Prvoslav Mihajlović

Prvoslav Mihajlović
Personal information
Date of birth13 April 1921
Place of birthValjevo, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Date of death28 June 1978 (aged 57)
Place of deathBelgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing positionMidfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
1938–1941Valjevo SK
1941Obilić
1942–1944BSK Belgrade
1945–1950Partizan56(32)
1951→ Red Star Belgrade (loan)10(2)
1951–1957Partizan83(28)
National team
1946–1950Yugoslavia13(6)
Teams managed
1957–1959OFK Belgrade
1959–1961Partizan Belgrade (Technical Adviser)
1961–1963Yugoslavia (Part-time, jointly)
1963–1966Alexandria
1966Karşıyaka
1966–1967Preußen Münster
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Prvoslav Mihajlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Првослав Михајловић) (13 April 1921 — 28 June 1978) was a Serbian-Yugoslav footballer and head coach.

On the national level he played for Yugoslavia national team (13 matches/6 goals) and was a participant at the 1948 Olympic Games, where his team won a silver medal, and at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. With Partizan he won 2 national championships (1947, 1949) and 4 Yugoslav cups (1947, 1952, 1954, 1957). During 1951. Mihajlović played 10 friendly matches on loan for Red Star in two months and after that he came back to Partizan.

Mihajlović later worked as a football manager and coached several teams, including OFK Beograd and Yugoslavia national team, which he led at the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He also worked as assistant coach in Partizan (1959–1963) and won 3 national championships (1961, 1962, 1963).

He was the secretary and technical director of FK Partizan (1959–1963), then worked in Alexandria, Egypt (1963–1966) and Karşıyaka, Turkey (1966) and Münster, West Germany (1966–1967). He also worked in Kuwait.

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