Vladimir Beara

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Vladimir Beara
Vladimir Beara 1953.jpg
Beara (1953)
Personnel
birthday November 2, 1928
place of birth Zelovo ,  Yugoslavia
date of death 11th August 2014
Place of death Split ,  Croatia
size 184 cm
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1947-1955 Hajduk Split 136 (0)
1955-1960 FK Red Star Belgrade 83 (0)
1960-1963 Alemannia Aachen 23 (0)
1963-1964 SC Viktoria Cologne 23 (0)
1964-1965 Freiburg FC 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1950-1959 Yugoslavia 59 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1964-1966 Freiburg FC
1966-1968 Fortuna Sittard
1969-1970 SC Fortuna Cologne
1970-1972 Hajduk Split (assistant coach)
1973-1975 Cameroon
1979 First Vienna FC
1980-1981 NCR split
1986-1987 BŠK Zmaj Blato
1 Only league games are given.

Vladimir Beara (born November 2, 1928 in Zelovo near Sinj , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , † August 11, 2014 in Split , Croatia ) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper and coach as well as a national player. The elegant Beara, the ballet dancer with hands made of steel , paired enormous bounce with physical elasticity and spectacular reflexes. For many years he was considered one of the world's best goalkeepers and is still reputed to be the best in Yugoslav history.

The qualified electrician, who also had ballet lessons, won Olympic silver with the national team and took part in three world championships. At club level, he won numerous titles with Hajduk Split and Red Star Belgrade . With nine national titles he holds the record together with the legendary striker Dragan Džajić . In Germany he played for Alemannia Aachen and SC Viktoria Köln . He also began his coaching career here, which took him through many countries.

Career

Vladimir Beara began his career in 1947 with Hajduk Split , where he quickly rose to become a regular goalkeeper and won three national championships with the club. This was the club's most successful period to date for the Beara in 136 championship games guarded the gate.

After making his debut in the Yugoslav national team in 1950, he was also in the squad for the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, but was not used there. In November 1950 he was in the goal of Yugoslavia in the 2-2 in an international match against England at London's Wembley Stadium . This was the first time that the hosts failed to win against a continental team at home.

Another highlight was participation in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki . There he was silver medal winner with Yugoslavia. He was in the final of the football tournament, among other things next to Branko Zebec , Zlatko "Tschik" Čajkovski and Ivica Horvat , the Hungarians who won 2-0. This is considered to be the hour of birth of their Golden Elf , the Aranycsapat .

He was given a special honor when he was invited to a world team in October 1953, which played against England at Wembley Stadium on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the English Football Association and achieved a 4: 4 there. Beara came on as a substitute for the Austrian Walter Zeman in the second half .

Vladimir Beara was also in the goal of the national team at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland. Yugoslavia was eliminated there in the quarter-finals with a 2-0 win against eventual tournament winners Germany. The 1: 1 after 120 minutes in the group game against the vice world champions from 1950, Brazil in Lausanne is considered one of his outstanding games.

In 1955, Veliki Vladimir , the "Great Vladimir", moved to the capital club Red Star Belgrade at his own request , which at times caused a sensation. There he won four more championship titles of the then Yugoslavia by 1960, as well as the cup twice. In total, he appeared 83 times in league games for Belgrade.

In addition, he played with Red Star from 1956 to 1960 13 matches in the European Champions Cup . In the quarter-final second leg of the 1956/57 season at ZDNA Sofia in February 1957, which Roter Stern lost after a 3: 1 in the first leg with 1: 2, he was certified as an outstanding performance "which guaranteed his team a place in the semi-finals" . There came, however, very close after a 0-1 home defeat and a 0-0 away, against the Fiorentina from Italy. In February 1958, Red Star played in the quarter-finals of the competition after a 1: 2 away defeat with Beara at home 3: 3 against Manchester United . On the flight back from this game , the plane crashed in Munich , where eight players were killed and the era of the Busby Babes came to an end. Vladimir Beara also came to two missions for the Belgrade city selection in the trade fair trophy 1958-1960 .

Beara was also with the national team at the 1958 World Cup , but did not make the best impression in the group matches in which Yugoslavia defeated France 3-2 and drew 3-2 against Paraguay. The national coach Aleksandar Tirnanić therefore decided to rely on Srboljub Krivokuća , also from Red Star, in the quarter-finals . However, he made a rather unfortunate figure in the 0: 1 by Helmut Rahn in the 12th minute against Germany. For the rest of the game, the Yugoslavs stormed the German goal in vain and, like four years earlier, were eliminated in the quarter-finals against the DFB-Elf.

After the World Cup, Vladimir Beara played three more international matches until October 1959 and made a total of 59 appearances for Yugoslavia. Milutin Šoškić von Partizan and later Cologne should take his place in the national team until 1966.

In 1960 he was given the privilege of being able to continue his career in the West for reasons of age. From 1960 to 1963 he played there, from 1961 together with his compatriot Branko Zebec , who succeeded him from Roter Stern, at Alemannia Aachen in the then first-class Oberliga West , where he broke his leg in November 1961 at the home game against Preußen Münster. In November 1962 in the game at Borussia Dortmund he broke the same leg again and therefore only made 23 league appearances for Alemannia. Nevertheless, "the cat", as he was often called here, made an excellent impression and is still often named as the most outstanding goalkeeper in the club's history. After the founding of the Bundesliga in 1963, for which Alemannia was unable to qualify, he joined their equally unqualified league rivals SC Viktoria Köln , where, under coach Hennes Weisweiler, he was between the 23 times in the Regionalliga West until the end of his career in 1964 Post stood.

After his playing career, he worked as a coach, including in Germany with Freiburg FC , in the Netherlands with Fortuna Sittard , in Cameroon as national coach, in Austria with Vienna and in Yugoslavia (now Croatia) with RNK Split . One last title was granted to him when, in 1971, as assistant coach to Slavko Luštica, he participated in the first championship of his home club Hajduk since he left in 1955.

When the Russian Lev Yashin was voted Europe's Footballer of the Year in 1963 , he complimented Beara and said that the best goalkeeper in the world was not him, but Beara. Most recently Beara lived in Split . His wife and son died before him. His sporty heart was equally attached to Hajduk and Red Star.

successes

literature

  • Knieriem / Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890–1963, Agon-Verlag, Kassel 2006, ISBN 3-89784-148-7
  • Franz Creutz (Ed.): Games you will never forget! Alemannia in the 1960s, Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 1996, ISBN 3-89124-373-1

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Beara  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former goalkeeping great Vladimir Beara dies at 85
  2. ^ Matthias Weinrich: Der Europapokal Volume 1, 1955 to 1974, Agon-Verlag, Kassel 2007, page 20
  3. ↑ Franz Creutz (Ed.): Games you will never forget! Alemannia in the 1960s, Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 1996, page 31
  4. ↑ Knieriem / Grüne: Spiellexikon 1890–1963, Agon-Verlag, Kassel 2006, page 22
personal data
SURNAME Beara, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Zelovo near Sinj , Croatia
DATE OF DEATH 11th August 2014
Place of death Split