Svetozar Vujovic
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Svetozar Vujović was a Bosnian
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 football
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 player.

Career as player

He began playing in 1957 in FK Radnik from the town of Hadžići
Hadžici
Hadžići is a town and a municipality located south west of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to government statistics from 2002, Hadžići Municipality has a population of 20,055 residents.- 1971 :18,508 total...

 near Sarajevo, and in 1959 he become a member of the FK Sarajevo. Brozović, his coach at the time, put him in the position of right back, and he developed into an excellent football player. Later, he successfully played as center half.

In the FK Sarajevo jersey he played a total of 444 games (254 in the league) and scored eight goals. This number of games he played for the club placed him second on the list of club records, after Biogradlić with 646 games. In his first season with FK Sarajevo 1966/67 he won the title of Yugoslavia champion.

With two games for the young team (1962–1963), he capped eight games for the best selection of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia national football team
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. Debuted in meeting of the Olympic teams against Romania (1:2) in Bucharest on the 27th September 1963, and the last game for the national team he played in the Olympic tournament in Japan in Osaka on 22nd October 1964, again, against Romania (0:3).

Pathologically afraid of flying, he stopped playing in 1971, official saying goodbye to the pitch in summer 1972, together with other club player Boško Antić
Boško Antic
Božidar "Boško" Antić was a Bosnian Serb striker who played for SFR Yugoslavia.-External links:* *...

 (276 matches and 140 goals) in a match against Sporting Lisbon.

Career as club official

In FK Sarajevo, he began to work as a coach in 1973, and 1975 he was appointed director of the club. In the role of director and later as president Vujović spent twenty years and made great contribution to success and stability of FK Sarajevo.

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