Milorad Arsenijević ( sr-cyr, Милорад Арсенијевић; 6 June 1906 – 18 March 1987) was a
Serbia
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football
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player and manager. He was part of Yugoslavia's team at the
1928 Summer Olympics
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.
Playing career
Club
He was born in
Smederevo
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and grew up in
Šabac
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. He started playing for the youth squad of the local team,
FK Mačva Šabac, when he was 14 years old and later debuted for the main squad. After graduating highschool, he moved to Belgrade to continue his studies. He joined
BSK Belgrade, one of the dominant clubs of Yugoslav football at the time, where he would spend the rest of his career as one of their main defenders.
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International
He earned 52 caps for the
Yugoslavia national football team
The Yugoslavia national football team; ; ; represented Yugoslavia in international association football.
Although the team mainly represented the pre-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the post-war SFR Yugoslavia, various iterations of the state ...
, including at the
1930 FIFA World Cup
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. His final international was a December 1936
friendly match
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away against
France
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.
Managerial career
After retiring as a player, he managed Yugoslavia in the
1950 FIFA World Cup
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and coached for a long period at lower-league Belgrade club
FK Železničar Beograd. He died in 1987 in Belgrade.
References
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1906 births
1987 deaths
Footballers from Smederevo
Men's association football defenders
Yugoslav men's footballers
Yugoslavia men's international footballers
1930 FIFA World Cup players
Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia
Footballers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
FK Mačva Šabac players
OFK Beograd players
Yugoslav First League players
Yugoslav football managers
1950 FIFA World Cup managers
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