The mementos are everywhere, images of heroes past, snapshots of glories lost.

For the current generation of players at Crvena Zvezda — the club known to the English-speaking world as Red Star Belgrade — they are inescapable: in the dressing rooms at the training facility, in the foyer as they walk into the stadium everyone in Serbia calls the Marakana.

They act as a reminder, as proof, as assertion of what Red Star once was, of what it once did. There are photos of the club’s greatest players and its greatest victories: against Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, all of European soccer’s aristocrats.

Some are of the Marakana itself, when it could hold more than 100,000 fans, when the noise was so deafening that, down in the tunnel before kickoff, the players say, they could feel the concrete walls vibrating. And more than one is of Red Star’s crowning achievement, the trophy that elevates this club into soccer’s most exclusive group: the European Cup.

“It’s a big thing,” Milos Degenek, a defender for Red Star and Australia told Omnisport recently. “You know you’re walking into a club where some of the great players played, players who made an impact in European and world football, not just in Serbia. You know you’re walking into a club that was a European champion, and a world champion.”