What’s the story behind this logo? I’m just curious since I really like football history and I couldn’t find anything about this in English.

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  3. Our 1990’s president and lightweight dictator Franjo Tuđman turned Dinamo into a regime club which he decided will promote Croatia in european competitions, so he changed the name into NK Croatia so that everyone can hear of Croatia and that Dinamo represents Croatia just like the national team.

    To create more impressive and longer history for Dinamo/Croatia he decided that it is actually a combination of three previous clubs and he put their logos in the Croatia’s Logo.

    He also put political leaders as managers.

    It was not a popular decision to create this Frankenstein’s monster of a club.

    The name was returned eventually, but they still claim fake history and are led by mafia with ties to politics.

    edit: I should note that back in Tito’s days Tuđman was a general in charge of a regime club FK Partizan in Belgrade and he tried to emulate Tito in everything, including this.

  4. Then-president Tuđman tried to distance Dinamo from (in his mind) communist sounding name and changed the name to Croatia Zagreb.

    As for the logo and those smaller ones inside it, it represents Dinamo and football clubs HAŠK and Građanski.

    Građanski is a predecessor of Dinamo, founded in 1911. In 1945 it was officialy dissolved by the communists and renamed Dinamo, but all the players, stadium, fans, colours remained the same. So, that connection is clear and reasonable, and Dinamo rightfully so presents that year of its founding.

    As for that other smaller logo – HAŠK, one of the oldest football clubs in Croatia (for some even the oldest), which was also for some time officially dissolved in 1945. But it’s connection to Dinamo is nowhere near the Građanski one and Tuđman’s wish to associate it with Dinamo was fairly ludicrous. Furthermore, HAŠK still exists today.

  5. The story is already explained by some users, but consequences aren’t, by making club a regime jerkoff it needed to be best, to compete in europe and represent our country, sadly it just made everything worse, some club with real history went bankrupt and competitiveness was destroyed. Tuđman managed to make a base for Mamić to destroy the club and now Dinamo is really successful club but with history of shady transfers (Modrić, Lovren are most known), awful stadium that millions went in “renovation” and low attendance. The “boss” and his brother (the manager who won tottenham while in jail lol) are law refugees and still command from Bosnia.

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