Goran Milojević (; born 6 December 1964) is a Serbian retired

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who played as an

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Club career

Milojević was born in

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. In his country he represented both major clubs,

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and

FK Partizan Fudbalski klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Партизан, ; en, Partizan Football Club), sometimes known as Partizan Belgrade in English, is a Serbia, Serbian professional football club (association football), football ...

, winning the 1988–89 Yugoslav Cup with the latter and scoring in the final against

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, a 6–1 win. After one season with

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where he was relegated from the French

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, Milojević moved to Spain where he would spend the better part of his remaining career. He started out at

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, then moved after a couple of months to

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team

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, immediately making an impact although his nine goals (a squad-best) in five months were not enough to prevent relegation, as last. Milojević then registered an impressive average of 19 goals per campaign in the

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, although Mallorca never promoted in those three years. He returned to the top flight in 1995 with

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, then re-joined former side Mérida in the second level, appearing rarely as they promoted to division one for the second time in their history. After splitting 1997–98 with two teams, one of them

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, Milojević called it quits at nearly 34. In the beginning of the following decade he took up coaching, managing

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also taking charge of Spanish side

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, who rose from the ashes of his previous club, folded. In December 2009, Milojević became head coach of MFK Košice of

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International career

Whilst at Partizan, Milojević collected two

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for

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. He was, however, overlooked for the squad selected for the

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in Italy. He was now appointed as the head coach for the Philippines national team for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

Personal life

His brother Vladan was also a footballer and so was Goran's son Stefan.

References

External links

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Soccer Mallorca profile

National team data
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Goran Milojevic
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