Dušan Bajević
| Dušan Bajević | ||
 Bajević at the 1974 World Cup
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | December 10, 1948 | |
| place of birth | Mostar , SFR Yugoslavia | |
| size | 186 cm | |
| position | Storm | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1966-1977 | FK Velež Mostar | 277 (144) |
| 1977-1981 | AEK Athens | 106 (65) |
| 1981-1983 | FK Velež Mostar | 45 (22) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1970-1977 | Yugoslavia | 37 (29) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1984-1988 | FK Velež Mostar | |
| 1988-1996 | AEK Athens | |
| 1996-1999 | Olympiacos Piraeus | |
| 2000-2002 | PAOK Saloniki | |
| 2002-2004 | AEK Athens | |
| 2004-2005 | Olympiacos Piraeus | |
| 2006-2007 | FK Red Star Belgrade | |
| 2007-2008 | Aris Saloniki | |
| 2008-2010 | AEK Athens | |
| 2010-2011 | Omonia Nicosia | |
| 2012 | Atromitos Athens | |
| 2019– | Bosnia Herzegovina | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Dušan Bajević (born December 10, 1948 in Mostar , SFR Yugoslavia , today Bosnia and Herzegovina ) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian football coach and former football player . He is one of the most successful club coaches in Greece and has taken on Greek citizenship.
Player career
Dušan Bajević began his career at FK Velež Mostar . There he played for over ten years and scored 144 goals in 277 league games. For the 1969-70 season he shared the title of Yugoslav top scorer with Slobodan Santrač from OFK Belgrade with 20 goals each. In 1972 he was voted Yugoslavia's first footballer of the year . This makes him the most successful player who has ever played for Mostar to this day. After this time he moved to Greece to AEK Athens in 1977 , where he also played very successful football. Bajević developed into an absolute crowd favorite and was able to win many titles with Athens. In addition to the two-time Greek championship (1978 and 1979) and the cup victory (1978), he was also the top scorer in the 1979/80 season with 25 goals. In the summer of 1981 he returned to Velež Mostar and let his career end there in the following two years.
National team
Dušan Bajević completed 37 games for Yugoslavia between 1970 and 1977 , scoring 29 goals. 1972 Yugoslavia took part in the Taça Independência . Bajević was the tournament's top scorer with 13 goals and his team finished third. He was part of the Yugoslav squad at the 1974 World Cup in Germany.
Coaching career
After the end of his football career at Velez Mostar, he took over as coach of the team the following year (1984). Under his leadership, the club experienced successes such as the Yugoslav National Cup (1986) and the subsequent participation in the next season (1986-87) in the European Cup Winners' Cup, as well as the qualification for the UEFA Cup for the 2 following seasons (1987-88, 1988- 89) - in the history of the mediocre provincial club, this international presence over 3 years in a row was a record achievement.
In 1988 Dušan Bajević took over the coaching position at his former club AEK Athens . Completely surprisingly, the club became Greek champions in the first season under his leadership. At the club's last championship ten years earlier, he was a member of the squad himself. This was followed by three more championships (1992, 1993 and 1994), a cup victory (1996), a league cup victory (1990), and the Greek Super Cup (1996). In the summer of 1996, Bajević drew all the displeasure of the AEK fans with his move to competitor Olympiacos Piraeus . Under his leadership, Olympiacos became Greek champions again in 1997, also after ten years of abstinence. Two more championships followed in the following years as well as the cup victory in 1999.
Despite a successful team that could hardly be stopped, Dušan Bajević decided to move to PAOK Saloniki . There, too, he managed to win a title in his first season. In the 2001 cup final PAOK beat Bajević's last club Olympiacos 4-2 and showed excellent football. In 2002 he moved back to the AEK Athens coaching bench, where he caused mixed feelings among the spirited fans. The majority still hated him for his move to rival Olympiakos in 1996. During a league game against Iraklis Thessaloniki , he left the bench without prior notice during the first half and resigned as Athens coach. Another move to Olympiacos followed, where he immediately won the double in 2005. Despite the good performance, he was criticized by the fans who were dissatisfied with the way the team was playing and therefore resigned from Piraeus.
After a break of almost a year, he became the coach of FK Red Star Belgrade in May 2006 . The fans had high hopes based on his experiences and successes, but were bitterly disappointed internationally when he was eliminated from the Champions League qualification and then also from the UEFA Cup . In the league, on the other hand, the team had a 14 point lead by the winter break. However, the second half of the season began with a form low and reached its low point in February 2007 when Dušan Bajević's car was destroyed because the team had lost to arch-rivals Partizan Belgrade for the first time in 11 years. Just a few days later in the league game against FK Vojvodina Novi Sad , when Belgrade were already 2-0 down, he left the coaching bench in the 70th minute and resigned, similar to Athens 2004.
In September 2007 he moved back to Greece and became the coach of Aris Saloniki . During his tenure, the team was able to defend its fourth place in the table from the previous season in the 2007/08 season and only had to admit defeat in the final of Bajević's former team Olympiacos Piraeus in the Greek Cup. In November 2008 he became a coach at AEK Athens for the third time . At that time, the club had already failed in the second qualifying round of the 2008/09 UEFA Cup to Omonia Nicosia . Bajević was able to concentrate on the league and the cup with his team. AEK Athens reached fourth place in the Greek Super League and the final in the national cup. There the team lost in an exciting final game with 14:15 on penalties against Olympiacos Piraeus . In the following season he and his team also reached fourth place in the table, in the cup they were eliminated in the fourth round against the second division side Thrasyvoulos Fylis and in the UEFA Europa League 2009/10 Athens failed as the last in Group I in the group stage. On August 7, 2010, Dušan Bajević was physically attacked by fans of AEK Athens during a looming 2-1 defeat in the friendly against Kallithea FC . The game had to be stopped. A month and a half later, Bajević resigned from his post and was replaced by Manuel Jiménez Jiménez .
In October 2010 he signed a contract with the Cypriot first division and reigning champions Omonia Nicosia . After a 2-0 defeat in a direct duel against rivals APOEL Nicosia , he was released in April 2011. After a break of more than a year, Bajević took over the coaching position at the cup finalists Atromitos Athens in June 2012 and succeeded Georgios Donis . He resigned from his post on December 24, 2012. In August 2013 he was appointed by the new AEK Athens President Melissanidis as technical director of the completely renewed club and declared the end of his coaching career. AEK had previously got into financial difficulties and, after relegating to the second division, had also voluntarily relegated to the third division.
successes
as a player
- Top scorer in the 1st Yugoslav Football League : 1970
- Top scorer of the Taça Independência : 1972
- Yugoslavia's Footballer of the Year : 1972
- Greek champion : 1978 and 1979
- Greek cup winner : 1978
- Greek League Top Scorer : 1980
as a trainer
- Yugoslav Cup Winner : 1986
- Greek champion : 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2005
- Greek Super Cup winner: 1989 and 1996
- Greek league cup winner: 1990
- Cup winners of the Greek pre-Mediterranean football tournament: 1991
- Greek Cup Winner : 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2005
Web links
- Dušan Bajević in the database of weltfussball.de
- Dušan Bajević in the database of transfermarkt.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ AEK coach fled (www.fussball.ch, January 26, 2004)
- ↑ Bajevic new trainer at Red Star Belgrade ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (www.fussball.com, May 25, 2006)
- ↑ Dusan Bajevic gives up (www.transfermarkt.de, March 11, 2007)
- ↑ Bajevic back at the AEK trainer bench (www.focus.de, November 21, 2008)
- ↑ AEK hooligans attack coach Bajevic (www.kicker.de, August 8, 2010)
- ↑ AEK trainer Bajevic throws down (www.kicker.de, September 26, 2010)
- ↑ Dusan Bajevic appointed Atromitos manager ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (www.footballcracy.com, June 3, 2012)
- ^ AEK Athens prepare to start from scratch after bankruptcy. (No longer available online.) Uk.sports.yahoo.com, July 11, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 13, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bajević, Dušan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bosnian soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mostar |