Danilo Popivoda

Danilo Popivoda (Cyrillic Данило Попивода; born May 1, 1947 in Lovćenac, Yugoslavia, now Serbia ) is a former Yugoslav football player of Montenegrin ethnicity.

From 1975 to 1981 he played for Eintracht Braunschweig. Eintracht coach Branko Zebec had brought him out of Olmpija Slovenia Ljubljana. In Brunswick he had initially nicknamed " Popi never there " because it failed due to an injury after a crunching tackle the Intertoto match Eintracht against Vojvodina Novi Sad beginning of the season some time. Only on 13 Matchday he had made ​​his Bundesliga debut. Soon, however, he was a crowd favorite and star of the Brunswick team and contributed significantly to the placements of 1976 ( 5th place) and 1977 ( 3rd place). Due to an eye disease, he had to end his career in 1981.

Overall, he played for Eintracht 126 Bundesliga games as winger, scoring 30 goals. Between 1972 and 1977, he completed 20 games for the Yugoslav national team and took this in 1974 at the World Cup in Germany and 1976 in part in their own country at the European Championship finals four of the best European teams. He played in the 1974 World Cup in the intermediate round game, which Germany won 2-0 against Yugoslavia, against Berti Vogts, with whom he also provided in the following years duels in the Games between Eintracht Braunschweig and Borussia Moenchengladbach.

In the European Football Championship in 2000 and the Football World Cup 2002, he held the position of assistant coach under Srečko Katanec for the national team of Slovenia.