SAND Subotica
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SAND, initials for Subotičko atletičko nogometno društvo (Serbian Cyrillic
: CAНД Cубoтицa) was a football club based in Subotica
, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
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It was formed in 1920. It participated in the 1927 Yugoslav Football Championship finishing 4th out of 6. After that accomplishment, two of their best players, Miloš Beleslin and Geza Šifliš, received calls to join the Yugoslav national team that would play at the 1928 Summer Olympics
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Its stadium was the first in the country to have electrical illumination, still in the 1930s.
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Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is an adaptation of the Cyrillic script for the Serbian language, developed in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two standard modern alphabets used to write the Serbian language, the other being Latin...
: CAНД Cубoтицa) was a football club based in Subotica
Subotica
Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...
, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a state stretching from the Western Balkans to Central Europe which existed during the often-tumultuous interwar era of 1918–1941...
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It was formed in 1920. It participated in the 1927 Yugoslav Football Championship finishing 4th out of 6. After that accomplishment, two of their best players, Miloš Beleslin and Geza Šifliš, received calls to join the Yugoslav national team that would play at the 1928 Summer Olympics
1928 Summer Olympics
The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Amsterdam had bid for the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, but had to give way to war-victim Antwerp, Belgium, and Pierre de...
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Its stadium was the first in the country to have electrical illumination, still in the 1930s.
Notable players
The following players have been caped by the Yugoslav national teamYugoslavia national football team
The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in association football. It enjoyed a modicum of success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international...
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- Miloš Beleslin
- Janoš Horvat
- Mihalj Kečkeš
- Geza Šifliš