Radomir Vukčević

Radomir Vukčević (born September 15, 1941 in Knin , † November 28, 2014 ) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper .

Athletic career

Vukčević began playing football in his birthplace at Knin HNK Dinara Knin , where he was in the goal of the competition team from 1957. In 1963 he moved to NK Hajduk Split in the Prva Liga . In 1967 he won the national cup with the team by a 2-1 final victory over FK Sarajevo . In the same year he became a national player in the Yugoslav national team . After its debut in November 1967 with a 2: 1 away win against the Dutch national team to the later vice-champion Rinus Israel , Wim Jansen , Johan Cruyff , Wim Suurbier and Piet Keizer he was next to the until then without international game experience remained Ratomir Dujković as Substitute for Ilija Pantelić for the squad at the European Championship finals in 1968 and was runner-up without a minute. Two years earlier he had won his first medal on the international stage at the UEFA youth tournament in Yugoslavia after beating the Spanish youth 2-0 in the game for third place.

After Vukčević moved into the cup final with his club in 1969, which was lost in the replay against Dinamo Zagreb , he won another national title at the end of the 1970/71 season with the championship. As a result, he experienced a renaissance in the national team and was reinstated in April 1971, almost three years after his last international match , in preparation for the next European Championship tournament. As a result, he was also used in qualifying for the European Championship finals in 1972 , in which the Yugoslav team won their qualifying group before the Netherlands. In the quarter-finals against the Soviet Union , however, Enver Marić ousted him, who would remain number 1 for the following four years. This left Vukčević with nine international matches, including a 2-2 win against Brazil in front of over 100,000 spectators at the Estádio do Maracanã in July 1971.

In 1972 Vukčević won the cup again with Hajduk, this time he prevailed with the team against Dinamo Zagreb with a 2-1 final win. When the club went to defend their title in the final the following year, he was no longer part of the squad. At the age of 31 he moved to the West, where he played for two years at AC Ajaccio in Division 1 until 1975 - allegedly he had turned down an offer from Ajax Amsterdam a few years earlier .

Vukčević later returned to Split, where he worked as a goalkeeper coach in the coaching staff at RNK Split and ran a football school.

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Preminuo Radomir Vukčević"