Milovan Beljin

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Milovan Beljin (born September 7, 1936 in Novi Sad ) was a Yugoslav football player and coach. He became known when he led the newly promoted FC Augsburg almost directly into the Bundesliga in 1973 . In the 1970s he also coached FSV Frankfurt in the 2nd Bundesliga for several years and in Switzerland at the beginning of the 1980s AC Bellinzona , which he led to first class.

Career

As a player, Milovan Beljin was a defender at the Yugoslav first division club Vojvodina Novi Sad and later at Austria Klagenfurt . For Klagenfurt he played 3 games in the 1962/63 and 1965/66 seasons in which he did not score a goal.

Under course leader Hennes Weisweiler , he successfully completed his training as a football teacher in 1969 with fellow course colleagues Heinz Höher , Rudi Kröner and Hans-Hubert Vogts at the Cologne Sports University.

In Germany he began his coaching career in 1972 at SSV Reutlingen in the then second-rate Regionalliga Süd , where he was signed as the successor to Willibald Hahn . The club finished the season as 17th and was relegated.

For the following season he was committed by the promoted to Regionalliga Süd, FC Augsburg . The players Wolfgang Haug , Klaus Vöhringer and goalkeeper Hans Hauser , who he brought with him from Reutlingen, turned out to be valuable reinforcements. The star of the team, however, was the former world star Helmut Haller who had returned from Italy and was the focal point of the team despite his 34 years.

FC Augsburg, which had to reach one of the top two places in the league in order to qualify for the newly created two-track 2. Bundesliga, which began in 1974/75 , was the sensation team of the round and was champions with four points ahead of 1. FC Nürnberg . The storm scored 79 goals and Karl Obermeier from Augsburg was the top scorer of the league with 25. In addition, FC Augsburg broke attendance records: the 1-1 draw on matchday two at TSV 1860 Munich in the Olympic Stadium there , according to estimates, attracted up to 90,000, maybe even 100,000 spectators. The 2-1 win against 1. FC Nürnberg in the Rosenaustadion at home was watched by 42,000 spectators. In the promotion round to the Bundesliga , however, FC Augsburg failed just one point behind Tennis Borussia Berlin .

In the following season, FC Augsburg could no longer match its excellent performance and was only 13th in the 2nd Bundesliga South. Beljin then moved to the second division promoted FSV Frankfurt .

At the Frankfurt team, he succeeded Ottmar Grob , who said, "In view of the additional workload in the second division, it is incompatible with my professional commitment to the Henniger brewery and my sporting goals." Beljin switched the game to semi-professional and the players now had to attend training every day in addition to their job. With a budget of DM  700,000, the goal for the team around top performers such as captain Horst Trimhold and goalkeeper Karlheinz Volz as well as the newcomer Wolfgang Metzler , who scored 13 goals this season, was to stay in the league.

The FSV was finally 13th. In the next season even the seventh place was achieved. At the end of the game year 1977/78 the FSV was only to be found with one point above the climbing ranks in 15th place. In addition to the club legend Trimhold, Beljin also left the FSV.

Milovan Beljin accepted an offer from Bundesliga promoted Arminia Bielefeld . After a 3-1 home defeat against Werder Bremen , Arminia were in penultimate place after the seventh matchday with just one win and two draws. The relationship between the coach and the team was considered broken and he was replaced by Otto Rehhagel - but that did not change the relegation at the end of the season.

In April 1979 he replaced Norbert Wagner , who had been poached by relegation-threatened KSV Baunatal , from the 32nd matchday to the end of the season at Freiburg FC in the second division . Freiburg finished the season 13th in anonymous midfield.

Beljin spent the next four seasons in Ticino, Switzerland, at AC Bellinzona . Without defeat, he immediately led the team into the first division. There the Ticino were able to stay in the lower table for the next few years. In 1984 the Swiss champion from 1948 had to be relegated as the penultimate one.

In the 1985/86 season Beljin worked for the Swiss second division club FC Chiasso , with whom he was seventh.

In 2007, Milovan Beljin and Rainer Hörgl were voted FC Augsburg's coach of the century. The saying "All opponents are the same, only the jerseys are different" is ascribed to him.

Statistical career overview

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Schmoll: Series: Farewell to Rosenau: A record for eternity , Augsburger Allgemeine , February 27, 2009 (edited: May 8, 2010)
  2. ↑ In the elevator between second and third class, accessed on May 6, 2011 ( Memento from September 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Rainer Hörgl@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.neue-szene.de
personal data
SURNAME Beljin, Milovan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Novi Sad