Jovica Nikolić

Jovica Nikolić
Personal information
Date of birth (1959-07-11) 11 July 1959
Place of birth Svetozarevo, FPR Yugoslavia
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
?–1983 Jagodina
1983–1989 Red Star 86 (12)
1989–1993 Salgueiros 92 (10)
1993–1995 Maia 49 (3)
Total 227 (25)
National team
1985 Yugoslavia 1 (0)
Teams managed
2008 Ordabasy
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Jovica Nikolić (Serbian Cyrillic: Joвицa Hикoлић; born 11 July 1959) is a Serbian retired footballer who played as a central midfielder, and a manager.

Club career

Nikolić was born in Svetozarevo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In his country, he played for FK Jagodina and Red Star Belgrade; he won two leagues and one cup with the latter, scoring a career-best eight goals in 22 games in his first season en route to the national championship, but being rarely used in his last two years combined (only 14 league appearances).

In the summer of 1989, aged 30, Nikolić was allowed to leave the country and signed for S.C. Salgueiros in Portugal, helping the club promote to the Primeira Liga in his first season. In the following campaign the Paranhos side overachieved for a final fifth place, with the subsequent qualification to the UEFA Cup – a first-ever[1]– with the player netting six goals in 36 matches; during most of his spell there, he shared teams with countrymen Čedomir Đoinčević and Stevan Milovac.[2]

Nikolić retired from football at 36 years of age, after two seasons with F.C. Maia in the Portuguese third division. In late May 2008 he had his first coaching experience, being appointed at FC Ordabasy in Kazakhstan.[3]

International career

Nikolić won one cap for Yugoslavia, starting in a 1–2 home loss against East Germany for the 1986 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, on 28 September 1985 (match played in Belgrade).

Previously, in 1984, he played Olympic football, appearing in five games out of six and scoring three goals as the national team finished third in Los Angeles.[4]

Honours

Club

Red Star
Salgueiros

Country

References

  1. ↑ Rio Ave. A oitava maravilha de Portugal (Rio Ave. Portugal's eighth wonder); i, 1 August 2014 (in Portuguese)
  2. ↑ Alma de 90 (Soul of 90); Sindicato dos Jogadores, 23 July 2015 (in Portuguese)
  3. ↑ Не без помощи акима / Футбол Sports.kz, 30 May 2008 (in Kazakh)
  4. ↑ Jovica Nikolić – FIFA competition record (archive)
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