Svetislav Valjarević

Svetislav Valjarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Светислав Ваљаревић) (9 July 1911, in Belgrade – 22 September 1996, in Vernon) was a Serbian Yugoslavia international football player.

Career

He started playing in the youth team of BSK Belgrade, however when he graduated the Military Academy, he was sent to service to Zagreb in 1930 where he joined HŠK Concordia.^[1] A year later after arriving, he won the national championship and was the league top-scorer. Specially noted for his great game vision and dangerous shot, he usually played in the position of right midfielder. When he went to the army conscription to Belgrade, he started playing for BSK Belgrade in the 1937-38 season winning, the 1938-39 Championship. He is remembered as one of the best players of the period when his club, BSK, was dominating the Yugoslav football in the late 1930s.^[2]

National team

Beside one match played for the B team, the six matches for the City of Zagreb team and nine for the City of Belgrade team, he played 12 matches for Yugoslavia national football team having scored four times. His debut was on 30 April 1933 in Belgrade against Spain, and his last match was also in Belgrade, on 23 March 1941, against Hungary, that ended drow and he scored the only goal for Yugoslavia.^[3]

Honours

• Concordia Zagreb
  • 1 time Yugoslav First League Champion: 1931-32
  • 1 time Yugoslav First League top-scorer: 1931-32 ( 10 goals )
• BSK Belgrade
  • 1 time Yugoslav First League Champion: 1938-39

References

External sources

• Profile in Serbian Federation website
• Svetislav Valjarević at National-Football-Teams.com