Ljubomir Radanović ( Cyrillic: Љубомир Радановић; born 21 July 1960) is a former Yugoslav and Montenegrin

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who played as a defender.

Club career

After starting out with

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in the

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, Radanović moved to

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club

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in the 1981–82 season. He spent the following seven years at the Stadion JNA, collecting a total of 172 league appearances and scoring 15 goals. After leaving his homeland, Radanović would go on to play for

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in Belgium,

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in France, and

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in Switzerland.

International career

At international level, Radanović earned 34 caps and scored three goals for

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between 1983 and 1988. He is best remembered for scoring a dramatic stoppage-time goal to give his country a decisive 3–2

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victory over

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on 21 December 1983. Additionally, Radanović was a member of the Yugoslav team that won the bronze medal at the

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. His final international was an October 1988 FIFA World Cup qualification match away against

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Statistics

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Yugoslavia's goal tally first.''

Honours

;Partizan *

: 1982–83, 1985–86, 1986–87

References

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