Dragoslav Å ekularac

Dragoslav Šekularac (Cyrillic Драгослав Шекуларац; born November 30, 1937 in Stip, Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav football player and coach. The offensive player was longtime star of Red Star Belgrade and took the Yugoslav national team in two World Championships, at the European Championships in 1960, as at the Olympic football competition in 1956, he won the silver medal with the selection. After his time with Red Star and later as a coach, he worked at various clubs throughout the world distributed.

Šekularac debut at age 17 in March 1955 in the Yugoslav league, only eighteen months later, he was already national team, and won a regular player of Red Star and the Silver Medal at the Olympic Games in Melbourne. He remained for a decade a stem force of Belgrade; with the national team he reached the half and 1958 quarter-finals of the 1962 World Cup.

After his time at the club Red Star took him in his previous five players comprehensive list of stars the (red) star, in which the players are listed in Belgrade, who had a special impact on a period of the club. He is considered the first major media star of the Yugoslav football; because of its popularity in 1962 the football movie Seki snima, pazi se with Šekularac rotated in the lead role, in which he - like Beckenbauer a decade later with Libero - is playing itself essentially.

After his departure from Red Star, he played in Germany, the U.S., Mexico, Yugoslavia, Colombia and France, but never lasting long at a club.

Also during his coaching career, he worked all over the world and a wide variety of leagues; In addition to the head coach office of Red Star Belgrade (1989-90, Yugoslav double), the national guatemalatekischen (1984 /85) and Club America ( 1990/91, winning the CONCACAF Champions ' Cup), he also coached unterklassige teams in Australia, Canada and South Korea.