Danilo Popivoda

Danilo Popivoda
	Popivoda in the 1970s
Personal information
Full name	Danilo Popivoda
Date of birth	1 May 1947
Place of birth	Yugoslavia
Date of death	9 September 2021 (aged 74)
Place of death	Bijela, Montenegro
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	right winger
Youth career
1964–1965	Olimpija
Senior career*
Years	Team
1965–1975	Olimpija
1975–1981	Eintracht Braunschweig
1981–1982	Olimpija
Total
International career
1972–1977	Yugoslavia
Managerial career
1998–2002	Slovenia (assistant)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Danilo Popivoda (Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Попивода; 1 May 1947 – 9 September 2021) was a football player and manager.

On the international level he played for the Yugoslavia national team (20 matches and five goals)^[1] and was a participant at the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He also participated at the UEFA Euro 1976, where he scored a goal in a match against West Germany.^[2] His final international was a November 1977 World Cup qualification match against Spain.^[3]

During the 1945–1990 period, Popivoda was among a handful of Slovenian players, along with Branko Oblak and Srečko Katanec, who managed to get into the Yugoslavia national team.