Ilija Zavišić

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Ilija Zavišić (born January 10, 1952 in Donji Milanovac ) is a former Yugoslav football player . The offensive player won the championship in Yugoslavia with Partizan Belgrade in 1976 and 1978 . He has scored 31 goals in 205 league games. From 1980 he played for Eintracht Braunschweig and from 1981 to 1984 he played 64 games in the Bundesliga for the Blue-Yellows , in which he scored 13 goals.

Career

Zavišić began his football career in 1968 with Hajduk Veljko Negotin in the 3rd division and joined Partizan Belgrade in the 1971/72 season. In his first round at Partizan he was only used in two championship games and therefore put in a stopover at FK Bor in the 1972/73 round , where he proved his ability to play in the first division with 33 league appearances and five goals and placed 15th in the table with the first division occupied. For the 1973/74 season he returned to Partizan Belgrade. Zavišić won the Yugoslav championship twice in 1976 and 1978 with the team from the Partizana Stadium . From February 24, 1976 - Algeria (2-1) - to May 18, 1978, a 0-0 win against Italy in Rome at the side of teammates like goalkeeper Ivan Katalinić and attacker Ivica Šurjak , Zavišić, who was mostly on the right wing, played nine games in the Yugoslav national team .

After relegation to the Bundesliga in 1979/80, Eintracht Braunschweig under coach Uli Maslo tried to rejuvenate the team and still achieve a return to the Bundesliga. After the crowd favorite Danilo Popivoda had to hang up his football boots because of an eye disease at the beginning of the second division season 1980/81, the Yugoslav winger Zavišić was signed up for his position. He made his debut on October 11, 1980 in a 3-0 home win against RW Oberhausen in the 2nd Bundesliga and scored the 2-0 lead in the 73rd minute. The man from Partizan Belgrade mostly formed the Eintracht attack with Ronald Worm (38 games, 30 goals) and the former amateur soccer player from SuS Hüsten, Günter Keute . Three points behind champions Werder Bremen and one point ahead of Hertha BSC in 3rd place, Braunschweig reached the runner-up and with it the chance to return to the Bundesliga via a play-off against the south runner-up Kickers Offenbach. The two games took place on June 5 and 10, 1981. In Offenbach, Zavišić and colleagues lost 1-0, in the second leg they prevailed 2-0 and were promoted to the Bundesliga. In the 2nd Bundesliga, the Belgrade player had played 22 league games and scored six goals. On August 8, 1981 he made his debut in a 2: 4 away defeat at Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga. He had brought Braunschweig 1-0 lead in the 6th minute. He played his last Bundesliga game in 1983/84 on May 5, 1984 with a 0-0 draw at Arminia Bielefeld. He formed the Eintracht attack on the side of Peter Geyer . After 64 Bundesliga games and 13 goals, he moved to Rad Belgrade in Yugoslavia in 1984 , where he ended his career in 1986.

literature

  • Christian Karn, Reinhard Rehberg: Player Lexicon 1963–1994. Agon Sportverlag. Kassel 2012. ISBN 978-3-89784-214-4 . P. 562.
  • Horst Bläsig, Alex Leppert: A red lion on the chest. The story of Eintracht Braunschweig. Publishing house Die Werkstatt. Göttingen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89533-675-1 . P. 380.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Bitter: Germany's football. The encyclopedia. FA Herbig. Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-7766-2558-5 . P. 816
  2. ↑ Bläsig, Leppert: A red lion on the chest. P. 371

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personal data
SURNAME Zavišić, Ilija
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Donji Milanovac