Miljan Miljanić

Miljan Miljanić

Miljanić in 1971
Personal information
Date of birth	(1930-05-04)4 May 1930
Place of birth	Bitola, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death	13 January 2012(2012-01-13) (aged 81)
Place of death	Belgrade, Serbia
Playing position	Defender
Youth career
1946–1951	Red Star Belgrade
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1951–1952	Red Star Belgrade	1	(0)
Teams managed
1965–1966	Yugoslavia
1966–1974	Red Star Belgrade
1973–1974	Yugoslavia
1974–1977	Real Madrid
1979–1982	Yugoslavia
1982–1983	Valencia
1983–1985	Al Qadisiya
Honours Men's Football Representing  Yugoslavia Universiade 1953 Dortmund Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Miljan Miljanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миљан Миљанић; 4 May 1930 – 13 January 2012) was a Serbian football player, coach and administrator, who played as a defender.

Born in Bitola, Vardar Banovina, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to a family originating from the Banjani clan in the Nikšić municipality in Montenegro, Miljanić spent the first years of his life in what would later become SR Macedonia within SFR Yugoslavia and eventually present day Republic of Macedonia.

During his colourful career, Miljanić coached Red Star Belgrade (won 10 trophies), Real Madrid (won back-to-back La Liga titles, including a League/Cup double in the 1974–75 season), Valencia CF (disappointing stint that lasted three quarters of the 1982–83 season when he got sacked with the team in 17th place in the league), and the Yugoslav national side, of which he was a head coach in the 1974 and 1982 World Cups.

He is equally known as the all-powerful president of the Football Association of FR Yugoslavia (FSJ), a post he occupied for years before leaving in 2001.