Prvoslav Mihajlovic
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Prvoslav Mihajlović (13 April 1921 — 28 June 1978) was a Serbian
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

-Yugoslav
Yugoslavia
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 footballer and head coach
Head coach
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.

On the national level he played for Yugoslavia national team
Yugoslavia national football team
The Yugoslavia national football team represented the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in association football. It enjoyed a modicum of success in international competition. In 1992, during the Yugoslav wars, the team was suspended from international...

 (13 matches/6 goals) and was a participant at the 1948 Olympic Games
1948 Summer Olympics
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, where his team won a silver medal, and at the 1950 FIFA World Cup
1950 FIFA World Cup
The 1950 FIFA World Cup, held in Brazil from 24 June to 16 July, was the fourth FIFA World Cup. It was the first World Cup since 1938, the planned 1942 and 1946 competitions having been canceled owing to World War II...

. With Partizan he won 2 national championships (1947, 1949) and 4 Yugoslav cups (1947, 1952, 1954, 1957). During 1951. Mihajlović played 10 friendly matches on loan for Red Star in two months and after that he came back to Partizan.

Mihajlović later worked as a football manager and coached several teams, including OFK Beograd
OFK Beograd
Omladinski fudbalski klub Beograd, commonly referred to as OFK Beograd , is a football club from Belgrade, Serbia, more precisely from the Karaburma urban neighborhood. It currently is the oldest team playing in the Serbian SuperLiga. The name means "Youth Football Club Belgrade" in Serbian...

 and Yugoslavia national team, which he led at the 1962 FIFA World Cup
1962 FIFA World Cup
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. He also worked as assistant coach in Partizan (1959-1963) and won 3 national championships (1961, 1962, 1963).

He was the secretary and technical director of FK Partizan (1959-1963), then worked in Alexandria, Egypt (1963-1967) and in Münster, West Germany
West Germany
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 (1967), and in 1967 returned to Partizan, then went to Kuwait and came back to Partizan.
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