Ivan Ćurković
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Ćurković with Saint-Étienne in 1975 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| President of the Olympic Committee of Serbia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 2005–2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Philip Zepter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Vlade Divac | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Ivan Ćurković 15 March 1944 Mostar, Independent State of Croatia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ivan Ćurković (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Ћурковић, pronounced [ǐʋan tɕǔːrkoʋitɕ]; born 15 March 1944) is a Serbian sports executive and former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
During his playing career that spanned 21 seasons from 1960 to 1981, Ćurković made over 700 official appearances for three clubs in Yugoslavia and France, winning numerous trophies and reaching the European Cup final on two occasions, with Partizan in 1966 and Saint-Étienne in 1976. He was also capped 19 times by Yugoslavia at senior level between 1963 and 1970.
After hanging up his boots, Ćurković held various high-level administrative positions, including serving as president of the Serbian Olympic Committee and vice-president of the Serbian Football Association. He also acted as president of his former club Partizan for almost two decades from 1989 to 2006.