Danilo Popivoda ( sr-cyr, Данило Попивода; 1 May 1947 – 9 September 2021) was a

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

player and manager. On the international level he played for the Yugoslavia national team (20 matches and five goals) and was a participant at the

1974 FIFA World Cup The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the ...

. He also participated at the

UEFA Euro 1976 The 1976 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Yugoslavia. This was the fifth UEFA European Championship, held every four years and endorsed by UEFA. The final tournament took place between 16 and 20 June 1976. Only f ...

, where he scored a goal in a match against

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 ...

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1947 births 2021 deaths People from North Bačka District Sportspeople from Vojvodina Yugoslav footballers Men's association football forwards Men's association football wingers Yugoslavia men's international footballers 1974 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 1976 players NK Olimpija Ljubljana (1945–2005) players Eintracht Braunschweig players Yugoslav First League players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players Yugoslav expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in West Germany Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in West Germany Slovenian people of Serbian descent Slovenian football managers NK Ljubljana managers {{Slovenia-footy-bio-stub