Radojko Avramović, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Radojko Avramović

Serbian footballer

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1949

Place of Birth: Sjenica, Zlatibor District, Serbia

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Radojko Avramović

  • Radojko "Raddy" Avramovic (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ?????????; born 29 November 1949) is a Serbian former football coach who played for Yugoslavia as a goalkeeper.
  • He was the former head coach of Singapore and Myanmar.
  • As of July 2019, he was appointed as Home United coach. Avramovic discontinued his law studies two years into university to become a footballer.
  • He began his playing career with FK Borac Cacak in the Yugoslav Second League in 1969.
  • He signed for Yugoslav First League club HNK Rijeka in 1974.
  • As a 1977–78 Yugoslav Cup winner with Rijeka, he played in the 1978–79 Cup Winners' Cup.
  • He won his only international cap with Yugoslavia in a Balkan Cup match against Greece on 15 November 1978.
  • He was scouted by Notts County manager Jimmy Sirrel, who signed him for a club record £200,000 in 1979 and would later regard Avramovic as one of his best players.
  • He contributed with 16 clean sheets as the club was promoted to the First Division in 1981 in their return to the top flight after 54 years.
  • He made a total of 167 appearances for Notts County before moving to Coventry City for the 1983–84 season.
  • In 1984, he returned to Yugoslavia with OFK Belgrade where he played his final season, helping them to the Second League East Division title before retiring as a player at the age of 35. Avramovic was placed in charge of Oman's age group teams from 1993 to 1998.
  • In August 1998, he was appointed as assistant coach to Kuwait, and as coach of their Olympic squad a year later.
  • He guided the under-23 team through the Asian qualifiers to the 2000 Summer Olympics.
  • Following the departure of Berti Vogts in February 2002, Avramovic took over as national coach of Kuwait.
  • He led the senior team to their first West Asian Games title in April, and the under-23 team to the quarter-finals of the 2002 Asian Games in October, which they lost 1–0 to eventual silver medalists Iran.
  • His contract was however terminated in December after a poor performance at the 2002 Arab Nations Cup.
  • He led Oman outfit Muscat Club to the 2002-03 Omani League title during a six-month stint from February 2003.
  • In July 2003, Avramovic was unveiled as coach of the Singapore national team.
  • He led them to their first international title in the 2004 ASEAN Football Championship, completing a hat-trick of tournament wins with further triumphs in 2007 and 2012.
  • After a decade in Singapore, Avramovic stood down as national coach in December 2012.
  • In February 2014, he was appointed as coach of the Myanmar national team. On July 2019, He returned to Singapore as Home United head coach.
  • But less than 2 months back in Singapore, he suffers lung cancer and ended his managerial career.

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