Svetozar Vujović

Svetozar Vujović

Personal information
Full name	Svetozar Vujović
Date of birth	3 March 1940
Place of birth	Bajci, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death
Place of death	Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1957–1959	FK Radnik Hadžići
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1959–1972	FK Sarajevo	254	(1)
International career
1963–1964	Yugoslavia	8	(0)
Managerial career
1973–1975	FK Sarajevo
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Svetozar Vujović (3 March 1940 – 16 January 1993) was a Bosnian footballer.

Career as player

He began playing in 1957 in FK Radnik from the town of Hadžići near Sarajevo, and in 1959 he become a member of the FK Sarajevo. Miroslav Brozović, his coach at the time, put him in the position of right back, and he developed into an excellent football player. Later, he successfully played as center half.

In the FK Sarajevo jersey he played a total of 444 games (254 in the league) and scored eight goals. This number of games he played for the club placed him second on the list of club records, after Biogradlić with 646 games. In his first season with FK Sarajevo 1966/67 he won the title of Yugoslavia champion.

With two games for the young team (1962–1963), he capped eight games for the best selection of Yugoslavia. Debuted in meeting of the Olympic teams against Romania (1:2) in Bucharest on 27 September 1963, and the last game for the national team he played in the Olympic tournament in Japan in Osaka on 22 October 1964, again, against Romania (0:3).

Pathologically afraid of flying, he stopped playing in 1971, official saying goodbye to the pitch in summer 1972, together with other club player Boško Antić (276 matches and 140 goals) in a match against Sporting Lisbon.

Career as club official

In FK Sarajevo, he began to work as a coach in 1973, and 1975 he was appointed director of the club. In the role of director and later as president Vujović spent twenty years and made great contribution to success and stability of FK Sarajevo.

External links

• Profile at Serbian federation official site