Dragan Dzajic - football legend

Dragan Dzajic holds the absolute record in the number of matches played in the Yugoslav national team - 85. He was a long-lasting captain of the National Team and scored 23 goals. The last game he played for the national team, was the one against Argentina in 1979 in Belgrade (Yugoslavia won 4-1).

Before the last game for national team (Belgrade, 1979)

Played once in the World Cup - in Germany 1974 when Yugoslavia won 7th place. With the national team he won the title of the European runner-up in 1968 in Rome.

He was the player of FC Red Star from Belgrade and SEC Bastia (France). In the period 1961 - 1975, his score was 590 matches, 287 goals in Red Star, five titles of the National Champion and four trophies of the National Cup. After two seasons in Bastia he returned to Red Star where he played in the 1977/78 season.

Dzajic in a jersey of Red Star

Played five times in FIFA and UEFA selections. According to many polls conducted so far, Dragan Dzajic is the best football player Yugoslavia ever had and will be remembered as one of the best left wings in the world's football. The climax of his career was his performance in the semi-final game of the Cup of Nations against the national team of England, then World Champion, in 1968 in Rome, in which Yugoslavia won 1-0. Dzajic has, in the manner of greatest football experts, outwitted the experienced Bobby Moore, and scored, leaving the goalkeeper, Gordon Banks, quite helpless.

After his playing career Dzajic became the technical director of Red Star Belgrade giving on that position a remarkable contribution to the great achievements of his club, the most important of which are the titles of the European Championship and the Winner of the Intercontinental Cup.

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