Dragan Stojković

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Dragan Stojković
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Personal information
Full name Dragan Stojković
Date of birth March 3, 1965
Place of birth Niš, SFRJ
Nickname Piksi or Pixy
Position Midfielder
Professional clubs*
Years Club Apps (goals)
1981-1986
1986-1990
1990-1991
1991-1992
1992-1994
1994-2001		 FK Radnički
FK Crvena zvezda
Olympique de Marseille
Hellas Verona FC
Olympique de Marseille
Nagoya Grampus Eight		 70 (8)
120 (48)
11 (0)
19 (2)
18 (5)
183 (57)
National team
1983-2001 SFR Yugoslavia
FR Yugoslavia		 84 (15)

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

Dragan Stojković (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Стојковић), (born March 3, 1965 in Niš), is a former Serbian star footballer and current president of Red Star Belgrade Football Club. He is also well known by his nickname Piksi or Pixy.

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[edit] Career

[edit] Radnički Niš

A 175cm 73kg midfielder and occasional forward, Stojković began his professional playing career with Yugoslav First League and hometown side Radnički Niš in 1981-82 when he made one first-team appearance. The next four seasons, Stojković appeared in 69 matches for Radnički and scored eight goals.

[edit] Red Star Belgrade

Stojković was then signed by Red Star Belgrade, where he would spend the next five seasons, scoring 48 times in 120 appearances. He was the Yugoslav League MVP in 1988 and '89 season and his stellar performances with Red Star gave him the title of Zvezdine Zvezde only given out to the very best players in the club's illustrious history.

[edit] Olympique de Marseille

In the summer of 1990 he made a much publicized move to Olympique de Marseille, joing the star-ladden squad featuring the likes of Jean-Pierre Papin, Abedi Pele, and Chris Waddle. He would remain their player for the next four seasons with a half-season loan move to Hellas Verona sandwiched in-between his stints in Marseille. The losers to Red Star in 1991, Olympique with Stojković in the squad won the European Cup in 1993.

Unfortunatelly, his time in Marseille was marred with multiple career-threatening injuries, meaning he never got to display his wide array of skills on the biggest European stage.

[edit] Nagoya Grampus Eight

In the spring of 1994 Stojković signed with Japanese J-League team Nagoya Grampus Eight, then managed by Arsène Wenger and featuring Gary Lineker. He spent seven seasons with the Grampus Eight, retiring as a player in 2001. Stojković played 183 matches for the club, scoring 57 times. He was named J-League MVP for the 1995 season. In Japan there is a monument in his honour, a stadium and a street named after him[citation needed].

[edit] National team

Olympic medal record
Competitor for Yugoslavia
Men's Football
Bronze 1984 Los Angeles Team Competition

Stojković made 84 career international appearances, scoring 15 times, those split between the SFR Yugoslavia national team and the FR Yugoslavia national team. He played for the former in Euro 84 and the 1990 FIFA World Cup and for the latter in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000. He made his international debut on November 12, 1983 in a scoreless draw against France. His final international match was against the country he spent much of his playing career in, Japan, on July 4, 2001.

[edit] Post-football

[edit] FA President

Upon retiring in 2001, 36-year-old Stojković immediately became the Yugoslav Football Association president, succeeding Miljan Miljanić. Though Stojković's appointment received wide approval, his tenure will be remembered for some of the national team's worst results in its history, culminating in a humiliating June 2003 qualifier loss to minnows Azerbaijan.

Among his first orders of business was hiring former teammate and good friend Dejan Savićević to the position of national team manager despite him having absolutely no coaching experience. Initially considered bold and daring, the move quickly turned sour as the squad began faltering in Euro 2004 qualifying, and Savićević started feuding with many of the players.

Throughout the summer of 2003, in the wake of Azerbaijan fiasco, Stojković unsuccessfully courted Bora Milutinović for the national team manager role, only to eventually hire Ilija Petković.

[edit] Red Star Belgrade President

Since July 2005, he's been the president of Red Star Belgrade.

[edit] Honors and awards

Preceded by:
Brazil Pereira		 J-League Player of the Year
1995		 Succeeded by:
Brazil Jorginho
SFR Yugoslavia SFR Yugoslavia squad - 1990 World Cup Quarter Finalists SFR Yugoslavia

1 Ivković | 2 Stanojković | 3 Spasić | 4 Vulić | 5 Hadžibegić | 6 Jozić | 7 D. Brnović | 8 Sušić | 9 Pančev | 10 Stojković | 11 Vujović | 12 Omerović | 13 Katanec | 14 Bokšić | 15 Prosinečki | 16 Šabanadžović | 17 Jarni | 18 Baljić | 19 Savićević | 20 Šuker | 21 Panadić | 22 Leković | Coach: I. Osim
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

1 Kralj | 2 Mirković | 3 Đorović | 4 Jokanović | 5 Đukić | 6 Brnović | 7 Jugović | 8 Savićević | 9 Mijatović | 10 Stojković | 11 Mihajlović | 12 Leković | 13 Komljenović | 14 Saveljić | 15 Drulović | 16 Petrović | 17 Milošević | 18 Govedarica | 19 Stević | 20 Stanković | 21 Ognjenović | 22 Kovačević | Coach: Santrač


Zvezdine zvezde (Stars of Red Star Belgrade) Logo of Red Star Belgrade
Rajko Mitić | Dragoslav Šekularac | Dragan Džajić | Vladimir "Pižon" Petrović | Dragan "Piksi" Stojković
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