Predrag Mijatović ( sr-cyrl, Предраг Мијатовић; born 19 January 1969) is a Montenegrin
football
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administrator and former player who played as a
striker.
At club level, Mijatović played for six clubs:
Budućnost,
Partizan,
Valencia
Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (r ...
,
Real Madrid
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,
Fiorentina
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and
Levante. Internationally, he played for
FR Yugoslavia
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at the
1998 FIFA World Cup
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and at the
UEFA Euro 2000
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The finals tournament was ...
. During his career at Real Madrid he was widely considered as one of the best strikers in the world.
Mijatović scored 28 goals in the
1995–96 La Liga
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Team information
Clubs and locations
Notes
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season for
Valencia
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, which prompted a move to
Real Madrid
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, where he scored a goal in the
1998 UEFA Champions League final
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which ensured Madrid's first European Cup in 32 years. In 1997, Mijatović was named runner-up for the
Ballon d'Or
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Conceived ...
, behind
Ronaldo and ahead of
Zinedine Zidane
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. After his playing career, he served as
director of football
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for Real Madrid from 2006 to 2009.
Club career
Budućnost
From the
1987–88 season, Mijatović became a regular at
Budućnost under new head coach
Stanko Poklepović
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Poklepović managed a number of teams over 46 years, ...
. In October 1987, he was a member of the Yugoslav youth squad which competed in and won the
1987 FIFA World Youth Championship
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in Chile. Upon his return to Budućnost, Mijatović's spot on the squad was now cemented alongside
Dejan Savićević
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,
Dragoljub Brnović and
Branko Brnović, who also represented Yugoslavia in Chile. Mijatović made 31 league appearances and contributed four goals as Budućnost finished the season in ninth position.
During the winter of 1989–90, Mijatović nearly signed with
Hajduk Split after negotiating with Hajduk's sporting director
Jurica Jerković
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, with even a
DM50,000 pre-contract payment given to the player.
However,
Partizan club president
Mirko Marjanović stepped in and convinced Mijatović to join the
Belgrade
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-based club instead. In December 1989, Partizan ultimately paid a DM1 million transfer fee to Budućnost for Mijatović. This was at time the highest transfer within the Yugoslav league.
In later interviews, Mijatović said a deteriorating political and security situation in Yugoslavia was a factor in his decision not to join the Croatian club Hajduk.
Partizan
Though he scored on his Partizan debut against his former club Budućnost, Mijatović's debut half season in the new club under head coach
Ivan Golac was mostly spent settling into the new surroundings. He failed to score in his following 14 league appearances until the end of the
1989–90 league season.
However, Mijatović continued improving, becoming the squad's undisputed leader during
1991–92 season under head coach
Ivica Osim
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, and leading Partizan to the 1992 Yugoslav Cup title over reigning
European Cup
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champions
Red Star Belgrade
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. He was also named Yugoslav Footballer of the Year award en route.
At Partizan, Mijatović had been linked with various top European sides, which included
Juventus
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. He joined
Valencia
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in the summer of 1993.
[
]
Valencia
Mijatović made his Valencia debut on 5 September 1993 against Real Oviedo. He won the Spanish Footballer of the Year award in the 1995–96 season, having scored 28 goals in 40 La Liga
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matches.[ As the second best goal-scorer in the league, he was the runner-up for the ]Pichichi Trophy
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, second only to Juan Antonio Pizzi. Mijatović's contributions helped Valencia finish in second place behind Atlético Madrid
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that season.
Real Madrid
On 13 February 1996, Mijatović signed an advanced contract with Real Madrid
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mandating that he join the club from Valencia in the summer of 1996. The deal was confirmed a month later when the club met his buyout clause with a transfer fee of Pts. 1.486 billion. Former Yugoslavia teammate Davor Šuker
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, as well as Clarence Seedorf
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and Roberto Carlos, also joined Real Madrid in the summer 1996 transfer window. Coach Fabio Capello
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As a player, Capello represented SPAL, AS Roma, Roma, AC Milan and Juventus FC, Juventus. H ...
often deployed Mijatović in a strike tandem with Šuker, reviving their partnership from their time in Yugoslavia's youth team at the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship. Over the course of the 1996–97 La Liga season, Mijatović scored a total of 14 goals; he scored one goal in Real Madrid's 2–0 victory over Barcelona
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the '' El Clásico'' on 7 December 1996, escaping from Miguel Ángel Nadal and Laurent Blanc
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before lifting the ball over Vítor Baía
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One of the most decorated goalkeepers of all time, his career was intimately connected with FC Porto, which h ...
to score. By the end of the season, Real Madrid were first in La Liga and also claimed the 1997 Supercopa de España over Barcelona
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.
On 20 May 1998, Mijatović scored the winning goal in Real Madrid's 1–0 victory over Juventus
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in the 1998 UEFA Champions League final
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.[ This was Real Madrid's first ]UEFA Champions League
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title after 32 years. The following season was Mijatović's final season with ''Los Blancos''; at the end of the season, the 30-year-old Mijatović was sold to Italian Serie A
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club Fiorentina
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.
Fiorentina
On 28 June 1999, Mijatović signed a three-year contract with Fiorentina
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for 17 billion Italian lire. His earliest performances at Fiorentina were promising; despite Fiorentina's attacking depth with the likes of Gabriel Batistuta
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, coach Giovanni Trapattoni
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initially chose Mijatović as a starter. On 26 July 1999, Mijatović scored the opening goal in Fiorentina's 4–0 victory over Aston Villa
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in the Gotham Cup finals in New York City
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, a pre-season exhibition tournament. He played at Fiorentina for two seasons, scoring four goals within the Serie A, and added a Coppa Italia
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Juventus is the competition's most successf ...
title to his honours. Additionally, he featured in Fiorentina's 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League
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campaign, which resulted in a third-place finish in Group B of the second group stage behind Manchester United
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and former club Valencia
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.
Levante
Mijatović joined Levante UD
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Founded on 6 September 1909, the club will compete in La Liga for the 2025– ...
in the summer of 2002. He played there for one season, after which Levante finished in fourth place in the Segunda División 2002–03 season. He subsequently retired from professional football after struggling with lingering injuries.
International career
Mijatović was included in Yugoslavia's squad for the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship
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, winning the tournament.
Mijatović made his senior debut for Yugoslavia national football team
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Although the team mainly represented the pre-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the post-war SFR Yugoslavia, various iterations of the state ...
in an August 1989 friendly match
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against Finland
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. He was also called by the main team to UEFA Euro 1992
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Denmark won the 1992 championship, having been inv ...
, but the nation would be suspended due to the Yugoslav Wars
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.
1998 FIFA World Cup
Mijatović was the top scorer for the FR Yugoslavia national football team during the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification
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. Seven of his 14 goals came in the play-off
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tie against Hungary
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, as Yugoslavia won 12–1 on aggregate to qualify for the final tournament.
Mijatović was one of the key players for FR Yugoslavia in the 1998 FIFA World Cup
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, appearing in all four of his team's games and scoring a goal in a 2–2 draw against Germany
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in the group stage. He however missed a penalty in the match versus the Netherlands
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in the round of 16, eventually losing 2–1.
UEFA Euro 2000
Mijatović played for FR Yugoslavia at UEFA Euro 2000
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The finals tournament was ...
, appearing in all games as the team exited in the quarter-finals following a 6–1 loss to the Netherlands.
Mijatović has earned a total of 73 international caps, scoring 27 goals. His final international game was a June 2003 European Championship qualification match against Azerbaijan
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.
Post-playing career
After retiring in 2004, Mijatović continued living in the city of Valencia
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and soon became a player agent.
In 2006, Mijatović became Real Madrid's director of football
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, serving in the position for three seasons under the leadership of Ramón Calderón as club president. During this time, Mijatovic signed important players in Real Madrid's history such as Fabio Cannavaro
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, Ruud van Nistelrooy
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, Marcelo
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, Gonzalo Higuaín and Pepe.
Through his friendship with Anzhi Makhachkala general manager German Chistyakov, Mijatović was reportedly part of the three-man delegation (the other two were Anzhi's transfer man German Tkachenko and Serbian player agent Vlado Lemić) the Russian club deployed to Milan
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on 9 August 2011 for initial negotiations with Internazionale (represented by sporting director Marco Branca and vice-president Rinaldo Ghelfi) over the transfer of striker Samuel Eto'o
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.
In October 2024, Mijatović was appointed vice president of FK Partizan
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under president Rasim Ljajić
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A prominent Bosniak politician from Novi Pazar and president of Social D ...
.
Personal life
Born in Titograd
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(now Podgorica), Mijatović grew up in the Masline neighbourhood. He is married to Aneta Milićević.
On 3 June 2009, the official website of Real Madrid stated that Mijatović's son Andrej, aged 15, died after a long illness, and offered its "deepest sympathies on behalf of the entire club and its members".
Career statistics
Club
International
:''Scores and results list Yugoslavia's and Serbia and Montenegro's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Mijatović 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) ...
: 1992–93
*Yugoslav Cup
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: 1991–92
Real Madrid[
*]La Liga
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: 1996–97
*Supercopa de España
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: 1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
*UEFA Champions League
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: 1997–98
* Intercontinental Cup: 1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
Fiorentina
*Coppa Italia
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Juventus is the competition's most successf ...
: 2000–01
Yugoslavia
* FIFA U-20 World Cup
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: 1987
Events January
* January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency.
* January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade.
* January 3 – Afghan leader ...
* UEFA European Under-21 Championship
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runner-up: 1990
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Individual
Awards
* FR Yugoslavia Player of the Year: 1992, 1993, 1998
* La Liga Best Foreign Player: 1995–96
*Ballon d'Or
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Conceived ...
: Runner-up 1997
Events January
* January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States.
* January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis.
* January 1 ...
* ADN Eastern European Footballer of the Season: 1997
Notes
References
External links
*
Real Madrid profile
*
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1969 births
Living people
Footballers from Podgorica
Cuce
Men's association football forwards
Yugoslav men's footballers
Yugoslavia men's international footballers
Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers
Serbia and Montenegro men's international footballers
1998 FIFA World Cup players
UEFA Euro 2000 players
UEFA Champions League–winning players
FK Budućnost Podgorica players
FK Partizan players
Valencia CF players
Real Madrid CF players
ACF Fiorentina players
Levante UD footballers
Yugoslav First League players
La Liga players
Serie A players
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Association football agents
Real Madrid CF non-playing staff