Nenad Bjeković

Nenad Bjeković
Personal information
Full name Nenad Bjeković
Date of birth (1947-11-05) 5 November 1947
Place of birth Zrenjanin, FPR Yugoslavia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Striker
Youth career
Zadrugar Lazarevo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1965–1969 Proleter Zrenjanin 103 (27)
1969–1976 Partizan 198 (82)
1976–1981 Nice 143 (85)
Total 444 (194)
National team
1968–1976 Yugoslavia 22 (4)
Teams managed
1982–1984 Partizan (assistant)
1984–1987 Partizan
1987–1989 Nice
1990 Partizan
1990–2007 Partizan (director)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Nenad Bjeković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Бјековић; born 5 November 1947) is a former Yugoslav and Serbian football player, manager and administrator.

Playing career

Born in Lazarevo, a village near Zrenjanin, Bjeković began playing football with local club Zadrugar Lazarevo, before switching to more famous Proleter Zrenjanin. After several seasons there, already playing in the Yugoslav First League, Bjeković was transferred to Partizan in the summer of 1969.

Bjeković spent seven seasons at Partizan, scoring 82 league goals in 198 appearances for the Black-Whites. He was the top scorer of the Yugoslav First League in the 1975–76 season with 24 goals, thus helping Partizan win its seventh national title.

In the summer of 1976, Bjeković moved abroad for the first time in his career and signed with Nice. He stayed the following five seasons at the club, scoring a total of 85 goals in 143 league appearances. In 2013, Bjeković was named the club's player of the century.[1]

Bjeković made 22 appearances for the Yugoslav national team and scored four goals. He scored on his debut for the national team in a friendly match against Brazil in Belo Horizonte on 19 December 1968.

Post-playing career

Bjeković started his managerial career in 1982 as an assistant to Miloš Milutinović at Partizan. After two years of gaining experience, he replaced Milutinović at the start of the 1984–85 season. As the club's manager, Bjeković won two consecutive league titles in 1986 and 1987.

In 1987, Bjeković was appointed as manager by his former club Nice, but was released after two years. In 1990, he again managed Partizan for two months.

After his managerial career, Bjeković served as the director of football at Partizan for almost two decades from 1990 to 2007.

Statistics

Club

Club Season League Continental Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Proleter Zrenjanin 1965–66 21700217
1966–67 21400214
1967–68 2810002810
1968–69 33600336
Total 103270010327
Partizan 1969–70 32720347
1970–71 33820358
1971–72 3314003314
1972–73 3313003313
1973–74 3214003214
1974–75 420042
1975–76 3124003124
Total 198824020282
Nice 1976–77 3219213420
1977–78 3529003529
1978–79 2817002817
1979–80 3515003515
1980–81 13500135
Total 143852114586
Career total 44419461450195

International

Yugoslavia national team
YearAppsGoals
196811
196931
197000
197170
197230
197352
197410
197500
197620
Total224

Honours

Partizan

Personal life

His son, also named Nenad Bjeković, played professional football for clubs such as Marseille and Nantes, after starting out with Partizan.

References

  1. "Nenad Bjeković – igrač veka Nice (FOTO i VIDEO)" (in Serbian). mozzartsport.com. 13 September 2013. Retrieved 30 June 2015.

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