"Napoleon would have swelled with pride for his Illyria yesterday"
An excursion into the sport of "ballthrowing", or "football" in Ljubljana before the First World War
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sports, football, Ljubljana, before WW IAbstract
Although the arrival of football on the sports scene in Ljubljana did not go unnoticed or unrecorded in the history of sports, iris not thoroughly researched. At least not the main turning points and events in the history of this sport The following article, however, focuses on the appearance of the phenomenon of football amongst the high-school students of Slovenia and the inhabitants of Ljubljana. The author depicts how the founding of the first football club as an institute of civil society was a turning-point in the development and popularizing of this modern sport in Slovenia.
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