Nenad Bjeković

Nenad Bjeković

Personal information
Full name	Nenad Bjeković
Date of birth	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
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Proleter Zrenjanin	1965–66	21	7	0	0	21	7
	1966–67	21	4	0	0	21	4
	1967–68	28	10	0	0	28	10
	1968–69	33	6	0	0	33	6
	Total	103	27	0	0	103	27
Partizan	1969–70	32	7	2	0	34	7
	1970–71	33	8	2	0	35	8
	1971–72	33	14	0	0	33	14
	1972–73	33	13	0	0	33	13
	1973–74	32	14	0	0	32	14
	1974–75	4	2	0	0	4	2
	1975–76	31	24	0	0	31	24
	Total	198	82	4	0	202	82
Nice	1976–77	32	19	2	1	34	20
	1977–78	35	29	0	0	35	29
	1978–79	28	17	0	0	28	17
	1979–80	35	15	0	0	35	15
	1980–81	13	5	0	0	13	5
	Total	143	85	2	1	145	86
Career total		444	194	6	1	450	195

International

Yugoslavia national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1968	1	1
1969	3	1
1970	0	0
1971	7	0
1972	3	0
1973	5	2
1974	1	0
1975	0	0
1976	2	0
Total	22	4

Honours

Partizan

• Yugoslav First League: 1975–76

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.

External links

• Nenad Bjeković profile at reprezentacija.rs