Vesko Mihajlović (

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: Веско Михајловић; born 17 March 1968) is a Serbian

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and former player. He is widely considered to be one of the best foreign players to have played in the Cypriot Championship. He became a Cypriot citizen in 2002.

Career

During his playing career he represented

FK Sloga Kraljevo Fudbalski klub Sloga Kraljevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Слога Краљево) is a Serbian football club based in Kraljevo. History In 1909 former cavalry captain Mr. Delić came to Kraljevo from Šibenik and brought the ...

FK Proleter Zrenjanin FK Proleter Zrenjanin () is a defunct football club based in Zrenjanin, Vojvodina, Serbia. History The club was founded on 27 June 1947 by the merger of three local rivals. Their first notable result was reaching the quarter-finals of the 1951 ...

FK Vojvodina Fudbalski klub Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Војводина), commonly known as Vojvodina and colloquially as Voša ( sr-Cyrl, Воша), is a Serbian professional football club based in Novi Sad, Serbia, the second large ...

in Serbia and

APOEL APOEL FC (; short for Αθλητικός Ποδοσφαιρικός Όμιλος Ελλήνων Λευκωσίας, ''Athletikos Podosferikos Omilos Ellinon Lefkosias'', "Athletic Football Club of Greeks of Nicosia") is a Cypriot professio ...

Enosis Neon Paralimni Enosis Neon Paralimni Football Club (, ''Enosi Neon Paralimniou''; ), commonly referred to as ENP, is a Cypriot football team from Paralimni. Currently playing in the first division, it holds home games at the Paralimni Municipal Stadium "Ta ...

Olympiakos Nicosia Olympiakos Nicosia (, ''Olympiakos Lefkosias'') is a Cypriot football club based in Nicosia and competes in the . The club was founded in 1931, and is a founding member of the Cyprus Football Association. The club colors are black and green. ...

Anorthosis Anorthosis Famagusta (), commonly known as Anorthosis in English or Anorthosi in Greek, is a Cypriot football club, part of the Famagusta multi-sport club founded in 1911 in Varosha, Famagusta.

and Omonia in Cyprus. Mihajlović scored three goals in 18

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 ...

matches for Proleter during the 1989–90 season, and led the team in scoring with ten goals in 31

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) ...

matches during the 1990–91 season. He was an excellent attacking midfielder and skilled at free kicks. During his tenure with Omonia he struck a partnership with

Rainer Rauffmann Markos Rainer Rauffmann (born 26 February 1967) is a former professional footballer who played as a forward. After having played mainly for modest clubs in his country of birth, Germany, he revived his career in Cyprus where he played with suc ...

. Together they led Omonia to 2 championship titles and 1 cup win. He had previously won 2 championship titles and a cup with

. During his final season with Omonia (2004–2005) he was put in charge as player-manager for the club. However, after a few months he decided to step down and return to his former role with

Henk Houwaart Henk Houwaart (born August 31, 1945) is a Dutch football manager and a former football player. Playing career Born in the Hague, Houwaart began his career in 1963 as a footballer playing for ADO Den Haag until 1967, when he left the club to play ...

replaced him. His final match was at the 2004–2005 Cypriot Cup final in which Omonia defeated

Digenis Morphou Digenis Akritas Morphou () is a Cypriot sports club from Morphou, founded on 23 April 1931.Costas Kaiafas Kostas Kaiafas (; born 22 September 1974 in Nicosia) is a Cypriot former football player and manager. As a player, he was a midfielder for Omonia and Alki Larnaca. He was the captain of Omonia and the second longest servant in the history of ...

. He was 37 years old at the time. He was

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for

AC Omonia Athletic Club Omonia Nicosia (; ''Athlitikós Sýllogos Omónoia Lefkosías''), commonly known as Omonia Nicosia, or simply Omonia (also Romanization of Greek, transliterated as Omonoia), is a Cyprus, Cypriot professional multi-sport club, esta ...

for three years before moving on to the same role for

Alki Larnaca Alki Larnaca (, ''ALKI Larnakas'') was a Cypriot football club based in the town of Larnaca. The club was founded in 1948 and it was dissolved on the 6th of May 2014 due to financial issues. The club's colours were blue and red. They reached th ...

. On 8 April 2016 he was announced as new manager of ASIL Lysi.
sport-fm.com.cy In March 2018 he took over as manager of

Honours

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 ...

top scorer: 1992–93 * Cypriot Championship: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003 *

Cypriot Cup The Cypriot Cup, formally known as the Cypriot Coca-Cola Cup of First and Second Division () for sponsorship purposes, is a Cypriot knockout football club competition, hosted annually by the Cyprus Football Association. First held in 1934, it i ...

: 1998, 2000, 2005 *

Cyprus FA Shield The Cypriot Super Cup is a Cypriot football trophy, contested in an annual match between the previous season's Cypriot First Division champions, and the Cypriot Cup winners. The match is contested at the beginning of the football season, and is u ...

: 1998, 2001, 2003

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mihajlovic, Vesko 1968 births Living people Footballers from Kraljevo Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards Yugoslav men's footballers Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers FK Sloga Kraljevo players FK Proleter Zrenjanin players FK Vojvodina players APOEL FC players Enosis Neon Paralimni FC players Olympiakos Nicosia players Anorthosis Famagusta FC players AC Omonia players Yugoslav Second League players Yugoslav First League players First League of Serbia and Montenegro players Cypriot First Division players Serbia and Montenegro expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus Serbian football managers AC Omonia managers Alki Larnaca FC managers ASIL Lysi managers Olympiakos Nicosia managers Anorthosis Famagusta FC managers Cypriot First Division managers Serbian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Cyprus Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus