Momčilo "Moca" Vukotić (

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: Moмчилo Моца Bукoтић; 2 June 19503 December 2021) was a Serbian

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coach and player. He played 14 times for his national team, Yugoslavia, between 1969 and 1974 scoring four goals. In his club career in

FK Partizan Fudbalski klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Партизан, ; ), often referred to in English as Partizan Belgrade, is a Serbian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Belgrade. It forms ...

, he appeared in a total of 752 games in all competitions and all age levels, scoring 306 goals. He won the Yugoslav Championship three times.

Playing career

Vukotić started playing for

in 1962, at the age of 12. He began his professional career as a player for

1968 Events January–February * January 1968, January – The I'm Backing Britain, I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. * January 5 – Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Cze ...

, he won his first Yugoslav Championship in

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and the second in

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. He also played for the Yugoslavia national team and participated in the European Championship in 1976, which was hosted in his country, where Yugoslavia finished fourth. In 1978, Vukotić transferred to the French side FC Bordeaux, where he played for one season, scoring eight goals in 36 games. The following year, he returned to Partizan, and won the Yugoslav Championship a third and last time in 1982–83. He finished his career as player in

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. He scored 33 goals in 138 games between 1980 and 1984.

Coaching career

Vukotić became a coach in 1988. From 1988 to 1999 he coached

, Panionios,

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, Nea Salamis Famagusta FC,

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. As a coach of the Cypriot team Ethnikos, the team finished in the fourth position in the Cypriot Championship, the best position that the club achieved in its history. He became the assistant coach of

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's staff, but failed to qualify to the

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, because of one point less than the second

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, Yugoslavia remained third. After Yugoslavia, he continued working as a national team coach, this time for

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and his team finished 4th in the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying, collecting eight points and some criticism began for Vukotić. The bad beginning for the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification where at the first five matches, Cyprus won only one point – and that in a home tie match against

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– was enough for him to resign as a coach. He has been in charge at FC Farul Constanța since January 2006. Under his guidance Farul reached the semi-finals of the

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, finished 7th in the Romanian First Division (then known as

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, now known as Liga 1) and most important reached the 3rd Round of the

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losing to

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(4–1 away and winning at home 1–0). This was the second entry in the European Cups for Farul. Several players from Farul accused Vukotić of using an ineffective defensive style. Vukotić main objective for the 2006–07 season was to qualify for Europe next year, but he was released early on into the season after some poor results. In October 2006, he became the head coach of

PAOK PAOK (, Πανθεσσαλονίκειος Αθλητικός Όμιλος Κωνσταντινοπολιτών, ''Panthessalonikeios Athlitikós Ómilos Constantinopoliton'', ''Pan-Thessalonian Athletic Club of Constantinopolitans''), commonly ...

, but got released in January 2007. In January 2011, he became the coach of

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. He was the director of the FK Partizan Academy from 2012 to 2015 and the president from 2015 to 2017.

Death

Vukotić died from

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on 3 December 2021, in

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Career statistics

:''Scores and results list Yugoslavia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Vukotić goal.''

Honours

Partizan *

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) ...

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References

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