Ljubiša Spajić

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Ljubiša Spajić
Personnel
Surname Ljubomir Spajic
birthday March 7, 1926
place of birth Belgrade ,  Kingdom of Yugoslavia
date of death March 28, 2004
Place of death Belgrade,  Serbia and Montenegro
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1946-1947 FK Red Star Belgrade 8 (0)
1947-1949 FK Budućnost Podgorica
1950-1952 BSK Beograd 59 (7)
1952-1960 FK Red Star Belgrade 153 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1951-1958 Yugoslavia B 8th (?)
1950-1957 Yugoslavia 15 (3)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1961–1962 Aris Thessaloniki
1962-1963 Beşiktaş Istanbul
1962 Turkey
1963-1964 Shimkhon Tel-Aviv
1964-1967 Beşiktaş Istanbul
1968-1969 Olympiacos Piraeus
1969-1972 Iraklis Thessaloniki
1972-1974 Panachaiki
1974-1975 Iraklis Thessaloniki
1976-1977 Panachaiki
1978 Panachaiki
1980 Beşiktaş Istanbul
1 Only league games are given.

Ljubomir "Ljubiša" Spajić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Љуба Спајић , Turkish Ljubisa Spajiç , born March 7, 1926 in Belgrade ; † March 28, 2004 ibid) was a Yugoslav football player and coach . As a player as well as a coach, he is one of the most important personalities of Red Star Belgrade in particular and for Yugoslav football in general. With a Red Star he was five times national champion and twice Yugoslav cup winner. He was also part of the squad of the team that won the Yugoslav double victory for the first time in the club's history in the 1959/60 season . He worked part of his coaching career in Turkey and led Beşiktaş Istanbul to the Turkish Championship twice in a row . This makes him the second coach after Gündüz Kılıç to win this title twice in a row.

Player career

society

The beginnings of Spajić's football career are unknown as this time fell during the Second World War .

With the end of the world war, Yugoslav football had to be reorganized. After the 1st Yugoslav soccer league was supposed to resume regular play with clubs in 1946, Spajić was obliged by the newly founded club FK Red Star Belgrade , which was only founded in 1945 . Here Spajić did not succeed in establishing himself as a regular player. With his team he finished the first season as third in the table.

After three seasons for Red Star, Spajić only played two years for FK Budućnost Podgorica and four BSK Beograd .

In 1951 he returned to his old club, the Red Star, and this time established himself as a regular and a little later as a top performer. In his first season after his return, the 1952/53 season , he was Yugoslavian champion with a Red Star and won this title for the first time. After the two following seasons in the league remained without a title, he won the Yugoslav championship twice in a row with his club in the seasons 1955/56 and 1956/57 . Thus, both Red Star and a Yugoslav club succeeded in defending their title for the first time in the championship. In the European Cup of National Champions of the 1956/57 season , Spajić 'made it with his team to the semi-finals and was just eliminated from Fiorentina . The season 1957/58 Spajić 'team missed the title defense in the championship, but this season the Yugoslav Cup was won and this trophy was won for the first time after seven years. In the 1958/59 season Spajic 'won with his team both the championship and the cup and thus achieved the first Yugoslav double victory in the club's history. After Red Star was able to defend its championship title in the 1959/60 season, Spajić ended his career in the summer of 1960.

National team

Spajić made his international debut for the Yugoslav national team on September 7, 1950 in a friendly against the Finnish national team . From 1951 he began to play for the Yugoslav B national team.

In 1954 he took part with Yugoslavia in the 1954 World Cup and was with her in a group with Brazil . His team finished first in front of the South Americans and made it to the quarterfinals. Here Yugoslavia lost 2-0 to the eventual winner Germany .

1956 Spajić qualified again with Yugoslavia for the Summer Olympics . In the first encounter, in the quarter-finals against USA , Spajić's team won 9-1 and thus achieved one of the highest wins in the association's history. With this participation in the Olympics, the tournament final was reached. In the final, the team met the USSR . After Spajić's team was able to keep the 0-0 for a long time, they lost with a goal in the 48th minute with 0-1 and became silver medalists. Spajić completed all tournament matches of his team and wore the captain's armband in these matches.

After the 1954 World Cup, Stanković played for the Yugoslav team for three years and completed his last international match on November 10, 1957 against the Greek team .

He completed 15 A and eight B internationals. He wore the captain's armband for four international matches.

Coaching career

Spajić attended a sports school after the end of his playing career and graduated with a coaching diploma. He then started his coaching career in 1961 by overseeing the Aris Thessaloniki club as head coach.

From March 1962, the Turkish club Beşiktaş Istanbul was looking for a successor to its dismissed coach András Kuttik . After a brief search for a coach, the club announced that the team would bring their new coach Spajić to Turkey after a short trip to Yugoslavia . After the agreement with Spajic's club FK Red Star Belgrade lasted longer than expected, the team returned to Istanbul without Spajic, but the plane ticket for Spajic was sent to Belgrade and announced that he would arrive in Istanbul on March 23, 1962. Due to a lack of documents, Spajić's arrival was delayed until the beginning of April 1962. So he did not start his service until April 3, 1962 and on that day he led the team training for the first time. His club, which he had taken over from his predecessor Kuttik on a 6th place in the table, he led back to the top of the table. At the end of May 1962, Spajić announced that he had come to an agreement with a Greek club for the coming season and that he would leave Turkey again after his three-month contract with Beşiktaş ended. After the end of the season, which Spajić had finished with his team in 3rd place in the table, he was able to be changed by the club management to continue his activity. In October 1962 he resigned from his position as head coach of Beşiktaş, but he was persuaded by the club's management to continue working.

In October 1962 he was traded as a possible coach of the Turkish national soccer team . After Coşkun Özarı and Miroslav Kokotović were shortlisted for the national coaching post , the association decided on Spajić. This looked after, parallel to his work at Beşiktaş, the Turkish selection until the end of the year and stayed in this position for four international matches. During his time as national coach, the 6-0 away defeat against the Italian national team was one of the worst defeats in the association's history. From the New Year of 1963, Spajić was again exclusively in charge of Beşiktaş. With the club he delivered a head-to-head race for the Turkish championship with arch-rivals Galatasaray Istanbul and finished the 1962/63 season with one point behind this as runner-up. At the end of the season he was dismissed from the club management. Beşiktaş replaced Spajić with the Austrian coach Ernst Melchior .

After being fired from Beşiktaş, Spajić continued his career in Israel and coached the Schimchon Tel-Aviv club . After just one season with Melchior, Beşiktaş decided to work again with Spajić for the 1964/65 season and signed him. After Spajić with Beşiktaş had finished the 1964/65 season again as runner-up and had only won the pre-season TSYD Istanbul Cup , he won the Turkish championship with his club in the 1965/66 1966/67 seasons with ease . As a result, he helped Beşiktaş to defend its first title in this competition. In these two seasons he and his team won the President's Cup once, the President's Cup once and the Spor Toto Cup once . In his last season he was tried several times before the disciplinary committee of the Turkish Football Association for various offenses . After the incidents increased, Spajić received a 17-month work ban in the summer of 1967. This fact meant that Beşiktaş and Spajić did not continue their cooperation beyond the season 1966/67. A few days after Spajić's departure, his club replaced him with his compatriot Jane Janevski .

After a year, Beşiktaş tried to replace Janevski with Spajić. After brief transfer talks, Spajić was signed for the third time. But after the Turkish Football Association refused to issue a license to Spajić because of the still valid employment ban, this third collaboration did not come about in the last instance. Instead, Spajić took over the Greek club Olympiacos for the upcoming season . He then worked in Greece for eight to nine years and looked after the clubs Iraklis Thessaloniki and Panachaiki .

From 1977 he worked as a consultant at FK Roter Stern Belgrade.

Spajić was traded several times at Beşiktaş as a potential head coach and was about to sign the contract. The renewed cooperation failed every time. It was not until the autumn of 1980 that they started working together again and Spajić was hired to succeed Metin Türel . Beşiktaş lost the first two games under his leadership. At the end of October 1980, Spajić left Turkey on the grounds that his son-in-law had a critical operation ahead of him and that he had to support him. A few days after this unexpected departure, Spajić declared that he did not want to return and justified his decision with the fact that he saw no prospects for a successful period with either the current squad or the club structure. Beşiktaş gave Spajić until November 4, 1980 time to return. Finally, in early November 1980, Beşiktaş replaced Spajić with his compatriot Đorđe Milić .

Although Spajić came back several times as head coach of Beşiktaş in the mid-1980s, there was no further collaboration.

successes

As a player

With FK Red Star Belgrade
With the Yugoslav national team

As a trainer

With Beşiktaş Istanbul

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c reprezentacija.rs "Ljubiša Spajić" (accessed on September 22, 2014)
  2. ↑ March 15, 1962, Milliyet, p. 6: "BEŞİKTAŞ'TA KADRO 14 KiŞi"
  3. ↑ March 22, 1962, Milliyet, p. 6: "Spajiç'in Bileti gitti"
  4. ↑ March 30, 1962, Milliyet, p. 6: "Kısa Haberler"
  5. ↑ April 4, 1962, Milliyet, p. 6: "Kısa Haberler"
  6. ↑ May 21, 1962, Milliyet, p. 6: "Beşiktaş Antrenörsüz kalıyor"
  7. ↑ July 24, 1962, Milliyet, p. 8: "Beşiktaş yeni sezonu açıyor"
  8. ↑ October 3, 1962, Milliyet, p. 8: "Beşiktaş Spajiç'i bırakmadı"
  9. ↑ October 18, 1962, Milliyet, p. 8: "Milli takım hafta sonu tespit ediliyor"
  10. ↑ October 27, 1962, Milliyet, p. 8: "Antrenör"
  11. ↑ June 29, 1963, Milliyet, p. 8: "Beşiktaş Spajiç'in işine son verdi"
  12. ↑ July 23, 1963, Milliyet, p. 8: "Beşiktaşı Melchior çalıştıracak"
  13. ↑ June 24, 1964, Milliyet, p. 8: "Melchior Pazar günü geliyor ..."
  14. ↑ July 28, 1964, Milliyet, p. 8
  15. ↑ July 7, 1967, Milliyet, p. 8: "Yılın Centilmen takımları Vefa ve G.Birliği"
  16. ↑ July 16, 1967, Milliyet, p. 8: "Gidiyorum, fakat ..."
  17. ↑ July 18, 1967, Milliyet, p. 8: "Spajiç gitti, Janevski geldi"
  18. ↑ October 24, 1980, Milliyet, p. 12: "Beşiktaş'ın yeni Teknik Direktörü Spajiç thin trenle İstanbul'a geldi"
  19. ↑ October 25, 1980, Milliyet, p. 12: "Sabah sözleşme imzaladı, öğleden sonra futbolcularla tanıştı"
  20. ↑ October 31, 1980, Milliyet, p. 11: "Spajiç aniden Yugoslavya'ya döndü."
  21. ↑ November 1, 1980, Milliyet, p. 12: "Spajiç: Ne kendimi, ne de Beşiktaşlıları aldatmak istemiyorum. Geri dönmeyeceğim"
  22. ↑ November 1, 1980, Milliyet, p. 12
  23. ↑ November 4, 1980, Milliyet, p. 12: "Beşiktaş teknik direktörülüğüne getirilen Miliç, bugün göreve başlıyor ..."
personal data
SURNAME Spajić, Ljubiša
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spajić, Ljubomir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2004
Place of death Belgrade , Serbia and Montenegro