Jovan Aćimović
Jovan "Kule" Aćimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Куле Аћимовић; born 21 June 1948) is a Serbian retired footballer who played as a midfielder.
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 21 June 1948 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1964–1965 | OFK Belgrade | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1965–1976 | Red Star Belgrade | 237 | (43) | ||||||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | 41 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1978–1979 | Sinđelić Beograd | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1968–1976 | Yugoslavia | 55 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1991 | Red Star Belgrade (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1993 | Čukarički | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
His son Đorđe was also a footballer who played for Red Star Belgrade and FK Mačva Šabac.
International career edit
On the national level, Aćimović made his debut for Yugoslavia in the first leg of the June 1968 European Championship final against Italy and earned a total of 55 caps, scoring 3 goals.[1] He also was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup[2] and his final international was the June 1976 European Championship third-place playoff against the Netherlands.[3]
Aćimović on his team's role at the UEFA Euro 1976:
"Two things factored in our final result. First of all, the score of the first half of the match with Germany and then the fact that we, as hosts of the tournament, were prevented from our plans of showing what we were made of. Against the Germans, we thought that we had the final in our hands. At half time, some of us players were even talking about the final. The atmosphere in Belgrade and Zagreb was good but there was pressure felt everywhere we went. Everyone expected the gold medal and we weren't able to carry that weight on our shoulders."[4]
References edit
- ^ "Yugoslavia (Serbia (and Montenegro)) - Record International Players". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ – FIFA competition record (archived)
- ^ "Jovan Aćimović, international football player". EU-football.info. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "Vesti spezial magazine, pg. 14" (in Serbian). 16 May 2000.
External links edit
- Jovan Aćimović at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- at FIFA (archived)
- Jovan Aćimović at EU-Football.info
- Jovan Aćimović at FBref.com
- Jovan Aćimović at Fussballdaten.de (in German)
- Jovan Aćimović at National-Football-Teams.com
- Jovan Aćimović at WorldFootball.net