Slobodan Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан Петровић; born 2 October 1948) is a Serbian retired footballer who played as a midfielder.[1]
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Slobodan Petrović | ||
Date of birth | (1948-10-02) 2 October 1948 (age 73) | ||
Place of birth | Belgrade, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Partizan | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1966–1972 | Partizan | 98 | (10) |
1972–1979 | Nürnberg | 175 | (23) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
He was also known as Dane Petrović.[2]
Petrović was born in Belgrade on 2 October 1948.[1] He became a member of the pioneer team of Partizan at the age of six where he was coached by Florijan Matekalo. He has a brother, Miodrag, who also played for Partizan.[3] At the age of seventeen, he made his debut for the first team of Partizan against Radnički in Niš. He played a total of 209 matches for the club.[3] He continued his career in Nürnberg, for which he played about 400 matches overall in seven seasons and was the first foreign captain of a German team.[2]
After the end of his playing career, he went into business and owns and operates a chicken farm.[2]
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