Dragomir Ilic

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Dragomir "Dragan" Ilic (born August 16, 1925 , † June 18, 2004 in Bremen ), Cyrillic Драгомир Илић , was a Serbian - Yugoslav football goalkeeper . From 1949 to 1961, the Oberliga institution played 311 league games at SV Werder Bremen in what was then the first-class football Oberliga Nord . He and Hans Hagenacker take 3rd place in the all-time ranking of Oberliga Nord players .

Career

When Werder goalkeeper Karlheinz Höger suddenly decided in December 1948 to join SC Peine , who had been trained by his father Karl , Werder luck came to the rescue: at that time, a team called the “White Eagles” was visiting Bremen former Serbian prisoners of war and had a man standing in their housing who was unrivaled in terms of jumping power, catch safety and responsiveness: Dragomir Ilic. On the Werder side, everything was immediately set in motion to guide Ilic to the Weser - which, after some back and forth, finally succeeded. Ilic's path led from a camp for displaced persons in Ostholstein to Werder Bremen in the Oberliga Nord. Ilic was captured as a soldier in Italian and British captivity during the Second World War and was transported by hospital train to Germany in 1947, where he finally ended up in a refugee camp near Großenbrode , where he also played a few games with SV there, near Lübeck. His goalkeeping career began at BSK Belgrade .

On January 16, 1949 in a 2-1 away win at Bremerhaven 93, he was the first time in a league game in the goal of Werder. Höger was last played on December 12, 1948 in a 2-2 home draw against Concordia Hamburg in the ranks of the Green-Whites. In the summer of 1949, however, Ilić signed a professional contract with 1. FC Saarbrücken . This played as a club from the then autonomous Saarland region - previously occupied by France - its games in the French Division 2 . According to press reports, Ilić received a hand money of 12,000 German marks . He was used in a single friendly match before Werder obtained that the contract was declared invalid and ultimately signed his goalkeeper himself as a contract player for the 1949/50 season .

The Yugoslav was the team's first goalkeeper for a long time until the early 1960s and completed more than 300 appearances in the Oberliga Nord for Werder . There he was with the club three times in a row (1959, 1960, 1961) North German runner-up. In February 1951, during a game against FC St. Pauli , Ilić collided with right wing runner Harald Stender , who suffered a double fracture of the base of the skull when he fell on the frozen ground, but recovered after three months. Ilić himself was unharmed. He was only able to play his first games in the final round of the German football championship at the end of his career, Werder only moved into this championship finals under coach Georg Knöpfle as runner-up in 1959 in the top division. The 34-year-old played all seven games in May and June (qualifying game and six group games), but despite his personal good performances, he only experienced a 5-2 win in the group stage in the home game against FK Pirmasens. Eintracht Frankfurt was far superior and also won the German championship. In 1961 Dragomir Ilić took his leave. In the first season of the Bundesliga , 1963/1964 , he was reactivated briefly, however, because the club's first six goalkeepers were injured before the first day of the match. Ilić completed between October 5, 1963 and January 18, 1964 four games in the new league (three wins, one loss) and then finally ended his career. In his second Bundesliga appearance on December 7, 1963, he showed an excellent performance in a 3-1 away win at Preußen Münster. In the Bundesliga chronicle 1963/64 it is noted that "Keeper Ilic regularly proved to be the end of the line at the power play in Münster after the connection hit" and the lexicon about the Bundesliga goalkeepers also states that "the goalkeeper won the 3: 1 victory and coach Multhaup would have been full of praise for his old champions. "

Ilic worked as a tobacco wholesaler in Bremen. He passed away in June 2004.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens R. Prüß (Ed.): Bung bottle with flat pass cork. The history of the Oberliga Nord 1947–1963. Klartext Verlag. Essen 1991. ISBN 3-88474-463-1 . P. 239
  2. ↑ Lorenz Knieriem, Hardy Grüne : Spiellexikon 1890 - 1963 . In: Encyclopedia of German League Football . tape 8 . AGON, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7 , p. 166 .
  3. ^ Klaus Querengässer: The German Football Championship, Part 2: 1948–1963. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 1997. ISBN 3-89609-107-7 . Pp. 112-114
  4. ↑ Ulrich Merk, Andre Schulin: Bundesliga Chronicle 1963/64. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2004. ISBN 3-89784-083-9 . P. 85
  5. ^ BF Hoffmann: The large lexicon of the Bundesliga keepers. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag. Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-89602-526-0 . P. 163
personal data
SURNAME Ilic, Dragomir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ilić, Dragomir; Ilić, Dragan (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1925
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2004
Place of death Bremen