Vujadin Boškov

Vujadin Boškov ( born May 16, 1931 in Begeč in Novi Sad, Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a former Yugoslav football player and coach who coached Sampdoria won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1990.

Career

Player

Clubs, 1946-1963

The beginning of his career spent Boškov 1946-1961 with Slogan or Vojvodina Novi Sad and completed during this time 512 point games. The playing of an external rotor in the former WM system Serb could achieve with the Red -Whites out of the stadium Gradski no particular success since the Belgrade and Zagreb clubs in those years dominated. Only in 1951 he moved with Novi Sad in the cup final. His personal class he could ask in the national team to prove it. At age 30, he got the approval for a transfer abroad and signed for the round 1961/62 in Italy in Genoa in 1893., The involvement with Young Fellows Zurich in the season 1962/63 he ended his playing career.

National Team, 1951-1958

With 20 years Vujadin Boškov debuted on 25 June 1951 as at left- runners at the international match in Belgrade against Switzerland in the Yugoslav national football team. He took the silver medal success at the Olympic tournament in 1952 in Helsinki. The runners set Zlatko Čajkovski, Ivan Horvath and Boškov was among the best that could be seen in the fifties. In the final on August 2, 1952 in Helsinki but they could not prevent the 0-2 defeat against the US-led Hungarian Ferenc Puskás elf. This was followed by two participations in the World Championships in Switzerland in 1954 and 1958 in Sweden. Boškov denied all eight World Cup Qualifiers -. Against Greece and Israel before the 1954 World Cup and against Greece and Romania before the 1958 World Cup in Switzerland and in Sweden, he was also active in all seven discharged tournament playing the " Plavi ". Outstanding were the games in 1954 against Brazil, which ended 1-1 after extra time and the 3-2 victory in the group match against France in 1958. To mark the 75th anniversary of the Irish Football Association " Irish Football Association " (IFA ) Boškov was appointed together with his compatriot Bernard Vukas into the European continent selection for the game on August 13, 1955 in Belfast against Great Britain. Together with Ernst Ocwirk and Robert Jonquet he made the 4-1 success of Europe Choice runners row. Vukas succeeded from the 77th until the 88th minute while a classic hat-trick. The farewell from the national team, he took after his 58th international match on June 19, 1958 against Germany after the 0-1 defeat in the quarter-finals at the World Cup 1958 in Sweden before.

Coach, 1963-2000

In Switzerland, at Young Fellows Zurich, began in the season 1963/64, the coaching career of the professor of history and geography. Since Boškov to yet mastered seven languages ​​, he set out in the next few decades a real coach odyssey on the road. He oversaw Vojvodina Novi Sad, FC Den Haag Feyenoord Rotterdam, Real Zaragoza, Real Madrid, Sporting Gijon, Ascoli Calcio, Sampdoria, AS Roma, SSC Napoli, Perugia Calcio, Servette Geneva and was twice as coach of Yugoslavia used. Over the years, he acquired the reputation of being one of the most respected and experienced trainers in Europe. As a coach Boškov was a champion of offensive football, which primarily represented a running play for him and only on the basis of strict discipline could be successful. From his players he expected " to behave as a performance enhancing professionals and align their lives after". Instant fines were an effective means to intervene to regulate when he noticed in training that certain exercises were not carried out with the necessary seriousness and the required concentration for him. On tactical mistakes in the games he often responded with the banishment of the player concerned on the bench. To break with mannschaftlicher unity was a goal of his work as a trainer.

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