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Miroslav Rede Personal information Full name Miroslav Rede Date of birth 1938 Place of birth Kikinda, Kingdom of Yugoslavia Playing position Forward Youth career 1952–1956 Partizan Belgrade Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1956–1959 Partizan Belgrade 34 (19) 1959–1961 Dinamo Zagreb 1961–1962 Rad Belgrade 1962–1967 Lokomotiva Zagreb * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Miroslav Rede (born 1938 in Kikinda) is a Croatian sports journalist and former football player.
Playing career
He started playing in one of the biggest Yugoslav clubs, Belgrade's FK Partizan. In 1959 he moved, together with his family, to Zagreb, and he started playing for another Yugoslav giants, this time NK Dinamo Zagreb. After two seasons there, he returned to Belgrade and played one year with FK Rad before signing, in 1962, with NK Lokomotiva Zagreb where he will play the rest of his career, until 1967.
Sports journalism
After hanging on his boots, in 1967, he started working as sports journalist in Zagreb's Sportske novosti as a football section editor. At same time, he becomes also the main football editor at the weekly SN Revija magazine. For one year he was the Sports Director of the Croatian First League club NK Inker Zaprešić, but in 1993 he returns to journalism, this time to work in the Croatian daily newspaper Večernji list where he stayed until 2002.
For his work in journalism, he received an award for his life-time work from the Croatian Association of Sports Journalists, and the special journalist award for his coverage of the 1978 FIFA wourld Cup.
External sources
- Life story at Nogometni leksikon. (Croatian)
Categories:- 1938 births
- 2002 deaths
- People from Kikinda
- Croatian journalists
- Sports journalists
- Yugoslav footballers
- Association football forwards
- FK Partizan players
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb players
- FK Rad players
- Croatian football biography stubs
- Yugoslavia stubs
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