Vladimir Durković (

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 ...

: Владимир Дурковић; 6 November 1937 – 22 June 1972) was a

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n football defender. He was part of the Yugoslav squad that won gold at the

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Career

Club career

Durković played with

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 ...

until he was 28 at which point he moved abroad and made a name for himself with AS Saint-Étienne, winning three French League titles and the

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twice.

International career

Capped 50 times by Yugoslavia between 1959 and 1966, Durković excelled as a 22-year-old at the first

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, offering defensive solidity and attacking penetration at right-back. Although Yugoslavia finished second in

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, Durković won a gold medal at the

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the following September. He also wore the number two shirt at the

1962 FIFA World Cup The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held from 30 May to 17 June 1962 in Chile. The qualification rounds took place be ...

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and was an ever-present as Yugoslavia eliminated former winners

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and

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and finished fourth.

Death

He died when mistakenly shot by a policeman in Sion, Switzerland in June 1972 at the age of 34.

Honours

;Red Star Belgrade *

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First Federal Football League ( Serbian: Прва савезна лига у фудбалу / ''Prva savezna liga u fudbalu'', hr, Prva savezna liga u nogometu, sl, Prva zvezna nogometna liga, mk, Прва сојузна лига, ...

: 1955–56, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1963–64 *

Yugoslav Cup The Yugoslav Cup ( hr, Pokal Jugoslavije; sr, Куп Југославије; sl, Pokal Jugoslavije, mk, Куп на Југославија), officially known between 1923 and 1940 as the King Alexander Cup ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, Kup kralja Aleksandra, ...

: 1957–58, 1958–59, 1963–64 *

Mitropa Cup The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale or Central European Cup, was one of the first international major European football cups for club sides. It was conducted among the successor states of the former Austria-Hunga ...

: 1958 ;AS Saint-Etienne * Ligue 1: 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70 *

: 1967–68, 1969–70 ;Yugoslavia *

: runner-up

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* Olympic gold medalist in

;Individual * UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1960

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