Slavko Stojanović

Slavko "Vavo" Stojanović (1 June 1930 – 3 December 2012) was a Croatian football goalkeeper.[1]

Slavko Stojanović
Personal information
Full name Slavko Stojanović
Date of birth (1930-06-01)1 June 1930
Place of birth Osijek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death 3 December 2012(2012-12-03) (aged 82)
Place of death Worms, Germany
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1945–1947 Udarnik Osijek
1947–1951 Proleter Osijek
1952–1960 Partizan Belgrade 135 (1)
1960–1962 NK Rijeka 13 (0)
1962–1969 Wormatia Worms 148 (1)
National team
1952–1958 Yugoslavia 8 (0)
Teams managed
1969 Germania Eich
1974 Wormatia Worms
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

He started playing in his hometown clubs Udarnik and Proleter, the predecessors of today's NK Osijek, before moving to Belgrade, in 1952, to play in FK Partizan where he would play until 1960, winning three national Cups, in 1952, 1954 and 1957 and playing a total of 382 matches, 135 First League, and even scoring one goal in the 1956–57 season. It was in this period that he became known as one of the best country's goalkeepers, receiving, in 1952, his first, of a total of eight, caps for the Yugoslavia national football team. After nine years playing with the "black & whites", in 1960 he moved to another top league club, NK Rijeka, where he would play two seasons, until 1962. Then he decided to move abroad, signing with the 2. German Bundesliga club Wormatia Worms where he would stay until 1969, playing a total of 148 league matches and curiously scoring also once, in the 1963–64 season.

After retiring, he kept his links with football, he had some coaching experiences with low league club Germania Eich, in 1969, right after finishing his playing career, and also with his former club, Wormatia Worms in 1974.

National team

Curiously, it was against Austria that "Vavo" played both his debut and farewell matches. The first was played in 1952, in Belgrade on 21 September, finishing with a 4–2 win, and the second, the farewell, was played on 14 September 1958, in Vienna, finishing also with a Yugoslav victory, this time by a result of 4–3. Yugoslavia didn't lose any of the eight matches that Slavko played.

References
  1. "Stojanović Slavko". Reprezentacija.rs. Retrieved 23 November 2018.

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