Jovica Nikolić

Jovica Nikolić

Personal information
Date of birth	(1959-07-11) 11 July 1959
Place of birth	Svetozarevo, FPR Yugoslavia
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
?–1983	Jagodina
1983–1989	Red Star	86	(12)
1989–1993	Salgueiros	92	(10)
1993–1995	Maia	49	(3)
Total		227	(25)
International career
1985	Yugoslavia	1	(0)
Managerial career
2008	Ordabasy
2011-2012	Jedinstvo BP
Medal record Men's Football Representing Yugoslavia Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jovica Nikolić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јовица Николић; born 11 July 1959) is a Serbian retired footballer who played as a central midfielder, and a manager.

Club career

Nikolić was born in Svetozarevo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In his country, he played for FK Jagodina and Red Star Belgrade; he won two leagues and one cup with the latter, scoring a career-best eight goals in 22 games in his first season en route to the national championship, but being rarely used in his last two years combined (only 14 league appearances).

In the summer of 1989, aged 30, Nikolić was allowed to leave the country and signed for S.C. Salgueiros in Portugal, helping the club promote to the Primeira Liga in his first season. In the following campaign the Paranhos side overachieved for a final fifth place, with the subsequent qualification to the UEFA Cup – a first-ever– with the player netting six goals in 36 matches; during most of his spell there, he shared teams with countrymen Čedomir Đoinčević and Stevan Milovac.

Nikolić retired from football at 36 years of age, after two seasons with F.C. Maia in the Portuguese third division. In late May 2008 he had his first coaching experience, being appointed at FC Ordabasy in Kazakhstan.

International career

Nikolić won one cap for Yugoslavia, starting in a 1–2 home loss against East Germany for the 1986 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, on 28 September 1985 (match played in Belgrade).

Previously, in 1984, he played Olympic football, appearing in five games out of six and scoring three goals as the national team finished third in Los Angeles.

Honours

Club

Red Star

• Yugoslav First League: 1983–84, 1987–88
• Yugoslav Cup: 1984–85

Salgueiros

• Segunda Liga: 1989–90

Country

Yugoslavia

• Summer Olympic Games: Bronze medal 1984

External links

• Jovica Nikolić at ForaDeJogo (archived)
• Jovica Nikolić at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
• Jovica Nikolić at National-Football-Teams.com