1923 Lovuuv

## Introduction

Logo Since 2020

Fūtbāl Klūbā 1923 Lovuuv (***Simplified as 1923 Lovuuv***) is a Mixopolan football team founded in 1923 as FK Lovuuv, they would become FK 1923 Lovuuv in 1978 after they were declared "The team of the north-east".

## The Beginning (1922-1953)

Starting in late 1922, two friends from Lovuuv met in a café that is now the famous "Bar Hien", these two friends were Thorstein Nowý and Bogdan Olafsson, and they were football fans, but they were also small time businessmen, but what they did a few months after the first meeting would make them more famous than they could ever ask for. Nowý and Olafsson gathered a few of their other friends and decided that they would form a football club, and it be a club "By Lovuuvians, For Lovuuvians", and taking inspirations from the dusk sky of the city, they ordered their home jerseys to be red, along with white socks for the clouds and light blue for the icy terrain outside the city proper, their stadium request got accepted by the government of Lovuuv, and thus **FK Lovuuv** was born. They wished to start off on a high note, but even before they were founded, the Mixopolan Confederation dissolved, beginning the 2nd Mixopolan dark age, also known as "The Unknown", and due to this, many territories in the north-east were by name part of "The Republic of Frostikonia", but in reality was controlled by violent guerilla fighters, and Lovuuv was sadly one of the biggest cities controlled by the fighters, so FK Lovuuv didn't play until 1927, and things would only get worse from there. In 1939 Thorstein Nowý was killed by a Frostikon nationalist in his office for "Propaganda brought by the lack of national spirit in the team." In protest, Lovuuv players started a peaceful protest near the town hall, in which the national guard opened fire on the crowd, leading to the Lovuuv riot of 1939, which later spread out to the rest of the Republic, the riots got so bad that in 1947 just before the Great Mixopolan War began, Bogdan Olafsson and his family fled to Iceland, thus suspending FK Lovuuv's operations until the Soviet occupation in 1953 allowed them to return.

## MPR Era (1953-2020)

FK Lovuuv returned in 1953, when Bogdan Olafsson returned to become chairman of the club, and reactivated their league status with permission by the Lovuuv government and the MPRFA. A year later, FK Lovuuv would become one of the first clubs in the MPR 1st League. FK Lovuuv would become famous for it's consistently high performances, even beating the "mighty" Serp i Molot Leninsburg once. But for the longest time they never won any trophies, but that would all change in 1974 with the arrival of head coach Vatroswav Krūskal, who brought in many club legends, the most famous out of all of them however was Robert Mitrovicz in 1975, a strike who made his debut for Partizan Saraývo in 1974 at just 17, which back then was an extremely rare age to begin your career in football. In the 1977/1978 season, FK Lovuuv officially became 1923 Lovuuv and finished 2nd place, and the next season they finally won the MPR 1st league, winning it again the next season with Robert Mitrovicz being top scorer both times. It was also in 1978 in which their new logo would officially be the first variant of the current logo, and that same year, they finally made the switch from plain red to red and white stripes. But other than some great performances by Robert Mitrovicz, 1923 Lovuuv would never reach those heights again, and in 1990, Robert Mitrovicz retired from playing, but returned as head coach in 1997, yet it didn't save them from the fact that they were a shadow of their former selves. Finally in 2001 they were relegated, thankfully they bounced back immediately nearly going invincible in the 2nd League. In 2011, they finally moved into the Robert Mitrovicz Stadium, and in a great show of form finished one point below Real Szeraioacz in the 2019-2020 MPR 1st League, which turned out to be the last season of the MPR 1st league.

## Present Day

1923 Lovuuv today are the oldest surviving club in Zemlya Gor and in Lovuuv, they have broken through buriers that many other clubs like them couldn't go through. 1923 Lovuuv have been through wars, riots, occupation, violence, political suppression, corruption, relegation, suspension, and much more. 1923 Lovuuv have really showed why they are "The pride of Lovuuv."

## Notable Players

Robert Mitrovicz (Center-Forward, 1975 - 1990)

Stuf Birningson (Center-Back, 1971 - 1991)

Karl-Malte Volný (Goalkeeper, 2019 - 2020 / 2022 -)