Third season of SEHA GSS
League was very turbulent for Borac from Banja Luka. Financial problems were
dictating the rhytm of quality, trainings, reinforcements and coach changes. In
the end Borac has, despite of all that managed to reach a good eight place and
their strongest player was undoubtely their crowd which has given them complete
support in the hardest moments.
Team has again managed to
catch the same position, now with 4 points less. Seventh place from the first
season and 35 points remain their biggest success.
They have entered the season
with multiple problems. Even their appearance in the league this season was
hidden behind a great question mark but club's management has somehow managed
to creat a team and make it better during the season. Bojan Crnomarkovic has
opened the season as a coach but Jani Cop got on his place pretty soon in his
comeback to Borik. Around experienced Blazevic, Nikolic, Obradovic and
Trivundza they have created a team which was through the league preparing for
their national championship and a title which would bring them to SEHA GSS
society again next year.
By mentioned older players,
three youngsters have used the season in the best possible way to show what
they can. Stefan Jankovic, Nikola Tesic and Nemanja Bezbradica have showed that
they are a big reason for optimism in future.
Borac finished the season
with 5 wins and 13 losses. They were two times better than Partizan and
Vojvodina, once than NEXE and it was this team's maximum for the season.
Branislav Obradovic,
experienced right back, was team's first scorer tith 70 goals. Srdjan Trivundza
added 68 with 3 matches less because he left to Saudi Arabia before the end of
the season.
Great Ratko Nikolic was an amazing
reinforcement playing 9 matches and helping Borac win some important matches.
By him Mario Blazevic was outstanding on goal with 32% of saves.
They needed too much to catch
form in the beginning of both first and second half of the season where they
lost a chance for a better position. The
question in Banja Luka is not if they can do it but if they want to? Banja Luka
and handball have unbreakable bond. Even when it is hard as it was this year.
Iznimno turbulentna bila je
treća sezona SEHA GSS lige za banjolučki Borac. Financijski problemi određivali
su ritam kvalitete, rada, treniranja, dolaske i odlaske igrača, promjene na
trenerskoj klupi... Na kraju prvenstva Borac je, s obzirom na sve nedaće,
zauzeo solidno osmo mjesto, a nedvojbeno najjačim igračem u toj priči pokazala
se banjolučka publika koja je klubu velike povijesti, za razliku od nekih
drugih struktura, poklonila puno povjerenje i podršku vrijednu budućnosti.
Tim je ponovio plasman od
godinu dana ranije kada je sakupio 4 boda manje, ali nije uspio dostići
najbolji SEHA plasman dosad iz prve sezone kada je za sedmo mjesto osvojio 35
bodova.
Počeli su s bezbroj problema.
Čak i nastup je bio upitan, no nova Uprava smogla je način da nekako složi
momčad koja se kroz ligu dizala i na kraju svakome bila ozbiljan protivnik.
Počeo je na klupi Bojan Crnomarković, nastavio uz njega Jani Čop koji se nakon
dugog niza godina vratio u Borik kao trener. Oko iskusnih Blaževića, Nikolića,
Obradovića i Triivundže formirao se tim u skladu s mogućnostima i odigrao jednu
sasvim dobru sezonu kao pripremu za obranu naslova prvaka BiH koji je ulaznica
za SEHA društvo.
Uz spomenute iskusne igrače
koji su dali sigurnost timu, trojica su mladića sezonu iskoristila na najbolji
mogući način. Stefan Janković, Nikola Tešić i Nemanja Bezbradica odigrali su
svih 18 utakmica, napredovali i veliki su razlog za optimizam po pitanju
budućnosti.
Borac je upisao 5 pobjeda i 13
poraza, po dva puta je svladao Partizan i Vojvodinu, jednom NEXE i bio je to
maksimum koji je momčad u ovom trenutku bila spremna ostvariti.
Uz trojicu mladića koji su
odigrali sve utakmice, prvi je bio Branislav Obradović, iskusni ljevak koji je
bio i najbolji strijelac kluba u sezoni. U 15 odigranih susreta zabio je 70
golova. Pratio ga je sa tri utakmice manje i 68 golova kapetan Srđan Trivundža
koji je sredinom drugog dijela sezone napustio klub i otišao u Saudijsku
Arabiju.
Iskusni, legendarni, pivot
Ratko Nikolić odigrao je 9 utakmica i pokazao se kao veliko pojačanje, baš kao
i Mario Blažević koji je na golu bio junak Borčevih pobjeda ove sezone (32%
obrana).
Trebalo im je dugo da krenu
na startu prvog i drugog dijela lige, tu su izgubili najviše, a za planirati
više neke će stvari trebati drugačije postaviti. Nije pitanje može li se, nego
hoće li se? Rukomet i Banja Luka su dvije neraskidive priče. Čak i kada je
teško, to se vidjelo, a ove sezone je bilo baš tako.
