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Svetozar Popović
Football player and manager

Svetozar Popović

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Football player and manager
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Kragujevac, Šumadija District, Serbia
Place of death
Belgrade, Belgrade District, Serbia, Kingdom of Hungary
Age
83 years
Sports Teams
Fortitudo-Pro Roma S.G.S.
O.F.K. Beograd
FC Petrolul Ploiești
Venus București
Romania national association football team
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Biography

Svetozar Kika Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Поповић) (February 6, 1902; Kragujevac – October 26, 1985; Belgrade) was a Yugoslav and Romanian national football player and coach.

He began his playing career while being a refugee in Rome, Italy, while the Kingdom of Serbia was fighting World War I.At the end of the war, he returned to Serbia and played with BSK Belgrade until 1925. Then, as an employee of the Commercial Bank Italia, he moved to Bucharest, Romania. While still a bank employee, he continued to play football by playing with Juventus Bucharest and Venus Bucharest. On May 1, 1925, he played one match for the Romanian national team as Svetozar Popovici, against Turkey.

After retiring, he became a coach. He coached BSK Belgrade in their 1940 Mitropa Cup campaign. He coached on three occasions the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national football team between 1937 and 1941. He was technical director of BSK Belgrade and later worked in the direction of Red Star Belgrade, where he was one of the founders of the club.

Honours

Club

BSK Belgrade
  • Serbian Championship: 1919–20, 1920–21
Venus București
  • Romanian Championship: 1928–29
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