Boško Simonović

Boško Simonović
Personal information
Date of birth (1898-02-12)12 February 1898
Place of birth Šid, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 5 August 1965(1965-08-05) (aged 67)
Place of death Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
SK Srpski mač
BSK Beograd
National team
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Teams managed
1929 Vojvodina
1930–1932 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
1933–1934 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
1935 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
1939 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
1939–1940 Kingdom of Yugoslavia
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Boško Simonović (Serbian Cyrillic: Бoшko Cимoнoвић) (February 12, 1898; Šid, Austria-Hungary – August 5, 1965; Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia) was a Yugoslavian football coach, player, referee, and administrator. His most notable feat was coaching the Kingdom of Yugoslavia national football team at the very first World Cup in 1930 in Uruguay.

Though an architect by vocation, Simonović never worked in the profession he was trained for, instead devoting his whole life to sports - particularly football.

He played football as a goalkeeper in SK Srpski mač and later in BSK. Following a playing career he became a football referee and was the first Serb to referee an international match, in 1923 in Bucharest. He retired from refereeing following a broken leg in a sledding accident.[1]

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