Vujadin Boškov
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Boškov coaching Feyenoord in 1976 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 16 May 1931 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Begeč, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | 27 April 2014 (aged 82) | |||||||||||||
| Place of death | Novi Sad, Serbia | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Right half | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1948–1960 | Vojvodina | 185 | (15) | |||||||||||
| 1961–1962 | Sampdoria | 13 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1962–1964 | Young Fellows Zürich | 14 | (4) | |||||||||||
| Total | 212 | (19) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1951–1958 | Yugoslavia | 57 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1962–1964 | Young Fellows Zürich (player-manager) | |||||||||||||
| 1966 | Yugoslavia (co-manager) | |||||||||||||
| 1971–1973 | Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
| 1974–1976 | ADO Den Haag | |||||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | Feyenoord | |||||||||||||
| 1978–1979 | Zaragoza | |||||||||||||
| 1979–1982 | Real Madrid | |||||||||||||
| 1982–1984 | Sporting Gijón | |||||||||||||
| 1984–1986 | Ascoli | |||||||||||||
| 1986–1992 | Sampdoria | |||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Roma | |||||||||||||
| 1994–1996 | Napoli | |||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Servette | |||||||||||||
| 1997–1998 | Sampdoria | |||||||||||||
| 1999 | Perugia | |||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | FR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
| 2001 | FR Yugoslavia (co-manager) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Vujadin Boškov (Serbian Cyrillic: Вујадин Бошков, pronounced [ʋujǎdin bǒʃkoʋ]; 16 May 1931 – 27 April 2014) was a Serbian football player and manager.
A midfielder, he played 57 matches for the Yugoslavia national team. He experienced his greatest success as a coach in 1990, when he won the European Cup Winners' Cup with Sampdoria. He also reached the European Cup final in 1981 with Real Madrid and 1992 with Sampdoria. He also won the Yugoslav First League as technical director and the La Liga, the Copa del Rey, the Serie A and the Coppa Italia twice as a coach.
Throughout his career as a football manager, he stood out both for his many successes, as well as due to his unique sense of humour and memorable ironic comments, which were used to dissolve tension during post-match interviews; these led him to become a popular figure with football fans during his time in Italy.
FC Vujadin Boškov, Vojvodina's training facility in Veternik, was named after him in 1996 and in February 2022, he was posthumously admitted to the Italian Football Hall of Fame.