Branko Rašović
|
Real Madrid . | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 11 April 1942 | ||
| Place of birth |
Podgorica, Italian-occupied Montenegro | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1962–1964 | Budućnost Titograd | 22 | (0) |
| 1964–1969 | Partizan | 90 | (0) |
| 1969–1974 | Borussia Dortmund | 109 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 1964–1967 | Yugoslavia | 10 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Branko Rašović (born 11 April 1942) is a
is also a retired professional footballer, and former head coach of FK Partizan.Club career
Budućnost Titograd
Rašović began with football in Budućnost Titograd as a center half. Even as a young player he excelled and received calls for youth selections of the Yugoslavia national football team.
In the 1961–62 season, he managed with his club Buducnost to qualify for the Yugoslav First League. He played the 1962–63 season in the first league, but Buducnost was again relegated to second division. The next season, he got a call from FK Partizan and in the 1964–65 season he played again in first league competition but this time for FK Partizan.
Partizan
Rašović played five years in Partizan, from 1964 until 1969. In the first season, 1964–65, he gained a place in the starting eleven and won the title of champion of Yugoslavia. In that season, he played seventeen league games for Partizan. In total, he played 210 games and scored two goals for Partizan. At the international level he played for Partizan in 39 games and scored one goal. Crown of his career was the
Borussia Dortmund
In 1969, Rašović went to the German first league team
International career
Rašović made his debut for the Yugoslavia national team on 1 April 1964, in a friendly match against Bulgaria. The match was played at the stadium of FK Radnicki Nis, popularly called Cair. 10,000 people attended the game and Yugoslavia won with 1–0. Rašović ended his career in the national team on 7 October 1967, in a UEFA Euro 1968 qualification match against Germany. The match was played in Hamburg in front of 70,573 spectators and ended with Germany winning 3–1.
Despite this defeat, Yugoslavia qualified for the European Championship and recorded one of its greatest successes, playing the second time in its history in the European Championship finals. Rašović was capped ten times for Yugoslavia.
He has earned a total of 10 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was an October 1967
References
- ^ "Branko Rašović". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
External links
- Branko Rašović at National-Football-Teams.com
- Branko Rašović at the Football Association of Montenegro at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 December 2011) (in Serbian)
- Branko Rašović at fussballdaten.de (in German)
- Branko Rašović at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
