Vladica Popović

Vladica Popović
Personnel
Surname	Vladimir Popović
birthday	March 17, 1935
place of birth	Zemun ,  Yugoslavia
date of death	August 10, 2020
Place of death	Belgrade ,  Serbia
size	176 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1953-1965	FK Red Star Belgrade	216 (8)
1965-1966	VfB Stuttgart	2 (0)
1966-1968	Stuttgart Kickers	52 (2)
1968	Deportivo Cali
1969	Deportivo Canarias
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1956-1965	Yugoslavia	20 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1972	Independiente Santa Fe
1975-1979	Portuguesa Fútbol Club
	Anzoátegui FC
	Deportivo Italia
	Caracas FC
	Santa Fe CD
	Atlético Nacional
1986	Deportivo Cali
	Napredak Kruševac
	FK Trepča
1991-1992	Red Star Belgrade
1992-1993	Peru
1995	Millonarios FC
1 Only league games are given.

Vladimir "Vladica" Popović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Владимир "Владица" Поповић ; born March 17, 1935 in Zemun , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † August 10, 2020 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav football player and coach.

Player career

society

The midfielder began his career with Red Star Belgrade . There Vladimir Popović was champion in the 1st Yugoslav Football League in 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960 and 1964 and won the Yugoslav Cup in 1958, 1959 and 1964. For the 1965/66 season, Popović moved to VfB Stuttgart in the German Bundesliga . After he came to two Bundesliga appearances this season, Vladimir Popović moved to the Stuttgarter Kickers in the Regionalliga Süd . Before he ended his playing career, Popović played for a year in Venezuela with Deportivo Canarias in 1968 .

National team

Between 1956 and 1965 Vladimir Popović made 20 games for the Yugoslav national team . The 1958 World Cup ended for him and his selection with a quarter-finals defeat against Germany . At the 1962 World Cup, Popović was defeated by Yugoslavia in the match for third place to host Chile .

Coaching career

Vladimir Popović's coaching career began in Venezuela . There he coached the Portuguesa Fútbol Club , with which he was Venezuelan champion in 1975 and 1979. Other coaching stations in Venezuela were Anzoátegui FC , Deportivo Italia and FC Caracas . In Colombia , Popović was the head coach of Santa Fe CD , Atlético Nacional and Deportivo Cali . In Yugoslavia, he initially took over the coaching post at Napredak Kruševac and FK Trepča . In 1991 Vladimir Popović became the head coach of Red Star Belgrade and won the World Cup against CSD Colo-Colo . In 1992 he was champion in the last season of the 1st Yugoslav football league . Croatian and Slovenian clubs were no longer competing because of the Yugoslav wars and the Bosnian clubs withdrew from the league for the same reason during the season. After this season Vladimir Popović was coach of the national team of Peru for a year .

Web links

• Vladica Popović in the database of weltfussball.de
• Vladica Popović in the Reprezentacija.rs database (Serbian)
• Preminuo Vladica Popović (obituary article, Serbian), b92.net, August 11, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Técnicos y Jugadores Mundialistas que pasaron por el fútbol nacional ( Memento from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) on balonazos.com from June 17, 2014, accessed on February 27, 2015