Dragan Džajić
Džajić arriving to the Netherlands on 8 October 1970 for a Euro 1972 qualifying match versus the Dutch.
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| Full name | Dragan Džajić | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 30 May 1946 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ub, FPR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Left winger | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1961–1963 | Red Star Belgrade | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1963–1975 | Red Star Belgrade | 280 | (108) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1975–1977 | SC Bastia | 56 | (31) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1978 | Red Star Belgrade | 25 | (5) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 361 | (144) | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1964–1978 | Yugoslavia | 85 | (23) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Dragan Džajić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Џајић; born 30 May 1946) is a former Serbian footballer who is widely considered to be one of the best Serbian footballers to emerge from former Yugoslavia. Regarded as a preeminent and very proficient left winger. Džajić has been known for his "great crosses and passes, unstoppable dribbling with great pace, natural technique and some of the best left footed free kicks ever seen". Džajić is viewed by some football experts as perhaps one of the most underrated players in European football, partly because he played in Yugoslavia. In December 2011 Džajić was named in being part of "the greatest European Championship XI of all time" by Goal.com.
Born on 30 May 1946, in the small town of Ub, 60 kilometres outside Belgrade, Džajić's football career (1961–1978) was spent primarily with Red Star Belgrade. Džajić was a brilliant left winger who guided a Red Star Belgrade career spanning 590 games and 287 goals by winning five league titles and four Yugoslavian Cups. In 1969, Džajić received the Sport newspaper's Golden Badge award for Yugoslavia's best athlete. He is considered to have been one of the most important players in the history of the club and is one of only five players to have been awarded the Zvezdine Zvezde status.
In 2013, Džajić was identified as the greatest Yugoslavian player of all time, and honoured by his inclusion alongside Pele in the best Sheep Draft team of the year.
Džajić was plucked from the relative obscurity of his local club, FK Jedinstvo, by Red Star Belgrade youth coach Miljan Miljanić, spending two years in the club's youth system.
Though only 17 years and 8 days of age, Džajić was handed his first team debut by head coach Miša Pavić in a Yugoslav First League match against FK Budućnost Titograd on 8 June 1963, which finished 0–0. It was the last week of the 1962–63 league season with FK Partizan already clinching the league championship and Red Star hovering in 7th place, out of European spots. The match was played at Omladinski Stadium at Karaburma because Red Star's famous home Marakana was in the final construction stages.
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