Blagoje Paunović
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| Full name | Blagoje Paunović | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 4 June 1947 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Pusto Šilovo, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 8 December 2014 (aged 67) | ||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Belgrade, Serbia | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | ||||||||||||||
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| 1958–1965 | Partizan | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1965–1975 | Partizan | 225 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1975–1977 | Utrecht | 37 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1977 | Kikinda | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1978 | Oakland Stompers | 23 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1979 | Sinđelić Beograd | ||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 1967–1973 | Yugoslavia | 39 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Logroñés | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | Teleoptik | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Budućnost Banatski Dvor | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Smederevo | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | BASK | ||||||||||||||
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Blagoje Paunović (Serbian Cyrillic: Благоје Пауновић; 4 June 1947 – 9 December 2014) was a Serbian football defender and manager.
Born in Pusto Šilovo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he started his youth career in FK Partizan as a nine-year-old, although minimum age required to start playing for Partizan youths was ten. He was spotted by Partizan coach Virgil Popescu who insisted in bringing him over. Apart from short spell abroad, Blagoje spent most of his time in Partizan and, as a player or coach, he was part of Partizan for almost half a century. Paunović played for ten seasons with FK Partizan, amassing nearly 300 official appearances with the Belgrade club. During the 70's, he formed an efficient backline alongside Dragan Holcer and Miroslav Pavlović.
At 28, in 1975, Paunović joined FC Utrecht in the Netherlands. After two seasons abroad he returned home for a spell with OFK Kikinda, played briefly in the United States by representing the Oakland Stompers of the North American Soccer League and closed out his career also in his country's capital, with lowly FK Sinđelić; whilst in North America, he played under the name Paki Paunovich.
On the international level, Paunović played a total of 39 matches for Yugoslavia, making his debut on 12 November 1967 in a 4–0 home win against Albania for the UEFA Euro 1968 qualifiers, and participating at the final stages in Italy.
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