A question from crossword puzzles, about a town with two letters in the name, which refers to Ub, could rather read like this: A place in Serbia, from which as many as five national football team members, top players – Dragan Dzajic, Dusan Savic, Ratko Colic , Nemanja Matić and Radosav Petrović.
Ub is special in many ways and the people of Ubljani adore it and are proud of their city wherever they are. With this unique museum, the president of the municipality of Ub, Darko Glišić, with his associates and citizens of Ub, wants to express his gratitude to the football greats who celebrated the name of our city.
Find out moreHe grew up in Radnički from Obrenovac, and in his pioneer days he played for Kolubara from Lazarevac and Jedinstvo Ub. In the younger categories, he played for Partizan and Crvena zvezda. He started his senior career in Kolubara, and after only six months he went to Slovakia, to the ranks of Košice. In the summer transfer window in 2009, he signed a four-year contract with Chelsea. The compensation to Košice amounted to around 1.5 million pounds.
In the 2010-11 season, he went on loan to the Dutch Vitesse, where he drew attention to himself with good games.
Born May 30, 1946 in Uba.
One of the best Yugoslav football players of all time. The third Zvezda star, he played 85 games in the national team, until 2004 the president of the Red Star football club, at the head of which he was for over two decades. As the then technical director of the Red Star, Dzajic is the creator of the most golden generation in the history of the Red Star, with which he climbed to the top of Europe in May 1991, winning the European Champions Cup and the world, when Red Star won the Toyota Cup in an unofficial competition for the best club on the planet. , in December 1991.
Already at the age of fifteen, he became a member of the Red Star, because he had previously played great at a tournament in Valjevo, and hunters from big clubs immediately noticed him. When he reached the first junior selection, he was transferred to the first team only six months later.
Born June 1, 1955 in Uba.
The celebrated center forward of the Red Star from the seventies, is the only football player from the former Yugoslavia who was inspired by rockers and directors of contemporary urban films.
He made his first football steps in Jedinstvo from Ub, and later people from Zvezda noticed his talent, unlike his eternal rival from Humska, so Dule became an express member of Zvezda’s youth school.
He played for the first team of the red and whites from 1973 to 1982. He played 258 competitive matches and scored 149 goals (a total of 410 matches and 266 goals counting all matches).
Born on March 8, 1989 in Ub.
He started his career in Jedinstvo from Ub, continued in Radnički from Obrenovac, and from the summer of 2008 he moved to Belgrade’s Partizan. He is 193 cm tall and weighs 84 kg, he is characterized by good technique, vision and creativity.
He plays as a back midfielder and he does a great job. He is right-handed, has a good overview of the game, excellent technique, an accurate pass and a good shot, he is superior in jumping, very creative, and his strength in duels is one of his greatest qualities. With the “black and whites”, he won three Serbian championship titles (2009, 2010, 2011) and two trophies in the Serbian Cup (2009, 2011). Fans of the “black and whites” adored him, because, as he himself points out, if he were not a football player, he would be one of the leaders of the fans in the South.
Ratko Colic (March 17, 1918, Ub – October 30, 1999, Belgrade) was a member of the Yugoslav national football team. He played in defense at fullback.
He started his career in Jedinstvo from Ub, then he played in the Belgrade clubs Dušanovac and SK Mitic, and after the Second World War, as an officer, he joined Belgrade’s Partizan, where he won four titles: the Yugoslav Championship in 1947 and 1949, and in 1947. and 1952. and cup. He played in the “black and white” jersey until 1956 – a total of 329 games.
In addition to six matches for the national team of Belgrade, he also played 14 matches for the best selection of Yugoslavia. He made his debut on June 19, 1949 in a friendly match against Norway (3: 1) in Oslo, and said goodbye to the jersey with the national coat of arms on September 2, 1951 in a match against Sweden (2: 1) in Belgrade.
At the end of his career, he worked as a coach.