Vladimir Beara
Vladimir Beara ( born November 2, 1928 in the small village Zelovo in Sinj, Croatia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a native of the present day Croatia, serbischstämmiger former football goalkeeper and coach and a former Yugoslav international. The elegant Beara, the ballet dancer with hands of steel, coupled with enormous bounce physical elasticity and spectacular hues. He was regarded for many years as one of the world's best goalkeeper and has today the reputation as the best of Yugoslav history.
With the national team won the trained electrician who also once had ballet lessons, Olympic silver and participated in three World Cups. At club level, he won numerous titles with Hajduk Split and Red Star Belgrade. With nine national titles he holds in common with the striker legend Dragan Džajić the record. In Germany he played for Alemannia Aachen and SC Viktoria Köln. He began also his coaching career that led him through many countries.
Career
Vladimir Beara began his career at Hajduk Split in 1947, where he quickly rose to the goalkeeper and the club won three national championships. This was the hitherto most successful period of the club for the Beara in 136 league games guarded the gate.
After he made his debut in the Yugoslav national team in 1950, he was also in the squad for the World Cup 1950 in Brazil, came there but not used. In November 1950, he stood in the gate of Yugoslavia in a 2-2 draw in a friendly against England at Wembley Stadium. This was the first time that the hosts were able to win against a team from the continent at home no victory.
Another highlight was the participation in the Summer Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952. There he was silver medalist with Yugoslavia. He reached the final of the football tournament, including next Branko Zebec, Zlatko " Tschik " Čajkovski and Ivica Horvat, the Hungarians won against the 2-0. This shall be the birth of the Golden Team, the Aranycsapat.
A special honor was given to him when he was invited in October 1953 in a World XI, which played at Wembley Stadium on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Football Association against England and there is a 4:4 reached. Beara was doing on in the second half for the Austrian Walter Zeman.
Vladimir Beara also stood at the Football World Cup 1954 in Switzerland in goal for the national team. Yugoslavia difference there in the quarterfinals with a 0-2 against eventual champions Germany. The 1-1 after 120 minutes in the group match against the Vice World Champion in 1950, Brazil in Lausanne is considered one of his most outstanding games.
1955 Vladimir Veliki changed, the "Great Vladimir", at his own request to the capital club Red Star Belgrade, which formerly caused a great stir. There he won to 1960 four more league titles of the former Yugoslavia, as well as twice the trophy. Overall, he entered 83 times in league games for the Belgrade.
He also played with Red Star 1956-1960 13 matches in the European Cup of Champions. In the quarter -final second leg match of the season 1956/57, lost at ZDNA Sofia in February 1957 the Red Star with a 3-1 in the first leg with 1:2, provides outstanding performance was certified, " which guaranteed his team a place in the semi-finals ". There, however, came to the narrowest of margins after a 0-1 home defeat and a 0-0 away against Fiorentina in Italy the corner. In February 1958 Red Star played in the quarter- finals of the competition after a 1:2 away defeat with Beara at home 3-3 draw with Manchester United. On the flight back from this game, crashed the plane in Munich, where also eight players were killed and the era of Busby Babes came to an end. Vladimir Beara came two appearances for the Belgrade city selection in the Fairs Cup 1958-1960.
With the national Beara was also at the 1958 World Cup here, but made there in which Yugoslavia defeated France 3-2 and 3-3 draw against Paraguay was not playing the best impression in the group matches. The coach Aleksandar Tirnanić therefore decided in the quarterfinals on Srboljub Krivokuća also to trust Red Star. However, the made at 0:1 by Helmut Rahn in the 12th minute against Germany a rather unfortunate figure. The rest of the game stormed the Yugoslavs in vain for the German goal and therefore excreted as four years earlier in the quarter- final against the DFB - Elf.
After the World Cup Vladimir Beara denied until October 1959 three more matches and brought it to a total of 59 missions to Yugoslavia. Milutin Šoškić Partizan and later Cologne should take his place in the national team until 1966.
In 1960 he obtained the privilege of being able to continue his career in the West for reasons of age. From 1960 to 1963 he played there from 1961 onwards, together with his compatriot Branko Zebec, who succeeded him from Red Star, at Alemannia Aachen in the then prime Oberliga West, where he was in November 1961 at the home game against Preußen Münster broke his leg. In November 1962 game at Borussia Dortmund, he broke the same leg again and therefore only came to a total of 23 league appearances for the Alemannia. Nevertheless, leaving " the cat ", as he was called here often, an excellent impression and is still often named as the outstanding goalkeepers in the club's history. After the founding of the Bundesliga in 1963, for which the Alemannia was not able to qualify, he joined the equally unqualified league rivals SC Viktoria Cologne where he coach Hennes Weisweiler until his retirement in late 1964 in the Regionalliga West still 23 times between the posts stood.
After his playing career he worked as a coach and was there among others in Germany at the Freiburger FC, in the Netherlands at Fortuna Sittard, in Cameroon as national coach in Austria at Vienna and Yugoslavia (now Croatia) worked with RNK Split. One last title was granted to him, when he became the assistant coach Slavko Luštica share in the first championship of his tribe club Hajduk in 1971 had since his departure in 1955.
In 1963 the Russian Lev Yashin was voted European Footballer of the Year, he complimented Beara and said that the best goalkeeper in the world was not he, but Beara. This daily lives Beara in Split. His wife and son have died. Its sporty heart is still equally at Hajduk and at Red Star.
Statistical career overview
National team:
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1950-1959: Yugoslavia, 59 Games
Clubs:
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1947-1955 Hajduk Split, 136 league games
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1955-1960 Red Star Belgrade, 83 league games
- Federal Republic of Germany 1960-1963 Alemannia Aachen, 23 league games
- Federal Republic of Germany 1963-1964 SC Viktoria Köln, 23 league games
Achievements:
- Olympic Games: Silver medal 1952
- Champion of Yugoslavia: 1950, 1952, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960
- Cup Winners of Yugoslavia: 1958, 1959
Coach:
- Federal Republic of Germany 1964-1966: Freiburger FC
- Netherlands 1966-1968: Sittardia Sittard
- Federal Republic of Germany 1969-1970: SC Fortuna Köln
- Cameroon 1973-1975: Cameroon national
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1980-1981: RNK Split