Editing Arkan (section)

==Post-war fame==
Ražnatović came to serve as a popular icon for both Serbs and their enemies. For some Serbs he was a patriot and [[folk hero]], while serving as an object of hatred and fear to Croats and Bosniaks. In the postwar period after the [[Dayton Agreement]] was signed,<ref>{{cite news |date=14 December 2010 |title=15 years ago, Dayton Peace Accords: a milestone for NATO and the Balkans |url=http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/news_69290.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217163011/https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/news_69290.htm |archive-date=17 February 2020 |access-date=18 July 2015 |publisher=NATO}}</ref> Ražnatović returned to his interests in sport and private business. The SDG was officially disbanded in April 1996, with the threat of being reactivated in case of war. In June of that year he took over a second division football team, [[FK Obilić]], which he soon turned into a top caliber club, even winning the [[First League of FR Yugoslavia 1997-98|1997–98 FR Yugoslav League]] championship.

According to [[Franklin Foer]], in his book ''[[How Soccer Explains the World]]'', Ražnatović threatened players on opposing teams if they scored against Obilić.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Foer|first=Franklin|title=How soccer explains the world|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]|year=2004|isbn=978-0-06-621234-0|location=New York|pages=26–27}}</ref> This threat was underlined by the thousands of SDG veterans that filled his team's home field, chanting threats, and on occasion pointing pistols at opposing players during matches. One player told the British football magazine ''[[FourFourTwo]]'' that he was locked in a garage when his team played Obilić. Europe's football governing body, the [[Union of European Football Associations]] (UEFA), considered prohibiting Obilić from participation in continental competitions because of its connections to Ražnatović. In response to this, Ražnatović stepped away from the position of president and gave his seat to his wife [[Ceca (singer)|Svetlana]]. In a 2006 interview, [[Dragoslav Šekularac]] (who was coach of Obilić while Ražnatović was with the club) said claims that Ražnatović verbally and physically assaulted Obilić players were false.<ref name="Sekularac UBC interview">{{cite web |url=http://www.urbanbookcircle.com/get-out-of-here-i-am-sekularac-by-prvoslav-vujcic.html |last=Vujcic|first=Prvoslav|authorlink=Prvoslav Vujcic|agency=Urban Book Circle |title=Get Out of Here, I am Sekularac |access-date=2024-12-21 |date=2006-06-06 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329002626/http://www.urbanbookcircle.com/get-out-of-here-i-am-sekularac-by-prvoslav-vujcic.html |archive-date=29 March 2024 |url-status=}}</ref> Ražnatović was a chairman of the Yugoslav Kickboxing Association.<ref name=":1" />

Many of the former members of "Arkan Tigers" are prominent figures in Serbia, maintaining close ties between each other and with Russian nationalist organisations. Jugoslav Simić and Svetozar Pejović posed with Russian [[Night Wolves]], [[Ceca (singer)|Ceca]] performed for Vladimir Putin during his visit in Serbia, Srđan Golubović is a popular trance performer known as "DJ Max" and was identified by [[Rolling Stone]] as the SDG soldier kicking dead bodies of a Bosniak family in [[Bijeljina]] on a photo from 1992.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The DJ and the War Crimes — Rolling Stone |url=https://investigation.rollingstone.com/ |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=investigation.rollingstone.com}}</ref> Ražnatović came to take on the attributes of a ''[[hajduk]]'' (the term for a Serb bandit during the Ottoman empire), and he was celebrated in "militaristic nationalist circles" for his criminal-military exploits.{{sfn|Schlichte|2010|p=321}} The German political [[Klaus Schlichte]] wrote that Ražnatović was the "most military" of the various Serb para-military leaders in the Bosnian war, and that his primary motive in the war was greed as he seemed all too interested in looting.{{sfn|Schlichte|2010|p=320-321}} However, Schlichte noted that Ražnatović's attempts at political career and his frequent appearances to the Serb media suggest he had wider ambitions beyond greed.{{sfn|Schlichte|2010|p=321}}