Stevan Milovac (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, t ...

: Стеван Миловац; born 25 February 1962) is a

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n-Portuguese retired

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who played as a

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. His daughter Tamara Milovac is a Portuguese-Serbian basketball player.

Football career

Milovac was born in

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. In his country he represented

FK Novi Sad RFK Novi Sad 1921 (Serbian Cyrillic: РФК Нови Сад 1921) is a professional football club from Novi Sad, Serbia. The club is currently playing in the Serbian First League. History The club was founded in 1921 with the name NTK (Novosadsk ...

(second division) and

FK Vojvodina Fudbalski klub Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Војводина), commonly known as Vojvodina and colloquially as Voša ( sr-Cyrl, Воша), is a Serbian professional football club based in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, the second l ...

, helping the latter win the

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in the 1988–89 season. In January 1990, aged 28, Milovac was allowed to leave the country and signed for S.C. Salgueiros in

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, helping to promotion to the Primeira Liga in his first season. In the following campaign the Paranhos side overachieved for a final fifth place, with the subsequent

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to the

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– a first-ever– with the player scoring three goals in 36 games; in five of his seven-and-a-half years with the club, he shared teams with countrymen

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and

Jovica Nikolić Jovica Nikolić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Јовица Николић; born 11 July 1959) is a Serbian retired footballer who played as a central midfielder, and a manager. Club career Nikolić was born in Svetozarevo, Socialist Federal Republic of ...

. After 1996–97, with Salgueiros nearly qualifying for

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after finishing in sixth position, 35-year-old Milovac retired from football, having appeared in nearly 250 official matches for Salgueiros.

Personal life

Milovac married Andja, with the couple having one son, Stefan. After ending his football career he settled in Portugal, owning and running a restaurant in Faro.Portugalska Crna Gora (Portuguese Black Forest)
Blic, 24 November 2010 (in Serbian)

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* * 1962 births Living people FK Vojvodina players Footballers from Novi Sad Men's association football midfielders Liga Portugal 2 players Portuguese people of Serbian descent Primeira Liga players RFK Novi Sad 1921 players S.C. Salgueiros players Serbian expatriate men's footballers Serbian men's footballers Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav men's footballers {{Serbia-footy-midfielder-stub