Srebrenko Repčić ( sr-cyr, Cpeбpeнкo Peпчић; born 1 December 1954) is a

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and former

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. He made his name while playing as an attacking midfielder for

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in partnership with likes of

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, and Radomir Savić.

Club career

Repčić started playing as senior with FK Borac Šamac having only 15 years and he also played for FK Sloga Doboj before moving to FK

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. He finished off his playing days with stints with Fenerbahçe (103 matches and 31 goals) in Turkey between 1983 and 1985,

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in Belgium and France with

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. He earned one cap for the Yugoslavia national team. Alter impressing at

, where he led the club's scoring charts for four seasons, Repčić, together with Radomir Savić, made a transfer 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 ...

in the summer of 1979. In his first season in

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(1979–80), he scored 7 league goals in 33 appearances. He also had a memorable showing in that season's

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round-of-16 second leg match versus Bayern Munich. Red Star was 2–0 down after the first leg in

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, but led 3–0 in the 50th minute of the return leg at '' Marakana'' courtesy of Repčić double and another goal by "Pižon" Petrović. They could not hold on as Germans countered with two quick goals for 3–2 on the night that spelled painful exit for Red Star. Repčić moved on from Red Star Belgrade in the summer of 1983.

International career

He made one senior appearance for

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, coming on as a second-half substitute for

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in a March 1980

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against

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Managerial career

After he wrapped up his career as a player, Repčić tried his hand at coaching. He worked at a French club Levallois Sporting Club Football. During the 1996–97 season, he coached

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who was 18 at the time.

Personal life

Repčić's son Vedran became involved in organized crime at an early age and served ten years in prison for his involvement in a robbery and murder committed in 1998. After Vedran's release from prison, an attempt on his life was made in November 2015. He survived the shooting, but suffered irreparable damages (a fragment of one of the bullets was embedded in his skull). In November 2020, he was the victim of a second assassination attempt - this time, an unidentified man shot him to death in

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