Đorđe Vujadinović

Đorđe Vujadinović

Personal information
Full name	Đorđe Vujadinović
Date of birth	29 November 1909(1909-11-29)
Place of birth	Smederevo, Kingdom of Serbia
Date of death	5 October 1990(1990-10-05) (aged 80)
Place of death	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing position	Forward
Youth career
1923-1928	BSK Belgrade
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1928-1940	BSK Belgrade
National team
1929-1940	Kingdom of Yugoslavia	44	(18)
Teams managed
	Partizan (youth)
	OFK Beograd (youth)
1960-1961	OFK Beograd
	Yugoslavia under-21
1967	Altay S.K.
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

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 1930s. Those late 1920s 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 paid 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]

He was the only BSK player to win all five national titles.^[2]

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 play 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.^[3]

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.^[4] He was also the manager of the Yugoslavia national under-21 football team and Altay S.K..^[5] 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

• BSK Belgrade
  • 5 times Yugoslav First League Champion: 1930-31, 1932-1933, 1934-35, 1935-36 and 1938-39
  • 2 times Yugoslav First League top-scorer: 1929 (with 10 goals in 8 matches) and 1930-31 (with 12 goals in 10 matches)

National team

• Yugoslavia
  • Semi-finalist in the 1930 FIFA World Cup

References

1. ^ Career story from a text in a Mile Kos book "Asovi veka", in translation:"The football aces of the century".
2. ^ Curiosities from ofkbeograd.net
3. ^ Djordje
4. ^ http://www.ofkbeograd.net/index.php?id=83
5. ^ http://www.mackolik.com/Antrenor/3277/Djordie-Vujadinovic

External sources

• Profile in Serbian Federation website
• Profile in National-football-teams

Persondata
Name	Vujadinovic, Dorde
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	29 November 1909
Place of birth	Smederevo, Kingdom of Serbia
Date of death	5 October 1990
Place of death	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia