Velimir Sombolac
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| Full name | Velimir Sombolac | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 27 February 1939 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Banja Luka, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 22 May 2016 (aged 77) | ||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Gradiška, Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | ||||||||||||||
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| 1955–1957 | BSK Banja Luka | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1957–1959 | Borac Banja Luka | ||||||||||||||
| 1959–1965 | Partizan | 102 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1965–1970 | Olimpija Ljubljana | 70 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1970–1971 | Orijent Rijeka | ||||||||||||||
| 1971–1973 | Borac Banja Luka | ||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 1958–1959 | Yugoslavia U21 | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1960 | Yugoslavia Olympic | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1960 | Yugoslavia | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||
| 1973–1974 | Sloga Gornji Pogradci | ||||||||||||||
| 1976–1979 | Kozara Gradiška | ||||||||||||||
| 1998–2001 | Republika Srpska | ||||||||||||||
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Velimir Sombolac (Serbian Cyrillic: Beлимиp Coмбoлaц; 27 February 1939 – 22 May 2016) was a Serb footballer and manager.
Following the steps of his elder brother Petar, he started playing in his hometown club FK BSK Banja Luka where he, with his team, surprisingly achieved the third place in the Yugoslav national youth championship. After this success, BSK coach Aco Mastala received a proposal to move to the city's main club FK Borac Banja Luka, which he accepted and brought along some of the players that helped him previously, between them, obviously, Velimir Sombolac. While in Borac, Velimir's good exhibitions didn't passed unnoticed, and, beside starting to represent the Yugoslav under-21 team, two seasons after he came there, received an invitation to move to one of the greatest Yugoslav clubs, the Belgrade's FK Partizan. There, playing alongside stars like Šoškić, Galić, Jusufi, and others, he will play six seasons with a total of 260 matches, being national champion in four occasions. In 1965 he moved to NK Olimpija Ljubljana where he will play until 1970. Together with Smajlović Arslanagić and, again, Šoškić, they would make Olimpija one of the most attractive Yugoslav First League teams. In 1970, instead of moving abroad, as many other Yugoslav players in that period and with his age did, he will move to Second League NK Orijent Rijeka where he would play one season, before returning to FK Borac Banja Luka where he will hang up his boots in 1973.
After having played ten matches for the Yugoslav U-21 team, and also five for the national "B" team, he was in the Olympic team that represented Yugoslavia at the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, and where Yugoslavia won the gold eliminating hosts Italy in the semi-finals, and beating Denmark ( 3–1 ) in the final. Afterward, Sombolac also played five matches for the Yugoslavia national football team.
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