Mike Stojanović

Mike Stojanovic

Personal information
Full name	Momčilo Stojanović
Date of birth	27 January 1947(1947-01-27)
Place of birth	Lapovo, Yugoslavia
Date of death	18 November 2010(2010-11-18) (aged 63)
Place of death	Toronto, Canada
Playing position	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
	Jedinstvo Paraćin
1969-1971	Radnički Kragujevac
	Vardar Skopje
	Red Star Belgrade	0	(0)
1974-1975	Serbian White Eagles	85	(96)
1976-1980	Rochester Lancers	115	(51)
1979-1980	Hartford Hellions (indoor)	9	(1)
1982	San Diego Sockers (indoor)	42	(30)
1982	Golden Bay Earthquakes	12	(2)
National team
1980-1981	Canada	14	(5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Momčilo Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Момчило Стојановић) (born January 27, 1947 in Lapovo, Serbia, then FPR Yugoslavia, died November 18, 2010 in Toronto, Canada^[1]) was an NASL and Canadian international soccer forward. In English, he was referred to as Mike Stojanovic.

International highlights

Stojanovic, nicknamed Stollie in North America, played in all of Canada's games in 1980 and '81, a total of 14 times. He scored in three straight games in the autumn of 1981.

Stojanovic was 33 years old when he won his first cap with Canada's senior team on 15 September 1980 in Vancouver, BC (a 4:0 win over New Zealand). He also played for Canada's World Cup Qualifying team in 1980-81 (Canada failed to qualify for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain by one goal). He scored a total of 5 goals in 14 caps for the Canadian National Team.

Stojanovic was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Association Hall of Fame on June 6, 2009.

Club highlights

A high scoring forward with the Rochester Lancers (1976–1980), Stojanovic had 17 goals and 41 points to be the league's fourth leading scorer as a rookie in 1976. He was fifth best the following season with 14 goals and 33 total points. His most productive season was 1981 when finished third with 23 goals and 52 total points while playing for the San Diego Sockers (1981–1982) and was named the NASL Player Of The Year. Stojanovic also played for the Golden Bay Earthquakes (1982). Stojanovic is 9th on the All-Time NASL Top Scorers list with 83 goals in 179 appearances and 10th on the all time points list with 211, ahead of fellow NASL players George Best, Pelé and Franz Beckenbauer. Stojanovic's final NASL season was 1982.

In Stojanovic's career in his home land of Yugoslavia, he played for Radnički Kragujevac and FK Vardar which at that time were both part of the Yugoslav First League. And it is said that he might have played for Red Star Belgrade, although if he played he didn´t play any league matches with them.^[2]

Stojanovic also played for the Serbian White Eagles, a club that played in the National Soccer League when Stojanovic was there, but now competes in the Canadian Soccer League (CSL). Stojanovic scored 96 goals in only two season including 52 in 1974 which was his first season with the club, and to this day is still a league record.

Former team-mate Mike Bakić said about Stojanovic: "There were many occasions when he was just unbelievable. I remember a game against a team that was very tough in another city -- Ottawa. I don't know if we won 7-0 or 8-0, but he scored all of the goals. Believe me, we had some good players on the team that were capable, more than capable of scoring. But somehow it worked out that he got all of them. That's one of those things that is hard not to remember."^[3]

References

1. ^ Lewis, Michael (November 19, 2010). "Hall Of Fame Inductee, Mike Stojanovic 1947-2010". The Ontario Soccer Association News. http://www.ontariosoccer.ca/OSABlog/?p=4345. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
2. ^ List of Red Star Belgrade footballers (No record of Momčilo Stojanović in any of the sources)
3. ^ A legend from his first kick article at Big Apple Soccer

External links

• Profile at National-football-teams.
• NASL/MISL stats
• [1]
• Profile at CanadaSoccer.
• CanadaSoccer
• NASL All-time leaders at SoccerHall

Persondata
Name	Stojanovic, Mike
Alternative names
Short description	Footballer
Date of birth	January 27, 1947
Place of birth	Lapovo, Yugoslavia
Date of death	November 17, 2010
Place of death	Toronto, Canada