Ivan Ćurković

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Ivan Ćurković
Ivan Ćurković.jpg
Ćurković as a player in 1979
Personnel
birthday March 15, 1944
place of birth Mostar ,  Kingdom of Yugoslavia
size 179 cm
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1964 FK Velez Mostar 87 (0)
1964-1972 FK Partizan Belgrade 201 (0)
1972-1981 AS Saint-Etienne 301 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1963-1970 Yugoslavia 19 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1982 France (goalkeeping coach)
2001 Serbia-Montenegro (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Ivan Ćurković (Иван Ћурковић, born March 15, 1944 in Mostar ) is a former Yugoslav football player and current sports official in Serbia .

Player career

Ivan Ćurković, who was 1.79 m tall for a goalkeeper, began his career in his hometown at FK Velež Mostar , where he made his debut in the top league at the age of 17, and moved to FK Partizan Belgrade at the age of 20 . At the Olympic Games in 1964 , he guarded the gate of the Yugoslav selection, which was eliminated in the quarter-finals against the GDR . At Partizan he was initially overshadowed by Milutin Šoškić , but was part of the squad when the club won its only Yugoslav championship title in 1965 over the next eight years and advanced to the final of the European Cup in the 1965/66 season . He later became a national team player, although he was not permanently No. 1 during his international career - especially Enver Marić and Ognjen Petrović were too strong competition for him. In the two major tournament rounds for which Yugoslavia was in the 1970s ( World Cup 1974 and EM 1976 ), Ćurković was not considered, but in three qualifying games for the 1970 World Cup .

In 1972 he was allowed to move to AS Saint-Étienne in the French Division 1 , and there he developed on and off the field to the leading figure of a very young team. Ivan Ćurković collected  titles with the Verts - "the Greens" or ASSE are the most common names for footballers from the industrial city of Saint-Étienne - four times champion , three of them in a row, and three times cup winners ; there were even two doublés in 1974 and 1975 . In 1976 he reached the final in the European Cup , in which he was defeated only once (by Franz Roth ), which was enough for the final opponent to win the cup. Already in the semi-final against PSV Eindhoven (1-0, 0-0), “Curko” had outgrown himself and had brought the Dutch strikers to despair: “A goalkeeper who can discourage the opponent on his own ... and the course of the game on the Can turn head ” . In retrospect, the calm, matter-of-fact player is considered one of the best and, due to his ability to give his fellow players support and carry them away, one of the most important goalkeepers in the club's history. He dominated the entire penalty area and prepared thoroughly for the qualities of the opposing attacker before each game.

After a defeat at SEC Bastia on the third match day of the 1980/81 season, the now 36-year-old had to vacate his regular place in goal for Jean Castaneda and was no longer considered in the league by coach Robert Herbin . He had been Herbin's preferred candidate in 1972, had missed only four of 304 point games in the first eight seasons and had also been an important support for the ASSE in 33 European Cup matches. After winning the title again in 1981 and losing the cup final (when 1: 2 against Bastia Ćurković was also only on the bench), he ended his professional career and left the Verts . In total, he has made 591 appearances in Yugoslavia and France's top divisions.

Stations

  • FK Velež Mostar (1960–1964, 87 first division games)
  • FK Partizan Belgrade (1964–1972, 201 first division games)
  • AS Saint-Étienne (1972–1981, 303 appearances in D1)

Palmarès

Life after player time

In 1982 Ivan Ćurković still took part in an official capacity in a World Cup finals when national coach Hidalgo entrusted him with the task of goalkeeping coach for Baratelli , Castaneda and Ettori . In 2001 he worked briefly as interim coach of the national team of Serbia-Montenegro . Ćurković was President of Partizan Belgrade for 15 years , a member of the National Olympic Committee of Serbia and the Technical Commission of FIFA . He is currently a member of the FIFA Stadium and Security Committee. He is also Honorary Consul of the Seychelles in Belgrade and has been a Knight of the Legion of Honor since October 2005 . The murder of his brother Dragan in the Bosnian war made him an avowed pacifist .

literature

  • Christophe Barge / Laurent Tranier: Vert passion. Les plus belles histoires de l'AS Saint-Étienne. Timée, Boulogne 2004 ISBN 2-915586-04-7
  • Paul Bonnetain / Claude Chevally: Robert Herbin. Le football, mot à maux. Gérard Tisserand / De Borées / Thoba's, Romagnat / Roanne 2004 ISBN 2-84494-292-X
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005 ISBN 2-951-96059-X
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004 ISBN 2-911698-31-2

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Parmentier, p. 251
  2. ↑ Ivan Ćurković in the FIFA database (English)
  3. ↑ Barge / Tranier, p. 101
  4. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 317; Barge / Tranier, pp. 112/113
  5. ↑ Parmentier, pp. 107-109
  6. ↑ Barge / Tranier, p. 27; Bonnetain / Chevally, p. 93
  7. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, pp. 315-320
  8. ↑ Use figures for Mostar and Belgrade according to http://www.reprezentacija.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=980&Itemid=12
  9. ↑ after Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  10. ↑ http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/federation/insidefifa/news/newsid=100832.html
  11. ↑ Parmentier, p. 109
personal data
SURNAME Ćurković, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Mostar