Vujadin Boškov

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Full name Vujadin Boskov Role Footballer Name Vujadin Boskov		Playing position Right winger Place of death Novi Sad, Serbia

Date of birth (1931-05-16)May 16, 1931 Place of birth Begec, Kingdom of Yugoslavia Date of death April 27, 2014(2014-04-27) (aged 82) Died April 27, 2014, Novi Sad, Serbia Similar People Radomir Antic, Dejan Stankovic, Milan Jovanovic, Marko Pantelic, Dick Advocaat

Vujadin boskov

Vujadin Boškov (Serbian Cyrillic: Вујадин Бошков; 16 May 1931 – 27 April 2014) was a Serbian footballer and coach.

Throughout his career as a football manager, he stood out both for his many successes, as well as due to his unique sense of humour and memorable ironic comments, which were used to dissolve tension during post-match interviews; these led him to become a popular figure with football fans during his time in Italy.

Vujadin Boškov Odlazi Vujadin Bokov jedan od najveih Mondo Sport

In ricordo di vujadin boskov r i p mister rigore c e quando arbitro fischia

Club career

Boškov was born in the village of Begeč, 10 km from Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia. He comes from a Vojvodina family who lived in Novi Sad (he was officially born in Petrovaradin) before moving to Begeč during the Second War War where his grandfather lived. His elder brother was also a football player but died early. Vujadin had two sisters Vera and Dada, the latter still living. He remained loyal to his Vojvodina roots and played with FK Vojvodina for most of his career (1946–1960), as well as continuously supporting him. In gratitude the FK Vojvodina training facility in Veternik is named after him. He was first a Vojovidina son, then of Serbian background and finally a Yugoslav. He joined the Yugoslav team that won against the Soviet Union at the Helsinki Olypmics in 1952. He is still remembered in a photo with the Dinamo Zagreb team in "Charlie's" café in Zagreb, as a great Yugoslav football player. In 1961 he moved to Italy to play for Serie A club Sampdoria for one season (1961–62), before accepting a stint as a player/coach at Swiss side Young Boys (1962–1964). Boškov then returned to the club that made him as a player – FK Vojvodina – and spent 7 seasons (1964–1971) as a technical director, leading the club to winning one Yugoslav league championship in 1965–66. Vujadin Boskov was called "Mister" in Italy because he was all his life a gentleman and a cosmopolitan. Corriere dello sport published his quotations e.g. "Quando l'arbitro fischia... it is a penalty". There is a book of his quotations published in Italy. He spoke several languages, lived all over Europe and is a credit to Vojvodina and his family.

International career

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He also became a playing member of the Yugoslavia national team, and was part of the team that won the silver medal at the 1952 Olympic football tournament. Also he played at the 1954 and 1958 FIFA World Cups.

Coaching career

“Penalty is when referee whistles.”

Boškov soon developed a successful international coaching career with stints in Dutch Eredivisie (FC Den Haag (1974–1976), and Feyenoord (1976–1978)), Spanish La Liga (Real Zaragoza (1978–79), Real Madrid (1979–1982), and Sporting de Gijon (1983–84)), Italian Serie A (Ascoli Calcio 1898 (1984–1986), U.C. Sampdoria (1986–1992, 1997–98), A.S. Roma (1992–93), S.S.C. Napoli (1994–1996), and A.C. Perugia (1999)), and Swiss league (Servette Geneva (1996–97)).

“In addition to being a great coach, he was a great psychologist and a very intelligent person.”

Arguably his greatest achievement as a coach came in 1991, when he steered Sampdoria to the Serie A scudetto. The following season, he led the club to the European Cup final, where they lost 1–0 to Barcelona at Wembley.

He also coached Yugoslavia at Euro 2000, where they famously lost 4–3 to Spain in Brugge and later went out to hosts the Netherlands in the quarter-finals, after losing 6–1 to the Dutch.