increased in combination with • The study analysed 1900 deaths linked to high temperatures, is exactly this “killing heat waves in 36 countries over the last factor”. four decades. This period also refers to the heat wave from 2003, which caused “Sweat does not evaporate if the humidity forest fires in several countries. That year, rate is high. People then go through a the Danube had such a low water level process that resembles the burns caused that in some parts, at the bottom of the by exposure to the Sun, but from the inside. river bed, there were traces of the artillery Blood goes to the skin to cool it down, so the remains from the Second World War. other organs are left without enough blood. • It was estimated that 20,000 people died And then, the protection of your stomach during this heat wave. dissolves and it releases the toxins to the • A study conducted in 2007 by Robine JM organs”, explains Mora. et. Al. covering 16 European countries in the period from 1998 to 2002 and the 2003 wave, it has come to the conclusion that over 70, 000 people died due to the extreme heat waves.

In 2010, for example, 10,000 people died in Moscow; during the five-day heat wave in “Dying during heat waves, followed by a threatening decisions that define the way of high percentage of humidity in the air, is building will be understood and also, foolish like slow cooking. It’s a real torture. The urbanization that has destroyed so many young and the old are particularly sensitive. green areas, emitting pollution, creating However, we have come to the conclusion waste, increasing pollution, expanding that in this way soldiers, athletes and all landfills... people die. The discovery of so many deaths associated with heat waves made us scared, To begin with! especially because we do not pay attention to this factor at all in a serious way. Heat It should be mentioned that science has waves last for a while, they go on and people been dealing with this problem since the just go on”, Mora concludes. first decades of the last century in order to establish a direct connection between heat Of course, those who survive continue with waves, air pollution and an increase in the their lives, but the question is with which mortality rate. consequences, dangerous for health and An outstanding review, presented by further life, they have to deal with. It is the study of Basu and Samet (Oxford, obviously clear that, analysing numerous 2002), warns about the increasing risks of studies, climate change increases risks by particularly vulnerable groups which, as a causing extreme weather conditions that rule, are more difficult to adapt to weather exceed the thermoregulatory functions of (un)conditions. our body. Given the prediction, we expect more The World Health Organization estimates intense, more frequent and longer intervals that, due to all of the above, about 150 000 of heat waves, as Mil and Tebaldi presented people die annually. Many of the prevailing in their research (Science, 2004), especially in diseases are associated with changing Europe and North America, and then all risks climatic conditions, from cardiovascular previously mentioned related to health, life, to respiratory ones; from the variable nutrition, economy and overall ecosystem transmission of contagious diseases and become terrifyingly high. malnutrition to a devastating impact on crops. Finally, the whole food chain and Above all, the worrying fact is that nobody ecosystem. has dealt with the problem systemically up to this day, and the problem cannot be Therefore, health risks, as well as the pushed under the carpet anymore. mortality rates, will increase with the tendency of a disaster, if the attitude towards this problem does not change.

Here, the global political measures and decisions that should, in the future, change the world as we know it, are primarily being Screenshot: Our Future via@youtube discussed. Sooner or later, the degree of life Because, NATURE is, it seems, decided to show all that it has been hiding for decades, and at the expense of the global population and, of course, for the benefit of the industry! •

Source: www.pixabay.com SOCIETY: Vojvodjanska Banka dedicated to projects of socially responsible business by Vojvodjanska banka

It is our duty to help the society in which Realisation of project “Responsible in we live and do business Culture”

Banks are like large systems, in which One of the most important socially indirectly and directly thousands of people responsible projects, which the Bank and families are involved and which have a is particularly proud of, is “Responsible huge responsibility towards the community. in Culture”, which is being realized in It is their obligation to be promoters of true cooperation with the Gallery of Matica values, as well as active participants in Srpska. creating equal conditions for all marginalised groups. That is why Vojvodjanska Banka, in addition to being a traditionally reliable and ethical partner to its clients, actively participates and helps to improve the conditions in the community in which it operates.

Zorica Dzida, Head of the Corporate Social Responsibility Department of Vojvodjanska Source: Vojvodjanska banka Banka, points out that socially responsible Cooperation on this project comes from business is a kind of a necessity for the the fact that the Bank owns more than 600 successful functioning of the banking, but works of fine art. It is a large collection of also all other sectors of the economy. works of art by domestic authors from the second half of the 20th century which were “If, while doing your core business, you try on the walls of the business premises of the to set things in the right direction in different Bank until now. With the help of the Gallery areas within the community you live in, of Matica Srpska, in the next two years, they then you create better conditions for living, will be listed, processed and catalogued, and therefore, for your business”, Dzida after which the public will be able to see emphasizes. them. Vojvodjanska Banka and the Gallery and we are honest when it comes to our of Matica Srpska signed a Business intentions to help not only the gallery scene, Cooperation Agreement last year, and but also the national culture. We are honored financial funds in the amount of 5.2 million to cooperate with the Gallery of Matica Serbian Dinars which are realised by this Srpska and very grateful for the efforts and contract, the Gallery redirected to the engagement of their experts to make this facade reconstruction, which refers to the great and significant collection of fine arts, complete reconstruction of the entrance owned by Vojvodjanska Banka, processed and the installation of the outer elevator for and presented to the public. Through this people with disabilities. project, I think that both our partners and us have shown great responsibility in the field of culture”, explains Dzida.

Support for children without parental care

Vojvodjanska Banka has recognized the difficulties and challenges that children without parental care face with , and for years, its focus was on these young people, Source: Vojvodjanska banka as one of the most delicate social categories From October last year until now, within in Serbia. That is why it has supported the the project “Responsible for Culture”, a social inclusion of young people without series of exhibitions have been organized parental care by including in the project with the aim of introducing art lovers to this “Budi svoj” implemented by the foundation valuable collection of paintings. The work called “Uključi se”, and also supported of of celebrated painters like Milan Konjovic, the Ministry of Labor, Employment, Welfare Mica Popovic, Nikola Graovac, Sava Stojkov and Social Affairs, which is a strategic partner and many others were exhibited within the and support from the Ministry of Youth and project, for the first time in Belgrade and Novi Sports. Sad.Due to the action “Caravan paintings”, selected works from the rich art collection In order to make this category of people of the Bank were exhibited in Kragujevac, more visible to the society as a whole, Cacak and Apatin, and it is planned that the project “Budi svoj” has for its goal to this kind of travelling exhibition enables art strengthen them through the educational lovers from Subotica and Zrenjanin to see part (training, practices, and scholarships) the paintings. and prepare these children for the world of adults. Another important part of the The ultimate goal of this beautiful project is project is employment, and primarily self- to successively present all works owned by employment, which will provide young the Bank to art lovers from all over Serbia people with economic independence and after listing and cataloguing them. self-sufficiency.

“We are fully committed to this project So far, in 10 cities in Serbia, including Kraljevo, Kragujevac, Zrenjanin, Cuprija, Arandjelovac called “Predstavi sve”. These events are and many others, numerous educational an extremely important part of the entire workshops have been held in cooperation project, where representatives of the with the Centers for Social Work and more economic community will be able to meet than 200 young people without parental candidates, but also inform all about the care took part in them. stimulus subsidies and the importance of employment of young people from this category.

It is planned to hold five regional events within the project „Predstavi sVe“, and in order to prepare young people for meetings with potential employers, ,three full-day workshops have been held so far, where attendants of the project learned how to Source: Vojvodjanska banka write a working biography and present “Our colleagues from the Human Resources them to future employers. Trainings and Division, specialized in recruitment, have event „Predstavi sVe“, will be organized in educated these young people on how to Belgrade, Kragujevac, Novi Sad and Subotica write a biography, prepare for a conversation in the following period. with potential employers, learn how to choose appropriate clothes, and present “The plan is to realize another important part themselves to the potential employer in the of the project, called “Budi svoj na selu ”, best possible light. which aims to purchase, adapt and equip a rural household in which six young people We are very glad we have supported the would move in, and with the mentoring, they project “Budi svoj”, because children from would do agriculture and livestock. This is this category face a number of challenges a very important kind of support and self- when they leave the social protection system employment of young people on their way and it is very important that we do everything to their absolute independence”, says Dzida. in our power to support them and prepare for the challenges ahead. In this delicate Cooperation with UNICEF through Club of process of independence , this project is of Friends great importance to them, as well as the fact that the state has provided significant funds Vojvodjanska Bank has recently started for subsidizing private employers and thus the cooperation with UNICEF by providing stimulate them to employ children from this financial support to programs implemented social category”, highlights Dzida. in Serbia. Clients of Vojvodjanska Bank will be able to determine the amount of regular Within the project, it is planned to organize monthly donation that will, from their account special meetings of young people without through a standing order, automatically parental care and potential employers and without additional commission fees, be redirected for supporting work of this organization. Citizens who activate this service for free and our best athletes. At the end of June 2017, in the Bank’s branches or the UNICEF the fifth protocol on cooperation with the checkpoint become members of the Olympic Committee of Serbia was signed, fast-growing Club of Friends and Regular according to which Vojvodjanska Banka Donors of this organization which was also once again confirmed its determination to joined by Vojvodjanska Banka. In order to actively participate in the improvement of contribute further more to the creation of the the National Olympic sport and creation conditions for a happy childhood growth for of better conditions for our athletes. every child in Serbia, the Bank abolished the After Athens, Beijing, London and Rio, commission on all humanitarian transitions Vojvodjanska Banka will be the official bank towards UNICEF and also defined the funds of our National Olympic team on their way for supporting programs in our country. to Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020.

Dzida explains that old traditions, In the past 17 years, Vojvodjanska Banka commitment to achieving long-term goals has additionally sponsored numerous and a strong principle of sustainability that athletes, among them Ivana Spanovic, Ivana both apply in everyday business, connects Maksimovic, Anja Crevar and many others. these two institutions. It has also created a unique Olympic donor card, and with each transaction, certain “Children are members of families of our funds have been given to support our employees and members of the community National team for the last five years. “After in which we operate. They are our future years and years of successful cooperation, employees and business leaders. The our bank and the Olympic Committee of generations that are yet to come will Serbia can proudly summarise the results - shape the future of our business as well numerous successes, medals and the great as our private lives. The banking sector reputation of our national sport and athletes has a large indirect and direct impact on on the World scene . Even today, we are them. Therefore, it is our obligation to help standing in the same place, united in our create conditions in which every child can common goal - to create new generations develop all its potentials and “create a better of winners together”, Dzida point out. tomorrow” for each of us. We are proud of the cooperation with UNICEF because, in Sign language education this way, we invest in the development of children at their earliest age. We believe that There are indeed a large number of projects this cooperation, together with the program in the field of socially responsible business of support which the Bank provides to young that is carefully designed and implemented people without parental care, will make an by Vojvodjanska Bank. Our co-speaker points essential, crucial difference”, points out our out that this Bank is the first institution in interlocutor. Serbia whose employees have volunteered a training program for the Serbian sign Support to Serbian Olympians language in order to communicate with deaf and hard-of-hearing people during their In the framework of socially responsible everyday work. business, the Bank supports Serbian sport Over a hundred employees passed through specially conceived training in order to “The needs of the community in which learn the basics of the sign language, and we live are great and, hence there is the therefore enabled deaf and hard-of-hearing feeling that it is not enough, because it can people to perform basic banking business always be done more and better, and that without engaging interpreters for the sign is what we are striving for. I believe that, for language, and just to ilustrate, in Belgrade example, corporate volunteering means a lot there are only seven of them. According to to everyone individually in our company, and the data of the Deaf Association of Serbia, our goal is to make it a part of the corporate over 30 thousand of deaf and hard-of- culture and identity across the country. We hearing people have been registered in pay attention to the needs of the community our country, of which 10 thousand are in and due to the initiative of colleagues Belgrade. from a certain city, we are implementing volunteer actions”, says Dzida, emphasising “As a socially responsible company that the importance of employee volunteering. contributes to the community in which it operates, we felt the need to approach the At the end, in Vojvodjanska Banka they deaf community. In accordance with this, we highlight that the best way to justify and have designed a special training adapted to forfeit the enormous trust which their for bank employees, which we realized employees and clients give them every day, with cooperation with the Cultural Center is to show them that, thanks to the bank’s Cukarica and the company “Talking Hands”. business, the environment in which they live Our colleagues have joined this training changes to better. voluntarily and with a lot of enthusiasm, in order to contribute to increasing the quality “Socially responsible business is a kind of of life of deaf people”, explains Dzida. necessity for the successful functioning of the banking, but also all other sectors of Voluntary education started in November the economy. If, together with working your 2014. The trainings were organized in basic business, you also work on changing Belgrade, Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Jagodina, things in the community where we live, in Paracin, Kragujevac, Nis, Kursumlija, Uzice a positive direction and in different area, and Kraljevo. The branches of Vojvodjanska then you create better terms for living Banka which have employees who are and therefore for your busines.,. Socially trained to use the Serbian sign language responsible projects do not have to be huge are marked with a specially designed sticker and expensive. They represent a business and currently there are 15 in 13 cities across philosophy that can be applied by micro Serbia. Also, one of the commitments is to companies and start-ups, which essentially support institutions of significance for the does not have to cost much”, concludes community in which Vojvodjanska Banka Dzida. • operates through donations of nearly four hundred computers given to various institutions and organizations. Source: Vojvodjanska banka Business Calendar: Events in August

Source: Litmus live, www.litmus.com/conference/boston August 2nd - 4th

Litmus Live: Boston

Litmus Live is a conference devoted to all aspects of email. The conference will discuss the use of email in the work environment, the August 22nd -24th use of email for marketing purposes, new email strategies, new email design trends and new email platforms. Xlive Esports Summit, New York Since the email has become an irreplaceable way of communication today, it is clear to This year, New York will be a host of one very what extent the news and issues related to interesting conference on e-sport. it are important. The goal of the Litmus Live Conference is to gather and connect all email E-Sports is an activity that involves experts in order to share their ideas. Besides competitions in playing video games. There experts, all people who show interest can is an increasing number of video games visit the conference if they want to expand that are being played in a way that can be their knowledge about certain aspects of characterised as an e-sport. One of the most email technology. famous e-sport games is DOTA 2. E-sport The conference will be attended by industry is on the rise. Nowadays, the whole the experts from some of the world’s industry counts up to $ 1.1 billion. most renowned companies, as well as representatives of the most popular email The Xlive Esports Summit aims to bring platforms. together representatives from e-sports Besides Boston, the Litmus Live Conference (representatives of teams, players, club will take place in London, August 29-30, as owners, sponsors), representatives of well as in San Francisco, September 21-22. traditional sports franchises, media representatives and all others interested in this topic. The conference will discuss new ideas, and at the same time, new strategies for the further development of e-sport will be developed.

The attendance of numerous speakers from relevant franchises has already been announced, so an interesting program is guaranteed. August 31st

Growth Marketing Summit, Frankfurt

The end of August is reserved for the Growth Marketing Summit, a conference devoted to marketing, especially digital trends within it. The conference will be held in Frankfurt (Germany).

The conference is of exceptional signif- icance, given that a large number of ex- perts from this field will gather on it. Geri Weinerzuk, Chris Gauard and Brian Eisen- berg are announced as the biggest stars of the event. They will share their expe- riences and methods of work with their audience.

Growth Marketing Summit will be a great opportunity for everyone who wants to enrich their knowledge, to get to know and learn how to use the latest tools, and to get advice from “first-hand” from the best in the field. In addition, there will be nu- merous opportunities for getting to know and connecting with colleagues from around the world.

In addition to the conference program, visitors will also be able to attend a party. The organisers prepared a lot of surprises, which include excellent catering and DJ performances. Source: Growth Marketing Summit, www.growthmarketingsummit.com/) Recommendations: Cultural and sports events in August

August 3rd – 5th

Lovefest

Lovefest will also be held this year in Vrnjacka Banja. It will be the eleventh festival in a row. This festival is growing year after year by attracting famous DJs and bands from the country and the world. Here are just some of the artists whose performances await us: Dejan Milicevic, Marko Milosavljevic, Rick Maia, DEE...

This year, the highest number of visitors is expected. The organizers, therefore, increased the capacity of the camp site, and a very few places left unreserved. And other accommodation capacities are almost completely filled up, which confirms the popularity of this festival.

Screenshot: Lovefest Festival 2014 | Official aftermovie via@youtube August 9th – 13th

Trumpet Festival in Guca

The world famous trumpet festival in Guca will take place for the 57th time in a row this year. This traditional gathering of trumpet players gathers fans of trumpets for decades, but it also represents traditional August 13th dishes, such as cabbage broth with different types of meat. Guca is, therefore, Band Interpol on Kalemegdan fortress a gathering place for all generations during the assembly. As part of their European tour, the New York Alt-Rock band will perform on August 13th This year, visitors will also be able to enjoy a at Kalemegdan fortress. With this tour, band rich musical program. Every day, there are will celebrate 15 years since their first album concerts of trumpet orchestras which were “Turn On The Bright Lights” was published, the winners of previous years. On Sunday, but also, they will celebrate 20 years since the main stage is reserved for Goran the founding of the band. The spectators Bregovic and Bijelo Dugme. will be able to enjoy the songs such as “Say Hello To The Angels”, “Untitled”, but also many others.

The beginning of the concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. August 16th – 20th

Beerfest Besides good music, visitors will be able to enjoy a taste of good beer. As in the previous years, these will be a huge selection of domestic and foreign beers. Without any doubt, every beer lover will have a good time at Beerfest as a child has a good time in Disneyland.

Screenshot: Belgrade Beer Fest 2015 Aftermovie via@youtube The place of happening is well known: Usce Park. This year Beerfest celebrates its 15 birthday! The biggest beer festival in South- Eastern Concerts begin at 6 p.m. every day. Europe prepared a busy programme for all beer and music lovers.

When it comes to music, some of the best and most popular bands from Serbia and the region will perform this year too.

Here are some of the performers:

• August 16th : Van Gogh, Asian Dub Foundation, Galija • August 17th : Riblja Corba, Orthodox Celts, Stereo MC’s • August 18th : Hladno Pivo, Zabranjeno Pusenje, DJAIKOVSKI • August 19th : Nicim izazvan, Darko Rundek, S.A.R.S • August 20th : Del Arno Band, Everblue Tour 2017 - Noc Plavog Orkestra (gosti: Branko DJuric - DJuro i Roberto Magnifico), Dejan Petrovic Big Band August 24th

European Volleyball Championship for Men

This year’s European Men’s Volleyball Championship will take place in Poland. Our national team will participate in the tournament and they will have the honour to play the first game of the tournament and they are playing against the Polish national volleyball team. It is interesting that the match will be held at the National Football Stadium in Warsaw, so Nikola Grbic’s champions will have a difficult task in front the numerous domestic supporters. The same stadium hosted the same duel (Poland - Serbia) three years ago, when the record of number of visitors was broken – 65 000.

Besides Poland, our national team will play with Finland and Estonia within the same group phase. Our volleyball team will be expected to fight for the highest placement in Europe, as always.

The finals of the championship will be held on September 3rd in Krakow. MAGAZINE

   

Svi prava su zaštićena. Pri punom ili delimičnom korišćenju priloga obavezno je pozivanje na izvor.

[email protected]