Nikola Stipić

Nikola Stipić (born 18 December 1937) is a former Serbian footballer.

Nikola Stipić
Personal information
Full name Nikola Stipić
Date of birth (1937-12-18) 18 December 1937
Place of birth Bihać, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Position(s) Right winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1956–1964 Red Star Belgrade 79 (15)
National team
1962 Yugoslavia 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He started to play for Red Star Belgrade still in the youth teams, debuting for the first team in the 1956/57 season. He had an excellent start becoming known for his speed, great technical skills and dribbling, but his career suddenly came to an end because of a heavy knee injury having only 26 years old.

Afterward he became a journalist of the Balgrade-based daily Večernje novosti.[1]

References

  1. Nikola Stipić Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at redstarbelgrade.info (in Serbian)


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