Torcida Declares Boycott of NK Varazdin Match, Citing Poor Facilities and Club's Lack of Identity
Translated from Croatian, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.
At a glance
- The Torcida fan group has called for a boycott of an upcoming football match between Hajduk Split and NK Varazdin.
- The group cited high ticket prices, poor stadium facilities, and what they perceive as NK Varazdin's lack of identity and history as reasons for the boycott.
- Torcida plans to gather outside the stadium to support Hajduk, claiming their chants will be louder than the home crowd.
The Torcida fan group has declared an "all-out boycott" of tickets for the upcoming HNL match between Hajduk Split and NK Varazdin. In a fierce statement, the group lambasted NK Varazdin, calling it an "artificial political pr---" and criticizing the club's leadership as "gentlemen in armchairs, salon parasites, and police-managerial scum."
Sanitary facilities in your Jug stand are a disgrace and a hygienic catastrophe, unfit even for holding livestock, let alone people.
Torcida specifically targeted the "Jug" stand's sanitary facilities, labeling them a "disgrace and a hygienic catastrophe" unfit even for livestock. They also accused the club of surrounding fans with "wire and cages" under the guise of preventing riots, while simultaneously engaging in "brutal repression" and "robbery prices" for tickets.
You have neither fans, nor identity, nor history, so when a football institution like Hajduk visits you once a half-season, you try to stop our fan dominance with robbery prices, various bans, and brutal repression.
The fan group asserted that NK Varazdin lacks fans, identity, and history, suggesting the club is trying to exploit Hajduk's visit for profit. They further claimed the club is a "pathetic" creation born from the "grave of the real Varteks" through "murky political games."
You are a pathetic club created on the grave of the real Varteks, which was extinguished in murky political games, and all of Croatia knows it.
Despite the boycott of ticket purchases, Torcida announced plans to gather outside the stadium to support Hajduk, predicting their cheers from the street would outshine the home crowd. The group urged all Hajduk fans to join them in Varazdin for the protest.
We will gather outside the stadium and cheer, where we will be louder than the home theatrical audience anyway!
Originally published by Veฤernji List in Croatian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.