Sabahudin "Saša" Vugdalić (born 16 January 1953) is a Bosnian sports journalist and former
football
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goalkeeper who played for clubs in the former Yugoslavia and Turkey.
Club career
Born in
Srebrenica, Vugdalić started playing professional football for local side
FK Famos Hrasnica. He would play in the
Yugoslav Second League for
FK Bor and
NK Rudar Velenje
Nogometni klub Rudar Velenje ( en, Rudar Velenje Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Rudar Velenje or simply Rudar Velenje, is a Slovenian football club from Velenje which competes in the Slovenian Second League.
History
The club was fo ...
, before joining
Yugoslav First League side
NK Olimpija Ljubljana
In 1981, Vugdalić moved to Turkey, joining
Süper Lig side
Gaziantepspor. He made 20 league appearances in one season with the club.
He will then return to Yugoslavia and finish his career by playing in Second League with
FK Napredak Kruševac in 1983–84.
Stats from Yugoslav firsta nd Second League
at zerodic.com
After retiring from playing, Vugdalić became a sports journalist, working for Sarajevo-based Televizija OBN.
Personal life
Vugdalić earned fame for executing a series of dangerous rescues. At age 17, he jumped off a bridge over the Drina to save a drowning 11-year-old. Two years later, he rescued a mother and daughter from a car that had crashed into a ravine in Ivan planina
Ivan planina ( sr, Иван планина; lit. Ivan Mountain) is a mountain near Hadžići, Konjic and Kreševo, in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ivan Mountain is part of Dinaric Alps. It is tall.
See also
*List of mountains in Bosnia and He ...
while he was on leave from military duty. Four years later, he saved a mother and her two children who were trapped in a burning vehicle while he was in Zurich.Slovenia international The Slovenian International in badminton is an international open held in Slovenia
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footballer, Muamer Vugdalić.
References
External links
EX YU Fudbalska Statistika po godinama
*
1953 births
Living people
People from Srebrenica
Association football goalkeepers
Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers
Yugoslav footballers
FK Famos Hrasnica players
NK Iskra Bugojno players
FK Bor players
HNK Rijeka players
NK Rudar Velenje players
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (1945–2005) players
Gaziantepspor footballers
FK Napredak Kruševac players
Yugoslav First League players
Süper Lig players
Yugoslav Second League players
Yugoslav expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Turkey
Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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