Abid Kovačević (born 1 July 1952) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian retired

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

. He was capped twice by

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

Club career

Kovačević played for

Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. Ethnikos Piraeus 1923 Football Club ( el, Εθνικός Πειραιώς 1923) is a Greek football club based in Piraeus and its parent sports club is Ethnikos OFPF. The club was officially formed in 1923 as ''Keravnos'' ( en, Lightning), but ...

in the

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from 1981–1984.

International career

He made his debut for

in a January 1977

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away against

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and has earned a total of 2 caps, scoring no goals. His second and final international was a friendly 9 days later against

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References

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Profile at Serbian federation official site
1952 births Living people People from Mrkonjić Grad Association football forwards Yugoslav footballers Yugoslavia international footballers FK Borac Banja Luka players GNK Dinamo Zagreb players Ethnikos Piraeus F.C. players Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav Second League players Super League Greece players Yugoslav expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Greece Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Greece {{BosniaHerzegovina-footy-forward-stub