Vladimir Durković
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Full name | Vladimir Durković | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 6 November 1937 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Đakovica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 22 June 1972 | (aged 34)||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Sion, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1953–1955 | Napredak Kruševac | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1955–1966 | Red Star Belgrade | 177 | (7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1966–1967 | Borussia M'gladbach | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1967–1971 | Saint-Étienne | 116 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
1971–1972 | FC Sion | 25 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
1959–1966 | Yugoslavia | 50 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Vladimir Durković (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Дурковић; 6 November 1937 – 22 June 1972) was a Serbian football defender. He was part of the Yugoslav squad that won gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Career
Club career
Durković played with Red Star Belgrade until he was 28 at which point he moved abroad and made a name for himself with AS Saint-Étienne, winning three French League titles and the Coupe de France twice.
International career
Capped 50 times by Yugoslavia between 1959 and 1966, Durković excelled as a 22-year-old at the first UEFA European Championship, offering defensive solidity and attacking penetration at right-back. Although Yugoslavia finished second in France, Durković won a gold medal at the Rome Olympics the following September. He also wore the number two shirt at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile and was an ever-present as Yugoslavia eliminated former winners Uruguay and West Germany and finished fourth.
Death
He died when shot by a drunken policeman in Sion, Switzerland in June 1972 at the age of 34. The police officer was leater sencenced to 9 years prison of which he served 7 years.
Honours
- Red Star Belgrade
- Yugoslav First League: 1955–56, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1963–64
- Yugoslav Cup: 1957–58, 1958–59, 1963–64
- Mitropa Cup: 1958
- AS Saint-Etienne
- Yugoslavia
- UEFA European Championship: runner-up 1960
- Olympic gold medalist in 1960
- Individual
- 1937 births
- 1972 deaths
- Sportspeople from Gjakova
- Kosovo Serbs
- Yugoslav men's footballers
- Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers
- Yugoslavia men's international footballers
- Serbian men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- FK Napredak Kruševac players
- Red Star Belgrade footballers
- Borussia Mönchengladbach players
- AS Saint-Étienne players
- FC Sion players
- Yugoslav First League players
- Ligue 1 players
- Bundesliga players
- Serbian expatriate men's footballers
- Deaths by firearm in Switzerland
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Expatriate men's footballers in West Germany
- Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
- Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
- Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia
- Olympic gold medalists for Yugoslavia
- Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- 1960 European Nations' Cup players
- 1962 FIFA World Cup players
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Serbian people murdered abroad