Savo Milošević
Serbian football manager (born 1973) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Savo Milošević (Serbian Cyrillic: Саво Милошевић, pronounced [sǎːʋo milǒːʃeʋitɕ]; born 2 September 1973) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player.
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1973-09-02) 2 September 1973 (age 50) | ||
Place of birth | Bijeljina, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
Proleter Ruhotina-Johovac | |||
Podrinje Janja | |||
1989–1992 | Partizan | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992–1995 | Partizan | 98 | (65) |
1995–1998 | Aston Villa | 90 | (29) |
1998–2000 | Zaragoza | 72 | (38) |
2000–2004 | Parma | 31 | (9) |
2002 | → Zaragoza (loan) | 16 | (6) |
2002–2003 | → Espanyol (loan) | 34 | (12) |
2003–2004 | → Celta (loan) | 37 | (14) |
2004–2007 | Osasuna | 82 | (21) |
2008 | Rubin Kazan | 16 | (3) |
Total | 476 | (197) | |
International career | |||
1994–2008 | FR Yugoslavia / Serbia | 102 | (37) |
Managerial career | |||
2019–2020 | Partizan | ||
2021 | Olimpija Ljubljana | ||
2023–2024 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
A former forward, he signed for English club Aston Villa after making a name for himself at Partizan. He would go on to spend the vast majority of his career in Spain, where he amassed La Liga totals of 91 goals in 241 games for Zaragoza, Espanyol, Celta and Osasuna. Over the course of his 16-year professional career, Milošević played for eight clubs and scored over 220 goals in nearly 600 official appearances.
At the international level, Milošević played for the national team of FR Yugoslavia (later renamed Serbia and Montenegro)[1] and Serbia, making over 100 caps for both teams combined. He appeared in two World Cups and one European Championship, at which he earned the Golden Boot at Euro 2000.