Full name Svetozar Vujovic Role Footballer Name Svetozar Vujovic | 1957–1959 FK Radnik Hadzici Date of birth 3 March 1940 | |
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Date of death 16 January 1993(1993-01-16) (aged 52) Died January 16, 1993, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
Svetozar Vujović (3 March 1940 – 16 January 1993) was a Bosnian football player, who spent his entire playing career with FK Sarajevo and later went on to manage the team for two years, before he proceeded to serve as long-standing club director until his death in besieged Sarajevo 1993.
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Career as player
He began playing in 1957 in FK Radnik from the town of Hadžići near Sarajevo, and in 1959 he became a member of the FK Sarajevo. Miroslav Brozović, his coach at the time, put him in the position of right back, and he developed into an excellent football player. Later, he successfully played as center half.
In the FK Sarajevo jersey he played a total of 444 games (254 in the league) and scored eight goals. This number of games he played for the club placed him second on the list of club records, after Biogradlić with 646 games. In his first season with FK Sarajevo 1966/67 he won the title of Yugoslavia champion.
With two games for the young team (1962–1963), he capped eight games for the best selection of Yugoslavia. Debuted in meeting of the Olympic teams against Romania (1:2) in Bucharest on 27 September 1963, and the last game for the national team he played in the Olympic tournament in Japan in Osaka on 22 October 1964, again, against Romania (0:3).
Pathologically afraid of flying, he stopped playing in 1971, official saying goodbye to the pitch in summer 1972, together with other club player Boško Antić (276 matches and 140 goals) in a match against Sporting Lisbon.
Career as club official
In FK Sarajevo, he began to work as a coach in 1973, and 1975 he was appointed director of the club. In the role of director and later as president Vujović spent twenty years and made great contribution to success and stability of FK Sarajevo.