Ranko Zirojević

Ranko Zirojević
Personal information
Full name Ranko Zirojević
Date of birth 1 September 1967 (1967-09-01) (age 44)
Place of birth SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Youth career
Sutjeska Nikšić
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1985-1991 Sutjeska Nikšić
1992-1993 Mogren
1993-1994 Ethnikos Piraeus
1995 Mogren
1995-1996 Maribor 27 (1)
1996-1997 Mogren
National team
1987 Yugoslavia U20 4 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Ranko Zirojević (Serbian: Ранко Зиројевић; born 1 September 1967) is a former Montenegrin footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career

He played in the juvenile ranks of FK Sutjeska Nikšić and featured of the Yugoslavia national under-20 football team that won the title at the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship. He was about to make a transfer toward First league team FK Budućnost Podgorica but the deal broke. Zirojević stayed at Second league team Sutjeska where his career didn't prosper with the start of the Yugoslav Wars in which he lost a brother.[1] He scored eleven goals in the 1989/90 campaign[2] and three goals in eighteen matches in the 1990/91 season.

In July 1993, Zirojević joined Greek second division side Ethnikos Piraeus F.C..[3] The club was promoted and he made eight appearances in the Greek Superleague (1994/95),[4] before returning to FK Mogren in December 1994. The following season, he joined Slovenian side NK Branik Maribor. He would finish his career with Mogren.[5]

In 2007 he was working as an ice-cream seller at the Slovenian beaches and had two sons.[1] More recently he became the coach of FK Mogren's youth academy.[6] In 2011 he and former youth worldcup teammate Slaviša Đurković were denied a pension for there sport-achievements by the Montenegrin authorities.[7] He is participating in a UEFA A-license coaching course in 2011[8]

References

  1. ^ a b RANKO ZIROJEVIĆ, BIVŠI POZNATI I PRIZNATI FUDBALER CRNOGORSKOG I JUGOSLOVENSKOG FUDBALA, Pobjeda, 17 July 2007
  2. ^ RSSSF
  3. ^ "Πρωτάθλημα / FOOTBALL LEAGUE / ΠΡΩΤΑΘΛΗΜΑ Β' ΕΘΝΙΚΗΣ 1993-94 / 1η αγωνιστική / ΕΑΡ (ΕΝΩΣΗ ΑΤΡΟΜ.-ΡΕΘΥΜΝΟΥ)ΠΑΕ - ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ ΟΦΠΦ ΠΑΕ" (in Greek). EPAE.org. 3 October 1993. http://www.epae.org/match.fds?categ=2&dior_code=8&cal_day=1&game=1&group=0&type=1&pagecode=01.02&langid=1. 
  4. ^ Mastrogiannopolous, Alexander (26 April 2003). "Greece 1994/95". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tablesg/grk95.html. 
  5. ^ "NA DANASNJI DAN, PRE 10 GODINA: "Jugo-Cileanci" na krovu sveta" (in Serbian). Naša Borba. 25 October 1997. http://www.yurope.com/nasa-borba/arhiva/Okt97/2510/2510_25.HTM. 
  6. ^ "Не говорим са Просинечким" (in Serbian). Pravda.rs. 17 December 2010. http://www.pravda.rs/2010/12/17/ne-govorim-sa-prosineckim/. 
  7. ^ Zar "čileanci" ne zaslužuju nacionalnu penziju?, dan.co.me, 24 February 2011
  8. ^ ŠZT: Drugi semestar za UEFA “A” licencu, fscg.co.me, 2 December 2011

External links

Yugoslavia squad – 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship Winners (1st Title)