HISTORY

Allready since the 1960's Dinamo has been
followed by an whole army of supporters, but the first organized group of sympathizers of Dinamo started around 1985. The minority of the most devoted supporters formed the group called the
Bad Blue Boys. According to the legend, this name was inspired by, at that time, very popular movie "Bad Boys", with Sean Penn in major role. In areas of Zagreb BBB groups were established, so that during football matches, banners were displayed (BBB Maksimir, BBB Trnovo, BBB Dubrava etc.
In the beginning supporters were organizing journeys to away matches Yugoslavia wide. They were remembered in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Niš, Skopje, Titograd, Split and so on. They were traveling through the former country with pride, holding their heads high, carrying the name of Dinamo, Zagreb and Croatia. Quite often, unavoidable it was necessary to end up in fight, receive punches, all for the purpose of expressing your devotion towards the Club. They didn't mind it. Dinamo was and is sacred to them.

In the beginning of 1990 BBB became a real organized firm. Interest was great. Everyone wanted to contribute to the organization in his own way, Despite all enthusiasm, supporters were confronted with various problems. Regardless to this, they all felt closer and stronger, which culminated on 13th of May 1990.

On that day visitors at Maksimir were Crvena Zvezda [Red Star] from Belgrade. On the packed stadium, teasing from the visiting supporters [Delije], started even before the match began. When Belgrade's hooligans broke through the fence on the southern stand and advance to fight with a smaller group of ordinary Dinamo fans, the northern stand, where were Bad Blue Boys, went wild. In that moment the fence went down and Dinamo's supporters advanced to towards south. In the confrontation which followed, members of then milicija [police] mainly being Serbs blindly accepted the instruction from their superiors, advance to confront the supporters of Dinamo. Many were arrested, beaten and "marked". In defense of his supporters came than captain of Dinamo, Zvonimir Boban. His legendary jump on one of the members of the milicija, significantly marked the beginning of the end of one country. Majority of Bad Blue Boys believes that civil war was started exactly on 13th of May 1990 – by the football match Dinamo Zagreb vs. Crvena Zvezda that was never played.

During the war, many supporters of Dinamo were defending Croatian soil against the Serbian agression, whether it was in police, national guard or HOS. The Croatian National Guard didn't even have its own insignia then, and the BBB put on Dinamo badges and went off to fight, Bad Blue Boys were all over war zones from Vukovar to Prevlaka. Many of them never came back to their northern stand. In honor and glory to the fallen supporters of Dinamo, in front of western stand, the monument is erected – the altar to the Croatian barons who had "blue" as part of their hearts.

During the war the club was "given" a new name, first "HAŠK Građanski" in 1991 and later in 1993, "Croatia Zagreb". Every supporter felt unjustified. The ledendary name Dinamo is sacred but was considered a communist name by the president of Croatia during times of democratic revolution. Through years BBB were boycotting most of the matches in protest. The civili war ended in 1995 but the Bad Blue Boys kept fighting another war, the one against the Club's board and the president of Croatia. I took them 7 long years or 3156 days exactly. The sacred name NK Dinamo Zagreb that never dissapeared from BBB's banners standed again on February 14 2000.

To this day, there were many new generations of supporters, but Bad Blue Boys were and stayed Dinamo's 12th player, not only in Maksimir, but on stadiums Europe wide. They are in true meaning part of the "legend of Dinamo".