Radivoj Božić

Serbian footballer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroSerbian footballer
PlacesSerbia
wasAthlete Football player Association football player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth26 January 1912, Beška, Inđija Municipality, Srem District, Vojvodina
Death1 January 1948Belgrade, Belgrade District, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (aged 35 years)
Star signAquarius
The details

Biography

Radivoj Božić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радивој Божић) (26 January 1912 – 1948) was a Serbian Yugoslavia international football player. After finishing his football career he became a military pilot in the Royal Yugoslav Air Force and during the Second World War for the Yugoslav Partisans.

Career

Born in Beška, Austro-Hungarian Empire (nowadays in Serbia), he started playing in SK Jugoslavija in 1930. In 1932 he moved to BSK Beograd and a year later he won the 1932–33 Yugoslav First League playing as a left-back. During the late 1930s until 1941 he played with FK Vojvodina.

National team

Radivoj Božić played one matches for the Yugoslav national team. It was played in Athens, Greece, on December 225, 1934, in a 1934–35 Balkan Cup match against Bulgaria, a 4-3 win. Yugoslavia won the tournament that year.

Honours

Club:

BSK Beograd
  • Yugoslav championship: 1932–33, 1934–35, 1935–36

National team:

Yugoslavia
  • Balkan Cup: 1935

Military pilot

He graduated on October 12, 1938 at the Royal Yugoslav Air Force military academy and became military pilot. During Second World War he joined the air force of the Yugoslav Partisans, however he got captured by the Germans who sent him to Germany. It is not exactly known when and why he returned to Belgrade, but allegedly because of treason, he was shot by the new Yugoslav authorities in 1948.

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