Božidar Drenovac

Božidar Drenovac
Personal information
Full nameBožidar Drenovac
Date of birthJanuary 2, 1922
Place of birthĆuprija, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death24 July 2003 (aged 81)
Playing positionDefender
Youth career
1936-1938SK Jugoslavija
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1938-1939SK Jugoslavija
1945-1948Red Star
1948-1953FK Partizan35(1)
National team
1947Yugoslavia1(0)
Teams managed
1960-1965Étoile Sahel
1965-1966Panachaiki
1970-1971OFK Beograd
1971-1972Borac Banja Luka
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Božidar Drenovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Бoжидap Дpeнoвaц) (January 2, 1922 July 24, 2003) was a Serbian football player and manager.

He was born in Ćuprija[1] in 1922. Still young he joined Belgrade club SK Jugoslavija in 1936, making his senior debut in the 1938–39 Yugoslav First League. After the Second World War, he signed with the newly formed Red Star Belgrade that enherited most of the property and players of the now disbanded, SK Jugoslavija. He will play with Red Star until 1948. Next he move to the biggest rivals, FK Partizan where he will play until 1953, archiving even more success by winning the national championship (1949) and Yugoslav cup (1952).

He played one match for the Yugoslavia national football team on September 14, 1947 in Tirana, against Albania, for the Balkan Cup, a 4-2 win.

After retiring, he graduated in Economics, but never abandoned his passion that was football, becoming a coach. His coaching career took him to countries like Tunisia, Greece, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Libya, but he also managed a number of Yugoslav top league clubs, such as NK Čelik Zenica, OFK Beograd, FK Borac Banja Luka[2] or FK Sutjeska Nikšić.

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