Danilo Stojanović

Danilo "Čika Dača" Stojanović (born October 24, 1877 in Lapovo near Kragujevac , Kingdom of Serbia , † April 23, 1967 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) was a Serbian football pioneer and driving force in the early years of Belgrade football. In 1903 he initiated the establishment of the FK Šumadija in Kragujevac. He was also one of the initiators for the establishment of the Belgrade Association BSK in 1911 , and two years later he was instrumental in the establishment of the SK Velika Srbija . He acted in football as a player , goalkeeper , coach and sports official and is now one of the most important and well-known pioneers of Serbian football.

history

On September 14, 1903, Danilo Stojanović founded the football club FK Šumadija in Kragujevac , the second football club in the Kingdom of Serbia after the SK Soko . Stojanović brought the first soccer balls from Germany to Kragujevac. As a student in Mittweida, he learned to play football in what was then the German Empire at a Polish club called "Wisła". Stojanović was so enthusiastic about football that it was already clear to him that he would also introduce the new sport in his home country. After his return he worked as a teacher at a school in Kragujevac, where he also taught the students to play football. Stojanović was the first elected president of the association and suggested its name. The name Šumadija stands for a heavily forested region, hence the name, since šuma means “forest” in Serbian.

With FK Šumadija he stayed until 1906. Then he moved to Belgrade for professional reasons , where he played until 1910 with SK Soko. In 1911 he was a founding member of the BSK association , where he was appointed vice president. A year later he left the BSK and became president of the SK Dušanovac . With the beginning of the Balkan War in 1912 he joined the Serbian army . At the end of the war he returned to Belgrade and founded on August 1, 1913 together with a group of former players of the BSK, the SK Velika Srbija . With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he rejoined the Serbian army. As a refugee he finally came to France , where he initially trained at Olympique Marseille before playing for two Paris football clubs. In Paris he also had a workshop for making drills .

In 1919 he returned to SK Velika Srbija, changed the club name to SK Jugoslavija and became its club president. He held this position until 1921. In 1920 Stojanović was also instrumental in founding the Yugoslav Football Association in Zagreb and was appointed vice president. As a coach, he was two Yugoslav champions with SK Jugoslavija before he left the club in 1926. He then held positions in several clubs and organizations and also became the first president of the Belgrade Football Association. He was honorary president of the clubs FK Šumadija, SK Dušanovac and Red Star Belgrade . In 1951 he published his autobiography Čika Dačine Uspomene ( Eng .: Čika Dača's memories ). The Čika Dača stadium is named after him. Danilo Stojanović died in Belgrade at the age of 89.

Web links

• Information on the history of OFK Belgrade and Serbian football (Serbian)

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1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} KGSport: Na današnji dan: Rođen Čika-Dača-
2. ↑ ^{a b} Danilo Stojanović. Čika Dačine Uspomene 1903 - 1953 , Beograd, 1953, p. 18.
3. ^ Danilo Stojanović. Čika Dačine Uspomene 1903 - 1953 , Beograd, 1953, p. 20.