Dragoslav Šekularac

Dragoslav Šekularac
Personnel
Surname	Dragoslav Šekularac
birthday	November 8, 1937
place of birth	Štip ,  Kingdom of Yugoslavia
date of death	5th January 2019
Place of death	Belgrade ,  Serbia
position	attacking midfielder / striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1954-1966	FK Red Star Belgrade	153 (32)
1966-1967	Karlsruher SC	17 0(2)
1967	St. Louis Stars	8 0(1)
1968-1969	OFK Belgrade	38 0(5)
1969-1970	Independiente Santa Fe
1971-1972	Millonarios
1973	America de Cali
1975-1976	Paris FC	9 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1956-1966	Yugoslavia	41 0(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1984-1985	Guatemala
1989-1990	FK Red Star Belgrade
1990-1991	Club America
1992-1993	Heidelberg United
1996	Busan Daewoo Royals
2006	Serbian White Eagles
1 Only league games are given.

Dragoslav Šekularac ( Serbian - Cyrillic Драгослав Шекуларац ; born November 8, 1937 in Štip , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , today Macedonia ; † January 5, 2019 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav football player and coach . The offensive player was a long-time star of Red Star Belgrade and took part in two world championships with the Yugoslav national team; in the European Championship in 1960 and in the 1956 Olympic football competition, he won the silver medal with the selection. After his time at Red Star and later as a trainer, he worked for various clubs all over the world.

Šekularac, who belonged to the Roma minority , made his debut in the Yugoslav League at the age of 17 in March 1955, only eighteen months later he was already a national player, as well as a regular from the Red Star and won the silver medal at the Olympic Games in Melbourne. He remained a Belgrade resident for a decade; with the national team he reached the semi -finals and in 1958 the quarter-finals at the 1962 World Cup .

After his time at Red Star, the club included him in its five-player list of the (red) star's stars , which lists the players in Belgrade who had a particular influence on a period of the club. He is considered to be the first major media star in Yugoslav football; Because of its popularity, the football film Seki snima, pazi se was shot in 1962 with Šekularac in the lead role, in which he - like Beckenbauer in Libero a decade later - essentially played himself.

After leaving Red Star, he played in Germany, the USA, Mexico, Yugoslavia, Colombia and France, but never stayed with a club for long.

During his coaching career he also worked all over the world and in a wide variety of divisions; in addition to the head coaching positions of Red Star Belgrade (1989-90, Yugoslav double), the Guatemalan national team (1984/85) and Club America (1990/91, winning the CONCACAF Champions' Cup ), he also coached lower-class teams in Australia, Canada and South Korea.

Web links

• Profile at the Serbian Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Not completely.
2. ↑ Christos Kassimeris: Anti-Racism in European Football: Fair Play for All. Lexington Books, Plymouth, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7391-2611-0 , p. 78
3. ↑ Seki snima, pazi se in the Internet Movie Database (English)