Stevan Stojanović ( sr-cyr, Стеван Стојановић; born 29 October 1964) is a retired Serbian

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best known for captaining

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club, ), commonly known as Red Star Belgrade in English-language media, is a Serbian professional football club based in Bel ...

side which won the

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Club career

He came through Red Star's youth ranks. He spent a couple of seasons as a substitute to Yugoslav internationals like

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and

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before debuting in the 1986-87 season. He participated in Red Star's 4–2 win over

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in European Cup quarter-finals and stopped a

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's penalty kick in Belgrade. He quickly became a fans' favourite and was nicknamed ''Mali Dika'' (Little Dika) or ''Mladi Dika'' (Young Dika) after Red Star's goalkeeper from late seventies and early eighties,

Aleksandar Stojanović Aleksandar "Dika" Stojanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Стојановић Дика; born 19 June 1954) is a Serbian former football goalkeeper. He got 2 caps for Yugoslavia. Career After playing 5 seasons with his home town cl ...

(no family relationship to another Dika). He won his first Yugoslav title with Red Star in the 1987-88 season and repeated it by winning a national double in 1989-90. A few days before a crucial 1/8 finals UEFA Cup against

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, Stojanović broke his arm during practice. Although Red Star had a comfortable 2–0 advantage from the first match in Belgrade (in which Stojanović was the best player alongside Dejan Savićević), the side fell apart at Müngersdorfer Stadion and conceded two late goals before losing 3–2 on aggregate. After the departure of Red Star's captain Dragan Stojković in the summer of 1990, Stojanović was voted team captain and led his team mates to Red Star's first and only

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title in 1990–91. He missed only one game and bailed out his team mates on many occasions during the campaign. In a nerve-wracking semi-final against

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he conceded a memorable goal from

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right through the legs, which turned the momentum in Bayern's favour. However, he blocked several difficult shots before Augenthaler scored an infamous own goal in injury time, which sent Red Star to

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, to participate in the finals against

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. Again, there was no glamour from Red Star's Savićević or Prosinečki, it was Stojanović who stole the show during 120 minutes and especially in the penalty shootout, when he stopped Manuel Amoros's shot, which resulted in

triumphing 5–3 on penalties. Stojanović also became the first goalkeeper to captain a Champions' Cup winning team. Later he played for Belgium's Royal Antwerp and made an appearance at the

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against

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International career

He was called up several times for

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, but was not chosen for a competitive A team game. He played for Under 21 and Olympic teams.

Personal life

His son, Marko, is also a footballer.

Honours

;Red Star Belgrade * Yugoslav First League: 1987–88, 1989–90, 1990–91 * Yugoslav Cup: 1989–90 *

: 1990–91 ;Royal Antwerp * Belgian Cup: 1991–92 * UEFA Cup Winners' Cup:

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( runners-up)

References

External links

Profile at Royal AntwerpTapi mi je nudio veliki novac da primim gol u Bariju
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