Author: Vuk Perović
Place: Montenegro
Date: 30 October 2009

Although the World Football Championship will probably be the biggest sports event in 2010, sports fans in Montenegro are far more eager about the upcoming European Water Polo Championship. The success Montenegro’s national team and water polo clubs have achieved in recent years has ranked this sport as the country’s absolute favourite.

Place: Kosovo*
Author: Gezim Baxhaku
Date: 28 August 2009
Sports, particularly football, is proving to be an effective instrument of bringing together members of the international peace keeping troops in Kosovo (KFOR) and the local youth, irrespective of their ethnic background.

Author: Bülent ÇAMCI
Place: Turkey
Date: 28 August 2009

Legend has it that Turks are the world’s greatest wrestlers... Yağlı Güreş (oil wrestling) is a Turkish national sport that dates back to the 14th century. According to the Guinness World Records, Kirkpinar Oil Wresting Festival is the world's oldest continuously sanctioned sporting competition. The year 2009 saw already the 648th edition of the Festival.

Author: Dejan Stanković
Place: Serbia
Date: 16 July 2009

This July Belgrade hosted the 25th World University Games and once again proved its potential for tourism and ability to make its guests feel at home. The 2009 Summer Universiade was the biggest sports event ever to take place in the Serbian capital. Belgrade welcomed 8,600 athletes from 128 countries and 215 foreign journalists.

Author: Neven Andjelic
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 23 June 2009

Bosnia and Herzegovina has recently gotten two kings. This is not a contradictio in adjecto but reality following the fact that Wolfsburg Football Club was crowned the German champion. Two of their three best players are Bosnians Zvjezdan Misimović and Edin Džeko, who have officially become ‘Kaisers’ of German football.

Author: Neale Lytollis
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 24 June 2009

From 20-24 May 2009 the second European Streetfootball Festival took place in Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The tournament was organised by the Berlin-based NGO "streetfootballworld" and its network member Football Friends together with the European Commission's Directorate General for Enlargement. It involved 24 teams of girls and boys, aged 14 to 18, coming from over fifteen European countries.
 

Author:  Aleksandra Trifković
Place: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Date: 22 May 2009

For all those who think that extreme sports are a modern invention practiced by people bored of urban life, the town of Mostar, in the south of Bosnia and Herzegovina, can only say one big “No”...

Author:  Srdjan Stevanovic
Place: Serbia
Date: 24 March 2009

Serbian tennis players Jelena Janković, Novak Djoković and Ana Ivanović have been among the world’s top ten for the last three years in a row. It is also worth mentioning Nenad Zimonjić who is one of the best doubles players, as well as Janko Tipsarević and Viktor Troicki who are both currently in the top 50. These players are still young and success is expected from them over the next few years. In addition, there is another generation of young Serbian stars - such as Bojana Jovanovski and Filip Krajinović - who also have all the chances of joining the tennis elite. They are ambitious, hardworking and successful given their age. Tennis experts and the media are calling them ‘the biggest hopes of Serbian tennis’ and ‘new tennis prodigies’.

Author:  Marko Vesović
Place: Montenegro
Date: 03 March, 2009

The history of organised sport in Montenegro dates back to the 19th century. Back then, tennis, football and golf were the most popular sports, but skating, skiing, cycling and horse racing had also their supporters. By the beginning of the 20th century, the first sport clubs had already been founded. In 1908 Montenegro received an official invitation from the British King Edward VIII to participate at the Olympic Games in London. Unfortunately, it was not a member of the International Olympic Committee, so it was ineligible to participate.

Author:  Lara Stolnik
Place: Croatia
Date: 27 January, 2009

With a hundred years of skiing tradition, Zagreb is the only capital in the world hosting an Alpine Ski World Cup, including the renowned Ladies and Men’s Slalom.