Velibor Pudar

Velibor Pudar
Personal information
Full nameVelibor Pudar
Date of birth22 November 1964
Place of birthMostar, SFR Yugoslavia
Height1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing positionGoalkeeper
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1984-1987Lokomotiva Mostar
1987-1992Velež Mostar38(0)
1992-1993Apollon Athens9(0)
1993-1995Čukarički Belgrade
1995Sutjeska Nikšić
-Jedinstvo Paraćin
-Palilulac Belgrade
-Vasalunds IF
1999TPV Tampere6(0)
2000Velež Mostar
2000-2005Leotar Trebinje
Teams managed
2005Velež Mostar
2008-2009Bratstvo Gračanica
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Velibor Pudar (born November 22, 1964) is a Bosnian football manager and former goalkeeper.

Born in Mostar, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, he played with FK Lokomotiva Mostar from where he moved to FK Velež Mostar in summer 1987.[1] He played with Velež between 1987 and 1992 in the Yugoslav First League.[2] With the beginning of the war, he moved abroad where he played one season with Apollon Smyrni F.C. in the Greek top league. After that season, he moved to FR Yugoslavia where he played with Montenegrin club FK Sutjeska Nikšić in the First League, and with several other clubs in other leagues, namely, Serbian clubs FK Čukarički Stankom, FK Jedinstvo Paraćin and FK Palilulac Beograd. By the end of the 1990s he also played in Sweden with Vasalunds IF and in Finland with TPV Tampere before returning to Bosnia and Herzegovina to play with FK Leotar finishing his career as a coach and player of FK Velež Mostar in 2005.

It was in 2005 that Pudar obtained the level A UEFA licence for coaching, after graduating in Belgrade's Higher School for Football. After early coaching experiences while still playing with FK Leotar and FK Velež Mostar, he also coached NK Bratstvo Gračanica in the 2008-2009 season.

References

  1. Book: "Rođeni - Prvoligaške generacije 1952 - 1991" by Zoran Mrđenović, pag. 39 (Serbian)
  2. Playerhistory.com

External sources