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Darko Pančev

Darko Pančev (Macedonian: Дарко Панчев, Macedonian pronunciation: [ˈdarkɔ ˈpantʃɛf]; born 7 September 1965) is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He most notably played for FK Vardar and Red Star Belgrade.

Darko Pančev
Pančev in 2020
Personal information
Full name Darko Pančev
Дарко Панчев
Date of birth (1965-09-07) 7 September 1965 (age 57)
Place of birth Skopje, SR Macedonia,
Yugoslavia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1976–1983 Vardar
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1982–1988 Vardar 151 (84)
1988–1992 Red Star Belgrade 92 (84)
1992–1995 Inter Milan 19 (3)
1994-1995VfB Leipzig (loan) 10 (2)
1995–1996 Fortuna Düsseldorf 14 (2)
1996–1997 FC Sion 5 (0)
Total 396 (255)
International career
1984–1991 Yugoslavia 27 (17)
1993–1995 Macedonia 6 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He was part of the Red Star Belgrade squad that won the European Cup in 1990–91, and was awarded the European Golden Boot in 1991.

Club career

Vardar Skopje

His playing career started in 1982 at Vardar Skopje where he quickly developed into one of the most feared strikers in the Yugoslav League, becoming league top scorer in the 1983–84 season. The skill and seeming ease of his goal scoring exploits in Skopje made him a target for bigger clubs.

Red Star Belgrade

During summer 1988, Pančev was snapped up by Red Star Belgrade, which beat cross-town rivals FK Partizan to the twenty-two-year-old's signature. Another talented youngster, 21-year-old Dejan Savićević, also arrived to the club during the same transfer window, but both promptly got sent to serve the mandatory Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) stint that kept them off the pitch for the entire league season.

Pančev debuted for his new club in 1989 and played three full seasons for crveno-beli, scoring an incredible 84 goals from 91 league appearances, and winning the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup in 1991.

Due to his phenomenal strike rate, during the early 1990s, he was widely recognized as one of the best strikers in the world. Displaying great goalscoring instincts and predatory skills, he got nicknamed Kobra by the Serbian sports media. Red Star fans remember him as the player who scored the winning penalty in the 1991 European Cup Final, bringing Red Star the most prestigious trophy in European football for the first time in its 50-year existence.

Pančev was the highest scorer in top-division European football in the 1990–91 season with 34 goals, and should have won the European Golden Boot award. However, UEFA decided to make the competition unofficial for the season because of suspect scoring sprees in Cyprus. Pančev did not get the prize at the time, but received it fifteen years later on 3 August 2006 in Skopje. The Golden Boot was presented at a special gala by Michel Platini, Dragan Stojković and Dragan Džajić.

On 4 March 1992, Pančev scored two goals for Red Star to defeat Panathinaikos 2–0 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens in a European Cup match. The spotlight was on him because upon completing the forms to gain entry in Greece, he wrote his nationality as Macedonian. This made great havoc among the Greeks, he was detained several hours before being allowed to cross the border. In an interview after the duel he would say, "There is a saying that luck follows the brave. I was happy to score two goals before 80,000 spectators in Athens and Red Star to win 2–0. After that, the earth could open up and I did not mind."[1][2][3]

Inter Milan

Over the summer 1992 off-season, soon to be twenty-seven-year-old Pančev signed for Internazionale in a high-profile transfer with the ITL14 billion (£7 million) fee paid to Red Star.[4] Inter thus beat out Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and AC Milan, each of whom had approached the player over the preceding six months. Arriving at a club that had finished the previous league season in disappointing eighth place (which precipitated a major squad overhaul with the famous German triumvirate of Lothar Matthäus, Jürgen Klinsmann, and Andreas Brehme leaving San Siro and head coach Luis Suárez getting fired), Pančev was naturally looked to for goals as suggested by his glowing reputation from the Yugoslav First League and Red Star's European campaigns. Upon signing, the club owner and president Ernesto Pellegrini even compared him to Paolo Rossi, giving an indication of the level of expectation thrust upon the Macedonian.[5]

1992–93 season

Joining a squad that in addition to new head coach Osvaldo Bagnoli also featured plenty of new faces in the player personnel, the conventional wisdom was that such circumstances would work in Pančev's favour in terms of fitting in. His competitors for spots upfront were all new arrivals as well: Uruguayan Rubén Sosa who came from Lazio, the Italian 1990 World Cup hero Salvatore Schillaci joining from Juventus, and, depending on formation, even Russian attacking midfielder Igor Shalimov who was acquired from Foggia.

However, in contrast to club president Pellegrini, head coach Bagnoli wasn't as taken with Pančev's playing style and already during pre-season reproached the player for lack of movement. The highly-touted forward made his Inter debut during late August 1992 in Coppa Italia away at Reggiana, scoring a hat-trick in a 4–3 Inter win. A week later, he added two more goals in the return leg at home, leading the nerazzurri to a 4–2 win.

The league season started several days later away at Udinese with Pančev getting a start alongside Schillaci before getting subbed off in the 81st minute for Davide Fontolan with the score tied at 1–1; by the end, Udinese managed to score once more for a 2–1 win. The following week, at home versus Cagliari, he got the start again next to Schillaci before again being subbed off for Fontolan, this time in the 79th minute with Inter leading 2–1. For the week 3 fixture away at Napoli, Pančev found himself out of the matchday squad and the same scenario repeated for the subsequent five league matches as head coach Bagnoli completely removed him from consideration for matchday squads, thereby handing Rubén Sosa the other forward spot, alongside automatic choice Schillaci.

After almost two months without competitive football, Pančev got reinstated courtesy of an injury suffered by Bagnoli's preferred centre forward Schillaci, with the head coach giving the Macedonian a full ninety minute performance in a 0–0 home draw versus Sampdoria. The following league match was the Derby della Madonnina—against bitter city rivals, San Siro co-tenants, and defending league champions A.C. Milan—which Pančev began on the bench before being brought on unexpectedly in the 37th minute due to Sosa's injury; the contests ended 1–1 with Pančev still scoreless in the league. With Schillaci and Sosa both out injured, Pančev started the following league fixture versus Brescia in late November 1992 alongside Fontolan; Inter won 2–1, but the player again failed to score. The following two matches, losses to Ancona and Lazio, Pančev played alongside Fontolan as Schillaci and Sosa were still recovering. The return of Sosa in early January 1993, relegated Pančev to the bench while Inter finally showed some improved form with four straight league wins.

It was apparent the Macedonian was experiencing major problems adapting to stringent Italian league defences and his goal output suddenly became nonexistent. Simultaneously, his relationship with Bagnoli took a turn for the worse, as the two started butting heads, often publicly. Pančev apparently even resorted to faking an illness in order to avoid sitting on the bench.[5] The Italian press got down on the striker too, derisively modifying his Red Star moniker Il Cobra to Il Ramarro (green lizard).[6] In December 1992, Pančev had an offer from Alex Ferguson's Manchester United but opted to remain at San Siro and continue fighting for a spot at Inter.[7]

He'd wait until late January 1993 to net his first league goal, which came at home versus Udinese. Parallel to Pančev's struggles, Inter posted a decent league season behind Sosa's goalscoring exploits, and with no distraction of European football finished league runners-up to cross-town rival A.C. Milan. Overall, during his debut season, Pančev appeared in just twelve league matches for the Nerazzurri, scoring one league goal in addition to five goals in four Coppa Italia appearances (second best striker of the latter competition).

1993–94 season

Pančev remained part of the Inter squad for the 1993–94 season, although he was completely out of the first-team picture as his relationship with Bagnoli deteriorated to a point of no repair. Furthermore, the arrival of £12 million signing Dennis Bergkamp from Ajax relegated the Macedonian even further down the pecking order. He did not get any league appearances during the first half of the season nor did he get any action in the UEFA Cup.

In January 1994, during the league winter break, Pančev got loaned out to German team VfB Leipzig.

Loan to Leipzig

Arriving to a club fighting for its life near the bottom of the table, Pančev scored two goals in ten matches for Leipzig during Bundesliga spring half-season.[8] The team still got relegated.

Return to Inter

Pančev returned to San Siro following a six-month loan hoping to make the most of his second chance. Playing under new head coach Ottavio Bianchi, the 29-year-old looked on track to do just that early into the season, scoring in a 3–1 home win versus Fiorentina and two weeks later in a 2–1 home loss to Bari. However, subsequent loss of form and injuries meant that he made the total of only seven league appearances during the campaign. He also scored twice in Coppa Italia. In the UEFA Cup, he got a surprise starting appearance in late September in the return leg of the second round tie versus Aston Villa and even had a glorious opportunity to score following Nicola Berti's thundering shot that bounced favourably off the crossbar, but ended up blasting the rebound high over the bar.[9] UEFA Cup title-holders Inter ended up getting eliminated on penalties that night. It was Pančev's first and only European match while at Inter. Throughout the season, the entire club was going through major turmoil behind the scenes and eventually, the owner and club president Pellegrini sold the team to oil magnate Massimo Moratti in March 1995. At the end of the season, during the summer 1995 transfer window, Pančev got offloaded to Fortuna Düsseldorf.

Due to his less than stellar displays in Serie A, Pančev has often been referred to as bidone by Inter fans, a derisive term in Italian meaning "trashcan", used colloquially for high-profile flops in the league.

Late career

He ended his playing career with Swiss team Sion in 1997.

After retiring from playing, Pančev often talked at length about his failed stint at Inter Milan. In 2002, he addressed the criticism he often received in Italy about his lack of movement off the ball:

There are strikers who don’t run and there are strikers who run. I was one of those strikers with a natural talent for scoring, and I ran only when I was within 30 metres of goal. Unfortunately Inter didn’t want to accept that style of play.[10]

He also complained about supposed less-than-friendly attitudes in the Nerazzurri dressing room towards certain foreigners, and in this regard singled out Inter's Italian stalwarts Walter Zenga, Giuseppe Bergomi, and Riccardo Ferri as main perpetrators:

Yes, they were my problem! They forced Bagnoli, who was a weak coach, to play Salvatore Schillaci instead of me. Recently, I ran into Zenga, who is now coach of National Bucharest, and said, ‘I hope you're a better coach than Bagnoli was at Inter.’ I said it to remind him of that time. Signing for Inter was my greatest football mistake. In 1992, I was the top striker in Europe. I could have gone anywhere I wanted - Real, Barcelona, Manchester United. My career would have been much richer, in football terms and financially, if I had. And I was only one of the players whose career Inter ruined: think of Wim Jonk, Matthias Sammer, Igor Shalimov. Dennis Bergkamp left after two years, and he needed a year in England to find himself again.[10]

International career

Pančev played in the 1990 World Cup for Yugoslavia and scored two goals in their 4–1 win over the United Arab Emirates in the group stage.[11] It proved to be the only international tournament he played in; he was later called to UEFA Euro 1992, but he then renounced a place in the squad on 23 May, claiming physical reasons, although this statement was believable for just a few people in Belgrade, who saw political views as the true cause of the withdrawal of the Macedonian forward - who had been the top marksman on qualifying group stages, with ten goals. He was replaced on the same day by Dragan Jakovljević,[12] but in 31 May the national team was banned due to Yugoslav wars, just ten days before the tournament opening.[13]

Pančev later played in the Macedonian national team's first ever official match, on 13 October 1993, against Slovenia. His final international was a June 1995 European Championship qualification match against Belgium.[14]

In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Macedonia by the Football Federation of the Republic of Macedonia as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.[15]

After retirement

After retiring from playing, Pančev worked with the Football Federation of Macedonia. In July 2006, Pančev was named the sporting director of Vardar.

He owns a cafe called Devetka (Number Nine) in Skopje.[16]

Personal life

Pančev is married to singer Maja Grozdanovska-Pančeva. They have two daughters: Nadica and Marija.

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season Yugoslav League Yugoslav Cup Europe Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Vardar Skopje 1982–83 4 3 0 0 0 0 4 3
1983–84 31 19 0 0 0 0 31 19
1984–85 31 20 0 0 0 0 31 20
1985–86 26 12 0 0 3 2 29 14
1986–87 29 17 0 0 0 0 29 17
1987–88 30 13 0 0 2 0 32 23
Red Star Belgrade 1989–90 32 25 0 0 3 1 35 26
1990–91 32 34 2 1 9 5 43 40
1991–92 28 25 0 0 9 6 37 31
Total 243 168 2 1 26 14 271 193

Honours

Red Star Belgrade

Inter Milan

Individual

References

  1. ^ (in Macedonian). ekipa.mk. 4 March 2012. Archived from the original on 12 January 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  2. ^ "1991/92 European Champions Clubs' Cup Panathinaikos 0:2 Crvena Zvezda". UEFA.com. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Darko Pančev MАCEDONIA 2-0 Panathinaikos Greece". YouTube. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  4. ^ "Pancev: "la Coppa dei campioni mi interessa, ma con l'Inter"" (in Italian). Corriere Della Sera. 23 May 1992. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  5. ^ a b (in German). Ecco dello Sport. 11 May 2010. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  6. ^ Vitali, Cristian (2010). Calciobidoni - Non comprate quello straniero (in Italian). Piano B Edizioni.
  7. ^ Ljubisavljević, Miloš (29 May 2021). "Pančev: Pričao sam Bergkampu "Zvezda igra fudbal, Inter ne"" (in Serbian). Nova S. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  8. ^ Arnhold, Matthias (12 March 2020). "Darko Pančev - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga". RSSSF.com. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Aston Villa vs Inter Milan - UEFA Cup 1994/95 - Oh, It Must Be!". YouTube. 29 September 1994. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  10. ^ a b "Wounded cobra's venom". The Times. 21 October 2002.
  11. ^ Mamrud, Roberto (12 March 2020). "Darko Pančev - International Appearances". RSSSF.com. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  12. ^ "Pancev también renuncia a la Eurocopa". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 25 May 1992. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  13. ^ "Yugoslav athletes banned". The New York Times. 1 June 1992. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  14. ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  15. ^ [1] 17 March 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ "Macedonian pride in Pancev". UEFA.com. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2012.
  17. ^ Anatolii Skorobahatko (25 August 2015). (PDF). Ukrainian Football. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2017. (ukr.)

External links

  • Darko Pančev at WorldFootball.net
  • Darko Pančev at National-Football-Teams.com
  • Darko Pančev at MacedonianFootball (in English)
  • Darko Pančev – UEFA competition record () (Archived 3 November 2012 at archive.today)
  • Darko Pančev at reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
  • Darko Pancev: “Cobra” in patria, “Ramarro” in Italia: Bagnoli insegna (in Italian)
Sporting positions
Preceded by
First captain
Macedonia captain
1993–1995
Succeeded by

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Darko Pancev Macedonian Darko Panchev Macedonian pronunciation ˈdarkɔ ˈpantʃɛf born 7 September 1965 is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a forward He most notably played for FK Vardar and Red Star Belgrade Darko PancevPancev in 2020Personal informationFull nameDarko PancevDarko PanchevDate of birth 1965 09 07 7 September 1965 age 57 Place of birthSkopje SR Macedonia YugoslaviaHeight1 80 m 5 ft 11 in Position s ForwardYouth career1976 1983VardarSenior career YearsTeamApps Gls 1982 1988Vardar151 84 1988 1992Red Star Belgrade92 84 1992 1995Inter Milan19 3 1994 1995 VfB Leipzig loan 10 2 1995 1996Fortuna Dusseldorf14 2 1996 1997FC Sion5 0 Total396 255 International career1984 1991Yugoslavia27 17 1993 1995Macedonia6 1 Club domestic league appearances and goalsHe was part of the Red Star Belgrade squad that won the European Cup in 1990 91 and was awarded the European Golden Boot in 1991 Contents 1 Club career 1 1 Vardar Skopje 1 2 Red Star Belgrade 1 3 Inter Milan 1 3 1 1992 93 season 1 3 2 1993 94 season 1 3 3 Loan to Leipzig 1 3 4 Return to Inter 1 4 Late career 2 International career 3 After retirement 4 Personal life 5 Career statistics 5 1 Club 6 Honours 7 References 8 External linksClub career EditVardar Skopje Edit His playing career started in 1982 at Vardar Skopje where he quickly developed into one of the most feared strikers in the Yugoslav League becoming league top scorer in the 1983 84 season The skill and seeming ease of his goal scoring exploits in Skopje made him a target for bigger clubs Red Star Belgrade Edit During summer 1988 Pancev was snapped up by Red Star Belgrade which beat cross town rivals FK Partizan to the twenty two year old s signature Another talented youngster 21 year old Dejan Savicevic also arrived to the club during the same transfer window but both promptly got sent to serve the mandatory Yugoslav People s Army JNA stint that kept them off the pitch for the entire league season Pancev debuted for his new club in 1989 and played three full seasons for crveno beli scoring an incredible 84 goals from 91 league appearances and winning the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup in 1991 Due to his phenomenal strike rate during the early 1990s he was widely recognized as one of the best strikers in the world Displaying great goalscoring instincts and predatory skills he got nicknamed Kobra by the Serbian sports media Red Star fans remember him as the player who scored the winning penalty in the 1991 European Cup Final bringing Red Star the most prestigious trophy in European football for the first time in its 50 year existence Pancev was the highest scorer in top division European football in the 1990 91 season with 34 goals and should have won the European Golden Boot award However UEFA decided to make the competition unofficial for the season because of suspect scoring sprees in Cyprus Pancev did not get the prize at the time but received it fifteen years later on 3 August 2006 in Skopje The Golden Boot was presented at a special gala by Michel Platini Dragan Stojkovic and Dragan Dzajic On 4 March 1992 Pancev scored two goals for Red Star to defeat Panathinaikos 2 0 at the Olympic Stadium in Athens in a European Cup match The spotlight was on him because upon completing the forms to gain entry in Greece he wrote his nationality as Macedonian This made great havoc among the Greeks he was detained several hours before being allowed to cross the border In an interview after the duel he would say There is a saying that luck follows the brave I was happy to score two goals before 80 000 spectators in Athens and Red Star to win 2 0 After that the earth could open up and I did not mind 1 2 3 Inter Milan Edit Over the summer 1992 off season soon to be twenty seven year old Pancev signed for Internazionale in a high profile transfer with the ITL14 billion 7 million fee paid to Red Star 4 Inter thus beat out Real Madrid FC Barcelona and AC Milan each of whom had approached the player over the preceding six months Arriving at a club that had finished the previous league season in disappointing eighth place which precipitated a major squad overhaul with the famous German triumvirate of Lothar Matthaus Jurgen Klinsmann and Andreas Brehme leaving San Siro and head coach Luis Suarez getting fired Pancev was naturally looked to for goals as suggested by his glowing reputation from the Yugoslav First League and Red Star s European campaigns Upon signing the club owner and president Ernesto Pellegrini even compared him to Paolo Rossi giving an indication of the level of expectation thrust upon the Macedonian 5 1992 93 season Edit Joining a squad that in addition to new head coach Osvaldo Bagnoli also featured plenty of new faces in the player personnel the conventional wisdom was that such circumstances would work in Pancev s favour in terms of fitting in His competitors for spots upfront were all new arrivals as well Uruguayan Ruben Sosa who came from Lazio the Italian 1990 World Cup hero Salvatore Schillaci joining from Juventus and depending on formation even Russian attacking midfielder Igor Shalimov who was acquired from Foggia However in contrast to club president Pellegrini head coach Bagnoli wasn t as taken with Pancev s playing style and already during pre season reproached the player for lack of movement The highly touted forward made his Inter debut during late August 1992 in Coppa Italia away at Reggiana scoring a hat trick in a 4 3 Inter win A week later he added two more goals in the return leg at home leading the nerazzurri to a 4 2 win The league season started several days later away at Udinese with Pancev getting a start alongside Schillaci before getting subbed off in the 81st minute for Davide Fontolan with the score tied at 1 1 by the end Udinese managed to score once more for a 2 1 win The following week at home versus Cagliari he got the start again next to Schillaci before again being subbed off for Fontolan this time in the 79th minute with Inter leading 2 1 For the week 3 fixture away at Napoli Pancev found himself out of the matchday squad and the same scenario repeated for the subsequent five league matches as head coach Bagnoli completely removed him from consideration for matchday squads thereby handing Ruben Sosa the other forward spot alongside automatic choice Schillaci After almost two months without competitive football Pancev got reinstated courtesy of an injury suffered by Bagnoli s preferred centre forward Schillaci with the head coach giving the Macedonian a full ninety minute performance in a 0 0 home draw versus Sampdoria The following league match was the Derby della Madonnina against bitter city rivals San Siro co tenants and defending league champions A C Milan which Pancev began on the bench before being brought on unexpectedly in the 37th minute due to Sosa s injury the contests ended 1 1 with Pancev still scoreless in the league With Schillaci and Sosa both out injured Pancev started the following league fixture versus Brescia in late November 1992 alongside Fontolan Inter won 2 1 but the player again failed to score The following two matches losses to Ancona and Lazio Pancev played alongside Fontolan as Schillaci and Sosa were still recovering The return of Sosa in early January 1993 relegated Pancev to the bench while Inter finally showed some improved form with four straight league wins It was apparent the Macedonian was experiencing major problems adapting to stringent Italian league defences and his goal output suddenly became nonexistent Simultaneously his relationship with Bagnoli took a turn for the worse as the two started butting heads often publicly Pancev apparently even resorted to faking an illness in order to avoid sitting on the bench 5 The Italian press got down on the striker too derisively modifying his Red Star moniker Il Cobra to Il Ramarro green lizard 6 In December 1992 Pancev had an offer from Alex Ferguson s Manchester United but opted to remain at San Siro and continue fighting for a spot at Inter 7 He d wait until late January 1993 to net his first league goal which came at home versus Udinese Parallel to Pancev s struggles Inter posted a decent league season behind Sosa s goalscoring exploits and with no distraction of European football finished league runners up to cross town rival A C Milan Overall during his debut season Pancev appeared in just twelve league matches for the Nerazzurri scoring one league goal in addition to five goals in four Coppa Italia appearances second best striker of the latter competition 1993 94 season Edit Pancev remained part of the Inter squad for the 1993 94 season although he was completely out of the first team picture as his relationship with Bagnoli deteriorated to a point of no repair Furthermore the arrival of 12 million signing Dennis Bergkamp from Ajax relegated the Macedonian even further down the pecking order He did not get any league appearances during the first half of the season nor did he get any action in the UEFA Cup In January 1994 during the league winter break Pancev got loaned out to German team VfB Leipzig Loan to Leipzig Edit Arriving to a club fighting for its life near the bottom of the table Pancev scored two goals in ten matches for Leipzig during Bundesliga spring half season 8 The team still got relegated Return to Inter Edit Pancev returned to San Siro following a six month loan hoping to make the most of his second chance Playing under new head coach Ottavio Bianchi the 29 year old looked on track to do just that early into the season scoring in a 3 1 home win versus Fiorentina and two weeks later in a 2 1 home loss to Bari However subsequent loss of form and injuries meant that he made the total of only seven league appearances during the campaign He also scored twice in Coppa Italia In the UEFA Cup he got a surprise starting appearance in late September in the return leg of the second round tie versus Aston Villa and even had a glorious opportunity to score following Nicola Berti s thundering shot that bounced favourably off the crossbar but ended up blasting the rebound high over the bar 9 UEFA Cup title holders Inter ended up getting eliminated on penalties that night It was Pancev s first and only European match while at Inter Throughout the season the entire club was going through major turmoil behind the scenes and eventually the owner and club president Pellegrini sold the team to oil magnate Massimo Moratti in March 1995 At the end of the season during the summer 1995 transfer window Pancev got offloaded to Fortuna Dusseldorf Due to his less than stellar displays in Serie A Pancev has often been referred to as bidone by Inter fans a derisive term in Italian meaning trashcan used colloquially for high profile flops in the league Late career Edit He ended his playing career with Swiss team Sion in 1997 After retiring from playing Pancev often talked at length about his failed stint at Inter Milan In 2002 he addressed the criticism he often received in Italy about his lack of movement off the ball There are strikers who don t run and there are strikers who run I was one of those strikers with a natural talent for scoring and I ran only when I was within 30 metres of goal Unfortunately Inter didn t want to accept that style of play 10 He also complained about supposed less than friendly attitudes in the Nerazzurri dressing room towards certain foreigners and in this regard singled out Inter s Italian stalwarts Walter Zenga Giuseppe Bergomi and Riccardo Ferri as main perpetrators Yes they were my problem They forced Bagnoli who was a weak coach to play Salvatore Schillaci instead of me Recently I ran into Zenga who is now coach of National Bucharest and said I hope you re a better coach than Bagnoli was at Inter I said it to remind him of that time Signing for Inter was my greatest football mistake In 1992 I was the top striker in Europe I could have gone anywhere I wanted Real Barcelona Manchester United My career would have been much richer in football terms and financially if I had And I was only one of the players whose career Inter ruined think of Wim Jonk Matthias Sammer Igor Shalimov Dennis Bergkamp left after two years and he needed a year in England to find himself again 10 International career EditPancev played in the 1990 World Cup for Yugoslavia and scored two goals in their 4 1 win over the United Arab Emirates in the group stage 11 It proved to be the only international tournament he played in he was later called to UEFA Euro 1992 but he then renounced a place in the squad on 23 May claiming physical reasons although this statement was believable for just a few people in Belgrade who saw political views as the true cause of the withdrawal of the Macedonian forward who had been the top marksman on qualifying group stages with ten goals He was replaced on the same day by Dragan Jakovljevic 12 but in 31 May the national team was banned due to Yugoslav wars just ten days before the tournament opening 13 Pancev later played in the Macedonian national team s first ever official match on 13 October 1993 against Slovenia His final international was a June 1995 European Championship qualification match against Belgium 14 In November 2003 to celebrate UEFA s jubilee he was selected as the Golden Player of Macedonia by the Football Federation of the Republic of Macedonia as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years 15 After retirement EditAfter retiring from playing Pancev worked with the Football Federation of Macedonia In July 2006 Pancev was named the sporting director of Vardar He owns a cafe called Devetka Number Nine in Skopje 16 Personal life EditPancev is married to singer Maja Grozdanovska Panceva They have two daughters Nadica and Marija Career statistics EditClub Edit Appearances and goals by club season and competition Club Season Yugoslav League Yugoslav Cup Europe TotalApps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps GoalsVardar Skopje 1982 83 4 3 0 0 0 0 4 31983 84 31 19 0 0 0 0 31 191984 85 31 20 0 0 0 0 31 201985 86 26 12 0 0 3 2 29 141986 87 29 17 0 0 0 0 29 171987 88 30 13 0 0 2 0 32 23Red Star Belgrade 1989 90 32 25 0 0 3 1 35 261990 91 32 34 2 1 9 5 43 401991 92 28 25 0 0 9 6 37 31Total 243 168 2 1 26 14 271 193Honours EditRed Star Belgrade Yugoslav First League 1989 90 1990 91 1991 92 Yugoslav Cup 1989 90 European Cup 1990 91 Intercontinental Cup 1991Inter Milan UEFA Cup 1993 94Individual Ballon d Or Runner up 1991 Federal League top scorers 1984 1990 1991 1992 European Golden Shoe 1991 UNICEF European Footballer of the Season 1990 91 17 UEFA Jubilee Awards Greatest Macedonians Footballer of the last 50 Years Golden Player 2003References Edit Pred tochno dve decenii Makedonecot Darko Panchev gi pokori Atina i Panatinaikos in Macedonian ekipa mk 4 March 2012 Archived from the original on 12 January 2016 Retrieved 27 October 2012 1991 92 European Champions Clubs Cup Panathinaikos 0 2 Crvena Zvezda UEFA com Retrieved 27 October 2012 Darko Pancev MACEDONIA 2 0 Panathinaikos Greece YouTube Retrieved 27 October 2012 Pancev la Coppa dei campioni mi interessa ma con l Inter in Italian Corriere Della Sera 23 May 1992 Retrieved 27 October 2012 a b Bidoni calcio Darko Pancev da cobra a ramarro dell Inter in German Ecco dello Sport 11 May 2010 Archived from the original on 5 September 2012 Retrieved 27 October 2012 Vitali Cristian 2010 Calciobidoni Non comprate quello straniero in Italian Piano B Edizioni Ljubisavljevic Milos 29 May 2021 Pancev Pricao sam Bergkampu Zvezda igra fudbal Inter ne in Serbian Nova S Retrieved 3 June 2021 Arnhold Matthias 12 March 2020 Darko Pancev Matches and Goals in Bundesliga RSSSF com Retrieved 25 March 2020 Aston Villa vs Inter Milan UEFA Cup 1994 95 Oh It Must Be YouTube 29 September 1994 Retrieved 27 October 2012 a b Wounded cobra s venom The Times 21 October 2002 Mamrud Roberto 12 March 2020 Darko Pancev International Appearances RSSSF com Retrieved 25 March 2020 Pancev tambien renuncia a la Eurocopa Mundo Deportivo in Spanish 25 May 1992 Retrieved 5 June 2019 Yugoslav athletes banned The New York Times 1 June 1992 Retrieved 5 May 2019 Player Database eu football info Retrieved 30 April 2020 1 Archived 17 March 2005 at the Wayback Machine Macedonian pride in Pancev UEFA com 1 February 2011 Retrieved 27 October 2012 Anatolii Skorobahatko 25 August 2015 Best European footballers by season PDF Ukrainian Football Archived from the original PDF on 23 August 2017 Retrieved 2 June 2017 ukr External links EditDarko Pancev at WorldFootball net Darko Pancev at National Football Teams com Darko Pancev at MacedonianFootball in English Darko Pancev UEFA competition record archive Archived 3 November 2012 at archive today Darko Pancev at reprezentacija rs in Serbian Darko Pancev Cobra in patria Ramarro in Italia Bagnoli insegna in Italian Sporting positionsPreceded byFirst captain Macedonia captain1993 1995 Succeeded byToni Micevski 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