 Vukotić withPartizan in 1975 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Momčilo Vukotić | ||
| Date of birth | (1950-06-02)2 June 1950 | ||
| Place of birth | Belgrade,PR Serbia,FPR Yugoslavia | ||
| Date of death | 3 December 2021(2021-12-03) (aged 71) | ||
| Place of death | Belgrade, Serbia | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1962–1968 | Partizan | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1968–1978 | Partizan | 257 | (79) |
| 1978–1979 | Bordeaux | 36 | (8) |
| 1979–1984 | Partizan | 138 | (33) |
| Total | 431 | (120) | |
| International career | |||
| 1972–1978 | Yugoslavia | 14 | (4) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1988–1989 | Partizan | ||
| 1990–1992 | Panionios | ||
| 1993 | Altay | ||
| 1994–1996 | Nea Salamis | ||
| 1996–1998 | Apollon Limassol | ||
| 1998–1999 | Ethnikos Achna | ||
| 2001–2004 | Cyprus | ||
| 2006 | Farul Constanța | ||
| 2006–2007 | PAOK | ||
| 2008–2009 | Levadiakos | ||
| 2011 | Panserraikos | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Momčilo "Moca" Vukotić (Serbian Cyrillic: Moмчилo Моца Bукoтић; 2 June 1950 – 3 December 2021) was a Serbianfootball coach and player.
He played 14 times for his national team, Yugoslavia, between 1969 and 1974 scoring four goals.[1] In his club career inFK Partizan, he appeared in a total of 791 games in all competitions and all age levels, scoring 339 goals.[2] He won theYugoslav Championship three times.
Vukotić started playing forFK Partizan in 1962, at the age of 12.
He began his professional career as a player forFK Partizan in1968, he won his firstYugoslav Championship in1976 and the second in1978. He also played for theYugoslavia national team andparticipated in the European Championship in 1976, which was hosted in his country, where Yugoslavia finished fourth.
In 1978, Vukotić transferred to the French sideFC Bordeaux, where he played for one season, scoring eight goals in 36 games. The following year, he returned to Partizan, and won the Yugoslav Championship a third and last time in1982–83. He finished his career as player in1984. He scored 33 goals in 138 games between 1980 and 1984. At the time of his death, Vukotić was Partizan's second most used player behindSaša Ilić (who made 861 appearances) and fourth on their all-time goalscores list behindMustafa Hasanagić (355 goals),Marko Valok (411) andStjepan Bobek (425).[3]
Vukotić became a coach in 1988. From 1988 to 1999 he coachedFK Partizan,Panionios,Apollon Limassol,Nea Salamis Famagusta FC,Ethnikos Achna FC. As a coach of the Cypriot team Ethnikos, the team finished in the fourth position in theCypriot Championship, the best position that the club achieved in its history. He became the assistant coach ofYugoslavia inDejan Savićević's staff, but failed to qualify to the2002 FIFA World Cup, because of one point less than the secondSlovenia, Yugoslavia remained third.
After Yugoslavia, he continued working as a national team coach, this time forCyprus and his team finished 4th in the2004 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying, collecting eight points and some criticism began for Vukotić. The bad beginning for the2006 FIFA World Cup qualification where at the first five matches, Cyprus won only one point – and that in a home tie match againstFaroe Islands – was enough for him to resign as a coach.
He has been in charge atFC Farul Constanța since January 2006. Under his guidance Farul reached the semi-finals of theRomanian Cup, finished 7th in the Romanian First Division (then known asDivizia A, now known as Liga 1) and most important reached the 3rd Round of theUEFA Intertoto Cup losing toAJ Auxerre (4–1 away and winning at home 1–0). This was the second entry in the European Cups for Farul. Several players from Farul accused Vukotić of using an ineffective defensive style. Vukotić main objective for the 2006–07 season was to qualify for Europe next year, but he was released early on into the season after some poor results.
In October 2006, he became the head coach ofPAOK,[4] but got released in January 2007. In January 2011, he became the coach ofPanserraikos.
He was the director of theFK Partizan Academy from 2012 to 2015 and the president from 2015 to 2017.
Vukotić died fromthroat cancer on 3 December 2021, inBelgrade.[5]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 September 1972 | Turin, Italy |  Italy | 1–2 | 1–3 | Friendly |
| 2 | 30 October 1974 | Belgrade, Yugoslavia |  Norway | 1–1 | 3–1 | UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying |
| 3 | 24 February 1976 | Algiers, Algeria |  Algeria | 1–0 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 4 | 24 April 1976 | Zagreb, Yugoslavia |  Wales | 1–0 | 2–0 | UEFA Euro 1976 qualifying |
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