Dejan Savićević

Dejan Savićević
Дејан Савићевић

Savićević in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Dejan Savićević
Date of birth	(1966-09-15) 15 September 1966 (age 50)
Place of birth	Titograd, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder
Youth career
1981–1983	OFK Titograd
1983–1984	Budućnost Titograd
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1983–1988	Budućnost Titograd	131	(35)
1988–1992	Red Star Belgrade	72	(23)
1992–1998	Milan	97	(20)
1999	Red Star Belgrade	3	(0)
1999–2001	Rapid Wien	44	(18)
Total		347	(96)
National team
1986–1999	Yugoslavia	56	(19)
Teams managed
2001–2003	FR Yugoslavia / Serbia & Montenegro
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Dejan Savićević (Cyrillic: Дејан Савићевић, pronounced [dɛ̂jan saʋǐːt͡ɕɛʋit͡ɕ]; born 15 September 1966), is a Montenegrin former football player who played as an attacking midfielder. Since 2004 he has been the president of the Montenegrin Football Association (FSCG).

Savićević was a part of the Red Star Belgrade team that won the 1990–91 European Cup before joining A.C. Milan in 1992. With Milan, he won three Serie A titles and the 1993–94 UEFA Champions League. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1990 and 1998 FIFA World Cups and, after his retirement from playing, coached the Serbia and Montenegro national team between 2001 and 2003. Following an illustrious professional playing career that lasted 18 seasons, as well as a short and unsuccessful head coaching stint during the early 2000s, he has turned to administrative matters – becoming, during summer 2004, the president of the Montenegrin FA.

Born to Vladimir Savićević and Vojislava Đurović, young Dejan had an immediate affinity for football and quickly developed his gift for the game. He grew up with the older brother Goran.

Savićević began playing structured football during the summer of 1981 in the youth teams of OFK Titograd. He was almost 15 years old at the time, which by professional football standards is considered fairly late to be starting out. Before that, and even in parallel to playing with OFK, his involvement with the game revolved around outdoor futsal tournaments on concrete and clay surfaces. Since this kind of "scaled-down football" was very popular in Titograd at the time, many tournaments of semi-formal character were organized in and around the town. Barely a teenager at this point, Savićević played for a team that consisted of men from his street (the informal team was named Tehnohemija after the entire block of apartment buildings in the neighbourhood that was known under that name) and quickly marked himself out as skilled player with great ball control and good overall technical ability.