Dobrosav Krstić (; 5 February 1932 – 3 May 2015) was a Yugoslav and Serbian

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manager and player.

Career

Krstić played with

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( ; sr-Cyrl, Војводина, ), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an Autonomous administrative division, autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe. It lies withi ...

for over a decade (1951–1962), collecting 194 appearances and scoring 23 goals in the

Yugoslav First League The Yugoslav First League ( Bosnian: Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, sr-Cyrl-Latn, Прва савезна лига у фудбалу, Prva savezna liga u fudbalu, , , , , ) was the premier football league in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918–1941) ...

. He subsequently moved abroad to France and joined

Sochaux Sochaux () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Geography Sochaux lies east of Montbéliard, and southeast of Paris. Population Inhabitants are known as ''Sochaliens''. Economy ...

, spending the next four seasons at the club. After a brief spell at

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, Krstić retired from the game. At international level, Krstić was capped 30 times for

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between 1955 and 1960, while scoring once. He was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the

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, but also represented the country at the

1958 FIFA World Cup The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the 6th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first and only FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Br ...

. His final international was an October 1960

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away against

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. After hanging up his boots, Krstić served as manager of Sochaux from 1967 to 1969. He died in May 2015.

Honours

;Yugoslavia *

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: Silver Medal

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

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