On the eve of the opening of the 17th BiH Diaspora World Cup, which was held in Izmir, a promotion of Branko Tomić’s book, “The Football Treasury of BiH Football”, was held. This is not just a book that talks about the most important side issue in the world, but it is, above all, a testimony to the football wealth of this region, on whose foundations the successes of new generations of players rest and are built.
Tomić invested enormous effort and time relying on 50 years of journalistic experience, and as he himself pointed out, he had great help in the realization of the project from the Football Association of BiH and numerous friends.
Promotion in Izmir saw off a large number of guests, good conversation and a pleasant atmosphere.
Branko Tomić was born in Drvar 1. 1. 1948. He began his professional journalistic career in 1971 as a correspondent for Oslobođenje from Belgrade. After moving to Sarajevo in 1974, he was the editor of the Sports Section, the Correspondence Service and the European edition of Oslobođenje. For a time, he was the correspondent from Vojvodina and assistant to the editor-in-chief. He has been awarded the annual journalism awards of Oslobođenje and the Association of Journalists of Bosnia and Herzegovina seven times. He is the first recipient of the Sreto Šćepanović Award for achievements in sports journalism (1981). He is the recipient of the Twenty-fifth of May Award of the SRBiH, the May Award of the Sarajevo Football Federation, the Medal of Labor, the Gold Plaque of the Small Olympic Games and other social awards. He shares the collective Scandinavian award Frihedsprisen 1993, as well as other collective awards received by Oslobođenje. While working as a journalist, he published the books Plamen mladosti, Velike Mali igre, Partizanska olimpijada, Tito prijatelj sporta, Olimpijski korijeni (with B. Radosavljević), Olimpijski staze (with E. Bergant), and with a group of authors he wrote Olimpijsko Sarajevo za nezaborav. In the last four years, he has published two representative monographs on Olympians from BiH (Olimpijski spomenar) and football in BiH (Football treasury of Bosnian-Herzegovinian football) in two volumes, as well as a collection of reports, Bosna probarala to Svetskom and the book ‘Crnci’ from FIS.
