Vasilije Radović

Vasilije Radović
Personal information
Date of birth	10 September 1938
Place of birth	Cetinje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death	25 March 2019 (aged 80)
Place of death	Cetinje, Montenegro
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
0000–1957	Lovćen
1957–1962	Željezničar Sarajevo
Senior career*
Years	Team
1962–1966	Željezničar Sarajevo
1966–1967	Fenerbahçe
1967–1971	Željezničar Sarajevo
Total
International career
1964–1965	Yugoslavia
Managerial career
1976–1977	Željezničar Sarajevo (caretaker)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vasilije Radović (Serbian Cyrillic: Василије Радовић, 10 September 1938 – 25 March 2019) was a Yugoslav football former goalkeeper and manager. He was born in Montenegro, but spent most of his life in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Radović (nicknamed Čiko) had also made three appearances for the Yugoslavia national team between 1964 and 1965.

Club career

Early career and transfer to Željezničar

He started playing in FK Lovćen. During a friendly match with his team in 1957, FK Željezničar Sarajevo officials spotted him and decided to offer him to start playing for their club. He accepted the offer. He stayed in Željezničar for nine years.

He even scored a goal for the club in the 1963–64 league season.

Fenerbahçe

In 1966, he moved to Turkish side Fenerbahçe S.K. He won the 1966–67 Balkans Cup with the club. However, he returned to Željezničar after only one season in Fenerbahçe.

Return to Željezničar and retirement

After coming back to Željezničar, he played four more seasons until he decided to retire in 1971. because of an Achilles tendon injury. He played 307 official games for the club, 209 of them being league games, and has also scored 1 goal.

International career

During the time of Radović playing for Željezničar, he even became a candidate for the Yugoslavia national team. He made his debut in an October 1964 friendly match against Hungary and since the competition was really good, he collected only a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals. Many people said that he should have played for some of the "Big Four" clubs in order to gain a regular place on goal. His final international was a September 1965 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Luxembourg.^[1]

Managerial career

After retiring, he continued to work in football. He was a youth team coach in Željezničar and in the 1976–77 season he was a first team caretaker manager for the remainder of the season, after Milan Ribar stepped down.

He continued to work with the club in various front office roles after that. He is one of the meritorious ones for saving Željezničar during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Death

Radović died on 25 March 2019, at the age of 80 in Cetinje, Montenegro.^[2]

Honours

Player

Club

Fenerbahçe

Balkans Cup: 1966–67

References

^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
^ D.B. (25 March 2019). "Umro bivši golman Željezničara Vasilije Čiko Radović, zaslužan za opstanak kluba tokom rata" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 25 March 2019.

External links

Vasilije Radović at National-Football-Teams.com

[1] "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 2020-10-06.

[2] D.B. (25 March 2019). "Umro bivši golman Željezničara Vasilije Čiko Radović, zaslužan za opstanak kluba tokom rata" (in Bosnian). Klix.ba. Retrieved 25 March 2019.

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