Dragan Miranović (

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: Драган Мирановић; 18 May 1956 – 19 March 2012) was a professional

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manager and player.

Playing career

Club

Miranović was born in

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, Vojvodina, Serbia, Yugoslavia. Miranović started playing football in his hometown, before joining Vojvodina's youth system. He later went on to spend 11 seasons with Spartak Subotica, making his Yugoslav First League debut in the 1986–87 campaign, before going abroad. After playing for two years with

SV Spittal SV Spittal/Drau is an Austrian association football club, based in Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia. The club founded in 1921 was promoted to the First League (II) in 1982 and won the championship of the 1983–84 season, however playing in the B ...

in Austria, Miranović moved to Ecuador and played for Valdez, before retiring from the game.

Managerial career

During his managerial career, Miranović worked at numerous South American clubs, including Olmedo (four times),

Deportivo Quito Sociedad Deportivo Quito is an Ecuadorian non-professional club football club based in Quito. For most of its existence, it competed in Serie A, the highest level of the Ecuadorian professional football league. And currently competes in the Seg ...

, El Nacional, Atlético Junior and

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(each twice), as well as

Barcelona SC Barcelona Sporting Club () is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil, known best for its professional football team. Internationally known as Barcelona de Ecuador, in Ecuador it is simply referred as Barcelona, El Idolo (BSC) or Barce. T ...

Independiente Santa Fe Club Independiente Santa Fe, known simply as Santa Fe, is a Colombian professional football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the El Campín stadium. Santa Fe is one of the th ...

Millonarios Millonarios Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the El Campín stadium. Millonarios was initially created in 1937 by students f ...

and

Deportivo Cuenca Club Deportivo Cuenca is an Ecuadorian football club based in Cuenca. They currently play in the Serie A, the top-flight football league in the country, and is one of two clubs from Cuenca to have played in the top-flight (the other being LDU ...

. He also led Peru at the

1995 South American U-20 Championship The South American Youth Championship 1995 was held in Cochabamba, La Paz and Santa Cruz, Bolivia. It also served as qualification for the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship. Teams The following teams entered the tournament: * * (host) * * ...

Death

On 19 March 2012, Miranović died in

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of a heart attack at the age of 55. A number of his former players expressed their sympathy and condolences to the family and friends, including Antonio Valencia and Claudio Pizarro.

Statistics

Manager

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Miranovic, Dragan 1956 births 2012 deaths Serbian people of Montenegrin descent Association football midfielders Yugoslav footballers FK Spartak Subotica players SV Spittal players Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Austria Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate footballers in Ecuador Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador Serbia and Montenegro football managers S.D. Quito managers C.D. El Nacional managers Barcelona S.C. managers C.D. Olmedo managers Independiente Santa Fe managers Atlético Junior managers Millonarios F.C. managers S.D. Aucas managers C.D. Cuenca managers Montenegrin football managers FK Spartak Subotica managers Serbian SuperLiga managers Serbia and Montenegro expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Ecuador Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador Expatriate football managers in Peru Expatriate football managers in Bolivia Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Bolivia Expatriate football managers in Colombia Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Colombia