Presenting the final example from the recent consignment acquired
from Serbia & featuring an object representing Metalurg Smederevo, thus
named from 1967 – 76 (now having evolved over the years into the more prosaic ‘FK
Smederevo’, relegated last season from the Serbian SuperLiga & currently mid-tablish,
a point & place above Sinđelić Belgrade) & therefore of the former
Yugoslavia, imbuing the badge as 'ghostly' historical artefact with hauntological & ‘Ostalgic’/’Yugo-nostalgic’
qualities.
Again, the attraction lies in the name – Smederevo is a good, exotic
one, & the ‘Metalurg’ has that delightful, irresistible East European ‘industrial’
aspect to it – made the more so by virtue of being rendered in its native
Cyrillic upon the chunky (difficult-to-photograph) chrome objecthood of the
badge.
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