Dragan Jovanović (; 29 September 1903 – 2 June 1936) was a Serbian and Yugoslav

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forward and later manager.

Club career

Jovanović was a right wing forward and is remembered as one of the best strikers in Yugoslav football in the 1920s. He spent his whole playing career at

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. He appeared in a total of 252 official games and scored 331 goals for the club, becoming the best all-time scorer for the club. He was part of the squad that won the 1924 and 1925 Yugoslav Championships, and in 1923, 1924 and 1925 he was the Yugoslav championship top scorer. He was nicknamed "Žena" and he later became SK Jugoslavija´s coach, after the departure of Austrian manager Johann Strnad.

International career

Between 1923 and 1928 Jovanović also played for

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. He debuted on 28 October 1923 against

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and scored 2 goals in the game which eventually ended in a 4–4 draw. His last game for the national team was on 7 October 1928, also against Czechoslovakia, when Yugoslavia took a 1–7 beating. He retired from football still in his twenties and served as SK Jugoslavija club secretary and the chairman of the club's football section. In 1936 he was killed in a car accident on

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Honours

* Yugoslav Championship: 1924, 1925 * Yugoslav Championship top scorer: 1923, 1924, 1925

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jovanovic, Dragan 1903 births 1936 deaths Footballers from Belgrade Men's association football forwards Yugoslav men's footballers Yugoslavia men's international footballers Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics SK Jugoslavija players Yugoslav First League players Yugoslav football managers SK Jugoslavija managers Road incident deaths in Yugoslavia Road incident deaths in Serbia