Vladica Popović
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Full name | Vladimir Popović | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 17 March 1935 | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Zemun, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||
Date of death | 10 August 2020 | (aged 85)|||||||||||||||
Place of death | Belgrade, Serbia | |||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
Jedinstvo Zemun | ||||||||||||||||
–1953 | Red Star Belgrade | |||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
1953–1965 | Red Star Belgrade | 499 | (38) | |||||||||||||
1965–1966 | VfB Stuttgart | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||||
1966–1968 | Stuttgarter Kickers | 52 | (2) | |||||||||||||
1968–1969 | Canarias | 28 | (2) | |||||||||||||
Total | 581 | (42) | ||||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||||
1956–1965 | Yugoslavia | 20 | (0) | |||||||||||||
Management career | ||||||||||||||||
Portuguesa | ||||||||||||||||
Deportivo Italia | ||||||||||||||||
1971–1972 | Independiente Santa Fe | |||||||||||||||
1973 | Atlético Nacional | |||||||||||||||
1974 | Deportivo Cali | |||||||||||||||
1977–1978 | Napredak Kruševac | |||||||||||||||
Trepča | ||||||||||||||||
1984–1986 | Deportivo Cali | |||||||||||||||
1989 | Deportivo Cali | |||||||||||||||
1991–1992 | Red Star Belgrade | |||||||||||||||
1992–1993 | Peru | |||||||||||||||
1994–1995 | Millonarios | |||||||||||||||
1998–1999 | Caracas | |||||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Vladimir "Vladica" Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Bладимиp "Bлaдицa" Пoпoвић; 17 March 1935 – 10 August 2020) was a Serbian professional footballer and manager. The biggest success in his coaching career was winning the Intercontinental Cup with Red Star Belgrade in 1991.
Born in Zemun, Popović started playing at local side Jedinstvo but his talent was spotted while he was still very young and giants Red Star Belgrade brought him to their youth team where he will later play for more than a decade becoming team captain and also regular member of the Yugoslav national team. He was part of the team that won the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Popović began coaching football in Venezuela in the 1970s, leading Portuguesa FC, Caracas F.C. and Deportivo Italia. He also managed Colombian sides Deportivo Cali and Millonarios as well as the Peru national football team.
Honours
Player
Club
Red Star Belgrade
- Yugoslav First League: 1955–56, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1963–64
- Yugoslav Cup: 1957–58, 1958–59, 1963–64
- Mitropa Cup: 1958
International
Yugoslavia
- Summer Olympics Second place: 1956
Manager
Independiente Santa Fe
Atlético Nacional
Deportivo Cali
Napredak Kruševac
- Yugoslav Second League (East): 1977–78
Red Star Belgrade
- 1935 births
- 2020 deaths
- People from Zemun
- Footballers from Belgrade
- Serbian footballers
- Yugoslav footballers
- Yugoslavia international footballers
- Red Star Belgrade footballers
- VfB Stuttgart players
- Stuttgarter Kickers players
- Yugoslav expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Germany
- Expatriate footballers in West Germany
- Expatriate footballers in Venezuela
- 1958 FIFA World Cup players
- 1962 FIFA World Cup players
- 1993 Copa América managers
- Yugoslav football managers
- Serbian football managers
- Red Star Belgrade non-playing staff
- Red Star Belgrade managers
- Deportivo Italia managers
- Independiente Santa Fe managers
- Atlético Nacional managers
- Deportivo Cali managers
- Millonarios F.C. managers
- Yugoslav First League players
- Bundesliga players
- Peru national football team managers
- Association football midfielders
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Yugoslav expatriate football managers
- Expatriate football managers in Colombia
- Expatriate football managers in Peru
- Expatriate football managers in Venezuela
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Colombia
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Venezuela