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Đorđe "Đokica" Vujadinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Вујадиновић; 29
November 1909 – 5 October 1990) was a Serbian international football player and manager.
Career
He was born in Kolari, a suburb of Smederevo, but still very young, came to Belgrade to live with his
uncle. While playing football with his friends in a sandy field in
the Kalemegdan park in
the center of the city, he was spotted by a "older serious man with
hat" who invite him, together with other two boys, to come and make
tests in, the biggest club from that period, BSK. He passed, and joined the youth team,
in which played a wonderful generation of players, in which
Tirnanić, Valjarević, Krčevinac, Zloković and him make the forward
line, that will be, some years latter, the attack of the BSK team
that won many Championships in the 1930's. Those late 1920's were
years of great expansion in the Yugoslav Kingdom and football was
starting to be extremely popular. In those times, the players
started to be professionalized and started to be payed monetarily,
but he refused, saying that his earnings as a bank employee were
enough for him and that he played football only by pleasure. This
is a great example of his calm and honest character. Until 1940 he
played around 400 matches for the club, was national Champion five
times and twice a league top-scorer.[1]
National
team
Before the WWII, the Yugoslav team was unimaginable without him
in the squad. Between 1929 and 1940 he played 44 international
matches, and didn't played more because of his duties as a bank
functioner. He was one of the main players of the Yugoslavia national
football team in the 1930 FIFA World Cup, and scored a
total of 18 goals for the national team.[2]
Manager
career
After returning from captivity, in the end of the Second World
War, he ended his playing career and dedicates to the work with the
younger generations. He starts coaching the youth teams of FK Partizan and latter
OFK Belgrade, where he also managed the
senior team in 1960-61.[3] He was
also the manager of the Yugoslavia
national under-21 football team. While in a zenith of his
managerial time, he invited Mr.Miljan Miljanić ( the latter President
of the Yugoslav Football Federation), and with whom had already
worked before, to substitute him in the job.
Honours
Club
National
team
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