Dragoje Leković
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Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Date of birth | 21 November 1967 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Sivac, SFR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||
Skoj Sivac | ||||||||||||||
1984–1985 | Mornar | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1985–1991 | Budućnost Titograd | 109 | (0) | |||||||||||
1991–1992 | Red Star Belgrade | 17 | (0) | |||||||||||
1992–1993 | Mogren | 23 | (0) | |||||||||||
1994 | Budućnost Titograd | 24 | (0) | |||||||||||
1994–1998 | Kilmarnock | 93 | (0) | |||||||||||
1998 | Sporting Gijón | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||
1998–2000 | Málaga | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||
2000–2002 | AEK Larnaca | 24 | (0) | |||||||||||
Total | 302 | (0) | ||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1987 | Yugoslavia U20 | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||
1988–1998 | SFR Yugoslavia / FR Yugoslavia | 14 | (0) | |||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
2011–2019 | Montenegro (assistant) | |||||||||||||
2019– | Al-Gharafa (assistant) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Dragoje Leković (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгоје Лековић, pronounced [drâɡoje lêːkoʋitɕ]; born 21 November 1967) is a retired professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Club career
[edit]Leković was born in Sivac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia. In Yugoslavia, he played mainly for lowly Yugoslav First League club FK Budućnost Titograd and also spent one season with the well known club, Red Star Belgrade. Leković played in 17 of 30 matches in the 1991–92 Yugoslav First League and also started both legs of the 1991–92 Yugoslav Cup, losing out to FK Partizan.
After 18 months with another modest club FK Mogren, Leković joined Kilmarnock in Scotland, where he was the first choice goalkeeper during his spell and was part of the squad that won the 1997 Scottish Cup versus Falkirk at Ibrox Stadium. with the only goal of the game scored in the 20th minute by Paul Wright.[1]
In January 1998, Leković started an unassuming stint in Spain, where he experienced relegation from La Liga and promotion from the Second Division respectively with Sporting de Gijón and Málaga CF but was only second-choice goalkeeper at both clubs. Lekovic closed out his career at the age of 36 after playing for AEK Larnaca.
International career
[edit]Leković gained 14 caps for Yugoslavia with his debut on 27 April 1988 resulting in a 2-0 friendly defeat to Republic of Ireland.
Lekovic was in the country's final roster for two FIFA World Cups: 1990 and 1998 but did not see a single minute of action at either tournament as he was the third choice goalkeeper. He was also called to UEFA Euro 1992,[2] but the nation would be suspended due to the Yugoslav Wars.
Previously, Leković was a member of the highly talented Yugoslavia under-20 team that won the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship in Chile, playing all the games in the tournament.[3]
International caps by year [4]
Yugoslavian national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
1988 | 2 | 0 |
1989 | 1 | 0 |
1991 | 1 | 0 |
1997 | 6 | 0 |
1998 | 4 | 0 |
Total | 14 | 0 |
References
[edit]- ^ Cairns, Richard (2011). Killie 'Til I Die. Fasprint Services (Irvine) Ltd. ISBN 978-0-9541653-1-4.
- ^ "Pancev también renuncia a la Eurocopa". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 25 May 1992. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
- ^ Dragoje Leković – FIFA competition record (archived)
- ^ "International caps by year". eu-football.info/. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
External links
[edit]- Dragoje Leković at Soccerbase
- Dragoje Leković at BDFutbol
- Dragoje Leković at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
- Dragoje Leković at National-Football-Teams.com
- Dragoje Leković – FIFA competition record (archived)
- 1967 births
- Living people
- People from Kula, Serbia
- Footballers from West Bačka District
- Yugoslav men's footballers
- Serbian men's footballers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Yugoslav First League players
- Serbian SuperLiga players
- FK Budućnost Podgorica players
- Red Star Belgrade footballers
- Scottish Football League players
- Kilmarnock F.C. players
- La Liga players
- Segunda División players
- Sporting de Gijón players
- Málaga CF players
- AEK Larnaca FC players
- Yugoslavia men's international footballers
- Serbia and Montenegro men's international footballers
- 1990 FIFA World Cup players
- 1998 FIFA World Cup players
- Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia
- Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Serbian expatriate men's footballers
- Serbia and Montenegro expatriate men's footballers
- Serbia and Montenegro men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
- Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
- Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
- Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
- Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
- Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Montenegro
- Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar