Jovo Mišeljić (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (, ), also known as the Serbian script, (, ), is a standardized variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language. It originated in medieval Serbia and was significantly reformed in the 19th cen ...

: Јово Мишељић; 15 October 1967 – 17 May 2023) was a Bosnian

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er who played as a

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Career

After starting to play with his home city club

FK Leotar FK Leotar ( sr-cyrl, ФК Леотар), commonly known as Leotar Trebinje or simply Leotar, is a professional football club based in the city of Trebinje that is situated in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Founded in 1925 and named after the mou ...

still in the

Yugoslav Second League Yugoslav Second League ( Bosnian: ''Druga savezna liga,'' Croatian: ''Druga savezna liga'', Serbian: ''Друга савезна лига'', Slovenian: ''Druga zvezna liga'', Macedonian: ''Втора сојузна лига'', ''Vtora sojuzna l ...

, with the beginning of the

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he moved to Serbia where he played three solid seasons with

FK Radnički Niš FK Radnički Niš () is a professional football club based in Niš, Serbia. The club competes in the Serbian SuperLiga, the top tier of Serbian football. One of the most successful clubs in the former Yugoslavia, the club spent a total of 29 ...

. In 1995, after a short spell in Spain with

CD Badajoz Club Deportivo Badajoz is a Spanish football team based in Badajoz, in the autonomous community of Extremadura. Founded in 1905, it currently plays in , and holds home games at '' Estadio Nuevo Vivero'', with a 15,198-seat capacity. History Fo ...

, he moved to Cyprus to play with

Aris Limassol FC Aris Limassol (Greek: ''Άρης Λεμεσού'') is a professional Cypriot football club based in Limassol and one of the founder members of Cyprus Football Association. The club's colours are green, black and white, and their home is the A ...

where he played three seasons and then transferring to

Apollon Limassol FC Apollon Limassol FC (, ''Apollon Lemesou'') is a Cyprus, Cypriot sports club, based in Limassol. It has Association football, football, Apollon Limassol B.C., basketball and volleyball teams. Founded in 1954, Apollon FC currently plays in the Cyp ...

. Afterwards he moved to Greece to play for one season with

Athinaikos F.C. Athinaikos, officially known as Athinaikos AS FC (Greek: Αθηναϊκός Αθλητικός Σύλλογος - Athinaikos Athlitikos Syllogos), the ''Athenaic Athletic Association'', is a Greek football club based in the suburban town of Vyr ...

In 2000, he returned to Serbia and signed with

FK Proleter Zrenjanin FK Proleter Zrenjanin () is a defunct football club based in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, Serbia. History The club was founded on 27 June 1947 by the merger of three local rivals. Their first notable result was reaching the quarter-finals of the 1951 ...

, but shortly after one season returned to Radnički Niš. He also played a half season as a loaned player with his first club, FK Leotar, before finishing in a lower league

OFK Niš OFK Niš () is a football club based in Niš, Serbia. They compete in the Zone League Centre, the fourth tier of the national league system. History Founded in 1969, the club made its Second League of FR Yugoslavia debut in the 1999–2000 seaso ...

Personal life and death

Mišeljić resided in Cyprus where he occasionally played non-league football, as well as coached smaller category teams and the youth teams of Aris Limassol. Mišeljić died on 17 May 2023, at the age of 55.

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* at Srbijafudbal * 1967 births 2023 deaths Footballers from Trebinje Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Men's association football forwards Yugoslav men's footballers Bosnia and Herzegovina men's footballers FK Leotar players FK Radnički Niš players CD Badajoz players Aris Limassol FC players Apollon Limassol FC players Athinaikos F.C. players FK Proleter Zrenjanin players OFK Niš players Yugoslav Second League players First League of Serbia and Montenegro players Segunda División players Cypriot First Division players Football League (Greece) players Second League of Serbia and Montenegro players Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina players Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia and Montenegro Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Serbia and Montenegro Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate sportspeople in Greece {{BosniaHerzegovina-footy-forward-stub