Ilija Petković
Petković in 2006
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| Full name | Ilija Petković | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 22 September 1945 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Knin, Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Serbia U20 (manager) | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| –1964 | Dinara Knin | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1964–1973 | OFK Beograd | 212 | (37) | ||||||||||||
| 1973–1976 | Troyes AC | 122 | (7) | ||||||||||||
| 1976–1983 | OFK Beograd | 171 | (16) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 505 | (60) | |||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 1968–1974 | SFR Yugoslavia | 43 | (6) | ||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||
| 1990–1993 | OFK Beograd | ||||||||||||||
| 1993–1995 | Servette FC | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | FR Yugoslavia (assistant) | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | Avispa Fukuoka | ||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Aris Thessaloniki | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | FR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Shanghai Shenhua | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Sichuan Guancheng | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | Serbia-Montenegro | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Incheon United | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Al Ahli SC | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Gyeongnam FC | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | Serbia U20 | ||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ilija Petković (Serbian Cyrillic: Илија Петковић; born 22 September 1945) is a retired Serbian footballer and coach. Since the early 1990s he has been a football manager, his most notable appointment being with the Serbia and Montenegro national football team. He most recently coached South Korean side Gyeongnam FC.
He started playing football for Dinara Knin. Petković's professional playing days were divided between OFK Beograd where he spent over 16 seasons becoming one of the club's all-time best players and a 3-year stint with the French outfit Troyes AC.
When he left his hometown of Knin to come to capital Belgrade at the age of 19, Petković wasn't sure if he wanted to play football professionally. In addition to training and playing with OFK Beograd, he simultaneously enrolled in, and eventually completed the Economics college.
His first playing stint with the club lasted from 1964 until 1973. Though the club was even then in the constant shadow of its big city rivals Red Star Belgrade and Partizan, it still managed to put in many memorable league campaigns as well as to win the Yugoslav Cup in 1965/1966 season with a 5–1 final thrashing of Dinamo Zagreb.
In 1972 he played in the famous club Peñarol of Montevideo (Uruguay) where he suffered a fracture caused by the club's Nacional defense Juan Mujica.
His second stint started in 1976 after returning from France at the age of 31. Even at the twilight of his career Petković managed to be an important contributor to the team. He played until 1983, retiring from the game close to the age of 38. Unfortunately, this time around the team's overall performance wasn't as glowing as was the case during Petković's first stint. They constantly hovered around the relegation zone and couldn't avoid the drop in 1979/80 season meaning that Petković played the 1980/81 campaign in Yugoslav Druga liga. They quickly gained promotion at the end of that year and played 2 more seasons in top flight before being relegated again after 1982/83 - Petković's last playing season.
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