Lazar Radović

Lazar Radović
Radović (right) with Xerxes in 1965
Personal information
Date of birth (1937-11-13)13 November 1937
Place of birth Podgorica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
(now Montenegro)
Date of death 19 August 2026(2026-08-19) (aged 88)
Place of death Belgrade, Serbia
Position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1955–1958 Budućnost Titograd 71 (29)
1958–1964 Partizan 82 (15)
1964–1965 Trikala 20 (2)
1965–1968 Xerxes 87 (15)
1968–1972 PSV 121 (1)
Total 381 (62)
International career
1963–1964 Yugoslavia 7 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lazar Radović (Cyrillic: Лазар Радовић; 13 November 1937 – 19 August 2026) was a Montenegrin footballer who played as a midfielder.[1]

Club career

Radović started his career at hometown club Budućnost Titograd[2] and won the Yugoslav League title four times with Partizan when known as the Partizanove bebe (The Partizan's babies).[3] He later played in Holland for Xerxes alongside Eddy Treijtel and Willem van Hanegem[4] and was prepared to follow van Hanegem to Feyenoord in 1968, only to be persuaded by Kurt Linder to move to PSV where he was promised a job with Philips after his playing career. He would later work 27 years for the company in Belgrade.[5]

International career

Radović made his debut for Yugoslavia in an October 1963 friendly match against Romania and has earned a total of 7 caps, scoring no goals. He played at the 1964 Summer Olympics and his final international was an October 1964 friendly against Israel.[6]

Death

Radović died in Belgrade on 19 August 2026, at the age of 88.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Reprezentacija.rs profile
  2. ↑ "Preminuo Lazar Radović: Iz plavog dresa u veliki svijet". FK Budućnost (in Montenegrin). 19 August 2026. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
  3. ↑ "Preminuo Lazar Radović - legenda Budućnosti, dio Partizanovih beba, vezista velikog PSV-a..." Vijesti (in Montenegrin). 19 August 2026. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
  4. ↑ Eredivisie historie: Samenvatting Xerxes/DHC - Feyenoord van 52 jaar geleden - Xerxes DZB (in Dutch)
  5. ↑ 'Het waren de gouden jaren van Ajax en Feyenoord, de top van de wereld' - Voetbalzone (in Dutch)
  6. ↑ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  7. ↑ Humska zavijena u crno: Preminuo nekadašnji fudbaler Partizana i jugoslovenski reprezentativac (in Serbian)
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