Dragan Džajic

Dragan Džajic
Personnel
birthday	May 30, 1946
place of birth	Ub ,  Yugoslavia
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1961-1975	Red Star Belgrade	590 (287)
1975-1977	SC Bastia	56 0(31)
1977-1988	Red Star Belgrade	25 00(5)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1964-1979	Yugoslavia	85 0(23)
1 Only league games are given.

Dragan Džajić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Драган Џајић ; born May 30, 1946 in Ub , Serbia ) is a former Yugoslav football player who was mainly active as a left winger . Most recently, he was Vice President of the Serbian Football Association .

Career

National team

Džajić (right) at the 1974 World Cup

Dragan Džajić had the high point of his international playing career in the semifinals against reigning world champions England at the European Championship in 1968 . Shortly before the end of the game, he scored the 1-0 winner, which moved the Yugoslav national team into the final against Italy.

1974 reached Džajić with the Yugoslav national team at the World Cup the second final round of the tournament, in which he lost the first game against Germany with 0-2.

At the 1976 European Championship in Yugoslavia, his team should repeat this success in front of their own audience. In the semifinals against Germany in Belgrade , she led 2-0 after 32 minutes, Džajić scored the second goal. The game was lost 4-2, the game for third place against the Netherlands ended 3-2.

For the 1978 World Cup in Argentina , Yugoslavia could not qualify. His team failed to Spain . Džajić's career in the national team was over.

For the Yugoslav national team he had played 85 times and scored 23 goals.

societies

He played most of his career with Red Star Belgrade . At the age of 15 he was already in the first team. From 1961 to 1975 he played 590 games for the Belgrade team, in which he scored 287 goals. Džajić led Red Star to five championships and four cup wins. Then he went to France for two years at SC Bastia , returned to the Yugoslav capital and ended his career in 1979, after one last season for Red Star . He is considered one of the best Yugoslav soccer players of his era, which is why he was in five world and European national teams.

Later career

As technical director and later president of Red Star Belgrade , Džajić led the club to numerous titles, including the 1991 European Cup.

Web links

Commons : Dragan Džajić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dragan Džajić in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Dragan Dzajic for the national team