Branislav "Bane" Sekulić (; 29 October 1906 – 24 September 1968) was a

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player and football manager.

Career

He began playing with the youth team of

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before moving to Dušanovac. Being only 15 he became senior and the youngest but also best player at Karađorđe Beograd where he moved from Dušanovac along his brother Dragutin. SK Soko Beograd brought him next but he only played with the youth team while with them. Next he was spotted by

SK Jugoslavija Sportski klub Jugoslavija ( en, Sport Club Yugoslavia), commonly known as SK Jugoslavija (Serbian Cyrillic: Cпортски клуб Југославија) was a Serbian football club from Belgrade. It was originally formed as SK Velika Srbija ( ...

where he joined a generation of players such as Marjanović, Dragićević, Luburić and Đurić, winning with them the

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and

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Yugoslav Championships. He was characterised for having an impressive physical condition and for being very offensive, great sprinter, and having great ability for a center, besides being the owner of a powerful shot. His speciality was the volley shot which was curiously considered to be elegant and soft but very efficient. His talent was soon spotted by foreign clubs and he moved to France and later Switzerland where he represented

SO Montpellier Montpellier Hérault Sport Club (), commonly referred to as Montpellier HSC or simply Montpellier, is a French professional football club based in the city of Montpellier in Occitanie. The original club was founded in 1919, while the current i ...

Club Français Club Français was a French association football club based in Paris which was founded in 1890. Club Français won the 1896 USFSA Football Championship and Coupe de France Final 1931. In 1900 the USFSA elected players from Club Français to ...

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and

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. When he returned to Yugoslavia he first joined

before moving to

SK Jedinstvo Beograd SK Jedinstvo Beograd () was a Serbian football club based in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. History Jedinstvo was formed on May 11, 1924Sportista, Belgrade 12 May 1924, page 4 by the merger of two Belgrade clubs, ''Vardar'' and ''Konkordija'', ...

. His healthy way of life allowed him to become one of the Yugoslav players with longest active playing career and to play with Jedinstvo in the championship until almost his 40s. He was part of the

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that reached the semi-finals of the

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. He coached

Cibalia Hrvatski nogometni klub Cibalia, commonly known as Cibalia Vinkovci or simply Cibalia, is a Croatian football club from the town of Vinkovci in eastern Croatia. Cibalia currently play in the Prva NL, Croatia's second tier league. Their stadium ...

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in Bel ...

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and

SC Young Fellows Juventus Sportclub Young Fellows Juventus is a professional Swiss football club based in Zürich. It was founded in 1992 following a merger between Young Fellows Zürich (established in 1903) and Società Calcistica Italiana Juventus Zurigo (1922). The t ...

Honours

Playing career: Club: ;SK Jugoslavija * Yugoslav Championship (2) **Champion:

National team: ;

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

*Semi-finals of the

References

External links

Career story
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