Milutin Šoškić
Milutin Šoškić ( born December 31, 1937 in Peć ) is a Yugoslav football coach and former football goalkeeper.
The goalkeeper started his career at Red Star Belgrade as a field player. Still a teenager, he moved to local rivals Partizan Belgrade, where he was in the Youth B to the goalkeeper. Šoškić up to 1966 Goalkeeper and captain at Partizan Belgrade, then he played until 1971 at the 1 FC Cologne. There he ousted Anton Schumacher and spent two years main goalkeeper until he in 1968/69 two tibial fractures drew upon during the season. This would have almost pulled the descent to, since during the season no player could be nachverpflichtet and the club had no equivalent representative. The 1st FC Cologne then undertook Manfred Manglitz, behind the Šoškić a reliable number two was another two years.
To uncover the Bundesliga scandal was 1971 also indirectly in the fact that the non-initiated Šoškić against Kickers Offenbach instead of Manglitz guarded the gate of Cologne and the game ended 4-2 for Cologne. His greatest successes at the 1 FC Cologne were winning the cup in 1968 ( 4-1 against VfL Bochum ), and the time lost as a final extension 1971 ( 1:2 against FC Bayern München ), again as a representative of the locked Manglitz.
Šoškić was 1959-1966 Yugoslav National Keeper. In 1960 he was at the European Championships in France European vice-champion and Olympic champion in the same year. His debut in the national team he was on 11 October 1959 in Belgrade, when he came off the bench in the game against Hungary at the registry of 2:2 (final score 2:4 ). With the Football World Cup 1962 in Chile, he stood in the gate, when his team was able to defeat Germany in the quarterfinals 1-0. Yugoslavia finished fourth at the end. 1963, while playing a World XI, which played at Wembley against England, he broke in the second half, the Soviet legend Lev Yashin in goal from the selection. 1964 was Šoškić in goal for the Yugoslav team which lost 2:7 in Belgrade against a European selection.
After ending his career, he was from 1979 to 1990 assistant coach at Partizan Belgrade. In 1993 he began a new career in the United States as a goalkeeper coach of the national team. This post which he held at the World Championships in 1994, 1998 and 2002, he has held until today. Šoškić lives in Bakersfield, California.
Clubs
- Red Star Belgrade
- To 1966 Partizan Belgrade
- 1966-1971 1st FC Cologne
As coach
Statistics
- 49 caps for Yugoslavia
- DFB-Pokal 11 games, 1 FC Köln
- European Cup Winners' Cup; UEFA Cup 3 games, 1 FC Köln