Božidar Drenovac, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Božidar Drenovac

Serbian footballer

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1922

Place of Birth: Ćuprija, Pomoravlje District, Serbia

Date of Death: 24-Jul-2003

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Serbia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Božidar Drenovac (Serbian Cyrillic: ??????? ????????) (2 January 1922 – 24 July 2003) was a Serbian football player and manager. He was born in Cuprija 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 enherited 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, archiving even more success by winning the national championship (1949) and Yugoslav cup (1952). 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. 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 Celik Zenica, OFK Beograd, FK Borac Banja Luka or FK Sutjeska Nikšic.