Slaviša Đurković (; 18 August 1968 – 10 June 2025) was a Montenegrin
footballer
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who played as a
defender.
Career
Đurković played in the juvenile ranks of
Sutjeska Nikšić and featured in the
Yugoslavia U20 national team that won the title at the
1987 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Chile from 10 to 25 October 1987. The 1987 championship was the 6th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship and won for the first time by Yugoslavia. Remarkably, in the course of the tourn ...
. He stayed at Second league team Sutjeska where his career did not prosper with the start of the
Yugoslav Wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related#Naimark, Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and Insurgency, insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Federal Republic of ...
. Đurković joined
Leotar and had spells with
Jedinstvo and
Budućnost.
Đurković started coaching ''FC Polet Stars'' and later he became the coach of Sutjeska Nikšić's youth academy. In 2011 he and former youth World Cup teammate
Ranko Zirojević were denied a pension for their sport-achievements by the Montenegrin authorities. In August 2011 he joined the UEFA A-license course for trainers.
Death
Đurković died in Nikšić on 10 June 2025, at the age of 56.
Туга обавила Никшић! Преминуо Славиша Ђурковић!
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1968 births
2025 deaths
Men's association football defenders
Yugoslav men's footballers
Montenegrin men's footballers
Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers
FK Sutjeska Nikšić players
FK Leotar players
FK Budućnost Valjevo players
Yugoslav First League players
Yugoslav Second League players
Second League of Serbia and Montenegro players
Yugoslavia men's under-21 international footballers