'Blue Marines'), or simply Marinci, are the organised supporters of the Serbian professional football club Spartak Subotica.
The best witnesses based on the fact, that after a recommendation of a special committee of the major league, from the locker rooms to pitch was built a wired tunnel, through it passed the players to avoid the contact with the fiery Spartak audience.
Last cheering expansion movement took place in 1994, when Spartak reached the finals of the Yugoslav Cup against Partizan Belgrade, and finished the championship as fifth.
Nowadays they are a relatively small group, but in the last years, and especially since the growing local patriotism in Serbian fan scene, more and more young and new generations from Subotica accepted Spartak as their only club and became its supporters.
[5] The situation was calmed by coach Petar Kurčubić, who agreed with the fans that Despotović made a thoughtless move, but it also reminded all of the goals that the young Serbia national team player achieved so far, suggesting that it is more important than the choice of his shirt.
[6] Despite the efforts of the club to calm the supporters, and the fact that Despotović had scored a goal in the match against Red Star, a big part of the fans was still angry on the attacker.
[9][10] The friendship between the Meraklije and Marinci dates back to 1994, when Spartak and Radnički played for the entering into the Yugoslav Cup final.