Esad Dugalić

Esad Dugalić
Personal information
Date of birth1 October 1947
Place of birthMostar, SFR Yugoslavia
Date of death27 May 2011 (aged 63)
Place of deathBlagaj, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing positionGoalkeeper
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1964–1966Velež Mostar6(0)
1967First Vienna7(0)
1968–1970Sloboda Užice44(0)
1970–1971Sarajevo10(0)
1971–1973Osijek44(0)
1973–1974Igman Konjic27(0)
1974–1979Saint-Étienne1(0)
1976–1978Saint-Étienne B29(0)
National team
Yugoslavia Olympic3(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Esad Dugalić (born 1 October 1947) was a Bosnian football goalkeeper.[1]

Born in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, back then still part of Yugoslavia, he started playing in FK Velež Mostar in the Yugoslav First League, however he spent most of the tim as a substitute goalkeeper, first because of Ivan Ćurković and then because of Enver Marić. That is why he left Velež in and has played in a number of other Yugoslav clubs, namelly FK Sloboda Užice, FK Sarajevo, NK Osijek and FK Igman Konjic. In 1974, his former teammate Ćurković arranged him a move to France to play with AS Saint-Étienne.[2] He debuted in the French League 1 in the 1976–77 season, however he spent most of the time playing in the B team. Earlier he had a spell in Austria with First Vienna FC in the 1976–77 season.[3]

He played 3 matches for the Yugoslav Olympic team.[2]

In 1992 he moved to Qatar where he became a coach. He was also the assistant of Džemal Hadžiabdić at Al-Ittihad. He had just had signed a two-year contract to be assistant of Mehmed Baždarević when, unexpectedly, he died on the night of 26–27 May 2011 in his summer house in Blagaj while on a visit.[4]

References

  1. Esad Dugalic at FoottballDatabase.eu
  2. 2.0 2.1 Book: "Rođeni - Prvoligaške generacije 1952 - 1991" by Zoran Mrđenović, pag. 29 (Serbian)
  3. Esad Dugalic at playerhistory.com
  4. Umro Esad Eso Dugalić at FK Velež Mostar official website, 27-5-2011, retrieved 24-9-2014