Nikola Radmanović (; 1 March 1969 – 21 July 2022) was a Serbian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

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Playing career

Born in

Velika Gata Velika Gata ( sr-cyrl, Велика Гата) is a village in the municipality of Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situat ...

, a village near

Bihać Bihać is a city and the administrative centre of Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated on the banks of river Una (Sava), Una in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in th ...

, Radmanović spent two seasons with Vrbas from 1988 to 1990. He later played for

Bečej Bečej (, ; , ) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 19,492, while the municipality has 30,681 inhabitants. History Bečej was mentioned f ...

in the

1991–92 Yugoslav Second League The Second League of Yugoslavia's 1991/1992 season was the last in which teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia participated, as well as the last of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in general as the Second League of FR Yugos ...

, winning the competition and promotion to the top flight. In the summer of 1992, Radmanović was transferred to

Red Star Belgrade Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...

. He spent the next four seasons with the club and won four major trophies. In the summer of 1996, Radmanović moved abroad to Spanish club Mérida, as the team would finish in first place in the

1996–97 Segunda División The 1996–97 Segunda División season saw 20 teams participate in the second flight Spanish league. CP Mérida, UD Salamanca and RCD Mallorca were promoted to Primera División. Almería CF, Real Madrid B, Barcelona B and Écija were relegate ...

Post-playing career

After hanging up his boots, Radmanović served as an assistant to

Vladimir Petrović Vladimir Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Владимир Петровић, ; born 1 July 1955) is a Serbian football manager and former player. He is widely known domestically by his nickname Pižon (), after the French for ''pigeon''. Club career Dur ...

at Red Star Belgrade between 2009 and 2010.

Honours

Bečej *

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 ...

: 1991–92 Red Star Belgrade *

First League of FR Yugoslavia The First League of Serbia and Montenegro () was the top football league of Serbia and Montenegro, before the country's dissolution in 2006. The league was formed as the First League of FR Yugoslavia following the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1992, ef ...

: 1994–95 *

FR Yugoslavia Cup The Serbia and Montenegro Cup was an association football knockout cup tournament of Serbia and Montenegro played between 1992 and 2006, after which Serbia and Montenegro became separate nations. The competition was the continuation of the old ...

: 1992–93, 1994–95, 1995–96 Mérida *

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spa ...

: 1996–97

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Radmanovic, Nikola 1969 births 2022 deaths Footballers from Bihać Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Men's association football midfielders Yugoslav men's footballers Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers FK Vrbas players OFK Bečej 1918 players Red Star Belgrade footballers CP Mérida footballers FK Spartak Subotica players Yugoslav Second League players First League of Serbia and Montenegro players Segunda División players Serbia and Montenegro expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Spain Red Star Belgrade non-playing staff