Dejan Savićević

Dejan Savićević ( born September 15, 1966 in Titograd, SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav and Montenegrin football player and current coach and functionary.

Career

Savićević began his career in 1982 at Budućnost Titograd. In 1988, he joined Red Star Belgrade where he was until 1992 part of the team that won the 1991 European Champions Cup and the Intercontinental Cup. In addition he won in Belgrade between 1990 and 1992 three times the Yugoslav championship and in 1990 the Yugoslav Cup. In 1992 he moved to AC Milan.

There, the midfielder acquired primarily for his performance in the Champions League Final 1994 against Barcelona the nickname Il Genio. He scored a goal in this game, and led almost every attack a. His club won 4-0. In addition to the success in the Champions League, he also won three times with AC Milan the Scudetto (1993, 1994, 1996 ) and the European Super Cup once (1994). After he returned to Belgrade in January 1999, he joined in the summer of 1999 for two years to SK Rapid Wien.

For the Yugoslav team Savićević came to a total of 56 missions, five of them at the World Cup 1990 and World Cup 1998. Overall, he scored 19 goals.

As of 2001, Dejan Savićević Serb- Montenegrin team coach, but had to withdraw after a 1-2 defeat against Azerbaijan in June 2003.

Savićević now lives in Podgorica, Montenegro, and is president of the Montenegrin Football Association ( Fudbalski Savez Crne Gore ).