Radivoj Božić

Radivoj Božić

Personal information
Date of birth	(1912-01-26)26 January 1912
Place of birth	Beška, Austro-Hungary
Date of death	30 November 1947(1947-11-30) (aged 35)
Place of death	Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1930–1932	Jugoslavija
1932–1936	BSK Beograd
1936–1941	Vojvodina
International career
1934	Yugoslavia	1	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Radivoj Božić (Serbian Cyrillic: Радивој Божић; 26 January 1912 – 30 November 1947) was a Yugoslav international footballer. After finishing his football career he became a military pilot in the Royal Yugoslav Air Force and during the Second World War for the Yugoslav Partisans.

Career

Born in Beška, Austro-Hungarian Empire (nowadays in Serbia), he started playing in SK Jugoslavija in 1930. In 1932 he moved to BSK Beograd and a year later he won the 1932–33 Yugoslav First League playing as a left-back. During the late 1930s until 1941 he played with FK Vojvodina.

Božić played one match in the Yugoslavia national team. It was played in Athens, Greece, on 25 December 1934 in a Balkan Cup match against Bulgaria, a 4–3 win. Yugoslavia won the tournament that year.

Honours

BSK Beograd

• Yugoslav championship: 1932–33, 1934–35, 1935–36

Yugoslavia

• Balkan Cup: 1935

Military pilot

He graduated on 12 October 1938 at the Royal Yugoslav Air Force military academy and became military pilot. During Second World War he joined the air force of the Yugoslav Partisans, however he got captured by the Germans who sent him to Germany. It is not exactly known when and why he returned to Belgrade, but allegedly because of treason, he was shot by the new Yugoslav authorities in 1948.

External links

• Radivoj Božić at National-Football-Teams.com
• Radivoj Božić at EU-Football.info