Božidar Drenovac

Božidar Drenovac
Personal information
Full name	Božidar Drenovac
Date of birth	2 January 1922
Place of birth	Ćuprija, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Date of death	24 July 2003 (aged 81)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1936–1938	Jugoslavija
Senior career*
Years	Team
1938–1939	Jugoslavija
1945–1948	Red Star Belgrade
1948–1953	Partizan
International career
1947	Yugoslavia
Managerial career
1960–1965	Étoile Sahel
1965–1966	Panachaiki
1968–1969	Pierikos
1969–1970	Étoile Sahel
1970–1971	OFK Beograd
1971–1972	Borac Banja Luka
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Božidar Drenovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Божидар Дреновац; 2 January 1922 – 24 July 2003) was a Serbian football player and manager.

Club career

He was born in Ćuprija^[1] in 1922. Still young he joined Belgrade club SK Jugoslavija in 1936, making his senior debut in the 1938–39 Yugoslav First League. After the Second World War, he signed with the newly formed Red Star Belgrade that inherited most of the property and players of the now disbanded, SK Jugoslavija. He played with Red Star until 1948. Next he move to the biggest rivals, FK Partizan where he would play until 1953, achieving even more success by winning the national championship (1949) and Yugoslav cup (1952).

International career

He played one match for the Yugoslavia national football team on 14 September 1947 in Tirana, against Albania, for the Balkan Cup, a 4-2 win.^[2]

Managerial career

After retiring, he graduated in Economics, but never abandoned his passion for football, becoming a coach. His coaching career took him to countries like Tunisia, Greece, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Libya, but he also managed a number of Yugoslav top league clubs, such as NK Čelik Zenica, OFK Beograd, FK Borac Banja Luka^[3] or FK Sutjeska Nikšić.