Božidar Drenovac

Božidar Drenovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Божидар Дреновац) (2 January 1922 – 24 July 2003) was a Serbian football player and manager.

Božidar Drenovac
Personal information
Full name Božidar Drenovac
Date of birth (1922-01-02)2 January 1922
Place of birth Ćuprija, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death 24 July 2003(2003-07-24) (aged 81)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1936–1938 Jugoslavija Belgrade
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1938–1939 Jugoslavija Belgrade
1945–1948 Red Star Belgrade 35 (4)
1948–1953 Partizan 79 (20)
National team
1947 Yugoslavia 1 (0)
Teams managed
1960–1965 Étoile Sahel
1965–1966 Panachaiki
1968–1969 Pierikos
1969–1970 Étoile Sahel
1970–1971 OFK Beograd
1971–1972 Borac Banja Luka
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Club

He was born in Ćuprija[1] in 1922. Still young he joined Belgrade club SK Jugoslavija in 1936, making his senior debut in the 1938–39 Yugoslav First League. After the Second World War, he signed with the newly formed Red Star Belgrade that inherited most of the property and players of the now disbanded, SK Jugoslavija. He played with Red Star until 1948. Next he move to the biggest rivals, FK Partizan where he would play until 1953, achieving even more success by winning the national championship (1949) and Yugoslav cup (1952).

International

He played one match for the Yugoslavia national football team on 14 September 1947 in Tirana, against Albania, for the Balkan Cup, a 4-2 win.

Managerial career

After retiring, he graduated in Economics, but never abandoned his passion for football, becoming a coach. His coaching career took him to countries like Tunisia, Greece, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Libya, but he also managed a number of Yugoslav top league clubs, such as NK Čelik Zenica, OFK Beograd, FK Borac Banja Luka[2] or FK Sutjeska Nikšić.

References
  1. Božidar Drenovac at zerozero.ps
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2009-12-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External sources
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